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Show task became a very difficult one. Mrs. Alice D. Jewett put her life into this and when the building was done, it seemed as if it were her memorial. The first "Home" was taken down in 1910 and made into a residence for the American teachers, built upon land which we purchased at that time. Two years after. Pacific Hall was finished; the corner stone had been the gift of the Southern Branch, and all up and down the Coast among our auxiliaries, there was a new bond of sympathy as we rejoiced in the happy outcome of what had cost us so much endeavor. Miss Denton wrote the next year, '' Such a good year we have had, the first in our new^ building and with the new college course. The building is so splendid-we all love it more and more, and are better and better satisfied with it.'' Close following upon this came the construction of James Hall, provided by the generous gift of the James family arranged for the College women, the Academy girls having Pacific Hall. Immediately behind James ^Hall is the stucco building known as the Domestic Science Building, most attractively equipped, but inadequate to meet all the needs of the great department. A small office building, four dormitories, and the home for the foreign teachers complete the buildings of the Girls' Campus, all but the gymnasium which serves temporarily as a chapel. These buildings were made necessary not only for the comfort of the students, but that the institution might have government recognition as a semmonko, or high-grade school, which was accorded it in 1912; this makes it one of seven non-government College-grade schools for girls, and enables the graduate to have a teacher's license and to enter for post-graduate work in higher government schools. At the same time, the Doshisha gained the university name, daigaku ; and we may mention here that the degrees are all conferred under the authorization of the government's Department of Education. It was Mr. Neesima's plan that the institution should be thoroughly Japanese. It is governed by twenty directors, three of whom are representatives of the American Board. The morning before his death, Mr. Nessima dictated: The Object of the Doshisha is the Advancement of Christianity, Literature and Science, and the further- [ 57 ] |