The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-08-26

lin part at least, the cause of their suf-
ofeortune time to cut down our work
in Spain; and, God helping us, we will
not % it!
In the whole range of this work we
were never more encouraged than we
are now l will not take space in this
letter to recount cases in one and an
| other and still another of our congre-
cations that prove the deep and genu-
inc work of the Holy Spirit in the
| hearts of many who have accepted the
Gospel at our hands. 1 must, however,
tell of the success of
OUR TWO UNIVERSITY GIRLS
at Madrid. Two of our students who
in 1894, had taken the degree of Bache-
lor of Arts in San Sebastian, continued
| their studies for the University degree
| of 'Licenciado en- Filosofia Letras," +"
which corresponds to that of Master of
Arts
| Mrs. Gulic made special inquiries of
drid as to what would be necessary for
our pupils to do, as students not under
| official instruction. In some of the stu
dies she was able to secure a pro
gramme" prepared by the professor, in
dicating the line of work to be followed
during the year in his classes. In 9TH
ers this was impossible, as the profes=
sors would lecture on different subjects,
and the students under official instruc-
tion would be examined on the subject
matter of the lectures. 1t so happened
that the very studies for which there
was no official programme" were those
that belong to Mrs. Gulick's department
of instruction in our school, and this
threw upon her, therefore, the difficult
task of preparing the girls for exam
nation in General Literature, Philoso-
ply, Metaphysics and Spanish Litera-
ture, with no idea of the methods of
teaching of the professors or of the
character ano extent of the examina-
tions required.
Mrs. Gulick writes about this: "The
year has been one of no little anxiety.
We were risking much. Failure would
be serious, for the growing reputation
of the school would suffer-"
I'm May of the present year, 1895,
Miss Webb and I went again to Madrid
to matriculate the two girls, Esther
Alonso and JuIiana Campo, in the Uni
versity. We were not able to stay to
the examinations, and so the girls tele-
graphed us the result of each as it
took place. Our emotion can be i'm
agined when we received the first tele-
gram: Two sobresalientes, which
means 1eaping over everything" The
final record was sobresaliente in all,
namely, in General Literature, Greek,
Universal History, Philosophy and Met
aphysics-ten examinations, and the
highest marks that the University can
give in all of them
Esther Alfonso writes: After con-
graduating us, the professors asked
with whom we had studied. We told
them that our professors were women.
How surprised they were. "Women!"
Then they asked US where we had stud
led, and we told them with professors
from the United States. en- they ask
ed us who the lady was who accom-
panied us at first, and we told them she
was our directora, who had taught us
the study in which we had just been
examined - Metaphysics. They said
such fattering things to us that we are
ashamed to repeat them, but you can
imagine them
AFTER our examination in Universal
History we were waiting in the office
of the Secretary to know the result,
when the professor himself came in and
told us that the other two members of
the tribunal had insisted on giving us
'sobresaliente." He added, laughing;
4 did not intend to give you such a
good mark, for you are enemies of my
Catholic God"
'Sr. SaImeron said that we and the
the University are the three notabili-
ties this year. The professors also ask
ed many questions about the school
the number of teachers, languages
taught, manner of living, and finally
the address of our school in San Sc
bastian.'" Il
SO, step by step, the Lord is leading
us onward, we hardly know to what
goal, but we are sure that it is to a po-
sitlon of greater and still greater in
fiuence for the good of women in Spain
My prayer and my hearts desire is
that you shall be sustained and guided
and blessed in them all
And I am, as always, very sincerely,
your cousin, VIM H. GULICK.