Editorial May 21, 1910 Issue

MRS. EDDY HELPS LITERARY UNION

Editor with contributions from Henry B. Quinby, Ellen A. Wallace

The Christian Science Monitor

Announcement was made public Thursday [May 5] that Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy of Brookline, Mass., the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has given the New Hampton Literary Institution a check for one thousand dollars. Mrs. Eddy became interested in this Institution many years ago, while visiting friends living in this town. A building fund is being raised for the Institution. The amount of twelve thousand dollars has already been subscribed by the alumni. Mrs. Walker of Worcester, Mass., widow of ex-Congressman J. H. Walker, and her son, Joseph Walker of Brookline, Mass., have also given one thousand dollars. The Walkers have a summer home in New Hampton.

New Hampton Institution had its beginning nearly one hundred years ago in an obscure way, the primary purpose being to help young men and women to a higher education who would otherwise be unable to go beyond the teaching offered in the public schools, and this plan has been adhered to ever since. In 1821 the Institution was formally organized and dormitories and a class building were erected. Thousands of young men and women have been prepared here for the colleges of Maine and New Hampshire, and thousands of others have left the Institution to become teachers or to take up higher commercial activities. The fees for board and tuition make it possible for nearly anybody to prepare at the Institution for college, however limited the family means. Thousands have paid all their expense, and some have been known to send money home as well, to contribute to the family support.

New Hampton is a quiet little country village set down among the mountains, at about an equal distance from the surrounding towns of Bristol, Ashland, Laconia, and Tilton.

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