The Holloway College.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 169, 11 September 1886, Page 3

The Holloway College.

.the Irfan^mgjs »&&S pIhJwJMHN opening Jaßt-weekwJEler. Majesty waB angry had been invited to~.tha chapel, and 1 near that she considered, the , company by no irieaWo^etecVaV^fcfo'J^Ald have wished, dffllfo* .Gollfege 4d''» s rhagAilicentT, inetitutlofi, 'tittfeth^idea'is'far/taetiGUl)' / EaQcy2so girlfc, all iindor Exclusively* fenfinine itrainingiand teS6hihgrekdhswitii a separate bed- roofavahd •'sitting-room^ besides 'tf 'conversatioAt ro.om ■for a^rlfectoryi libr'awy, lecture-rooms, and picture-galleryt!i.MNo '■•yale^s to be allbwed" cm the premi'SeB.a<iThe eetvide in tfi'e ohapeli^'to be * but l not v aS6ociatedwith dt\y -Church or»aect. '-ThereU^analtarundera canopy or> curved oak, ah>o'r^an^and&talled Beats. • -The 4 ajWia iR noble— high, airy, "and spacious-r-'Witib e'xtlhsive'shrubberies and terrace' gardens. - 'The cfueßtion * remains," however,' where "are" the ' , pupUs Wd'' the "teackerat '.to come from? The governing body <is "an; 'absurdly" weak one— quite grotesque. '• I <hear«'that Mr Martin Hollo way has piirridSe'lyifflrranged tb'haye a' body ?o£i amiable nobdleeVarid meanB'td ( rt>le the whole place himself; 'In" fact,' f thes_ whole thing,; is aa ibiurdifcyj ahd the-Queen would have 'Wen wiae had" she had nothing to' do 'withHt. The late 5 * ' Holloway. was : a 'quaW.'Mfo sold piUs— which were'neither better nor worse than thousands of otheY pills — and. al'a 1 ' harmless ointment, with which he recommended- persons to anoint themselves. Pills and ointment he pushed by means of-advertisements 1 , and' naturally he 1 made money by them; and it 'is said that he used plaintively to regret that Ke had' to> put these " remedies " + in< boxes "which' cost mdro than iiheir contents. The College' was 1 nothing but a gigantic advertisement for tho nostrums, and, as 1 they are still pold, all the fuss and nonsense about it may lead silly people^ tp imagine (to the benefit of his h'eirsXthat iKey will readily benefit, their health- by gulphing down (the pills and rubbing themselves with the ointmerit, ■ , .' . .