gives or appoints, be it pleasant or painful, bitter or sweet, that I take from Him with good cheer as best of all; and for that reason have I never had mishap. Thou saidst once more, Let God make me joyous: and I answered, I never was in sorrow; for I long only to be of God's will, and I have put my will in His so wholly, that whatsoever God wills, I will; and therefore was I never in sorrow; for I would rest in His will alone and my will had I committed to Him wholly."

"But," said the scholar, "what if God should will to cast thee into Hell, what wouldst thou do then?"

He replied, "Cast me into Hell? From that His goodness keeps Him. And yet, were He to cast me into Hell, I still should have two arms wherewith to clasp Him. One arm is true humility: and that I place beneath Him, and thereby am I joined to His most holy Humanity. And with the right arm of Love, which is joined to His holy Divinity, I so clasp Him that He would needs go into Hell with me. And therefore would I rather abide in Hell, having Him, than in Heaven, having Him not.”

Thereupon this teacher understood that true patience and deep humility are the nearest way to God.

THE COURSES FOR TEACHERS.

BOSTON school-teacher who had received from a friend in New York

A a letter urging the Boston teacher to remove to New York, and picturing

as almost ideal the educational conditions in that city, gives in the Evening Transcript of Tuesday, March 19, her reasons for preferring to continue her professional work in Boston. Among the advantages open to her here she mentions the recently established Teachers' Courses in Boston University and at Harvard, and refers to these courses as follows:

"As for opportunities for professional improvement, Harvard and Boston Universities stand with open doors offering to teachers whatever they may need or desire in academic lines, at convenient times and seasons. In fact, nearly a hundred Boston teachers have been pursuing courses of study in these two institutions the past winter, and no doubt the number will greatly increase when the courses offered, which have been merely tentative, become more firmly established and better known. Both universities welcome inquiries and suggestions from teachers in service."

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THE DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC.

HE article by Assistant Professor John P. Marshall, which we publish elsewhere in this issue of BOSTONIA, will prove of interest to all our readers, and will answer some inquiries which have been raised regarding the aims and methods of this new department of the College of Liberal

Arts.

Professor Marshall makes it clear that the Department of Music is in no sense a school for teaching the rudiments of practical music. The study of music is to be conducted on the higher plane of theory; music is to be treated as one of the elements of a broad culture, an integral part of the æsthetic training which a college of letters aims to impart.

Already the beneficent working of this department is evident to a careful observer. A finer fibre is noted in the intellectual life of some of the most gifted students in the University. As the work of the college broadens, as the new Departments of Natural Science, with their admirable training in accurate observation and exact classification, become an integral part of the curriculum, we welcome this new ally of the old humanities, the literary studies which from the beginning of the college have been so characteristic a feature of the intellectual life of the University. As the college curriculum widens, we note with pleasure this tendency toward an educational equilibrium. Thus far the intellectual growth of the University has been notably free from the abnormal developments which mar the symmetry of some well-known sister institutions.

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THE NEW HOME OF THE COLLEGE.

IN purchasing a new site for the College of Liberal Arts the Trustees of the University were influenced by considerations which affect both the present welfare and the future prosperity of the college.

From a purely business standpoint the purchase is regarded by some careful business men as a wise investment. It is believed by these men that the future growth of that part of the city in which the college is to be located is so assured that the market value of this site will within a few years be greatly in excess of the price recently paid.

From the educational standpoint the new site is looked upon as a change from a place of comparative obscurity to a position where the institution will constantly be in the public eye. The greater amount of notice which the college will receive in its new location will doubtless result in an increase of students and a greater interest in the college on the part of the publicspirited men and women who are patrons of higher learning.

The increased facilities for gymnastic training and the more ample space to be devoted to the Department of Natural Science will appeal to a more numerous class of young men.

The new building will provide an amount of room much in excess of that available in the present quarters on Somerset Street. The dimensions of the new site are such that it would be possible to erect on the unused portion of the lot a building which would practically duplicate the present main building. Provision could thus be made for all the needs of the college for many years to come.

To the graduates of the college there will be, naturally, some regret at leaving a building which is associated with old college days. A university founded in a city usually finds itself sooner or later obliged to change its location in obedience to new conditions of business and civic life. Columbia College has had three homes during its century and a half of existence. Johns Hopkins University is considering the question of a change of location. Boston University itself has already previously made one change. since the days of the original establishment of the college in Beacon Street.

The problems connected with this change of location are many and serious. The Trustees are acting with an energy and promptness which show their conviction of the advantages which will come to the University. The graduates of the college may be relied upon to exert all their potent influence to make the new College of Liberal Arts a more vital force among the educational institutions of the city of Boston.