"We have united all the Protestant citizens in the noble work of founding and patronizing these institutions, which they cherish as among their most valued public establishments. We have shown that the _faculty principle_ is as good for female institutions as for those of the other sex, and that results may be expected from it for woman corresponding in utility and dignity with those it has secured to man. "We have shown that, by the _offer_ of the small endowment of twenty thousand dollars, we can secure the establishment of one of these invaluable institutions, and make it a permanent source of measureless good--a most economical and wise expenditure of educational benefactions. "We have, in short, carried out our plan successfully just as far as it can be done _before_ the endowments are actually furnished. "We have made a beginning toward raising the first endowment, and are able to report on hand and pledged nearly ten thousand dollars. "Our movement has the confidence and full endorsement of many leading clergymen, educators, and editors of our country. Our institutions have the hearty co-operation of the religious bodies where they are located. "At our last annual meeting, an urgent request was made to the Association to aid in the establishment of a third institution at Kalamazoo, Michigan. Without any pledge of immediate action, it was agreed that, if the citizens should comply with our conditions, we would aid them as soon as our means would allow. Those conditions have not yet been met, and we have not, therefore, been called to do any thing at that place. "It has seemed desirable, moreover, that the endowment of the two institutions already established should be completed before attempting to found others." The questions most frequently proposed to the conductors of this enterprise, and the answers to them, will now be introduced. How can the business of domestic economy be taught as a part of school training? Not in great boarding-schools, where it never was or can be done. The "Mount Holyoke" plan, now so popular, is widely supposed to embrace this in its design. But the _teaching_ of this science is not the aim of their domestic department. It is a measure for _reducing expenses_ by saving hired labor, while certain social advantages are supposed to be combined with it. But no pupil is to be _taught_ any thing in this department. Meantime, introducing cooking, washing, ironing, and house-cleaning as a regular part of school duty, makes a system of such detail and complication, demanding so many rules and such strict obedience as adds enormously to the already excessive pressure that is put on the female brain. This is probably an insuperable difficulty attendant on this system, that will forever forbid its introduction wherever the _healthful_ development of woman has its proper regard. How, then, is the object aimed at to be accomplished?