indication of what God wants it to become, by improvement and development,” and it offered to men and women alike the same advantages, the same labor, and the same honor.  It is working out for itself the problem of co-education, and it has never had occasion to take one backward step in the part it has chosen.  Money by the millions has been poured out upon the schools and colleges of the land, and not one dollar too much has been given, for the money that educates is the money that saves the nation.

Among those who have been made stewards of great wealth some liberal benefactor should come forward in behalf of this great school, that, by eighteen years of faithful living, has proved its right to live.  Its founder says of it:  “The institution has not yet compassed my thought of it.”  Certainly it has not reached its possibilities of doing good.  It needs a hall in which its concerts and lectures can be given, and in which the great organ of Music Hall, may be placed.  It needs that its chapel, library, studios, gymnasium and recitation rooms should be greatly enlarged to meet the actual demands now made upon them.  It needs what other institutions have needed and received, a liberal endowment, to enable it, with them, to meet and solve the great question of the day, the education of the people.

[Illustration:  New England Conservatory of Music Boston]

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SKETCH OF SAUGUS.

By E.P.  Robinson.

Saugus lies about eight miles northeast of Boston.  It was incorporated as an independent town February 17, 1815, and was formerly a part of Lynn, which once bore the name of Saugus, being an Indian name, and signifies great or extended.  It has a taxable area of 5,880 acres, and its present population may be estimated at about 2,800, living in 535 houses.  The former boundary between Lynn and Suffolk County ran through the centre of the “Boardman House,” in what is now Saugus, and standing near the line between Melrose and Saugus, and is one of the oldest houses in the town.  It has forty miles of accepted streets and roads, which are proverbial as being kept in the very best condition.  Its public buildings are a Town Hall, a wooden structure, of Gothic architecture, with granite steps and underpining, and has a seating capacity of seven hundred and eighty persons.  It is considered to be the handsomest wooden building in Essex County, and cost $48,000.  The High School is accommodated within its walls, and beside offices for the various boards of town officers; on the lower floor it has a room for a library.  The upper flight has an auditorium with ante-rooms at the front and rear, a balcony at the front, seats one hundred and eighty persons, and a platform on the stage at the rear.  It was built in 1874-5.  The building committee were E.P.  Robinson, Gilbert Waldron, J.W.  Thomas, H.B.  Newhall, Wilbur F. Newhall, Augustus B. Davis, George N. Miller, George H. Hull, Louis P. Hawkes, William F. Hitchings, E.E.  Wilson, Warren P. Copp, David Knox, A. Brad.  Edmunds and Henry Sprague.  E.P.  Robinson was chosen chairman and David Knox secretary.  The architects were Lord & Fuller of Boston, and the work of building was put under contract to J.H.  Kibby & Son of Chelsea.