Here is the lavatory, complete in all its appointments, except, perhaps, that the long towel on the roller has been already this evening used by too many hands.  The smell of blacking, too, indicates the wearer’s pleasure in his cleaned and polished boots.  In that little hall, which seats about three hundred, a lecture is being given to young men, on the care of the body, by Dr.——.  This is one of six which are given gratuitously by Boston physicians.

We mount the stairs to the next story.  These two rooms are rented to a commercial college.  This door opposite admits you to the hall, which has seats for nine hundred persons.  It is extremely simple, but the tints of the walls and ceiling are delightful, and you have only to listen to those members of the ——­ Club, who have leased it for their concerts, to realize that its acoustic properties are perfect.

Still higher, we find the room of the board, where, once at least in each month, the directors sup at their own expense, and manage the affairs of the Association.  Here, too, its various committees meet.  In the room adjoining, a French lesson is going on; in that, German; in this, penmanship.  Still higher up we find the “Tech” Glee Club practising, and this large room adjoining is filled with those who are learning vocal music.  The building seems a very hive—­something going on everywhere.

Let us now descend to the basement.  The gymnasium is here in full blast.  Men in every kind of costume and in every possible and, to many persons, impossible position, while the superintendent is intently watching each to see that he is properly developing; every kind of bath and many of them are right at hand, and dressing-rooms with boxes for eight hundred persons.

And this great building and all these appliances are the gift of the citizens of Boston to the young men from the country.  Many of the donors remember the time when they came lonely to the city, and determined, if they could prevent it, that no young man, to-day, in the same position, should be without a place where all of which they so greatly felt the need is supplied.

These needs are thus supplied.  Early in the history of the Association, a circular was sent to every evangelical pastor in New England, asking him to give information of each young man coming to the city, that he might be met at the station or received at the rooms.

Let us sketch a case:  We have received word that John ——­ is to arrive from G——­ by such a train.  During the journey, thoughts of the dear ones he has left crowd upon him.  He is already sick for home, as he looks about him and sees no familiar face.  He has left harbor for the first time.  All before him is uncertain:  all about him strange.  He reaches the city; friends are there at the station to welcome this and that one of his fellow-travelers.  He knows no one.  No one cares for his coming.  No one?  Yes, there is a young man scanning closely the faces which