We trust that five years will develop some attractions there, though it will require many more to accomplish all that is planned. On the summit of the hill we hope to have a pavilion in which tired pilgrims may rest, and where no doubt many a class-meeting will yet be held. There is another plan in progress in which every old scholar will heartily rejoice. Our court is to be a clothes-yard no more. So, in the course of a summer or two, we shall have a lovely green quadrangle, duly adorned with vines and shrubbery, on which eyes tired with study will delight to rest.
Time does nothing of the kind.
So far from reversing his engine he will not even apply the brakes now and then, but just speeds on faster and faster all the while. Yet he cannot prevent loving thoughts encircling the dear old home, and earnest prayers ascending in its behalf. Cease not to ask, dear sisters, that in all future years Mount Holyoke Seminary may not only be kept true to the spirit and the aims that have characterized her from the first, but may go on in an ever brightening career of devotion to Christ, and thus of blessing to the world.