Telegraph despatches from Chicago report the announcement that a goal of $3,000,000 has been reached by the women of ten denxeminations for the benefit of seven colleges for Oriental girls. Mrs. Nicholson, wife of Bishop Thomas Nicholson, of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Chicago, who made the announcement, said that the colleges to be benefited are: Linching, in Peking, and (Ginling in Nanking, Isabella Thoburn in Lucknow, and Woman's Christian College in Madras, India; Woman's Chrigtian College in Tokio, and iwo medical schools for women, North! China Union Medical College in Peking, and Union—Missionary Medical School in Vellore, India. "A great adventure in international friendship" has been accomplished, Mrs. Nicholson said, adding that
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