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deserving children as the committee on trusts, endowments, and scholarships . . . may from time to time judge and determine to be entitled thereto." The college has, since its splendid display of recuperative power following the fire, led a prosperous and progressive career. Material improvements have been kept apace with educational advancement, and the buildings and grounds present an aspect of attractiveness which one finds but a few times excelled in the country. The original tract of land purchased by the managers has been added to until at present it contains about three hundred acres of charmingly diversified lawn and meadow and grove. About one-half of the area is set aside for farming and gardening purposes, providing milk and vegetables for the college, and the remainder is a pleasure-ground. The portion of the property along Crum Creek, which forms the western boundary, is rich in picturesque beauty, and the stream is not only an element in the landscape very pleasing to the eye, but affords facilities for boating and other aquatic sports in summer, and for skating in winter. The college has had during the present year three hundred and four pupils. The condition of the school has been satisfactory in all respects, and notably has the system of co-education of the sexes, one of its features from the first, proved successful. Great as has been the usefulness of the institution in the past, a constantly enlarging sphere of beneficence will, without doubt, be filled during each successive year.

The present faculties are composed as follows:

Faculty of Government. - Edward H. Magill, president; Anna W. Frost Capp, matron; Professor Eugéne Paulin, Professor Arthur Beardsley, Professor William Hyde Appleton, Professor Susan J. Cunningham, Professor Samuel S. Green, Professor Joseph W. Teets, Assistant Professor Mary L. Austin, Assistant Professor Elizabeth C. Miller; Thomas S. Foulke, superintendent.

Faculty of Instruction. - Edward H. Magill, A.M., president; Joseph Leidy, M.D., LL.D., Professor of Natural History; Eugéne Paulin, A.M., Professor of French and Latin, and of Mental and Moral Philosophy; Arthur Beardsley, C.E., Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, and Librarian; William Hyde Appleton, A.M., Professor of Greek and German; Susan J. Cunningham, Professor of Mathematics; Joseph Thomas, M.D., LL.D., Professor of English Literature; Samuel S. Green, M.S., Professor of Physics and Chemistry; Joseph W. Teets, Professor of Elocution; Mary L. Austin, Assistant Professor of Latin; Elizabeth Clarke Miller, A.B., Assistant Professor of Rhetoric; Frederick A. Wyers, A.B., Assistant Professor of French; Charles C. Eames, C.E., Assistant Professor of German; Ellen E. Osgood, Instructor in History; Ellen M. Griscom, Instructor in Free-hand Drawing; Amelia P. Butler, Instructor in Theory and Practice of Teaching; Olivia Rodham, Assistant Librarian, and Instructor in Botany.

The board of managers consists of the following gentlemen and ladies. Term expires Twelfth month, 1884: Joseph Willets, Trenton, N. J.; Eli M. Lamb, Baltimore, Md.; Clement M. Biddle, Abigail M. Woodnutt, Anna M. Hunt, Philadelphia; Susan W. Lippincott, Cinnaminson, N. J.; Sarah H. Merritt, Brooklyn, L. I.; Herman Hoopes, Philadelphia. Term expires Twelfth month, 1885: John T. Willets, New York; Edward H. Ogden, Philadelphia; Daniel Underhill, Jericho, L. I.; Emmor Roberts, Fellowship, N. J.; Jane P. Downing, Philadelphia; Mary W. Cocks, Old Westbury, L. I.; Sarah H. Powell, New York; Edith D. Bentley, Sandy Spring, Md. Term exires Twelfth month 1886: Isaac Stephens, Trenton, N. J.; James V. Watson, Philadelphia; Clement Biddle, Chad's Ford, Pa.; Martha G. McIlvain, Philadelphia; Sophia U. Willets, Manhasset, L. I.; Sallie M. Ogden, Edmund Webster, Emma McIlvain, Philadelphia. Term expires Twelfth month, 1887: John D. Hicks, Old Westbury, L. I.; Robert Willets, Flushing, L. I.; Joseph Wharton, Philadelphia; M. Fisher Longstreth, Sharon Hill, Delaware Co., Pa.; Mary Willets, Trenton, N. J.; Anna M. Ferris, Wilmington, Del.; Mary T. Longstreth, Sharon Hill, Delaware Co., Pa.; Lydia H. Hall, West Chester, Pa.

Two brothers of the Magill family, William and Alexander, came from the North of Ireland about the year 1725. From William was descended Jacob, the grandfather of Edward H. He married Rebecca Paxson, and had children, - Mary, Jonathan P., Susan, Sarah, and Charles. Jonathan P. was born in Solebury, Bucks Co., Pa., and during his active life was engaged in farming. He married Mary Watson, daughter of David and Rachel Watson, of Falls township, Bucks Co., Pa., whose ancestors came to this country from England with William Penn. Both husband and wife were earnest members of the society of Friends, and well known for their anti-slavery proclivities. They were identified with the leaders of that movement, which received at their hands practical aid, their home having been one of the stations of the memorable Underground Railroad, and the safe abiding-place of many escaped and hunted slaves. Their children were Sarah (deceased), Edward H., Watson P., Rebecca (deceased), Catherine T. (wife of Henry C. Phillips), Rachel M. (wife of John S. Williams), and Matilda R. (wife of Charles S. Atkinson).

Edward H. was born Sept. 24, 1825, in Solebury, Bucks Co., and spent his youth until his fourteenth year at the home of his parents. He then became for two years a pupil of the Friends' school at Westtown, Chester Co., and filled the interval from that period until his twenty-fifth year in teaching. Entering the Freshman class of Yale College in 1850, he remained one year, and in 1851 became a student of Brown University, Providence, R. I., from which he received in 1852 the degree of A.B., and that of