early autumn of September, 1861, he died of fever contracted in the camp. He was a rare man, full of all noble impulses and deeds.

Bishop G. T. Bedell, the associate and successor of Bishop McIlvaine, although never president of Kenyon, has proved. to be one of its foremost friends and benefactors. By his efforts he has very largely increased the endowment. In 1866 he recounts "the recent subscriptions to the college as amounting to $140,000, of which over $100,000 have been paid. "

The present estimated value of the lands, buildings, libraries, apparatus, and endowments at Gambier, including seminary and college, is about half a million of dollars. The financial history of Kenyon is essentially like that of many other western institutions. Few have any distinct concep tion of the wearying labors and of the many discourage ments which are the portion of those who would found a college. We are reminded of the familiar words of Virgil: "Tantæ molis erat Romanam condere gentem.

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The presidents since President Andrews have already been named. President Tappan, the last incumbent, a successful professor of mathematics in the Ohio University for several years before his appointment to the presidency of Kenyon, has recently resigned the president's chair and taken charge of the mathematical department to which he is drawn by his tastes and for which he has peculiar fitness.

Kenyon College has always done good literary work, and has sent forth many graduates who have given an excellent account of themselves in professional and public life. Hon. Edwin M. Stanton who has had few peers in history as a war minister, received his education at Kenyon. Hon. R. B. Hayes, the thrice chosen governor of Ohio, was a graduate of the class of 1842. Hon. David Davis, of the Supreme Court of the United States, and Hon. Henry Winter Davis were also graduates.

There is at Kenyon as at nearly every other college in Ohio, a preparatory department. Attendance in the college chapel at daily prayer is obligatory on all the students.

Since 1873 the board of trustees has been constituted as follows: The Bishops of the two dioceses of Ohio and the assistant Bishop, if there be one of the diocese which includes Gambier; the President of Kenyon college; four clergical and four lay trustees whose successors shall be chosen by the board of trustees for terms of ten years; three clerical and three lay trustees whose successors shall be elected by the diocesan convention for terms of three years; and two clerical and two lay trustees to be chosen by the alumni, who shall hold office for four years.

The aggregate number of volumes in all the libraries of the seminary and college is about 19,000. The whole number of graduates up to 1872, is 452.

WESTERN RESERVE COLLEGE.

By its original colonial charter, Connecticut had a claim to lands lying west of Pennsylvania. These lands were ceded to the United States, except a strip lying contiguous to the Pennsylvania line, 40 leagues in length. This tract became known as the Connecticut Western Reserve and was often popularly termed New Connecticut. Connecticut afterwards sold this land for $1,200,000, and the proceeds of the sale were set apart as a school fund. Naturally, Connecticut people settled in New Connecticut. They brought with them notions, material and immaterial, and among the latter were two, faith in God and faith in themselves. "Qui transtulit sustinet," the motto of the Connecticut coat of árms, represented their religious faith. They brought with them educated ministers and teachers, and with stout hearts entered upon the work of subduing the forest and creating themselves homes.

As early as 1801, an unsuccessful attempt was made to obtain a charter for a college from the Territorial Legislature. In 1803, a renewed attempt succeeded. The Territory had meanwhile become a State, and its legislature granted. to the "Erie Literary Society" college powers. An academy was opened at Burton, designed to be the germ of a college. Afterwards the presbyteries of Grand River, Portage, and Huron, which included the congregational element under the "Plan of Union," appointed commissioners to select another location and Hudson was chosen and a new charter obtained, February 7, 1826. It was to be an independent college free from ccclesiastical control, the charter making the board of trustees a close corporation with power to fill vacancies.

The design of this college is thus well stated by the author of the Historical Sketch furnished the Centennial Educational Committee: "The objects proposed by the founders were to educate pious young men as pastors for our destitute churches, to preserve the present literary and religious character of the State and redeem it from future decline, and to prepare competent men to fill the cabinet, the bench, the bar and the pulpit. The clerical portion of the founders were most of them graduates of Yale College, and the others of Williams and Dartmouth. The lay portion were from Connecticut, having been reared under the shadow of the influence of Yale College. Those famous colleges of New England were therefore their models, the objects they achieved were the ends sought for here by the same means.' The college was opened in 1826, and a freshman class formed. The institution was to be in character and methods a copy of Yale, and so thorough and genuine has been the instruction afforded that no one can say that there has been any blur in the copying.

The first president was the Rev. Charles Backus Storrs, of a Massachusetts family that has won for two generations

ministerial honors. He had for several years been pastor of the church at Ravenna, and was a man of marked ability as a preacher. He became persident in 1830. He had lived and preached in the South and, perhaps as a result of personal observations there, became a strong foe of slavery and his speeches against it were characterized by great boldness and vigor. He died in 1833 at the age of 39 years having occupied the chair of president only three years.

He was succeeded by Rev. Geo. E. Pierce, D. D., a native of Connecticut and a graduate of Yale, who was president of the college from 1834 to 1855. He devoted himself to the work of building up the college, and was untiring in his labors. His selections of a faculty were the wisest and no college, east or west, could boast of professors of finer culture and ability. It was the trying problem assigned to President Pierce, one which needed to be solved anew every year, how to support this large number of able men. It is to be feared that the meager support they received would lead to the belief that the problem was never more than half solved. It was the old struggle through which Harvard, Yale and Amherst and all our best American colleges have in their time passed.

Rev. Henry L. Hitchcock, D. D. succeeded to the presidency in 1855. A native of the Reserve, a son of one of the most eminent judges of the State, a graduate of Yale, for many years an honored pastor of a leading church in the capitol of the State, for many years a trustee of Marietta College-a profitable experience to him-a wise and good man, he brought to the presidential chair unusual adaptations to the place and the hour. In a few years he removed all financial embarrassments and added one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars to the permanent funds of the college. In 1871, he resigned his office, but served the college as professor until his death in 1873. A true college is a tree of centuries. It is believed that Western Reserve,

thanks to the labors and gifts of its many devoted friends, is now rooted for the ages. President Hitchcock has been worthily succeeded by Rev. Carrol Cutler, D. D.

The founders of the college had in view a theological department and a professor of theology was appointed as early as 1828, and other professors soon after. This department was continued until 1852, when it was given up. The professors were unusually able men and afterwards filled high positions in eastern theological seminaries and colleges. In 1844, a medical department was established, located at Cleveland. It is well equipped with buildings, library, museums, etc., and has a faculty of eminent physicians and scientific men. It has granted the degree of Doctor of Medicine to 1,250 young men.

There is attached to the college at Hudson a preparatory department in which young men are thoroughly fitted to enter the college classes.

The college has libraries containing an aggregate of 12,200 volumes, a good working laboratory and a good cabinet of minerals, and fossils.

The number of graduates is 404. From an examination of the table of statistics it appears that of all who have entered the freshmen class 50 per cent. have graduated. This is a large proportion.

DENISON UNIVERSITY.

This university is located at Granville, a pleasant village in Licking county. It was first incorporated by a charter granted by the General Assembly, December 13, 1832, as the Granville Literary and Theological Institution. In 1845, the name was changed to Granville College, which in June 25, 1856, was again changed to Denison University, to commemorate a donation from Wm. Denison, of Adamsville, Ohio. At a meeting of the Ohio Baptist Education