HOWARD UNIVERSITY, in Washington, D.C., was organized by act of con gress in 1867, and named from gen. 0. 0. Howard, one of its most conspicuous found ers, and its first president. It is intended for the higher education of negro students, but its laws make no formal distinction, in regard to color or sex, as to teachers or scholars. The university buildings are beautifully situated on very high ground 2 m. from the business center of the city, facing the university park. The principal building is of gray brick and is four stories high, containing recitation and lecture rooms, chapel, library, philosophical rooms, museum, and offices. . The medical building is on the s. side of the park. Miner hall, set apart for ladies, will accommodate lestudents, and has rooms in connection with it for matron and teachers. Clark hall, for young men, accommodates 200 students. The general library contains about 7,090 volumes, many of them choice and select works. The professional departments have separate libraries. The mineral cabinet contains over 4,000 specimens, including fossils, minerals, etc.
The museum contains a collection of coins, medals, and curiosities, specimens of valu able woods, Indian relics, portraits of distinguished men and women, views of the late war, engravings, and photographic views of classic ruins in Rome. The medical department has 7 professors and 3 lecturers; the theological department 3 professors and 1 lecturer; the classical, preparatory, and normal departments have 2 professors and 3 teachers; the law department 3 professors, and the collegiate department 3. The number of students in 1880 was 250. A majority of the medical students are white. The theological department is under the joint supervision of the presbytery of Washington and of the American missionary association (Congregational). The general management of the institution is vested in a board of 21 trustees. It has an income of $8,500 per annum from interest and rent of buildings, and in 1880 was aided by congress to the amount of $10,000. President,. Rev. Win. W. Patton, D.D.