I must not close this chapter without giving a brief account of the much-loved Cambray House, in which the Ladies’ College started. For a time after the College left it was a boys’ school, but in 1889, Miss Beale had the chance of re-purchasing it for £2,000 and using it as a boarding-house and overflow school for girls awaiting admission to the College. In 1895 it was enlarged, and in 1897 the Principal, by Deed of Gift, made it over to the College, though she still ran it on her own account. Not until 1906 was it actually reckoned part of the College. This is only one of the many instances of how Dorothea Beale spent or invested her own money for the growth and welfare of the College. CHAPTER VIII. WORK OF LOVE. “The fellowship we long for is one in which men shall be themselves as well as fellows to each other, in which each shall know his own desire, and there shall be a harmony among them because of a holy concord in their desires.”--CLUTTON BROCK. In the year 1880, the College Magazine was started under the editorship of Dorothea Beale, who remained its editor until her death in 1906. Nor was she only the editor, but a very frequent contributor: many of her articles which may be seen collected in book form first appeared in the Cheltenham Ladies’ College Magazine. The contributors were chiefly old pupils, though Dorothea Beale sometimes sought contributions from writers outside College circles. Shortly after the magazine was started it became a vehicle for news of old pupils, and was a means of binding past and present students together. It is interesting to see in old College Magazines the names of those who are now well-known in the literary world--Beatrice Harraden and others. The year 1883 was what the pupils called Miss Beale’s “Silver Wedding”: as she had then been twenty-five years at the College. The Old Girls were anxious to give her a present on that occasion, and the Principal asked that they should give something to the College. The gift took the form of a beautiful organ, to be placed in the First Division Room--the largest hall at that time--above the Principal’s daïs. The meeting of Old Girls was fixed for July 6 and 7. Less than a month before it, Dorothea Beale had the sorrow of losing her great friend, Mrs. Owen. She went on, as was her wont, with the preparations for the “silver wedding” assembly, quietly and calmly, not letting her own private griefs intrude on her public duties. The Principal received her guests at eight o’clock on Friday evening. About a thousand old pupils were present. To many of them the building was quite new, and they were charmed with the beauty of it, decorated for the occasion by flowers and plants everywhere.