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 ■^HE University comprises a department for under- 
 gradui^tes and one for^students preparing for each of the 
 learned professions, theology, law, and medicine. — The 
 undergraduates are in four classes, and the course of in- 
 struction for them occupies four years. 
 
 Candidates for admission to either of the classes are 
 examined by the President, Professors, and Tutors. To 
 be received to the Freshman class, the candidate must be 
 thoroughly acquainted with the grammar of the Latin 
 and Greek languages, including prosody, be able proper- 
 ly to construe and parse any portion of the following 
 books, viz. DalzeFs Collectanea Grseca Minora, the Greek 
 Testament, Virgil, Sallust, and Cicero's Select Orations, 
 and to translate English into Latin correctly ; he must be 
 well versed in Ancient and Modern Geography ; the fun- 
 damental rules of Arithmetic, vulgar and decimal frac- 
 tions, proportion, simple and compound, single and double 
 fellowship, alligation, medial and alternate, and Algebra 
 to the end of simple equations, comprehending also the 
 doctrine of roots and powers, arithmetical and geometri- 
 cal progression. 
 
 Books used in the examination, besides the above, are 
 Adam's Latin and the Gloucester, Valpy's, or Buttmann's 
 Greek Grammar ; " An Elementary Treatise of Arithme- 
 tick," and an " Introduction to the Elements of Algebra, 
 comprehending the Mathematics required for admission to 
 
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 the University at Cambridge, New England ;" " Elements 
 of Geography, Ancient and Modern, with an Atlas, by 
 J. E. Worcester.'^* 
 
 The stated time of examination for the Freshman class is 
 the Friday next after Commencement. Those who are 
 necessarily prevented from offering themselves at that 
 time may be examined at the beginning of the first term. 
 If any one be admitted after the first Friday in October, 
 he will be considered as admitted to advanced standing. 
 
 Persons may be admitted to advanced standing or from 
 another College at any part of the college course previous to 
 the first Wednesday of December of the Senior year. Eve- 
 ry one admitted to advanced standing, in addition to the pre- 
 paratory studies, must appear, on examination, to be well 
 versed in the studies pursued by the class into which he pro- 
 poses to enter. He must also pay into the College treasury 
 a sum not under sixty dollars nor exceeding one hundred 
 for each year's advancement ; and a proportional sum for 
 any part of a year. Any scholar, however, who has a 
 regular dismission from another College, may be admitted 
 to the standing for which, on exiamination, he is found 
 qualified, without any charge. 
 
 Testimonials of good moral character are required of 
 all candidates for admission to the University ; and those 
 who come from other Colleges must produce certificates 
 of regular standing at the time of their dismission. 
 
 ' Before the matriculation of any one, who has been 
 accepted on examination, a bond is to be given in his be- 
 half in the sum of four hundred dollars for the payment of 
 college dues, with two satisfactory sureties, one to be an 
 inhabitant of this state. 
 
 * The hooks used in the preparatory studies, and at the University, are sold by 
 William Billiard, Cambridge, and by Cuiumingsi^' Hilliard,Nc. 1 Corahill, Boston. 
 
Commencement and Vacations. — Commencement, 
 when the degrees are given, is on the last Wednesday of 
 August. The academical year is divided into three terms 
 and three vacations — the first vacation is from Commence- 
 ment, four weeks and two days ; the second, from the 
 fourth Friday in December, seven weeks ; the third, from 
 the third Friday in May, two weeks ; — the Senior Sophis- 
 ters have a recess several weeks previous to Commence- 
 ment. 
 
 The Course of Instruction and Study comprises 
 exercises and recitations in the following authors and 
 branches, and is exhibited more particularly for each terni 
 in the scheme annually published. 
 
 Freshman Class. — 1. Grasca Majora, S- vols, and 2L 
 Homer's Iliad. 2. Livy, f^ve books. 3. Horace. 4. 
 Grotius de Veritate religionis Christianas. 5. Excerpta 
 Latina, 8vo. 6. Geometry, Legendre ; Algebra, Lacroix.-^^^'^''^^^*^^^^ 
 7. Adam's Roman Antiquities. 8. Walker's Rhetorical" *--^ 
 
 Grammar. 9. Lowth's English Grammar. 
 
 Exercises in reading and declamation, and in translation. 
 
 Sophomore Class. — 1. continued ; 5. and 6. continued 
 and finished. 10. Cicero de Oratore. 11. Analytic Geom- 
 etry, or Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, and the Ap- 
 plication of Algebra to Geometry .4*1 2. Blair's Lectures 
 on Rhetorick. 13. History, ancient and modern, Tytler. / / 
 
 14. Logick, by Professor Hedge. 15.^ Looko (m the /d'nrury^ h 
 Hii4«ts^^fe»§, and Stewart's Elements. ^ty^'f^ J 
 
 Exercises in declamation and composition. 
 
 Junior Sophisters. — 1. continued; 15. continued and 
 finished. 16. Latin Poets. 17. Tacitus. 18. Paley's Evi- 
 dences of Christianity. 19. Hebrew Grammar, by Profes- 
 sor Willard, and parts of the Hebrew Bible. 20. Greek 
 Testament, Griesbach. 21. Natural Philosophy and As- 
 tronomy, Enfield ; Brewster's Ferguson. 22. Stewart's Elc- 
 
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merits of the Philosophy of the Mind and Dr. T. Browil's 
 Lectures. 23. Paley's Moral and Political Philosophy. 
 24. Analytic Geometry ; Topography, or a treatise on the 
 application of Trigonometry to orthographic and stereo- 
 graphic projection, dialling, mensuration of heights and 
 distances, navigation, nautical astronomy, surveying and 
 levelling, with logarithmic and other tables, by Professor 
 Farrar. Regular exercises in declamation, forensick ar- 
 gumentation, and themes during the tw^o last years. 
 
 N. B. Instead of 19, those above twenty-one years t)f 
 age, and others at the request of their parents or guardi- 
 ans, may attend to Mathematics, or to Greek and Latin, 
 or to French and Spanish. 
 
 Senior Sophisters. — 22, 23, and 24 continued and 
 finished. 25 Chemistry, Gorham's. 26. The Federalist, 
 and Say's Political Economy ; Butler's Analogy. 
 
 The University furnishes instruction in French and 
 Spanish to all who choose to attend at private hours, with- 
 out any additional charge. 
 
 The course of studies is revised annually, and is sub- 
 ject to occasional variation in the books and the order of 
 studies. Individuals or sections of a class, as they are 
 able or inclined, are instructed in other authors and bran- 
 ches, besides those stated above as required of the whole 
 class. 
 
 The following is the rule of the Immediate Govern- 
 ment in respect to candidates for advanced standing. 
 
 ^'Whereas, in consequence of the different order of 
 studies in different Colleges, candidates from other Col- 
 leges for advanced standing in this, while deficient in 
 some branches, may yet have anticipated others ; so that 
 on the whole they have learned an equal amount of the 
 studies of this Seminary, with the class, for admission to 
 which they apply ; in such cases, the Immediate Govern- 
 
ment will receive the anticipated, for the deficient studies. 
 Provided, however, that no studies shall be received in 
 compensation but such as form a part of the course at this 
 College ; and that the candidate have so much knowledge 
 in each department, as to be able to go on with the class. 
 And the applicant shall be admitted only on condition that 
 he afterwards make up such deficient studies, to the satis- 
 faction of the Government upon examination ; and should 
 he neglect so to do, his connexion with the University 
 shall be forfeited. Candidates from such a distance, as 
 renders it difficult to obtain a knowledge of the exact 
 order of studies at this College, shall be entitled to the 
 privihege of the foregoing rule.'^ 
 
 Where persons have been led by circumstances to pur- 
 sue their preparatory studies in approved text books other 
 than those in use here, they will be examined accordingly. 
 
 Lectures, distinct from private exercises or recitations, 
 are delivered to the whole College, or to one or more 
 classes, or a select number of undergraduates by the sev- 
 eral Professors, on Divinity, Sacred Criticism, and Eccle- 
 siastical History; on Philology, ; on Rhetorick and Orato- 
 ry ; on Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, Civil Polity, 
 and Law ; on French and Spanish languages and litera- 
 ture, and on Greek literature ; on Astronomy, Experimen- 
 tal Philosophy, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Mineral- 
 ogy, and Geology ; on Anatomy and Surgery, with demon- 
 strations from preparations, dissections of recent subjects 
 being confined to the Medical College ; on the application 
 of the Sciences to the Arts ; and on several other subjects. 
 
 Besides the recitations, literary exercises, and lectures 
 above, there is a public examination of each class in the 
 third term, and a public exhibition of performances in 
 composition and elocution, and in the mathematical* scien- 
 ces three times a year ; also the Bowdoin Prize Disserta- 
 
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 £ioiis read in the Chapel the thu'd term, the |3erfonnances 
 of Commencement day, and the speaking for Bo} Iston 
 prizes the day after. 
 
 The students c^re permitted to attend on such teachers 
 of the modern hmguages, and also such teachers of the 
 polite accomplishments, as are approved by the authority 
 of the College. 
 
 Devotional exercises and the observance of the 
 Lord's day. — The members of the College attend pray- 
 ers and the reading of the Scriptures in the Chapel every 
 morning and evening, when the President, or in his ab- 
 scence, a Professor or Tutor officiates ; — and the religious 
 services of the Christian Sabbath in the University Chapel, 
 which are conducted by the President, who preaches on 
 one part of the day ; and by the Hollis Professor of 
 Divinity, who delivers a lecture on the other part. There 
 is a University church, of the Congregational order, in 
 which the ordinances are administered, and of which the 
 officers last mentioiied are the ministers. 
 
 Any undergraduate, who is above twenty-one years of 
 age, and has been brought up to attend public worship at an 
 Episcopal church, who proposes to attend statedly on that 
 service in Cambridge, on signifying in writing the fact and 
 his desire, to the President, may have leave so to attend. — 
 Any one under age, who has been accustomed to wor- 
 ship at an Episcopal church, may have leave to attend 
 statedly upon that service in Cambridge, provided it be 
 the desire of his parent or guardian, signified in the man- 
 ner aforesaid. 
 
 The expenses of undergraduates and the regulations 
 concerning the same, with reference to students from 
 places out of the State and more than one hundred miles 
 from Cambridge, are explained in a Circular sent to pa- 
 rents and guardians, signed by the President, as follows, 
 
^<SiR — In conformity with the vote of the College 
 Legislature, I communicate to you the following regula- 
 tions of the University in relation to students from distant 
 places, with an estimate of expenses, and with remarks 
 and notes. 
 
 ' 1. Some gentleman of Cambridge, not of the Imme- 
 diate Government of the College, shall be appointed by 
 the Corporation patron of all those students who are not 
 of this Commonwealth, unless they belong to places with- 
 in one hundred miles of Cambridge ; and shall have 
 charge of the funds of every such student. 
 
 * 2. The patron shall have particular instruction from 
 the authorities of the College, concerning the kind of ex- 
 penses allowed to be incurred by the students, whose 
 funds are in his hands, and he shall make no disburse- 
 ments and pay no bills inconsistent with such instructions ; 
 and whatever bills he may pay shall contain a distinct 
 specification and charge of every article. 
 
 * 3. The said patron shall give a detailed account of 
 the expenses incurred by each student under his care to 
 the Immediate Government and any of the other anthori- 
 ties of the College when required. 
 
 ' 4. The parent or guardian of such student shall be 
 informed what are the necessary annual expenses of Col- 
 lege, and also what is the most liberal allowance that is 
 permitted for other expenses ; and shall also be informed 
 that the regulations of the College require that all funds 
 for the support and use of his son or ward must be re- 
 mitted to the patron only, who is to have the whole con- 
 trol of the same under the direction of the Instructers of 
 the College. 
 
 ' 5. Every student within the provisions of this law, 
 shall be informed by the President of the appointment of 
 the patron ; and hereafter no such student shall be permit- 
 
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 the laws on this subject ; and he is to be charged in his 
 Quarter Bill at the rate of six dollars a year, towards a 
 compensation to the patron.' 
 
 EXPENSES FOE A YEAR. 
 
 a Steward and Commons, including board for 38 weeks, 
 at $2 50 per week, .... 
 
 Instruction two first years $46, third year $64, fourth 
 $74, average ...... 
 
 h Room rent, ,.*.... 
 
 Library, . . . . . 
 
 Text books, ....... 
 
 h Wood, ........ 
 
 Fuel for Lecture rooms, repairs, catalogue, Stc. . 
 
 Patron, ........ 
 
 Amount of charges in College QuarterBills $234 . . 234 50 
 
 c Clothes, including every article of dress, 120 to 200 
 Laundress, . . . . . 12 to 24 
 Candles or Oil, .... 
 
 d Servant, ..... 
 Pocket money, ..... 
 
 Vacations (board) 
 Do. (wood) 
 
 453 $600 50 
 
 a Students boarding out of Commons in the town pay from $2 50 to ^3 50 a week. 
 Commons are established on a plan to accommodate all the students, and 
 each one is charged with $2 50 per quarter, under the bead of Steward 
 and Commons, whether he board in Commons or not. Those who have 
 rooms in the College are expected to board in Commons, but at their re- 
 quest, with the assent of their parent or guardian, they are permitted to 
 board out, in which case they are charged with $1 50 per quarter in addi- 
 tion to the preceding, for the benefit of Commons. 
 
 h There are rooms in the College edifices for 220 students (two in a room) the 
 use of which is given in turn to those who apply, when the number of rooms 
 is not sufficient for all who desire to live in College. Room rent and wood 
 
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 Besides these expenses, students purchase or hire their 
 own beds and a few necessary articles of furniture, when 
 they are first admitted to College ; the cost ^40 to ^60. 
 
 The patron is authorized, as far as the funds in his 
 hands on account of any student admit, to pay bills, and 
 make disbursements for his use to the largest amount 
 specified under each article, unless any parent or guardian 
 shall limit his son or ward in any particular. No debt is 
 to be incurred by the student, unless by an order from the 
 patron. 
 
 Stephen Higginson, Jun. Esq. of Cambridge, the 
 Steward of the University, is appointed to the office of 
 Patron, in conformity to the preceding regulations. 
 
 You are requested to communicate to him, in writing, 
 any views or wishes you may have relating to the subjects 
 here presented to your attention, in particular the follow- 
 
 Do you wish to leave it to the option of your son, 
 whether to have his commons and board in the College or 
 in a private house, also to occupy his room in such house 
 alone or with another ? You must perceive that the an- 
 nual expenses must be considerably affected by the choice 
 in these cases. 
 
 Do you wish him to travel in vacations ? and will you 
 provide the means through the patron ? 
 
 Do you permit him to purchase other books than those 
 used in the course of studies, and estimated above ? and 
 to what amount shall the patron be authorized to pay bills 
 for this purpose ? 
 
 are reckoned on the plan, which was formerly universal, of two students, 
 living in one room in a College building. Rooms in private houses are charg- 
 ed from forty to sixty dollars a year; the highest price including an adja- 
 cent bed room. 
 
 c This is intended for students who do not obtain any supply of clothing from 
 home. 
 
 d The service intended is chiefly cleaning boots and shoes and making fire in the 
 student's apartment in the morning. 
 
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 The governors of the College are desirous of prevent- 
 ing, by all suitable means, every species of extravagance 
 in the students, and they rely on the concurrence and co- 
 operation of all who are interested. Whilst they trust 
 that the methods here proposed will afford a remedy for 
 this evil in the case of students from distant places, they 
 have adopted measures which they believe will secure the 
 same object in regard to the other members of the Uni- 
 versity." 
 
 Dress. — The dress of the undergraduates is to be as 
 follows : — 
 
 The coat of black-mixed,^ smgle breasted, with a roll- 
 ing cape square at the end, and wdth pocket flaps ; waist 
 reaching to the natural waist, with lapels of the same 
 length ; skirts reaching to the bend of the knee ; three 
 crows-feet, made of black silk cord, on the lower part of 
 the sleeve of a Senior, two on that of a Junior, and one 
 on that of a Sophomore : The waistcoat of black -mixed 
 or of black ; or when of cotton or linen fabric, of white, 
 single-breasted, with a standing collar : The pantaloons of 
 black-mixred or of black bombazet, or when of cotton or 
 linen fabric, of white : The surtout or great coat of black- 
 mixed, with not more than two capes. The buttons of 
 the above dress must be flat, covered with the same cloth 
 as that of the garments, not more than eight nor less than 
 six on the front of the coat, and four behind. A surtout, 
 or outside garment, is not to be substituted for the coat. 
 But the students are permitted to wear black gowns, in 
 which they may appear on all public occasions. Night- 
 gowns, of cotton or linen or silk fabric, made in the usual 
 form, or in that of a frock coat, may be worn, except on 
 the sabbath, on exhibition, and on other occasions w hen 
 
 * By black-mixed (called also Oxfoi-d mixed) is understood l)lack, with a mix- 
 ture of not more than one twentieth nor less than one twenty-tifth part white. 
 
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 an undress would be improper. The neck-cloths must 
 be plain black or plain white, hats of the common form 
 and black, and the shoes and boots black. 
 
 No student, while in the state of Massachusetts, shall, 
 either in vacation or term time, wear any different dress or 
 ornament from those above named, except that in case of 
 mourning, he may add the customary badges. 
 
 Government and Discipline. — The President, five 
 Fellows, and a Treasurer constitute the Corporation, who 
 hold the estates of the University, choose officers, and 
 pass orders and by-laws. Their acts have immediate 
 force and effect, but they are responsible for the same to 
 the Overseers. This body is composed of the Governor, 
 Lieutenant Governor, and Council, the Senate, Speaker 
 of the House of Representatives, and the President of the 
 University ; and fifteen laymen and fifteen clergymen to 
 be from time to time chosen by the Board. 
 
 The College system is administered and executed by 
 the several officers in their individual capacity, or as 
 members of the Immediate Government. This Board 
 consists of the President, a certain number of the Profes- 
 sors, and the Tutors. 
 
 Those students who excel receive public marks of dis- 
 tinction, such as the assignment of performances at Exhi- 
 bitions and at the annual Commencement, donations of 
 books, Bowdoin prizes, &:e. 
 
 Offenders and delinquents are subject to punishment by 
 fine, admonition, official notice of delinquency to parents 
 and guardians, the exaction of special study, suspension, 
 dismission from College, rustication, and expulsion. 
 
 Fines for unexcused absence, for non-performance of 
 exercises, as well as for misdemeanors, are inserted in the 
 Quarter Bills of the students. When any scholar has in- 
 curred admonition, information of the censure is given by 
 letter to the parent or guardian. 
 
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 Tke department for Graduates and Students in the 
 
 Professions, 
 
 The Theological Seminary was established by the Uni- 
 versity, assisted by the Society for promoting Theological 
 Education in said University. The Faculty of Theology, 
 consisting of the President, the Alford Professor of Natu- 
 ral Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, the 
 Hollis Professor of Theology, the Hancock Professor 
 of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages, and the 
 Dexter Professor of Sacred Literature, carry on the 
 course of instruction, which is given to three classes 
 during three years. Graduates of any public College 
 or University of suitable character, are admissible by 
 vote of the Faculty to the Seminary; none to be re- 
 ceived at an advanced standing who have not attend- 
 ed to the previous parts of the course. Applications are 
 to be made in person or by letter to one of the members 
 t)f the Faculty, and when distance or other circumstances 
 require, must be accompanied by testimonials of good 
 abilities, literary progress, and an unblemished character. 
 The board and room rent of those members of the Semi- 
 nary, whose situation requires the assistance, are paid from 
 the funds of the Institution, and no charge is made for 
 instruction. 
 
 Law School. — The Royall and University Professors 
 of Law, with two legal characters out of one or the 
 other of the College Boards, belong to the Faculty of Law. 
 The immediate superintendance is committed to the Uni- 
 versity Professor ; with liberty to the pupils of attending 
 the lectures in the other departments of the University. 
 
 Graduates of any public College, and others qualified 
 by the rules of the Courts in the States to which they 
 belong to become students of Law, and of good moral 
 
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 character, may be admitted to the Law School. If they 
 come from any College or Seminary, they must bring cer- 
 tificates of regular standing at the time of their leaving it. 
 Law students are required to give bond in two sureties 
 for the payment of quarterly dues, including the fee for 
 instruction, which is one hundred dollars annually. Stu- 
 dents who desire it are furnished with Commons on the 
 same terms as other members of the University, and gen- 
 erally with lodging rooms. 
 
 The degree of Bachelor of Laws is conferred on such 
 students as remain not less than eighteen months, pursue 
 their studies with diligence, and pass the residue of their 
 novitiate in a manner approved by the Faculty. 
 
 The course of study is drawn up with reference to a 
 term of three years. But students are admitted at any 
 period of their novitiate for a term not less than one 
 College quarter. 
 
 Medical School. — In the Medical School the Lec- 
 tures are given annually, beginning on the third Wednes- 
 day irr November and continuing daily for thirteen weeks, 
 in the Massachusetts Medical College, Boston. The fees 
 for the several courses, and the order in which they are 
 delivered are as follows : — Materia Medica, Midwifery 
 and Medical Jurisprudence, alternately, each ^10 ; Chem- 
 istry, 015; Theory and Practice of Physic, 015 ; Anato- 
 my and Surgery, ^20. 
 
 Any gentleman, after paying the fees for two courses 
 of any Professor, is entitled to a perpetual ticket for the 
 lectures of that Professor. The students are permitted to 
 see the Medical and Surgical practice in the Massachu- 
 setts General Hospital, during the period of the Medical 
 Lectures, upon paying twenty dollars each for a ticket of 
 admission, and one dollar each to defray expenses. Clini- 
 cal Lectures are delivered on the medical cases to those? 
 
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 "who take tickets of admission to tlie Hospital, and re- 
 marks on the surgical cases there accompany the Lectures 
 of Anatomy and Surgery. Students may see the practice 
 in the Hospital at other seasons of the year upon terms to 
 be known upon application to the physician or surgeon. 
 
 The degree of Doctor of Medicine is given twice a 
 year, viz. at the close of the Lectures and at the public 
 Commencement in August. Candidates must pass a sat- 
 isfactory private examination, and at a public examination 
 read and defend a dissertation. Before being admitted to 
 private examination, the candidate must have attended 
 two courses of Lectures, stated above, and must have 
 employed three years in professional studies under the 
 direction of a regular practitioner, including the time oc- 
 cupied in attending the Lectures. If not a graduate of a 
 College or University, he must satisfy the Faculty of his 
 knovvledge of Latin and experimental philosophy. The 
 fee for the degree of M. D. to one who has not taken a 
 degree in x4rts at any Universitj^ or College is ^20 ; to a 
 Bachelor of Arts, $15; to a Master of Arts, $fO, and 
 three dollars are to be paid by every medical graduate for 
 his diploma. 
 
 Any Master or Bachelor of Arts, of approved charac- 
 ter, who signifies to the President his purpose of residing 
 at Cambridge for study, may have access to the lectures 
 and libraries, on giving bond to the satisfaction of the 
 Steward in the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, to 
 pay all College dues. 
 
 Officers of the University, concerned in the instruction 
 or in the inmiediate administration, are a President, and 
 one or more Professors in each of the following bran^^hes. 
 Theology, Sacred Literature, Law, Theory and Practice 
 of Medicine, Anatomy and Surgery, Chemistry, Materia 
 
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 Medica, Obstetricks and Medical Jurisprudence, Mineralo- 
 gy and Geology, the Greek Language, Greek Literature, 
 Hebrew and other Oriental Languages, French and Span- 
 ish Languages and Literature, Mathematics and Natural 
 and Experimental Philosophy, Metaphysicks and Logick, 
 Natural Religion Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, 
 Rhetorick and Belles Lettres, the application of the Sci- 
 ences to the Arts; a Tutor in Greek, two in Latin, two 
 in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy ; Librarian, In- 
 structer in French and Spanish, Regent, Proctor, Regis- 
 trar, Steward, and Curator of the Botanic Garden. 
 
 The foregoing statement being chiefly designed for the 
 information of those at a distance, who occasionally make 
 inquiries respecting this Institution, a few notices of its 
 HISTORY, FOUNDATIONS, and literary and scientific appa- 
 ratus are subjoined. 
 
 Harvard Co-llege, called also Harvard University and 
 the University in Cambridge, New England, situated 
 three miles W. N. W. of Boston, was established by the 
 General Court of the colony of Massachusetts in 1638, 
 and named after the Rev. John Harvard, of Charles- 
 town, who had bequeathed to it a liberal sum. Its en- 
 dowments have been since greatly increased by grants 
 and aids from the State, and by gifts and bequests of in- 
 dividuals. 
 
 The following are among the professorships and foun- 
 dations, with the date of the appointment of the profes- 
 sor in each, and with a designation of the individual or 
 body considered as founder or patron. 
 
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 1721. Professor of Divinity. Thomas Hollis, Esq. by donation. 
 
 1728. " Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. Thom- 
 
 as Hollis, Esq. by donation. 
 
 1765. " Hebrew and other Oriental Languages. 
 
 Thomas Hancock, Esq. by will. 
 
 1783. " Anatomy and Surgery. Dr. Ezekiel Hersey 
 
 and Mrs. Sarah Derby, by will. 
 
 1783. « Theory and Practice of Physick. The Her- 
 
 seys and others, by will, 
 
 1783. " Chemistry. William Erving, Esq. by will. 
 
 C Subscribers in Boston and 
 
 1805. " Natural History. < elsewhere, with grants of 
 
 (^ townships from the Slate. 
 
 1806. " Rhetorick and Oratory. Nicholas Boylston, 
 
 Esq. by will, 1772. 
 
 1810. " Logick and Metaphysicks. The fund from 
 
 the bridges for permanent Tutor assigned 
 by law to the object. 
 
 1811. " Greek Language. The University. 
 
 1815. " Greek Literature. Samuel Eliot, Esq. by 
 
 donation. 
 
 1816. " Jurisprudence. Isaac Royall, Esq. by will. 
 1816. '* French and Spanish Languages and Litera- 
 ture. Abiel Smith, Esq. by will. 
 
 1816. " Belles Lettres. The University. 
 
 1816, " Application of the Sciences to the useful Arts^ 
 
 Benjamin Count Rumford, by will. 
 
 1817. " Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil 
 
 Polity. Executors of the will of John Al- 
 ford, Esq. 
 
 1817. " Jurisprudence. The University. 
 
 1818. " Materia Medica. The University. 
 
 1&18. " Obstetricks and Medical Jurisprudence. The 
 
 University. 
 
 1819. ** Sacred Literature. Hon. Samuel Dexter, by 
 
 will, and Trustees of the Theological Sub- 
 scription Fund. 
 1821. " Mineralogy and Geology. University, and 
 
 individual subscription. 
 
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 The original donations and bequests, in many instan- 
 ces, not being adequate to the object, the fund was suf- 
 fered to accumulate so as to meet the design, and in other 
 cases the deficiency (which in many of the professorships 
 is very considerable) is made up out of the general in- 
 come of the College. 
 
 A township of land in the State of Maine, the gift of 
 Samuel Parkman, Esq. is to be applied to the objects of 
 the Theological School, and by the will of the late James 
 Perkins, Esq. the College has the reversion of twenty 
 thousand dollars from his estate for establishing such 
 professorship as shall be judged most useful. 
 
 The Boivdoin Premiums, being a gold medal of forty 
 dollars, or two prizes in books of the value of twenty 
 dollars each, for the best dissertations in English on sub- 
 jects annually proposed by the Corporation, were estab- 
 lished by the will of the late Governor Bowdoin. 
 
 Edward Hopkins^ Esq. bequeathed a sum to be ex- 
 pended in books to be presented to those students who 
 have diitinguished themselves by their application to their 
 studies. 
 
 Boylston Medical Prize Questions, in conformity to a 
 provision of Ward Nicholas Boylston, Esq. are proposed 
 by a Committee appointed by the Corporation, and the 
 authors of the tw^o best dissertations receive each fifty 
 dollars, or a gold medal of that value. 
 
 Agreeably to the " Boylston Instilution of Prizes for 
 Elocutio7i,^^ founded by the same gentleman, there is a 
 public trial in speaking the day after Commencement by 
 graduates of the preceding day, and members of the two 
 next classes, when two prizes of fifteen dollars and three 
 of ten are assigned among those who excel. 
 
 Meritorious students in the Theological School, and 
 among the undergraduates, of limited means, are assisted 
 
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 in defraying the expenses of their education by endow- 
 ments and exhibitio7is derived from the donations and 
 bequests of Edward Hopkins, Henry Webb, Lieutenant 
 Governor Stoughton, Rev. William Brattle, Thomas 
 and Nathaniel Hollis, William Pennoyer, Madam Mary 
 Saltonstall, the Messrs. Browns of Salem, the late Moses 
 Brown, Esq. of Beverly, and others ; from the recent 
 contributors to the fund for theological education, and 
 from the grant of the State. 
 
 The College edifices, seven in number, stand on an 
 inclosed plain of fourteen acres, surrounded by a belt of 
 forest trees and shrubs. Three of these buildings are 
 appropriated to public purposes, and four, with two 
 College Houses near, are occupied for lodging rooms by 
 instructers and students. They generally bear the names 
 of different benefactors. They are 
 
 University Hall- — built in 1814, of the Chelmsford 
 granite. It measures 140 feet by 50, and is 42 feet in 
 height. It contains above, a Chapel, in which an organ 
 is placed, six rooms for lectures and recitations, and two 
 rooms for occasional public purposes, one of them con- 
 taining the series of prints from the works of the late Mr. 
 Cople}', presented by Gardner Greene, Esq. ; on the 
 ground fioor are four dining halls, with two kitchens be- 
 neath. 
 
 The following are of brick. 
 
 Harvard Hall— built in 1765, 108 feet by 40, and 
 38 to the roof. It is surmounted by a cupola and bears 
 the College clock and bell. It contains, on the second 
 floor, the Library in two apartments, and on the ground 
 floor the Philosophical Hail, being the room for the phi- 
 losophical apparatus and experimental lectures ; and 
 another Hall of the same dimensions containing the Min- 
 eral Cabinet, and also the machines and models used by 
 the Rum ford Professor. 
 
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 HoLDEN Chapel — 50 feet by 34, height 29 ; original- 
 ly erected for a chapel by Madam Holden of England, 
 but is now occupied by the Medical Professors for the lec- 
 tures given in Cambridge. 
 
 Massachusetts Hall — built in 1720, is 100 feet by 
 40, and has only three stories to the roof, the fourth be- 
 ing furnished with Lutheran windows. 
 
 HoLLis Hall — built in 1764, length 105 feet, breadth 
 44, height 32, a plain building with a simple pediment 
 on each side. 
 
 Stoughton Hall — of the same construction, built in 
 1804. 
 
 The three last buildings contain each 32 rooms for 
 habitation, and each room has two small studies. 
 
 Holworthy Hall — erected in 1812, length 138 feet, 
 breadth 34, height 37; occupied principally by graduates 
 and Seniors, every two of whom possess a large room 
 fronting south and two smaller rooms on the northern side, 
 each sufficiently large to serve the double purpose of a 
 study and bedroom ; making twenty-four suits of rooms. 
 
 The Library contains about twenty-five thousand 
 volumes, arranged philosophically, with a complete al- 
 phabetical and also a classed catalogue. The Hollises, 
 Hancock, Shapleigh, the late Thomas Palmer, Esq. of 
 Loudon, Hon. C. Gore, Hon. J. Q. Adams, David Sears, 
 Esq. Francis Vergnies, M. D. W. H. Eliot, Esq. and 
 others in former and recent times have made liberal dona- 
 tions or endowments to the Library. The Hon. L Thorn- 
 dike has enriched it with the whole collection of the late 
 Professor Ebeling of Hamburgh, consisting of twenty- 
 five hundred volumes, chiefly relating to America, and 
 ten thousand maps and charts. The University Library 
 is open daily, and is accessible to all residents and stu- 
 dents. In addition to the general Library, is the Medi- 
 
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 cal Library at the College^ created by Ward N. Boyl- 
 ston, Esq. 
 
 The University establishment at Cambridge comprises 
 also the following appendages, viz. an extensive and 
 complete Philosophical Apparatus ; a Chemical depart- 
 ment, with a sufficient laboratory and apparatus ; a 
 Cabinet of Minerals, accruing chiefly from the gift of 
 the agency of mines of the French republic in the year 
 1795j and of the late Dr. Lettsom of London, and espe- 
 cially the collection of four thousand five hundred speci- 
 mens purchased at Dresden and presented by Hon. An- 
 drew Ritchie ; the Anatomical Museum, consisting of 
 injected and wax preparations, the former presented to the 
 University by John Nicholls LL. D. of London, through 
 the agency of Mr. Boylston, the latter in part received from 
 Hasket Derby, Esq., and the rest made or procured for 
 the Institution under the direction of the present Govern- 
 ment — and a beginning of a cabinet of Comparative 
 Anatomy ; and the Natural History Institution, The 
 Botanic Garden, being partly a purchase of the subscrib- 
 ers to the Natural History Fund, and partly a donation 
 of the late Andrew Craigie, Esq., is about half a mile 
 Vilest of the Colleges. It contains a Professors house, a 
 gardener's house, and a capacious green-house and con- 
 servatory, with exotic trees, shrubs, and plants, and the 
 garden has a considerable and increasing variety of har- 
 dy plants, native and foreign. The whole is now super- 
 intended by a Cura or, who is also to give lectures. The 
 Museum of Natural History consists of articles collected 
 by the College, chiefly by donations for successive pe- 
 riods, and tlic museum lately belonging to the Linnsean 
 So iety of Boston, who have presented their collection 
 to the University. Barker's Panorama of Athens, pro- 
 nounced a faithful representation of the Athenian re- 
 
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 /nainsj was in 1819 presented by Theodore Lyman, Jun. 
 Esq. to the University as a suitable appendage to the 
 College, but it has not yet been exhibited at Cambridge 
 for want of an edifice adapted to the purpose. 
 / The Massachusetts Medical College, in Mason street, 
 
 -^ Boston, is a part of the University establishment, placed 
 in the city for the purpose of affording students an op- 
 portunity of attending surgical operations and hospital 
 practice. 
 
 The building is of brick, 88 feet in length, and 43 in 
 its greatest breadth. It contains lecture rooms, a labo- 
 ratory, anatomical theatre, museum, and library, and 
 apartments for practical anatomy^ well adapted to their 
 objects. 
 
 The number of alumni, graduated at Harvard College, 
 is 4740. 
 
 The present members of the University are 
 Theological students 29 — Law students 10 — other 
 residents 4 — students attending Medical Lec- 
 tures 75, 118 
 
 Seniors 78 — Juniors 75 — Sophomores 74 — Fresh- 
 men 75, - 308 
 
 Total 426 
 
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