HARVARD COLLEGE (ante), or more properly HAitv.AYtH UNIVERSITY, by which title the institution has been known for many years past, comprehends the following departments: The college proper, the Lawrence scientific school, the divinity school, the law school, the medical school, the dental school, the botanic garden andluTbarium, the Bussey institution of agriculture and horticulture, the Peabody museum of American archaeology and ethnology, the museum of comparative zoology, the astronomical obser vatory, and the library. Of these the college proper, or the academical department, is of course the oldest, dating from the original foundation of the institution in 1636; the medical department, established in 1782, is the next in age; then follows the divinity school, established in 1817, at the time of the Unitarian controversy in Massachusetts. The other departments are of more recent establishment, the law school having been founded in 1817, but opened in its present building in 1832; the Lawrence scientific school in 1848, and the dental school in 1868. The museum of comparative zoology and the Peabody Museum of American archaeology and ethnology, though connected with the university, are affected in their relation to it by peculiar provisions, being responsi ble in some degree to separate governing boards. The astronomical observatory and the library have been regarded as separate departments of the university system only during the past few years. The government of the university is vested in two bodies, the corporation and the board of overseers. The corporation is made up of the president, the treasurer, and five fellows, the president and treasurer being chosen by the fellows, who are a self-perpetuating body. The corporation initiates all measures concerning the college, is responsible for the care of its funds, and elects the officers of instruction and government in the various departments, subject to the ratification and final action of the board of overseers. The board of overseers, originally consisting of the congregational ministers in Cambridge and the adjoining towns, was subsequently elected by the state legislature, but since 1866 has consisted of 30 of the alumni of the university, live of whom are elected annually for the term of six years. The president of the university is president. of the faculties of the several departments, each of which has a distinct dean. All the departments enumerated above are located in Cambridge, with the exception of the medical and dental schools, and the Bussey institution, which are in Boston. The
buildings are for the most part situated on a level plain in Old Cambridge, 3 m w. of Boston. Those used as dormitories for the students are Hollis hall, Stoughton hall, Holworthy hall, Thayer hall, Weld hall, Matthews hall, Gray's hall, _Holyoke house, and college house, Boylston hall, Harvard hall. university hall, :Massachusetts hall, Ilolden chapel, and Seaver hall, are employed either for recitation moms or for labora tory or other miscellaneous use. The Lawrence scientific school, the law school, the divinity school, the Peabody museum, the museum of comparative zoology, the observa tory, and the botanic garden, have one building each for their respective uses. The Hemenway gymnasium was completed in 1880. The largest and costliest of the univer sity buildings is Memorial hall, erected 1870-76 as a memorial of the students of the university who fell in the union army during the rebellion. This building consists of three parts: the memorial vestibule, containing tablets giving the names of the dead, the large dining, hall, surrounded with portraits and busts of the benefactors of the university; and Sanders theater, in the semi-circular auditorium of which the commence ment and other leading public exercises of the university are held. Memorial hall cost about, V300,000, nnd is the largest single college edifice in the world. the dining hall alone, it is claimed, being than the largest of .the English university halls. The other buildings of the university are the medical and dental schools, in Boston proper, and the building of the Busses' institution, near Jamaica plain, within the Boston city limits. The oldest building is Massachusetts hall, built in 1720; the most recent is Seaver hall, built in 1880. The general arrangement of the buildings in the college yard in Cambridge is in the form of quadrangles, of which the western one is now completed, while the eastern is being gradually filled up. The university owns a brick house for the president. The library is housed in Gore hall, which aims to be a copy of king's college chapel, in Cambridge, England, and which has recently been considerably enlarged. Wadsworth house is the name which has of late years been given to the old president's house, within the college yard, occupied by the presidents of the university from 1726 to 1849, but now rented by the college as a dormitory for professors and students. Appleton chapel occupied for daily morning prayers during the academic year, and for Sunday services for those students not having other church connections, was built in 1858.