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Show Women's College GENERAL REPORT 85 meetings led by teachers take the place of the the usual evening prayers, while morning chapel and the regular church services furnish an important part of our educational training. There has been no marked spiritual development during the year, the intense interest in national affairs seeming to absorb the emotional nature of the students, but there has been growth in quiet, natural ways, an increased realization of the truth that those to whom much is given are debtors to all men, and now that there is less to distract them we must hope and pray for a quickening of the spiritual life. Our college students are practically self-governing being under no rules as to time or place of study, except that lights must be out at ten. _TT T T^T,,T/-,C An L shaped building, fitted into our BUILDINGS , ., , , , , only available space unless we encroach on playgrounds has been erected this year, one a r m b e i n g the dormitory given by Mrs. W. G. Smith, a cousin of Miss J. E. Chapin and bearing Miss Chapin's name. The first story of the other consists of a large and a small dining-room providing for from a hundred and fifty to two hundred pupils, the basement is entirely occupied by large kitchens and store rooms sufficient for any probable growth of the school while the upper story at present is used for organ practise rooms. The dormitory arm is built with a flat roof protected by high walls on the north, east, and west, which can be used as a roof garden or for sleeping. This building is planned for elongating toward the west nearly doubling the present dormitory space. It now provides dormitory accommodations for about forty girls and is heated by steam. Our unsightly old kitchen, which occupied the center of our school compound, has been torn down and the yard is much improved. We hope soon to fit up our "Field Library" for which $1000.00 was given by Mrs. Bashford's mother, and when the rooms now occupied by the Bible School revert to the college we may have an in-doors gymnasium. I«f the school continues to grow we shall NEEDS goon n e e ( j m o r e d o r m i t o r y room unless we again crowd four girls into one room. So we ask an appropriation of $4000.00 for the purchase of land in completion of the of the dormitory. For buildings and equipment for musical and domestic science departments we appeal to interested friends, and |