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Show lacked only twenty students to make up one thousand, and the entire University had three thousand six hundred and fourteen with every prospect of soon reaching five thousand. The-looking-through-one-window Society, the Alumnae, has done fine extension work among their own number. Some have come back to the University to teach, others have held influential positions in government schools and in various private schools even into the borders of China and some have become physicians and some evangelists; their husbands have been artists, bankers, army officers, lawyers, pastors, diplomats, teachers, doctors, and men in government positions. Best of all they are found in Christian circles, and active in social service that has taken them into Red Cross work and as volunteer nurses during the China, Russian and World Wars. MATSUYAMA The Girl's School at Matsuyama was begun by a Japanese pastor thirty-five years ago; and it was our Miss Effie Gunnison of San Francisco, the first daughter of the Golden West to go out for us, who became his assistant. She had been a teacher in San Francisco, and had been led to take this step through the inspiration of some of our meetings. Our young women rallied around her, organized the Young Ladies' Branch, and assumed her support. After some experience in the Kobe School, she went to Matsuyama and we put up for her the "California Home" in 1892. After ten years in Japan, Miss Gunnison returned, and is now in evangelistic work in Stockton. Another who taught at Matsuyama was Miss Alice Harwood. As she went out while her mother was President of the Southern Branch, the event was particularly notable. She had more cloudy than sunny days in Japan; the path for her led to Matsuyama through Niigata and Kumamoto. At the latter place she had a nerve racking experience when the Americans w^ere expelled from the city because of the anti-foreign feeling so strong in that province. She was a brave woman in an extremely isolated place, and those were trying days in all Japan. [ 59 ] |