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Show pestilence and sword, the project held its own. No one has been more patient or more hopeful than Miss Porter, and when the day came for securing the necessary land for the school campus, it was another very happy providence that she and her brother, Mr. James Porter, should be again in Foochow, rendering very great service in a time of emergency and perplexity. The site which is inside the city limits, was once occupied by a law school, and is of unusual charm with its sunken garden and rockery, old trees and luxuriant vines. Like the hermit crab we have lived in other people's houses, beginning with the "Bird's Nest" of the Zenana Mission in the interior at Kutien whence we went to be under the supervision of Miss Jacob and Miss Flagg of the English Society. Then for two years the school was housed by the Anglo-Chinese Girls' School, also English ; and following that we slipped into the beautiful house of the Bible Training School belonging to the W. B. M., situated at Gek-siong- sang. After long search each affiliated Society had its representative in the Faculty. Bertha H. Allen, for us, Alice Lacy of the W. P. M. S., and Kathleen Phillips for the Angelican. Miss Bertha Allen, trained at Pomona and in the Los Angeles State Normal College w^ent out in 1918. Even while Miss Allen a n d ]\I r s . Beach crossed the wide Pacific, they were all unconsciously enlisting a new interest in the accj[uaintance of a fellow traveler. Miss CAROLINE MITCHELL BUILDING 74 ] |