able decrease after 1861 was, evidently, owing to our civil

war.

The total number of graduates is six hundred and twentyfive. Of these one hundred and seventy have become clergymen; one hundred and forty-two, lawyers; and sixty, physicians. Over fifty have held positions as presidents or professors in colleges; and a much larger number have taught in other schools. And many of the others hold high posts of influence and trust. Besides those who have graduated, the University has had a principal share in educating a large number of others.

A chief trait of the University's influence upon its students, has been in respect to religion. Nearly every year of its history it has been visited with extensive revival influences. Few students pass through the course without becoming church members. The proportion of religious students in each class uniformly increases the longer the class is in the College. More than once large classes have graduated in which every member was a church member. In every class, for thirty years past, the majority have been members of churches. In a very large proportion of cases their conversion took place while in the Institution. More than one-fourth of the graduates have become preachers; and about twice as many of those who studied in the College without graduating, have also entered the ministry. In the four patron Conferences (in Ohio) there are eighty-one graduates, and over seventy others who have been students of the College.

The degrees conferred by the Institution are not limited. by the Charter. Thus far only the following have been conferred: A. B., A. M., D. D., and LL. D.

The students keep in a flourishing condition three Literary Societies and a Missionary Lyceum. For these the College furnishes commodious halls. The Lyceum possesses a pretty complete Pantheon of idols, and other religious symbols from heathen lands.

A number of secret fraternities exist.

The Museum of Natural History is constantly receiving valuable additions.

The Prescott Cabinet is devoted to the General Department of Natural History. The basis of this collection was purchased from Dr. Prescott, of Concord, New Hampshire, in 1850; since which time constant and valuable additions have been made.

The Zoological Department now contains fifty species of quadrumana and quadrupeds; over sixty preparations in comparative and human anatomy; two hundred and thirty specimens of birds, representing nearly two hundred distinct species; one hundred and two specimens of reptiles, and one hundred specimens of fishes; five hundred crabs and lobsters, in articulates; and fifty-three species of corals, and eight hundred star fishes, in radiates.

The Section in Conchology consists of more than eight thousand shells, embracing six hundred land shells, one thousand fluviatile, and over six thousand marine shells. Among the latter are included five hundred and sixty species of marine shells, deposited by the Smithsonian Institute.

The Mineralogical Department contains four thousand two hundred distinct entries, arranged in the natural order illustrated in Dana's System of Mineralogy.

This Cabinet also contains two hundred and sixteen species of woods, and two hundred and fifty-nine species of grasses, all native to the State of Ohio. These are the contribution of the Rev. Charles H. Warren, A. M., of the Ohio Conference, by whom they were collected and labelled. Fifty species of moss, collected and presented by Rev. Herman Herzer, of Louisville, Kentucky.

The department of Chemistry is well developed.

In the first and second terms of the Sophomore Year of the Classical Course and the Freshman Year of the Scientific Course, there is a daily exercise in General Chemistry, consisting of lectures, with experiments and recitations. During the second and third terms, instruction is given to the Scien

tific Sophomores in Qualitative Analysis; and in the third term, in Determinative and Descriptive Mineralogy.

At any time, students, who are qualified, can enter the Analytical Laboratory, where they are furnished with the necessary apparatus and chemicals for completing a course in Qualitative and in Quantitative Analysis. Each student here performs his operations and makes his investigations, under the immediate supervision of the Professor of Chemistry.

Besides the general courses in Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis, courses have been arranged for the analysis of urines, and of the more common poisons. The Course of Urinalysis occupies two weeks, and that of Toxicology about six weeks. The Course of Determinative Mineralogy consists of one hundred minerals, to be determined by blow-pipe analysis. A chemical library, belonging in part to the Professor of Chemistry, and in part to the Analytical Laboratory, is opened for the constant use of the student. Chemicals and apparatus are furnished at the usual retail prices, which constitutes all the charge made.

Special attention is given to German and French. During the Sophomore and Junior years either of these languages may be elected in place of certain other studies. More than two-thirds of all who graduate take one or both of these languages.

Special effort is made to render the knowledge of these languages living and practical. As the student advances he is trained not merely in translating the printed language, but also in understanding it when spoken, and in speaking it himself.

The cost of tuition is nominally $30 per year, but nearly all the students attend upon scholarships. Scholarships, admitting the student to all the studies required for graduation, can be purchased at the University, at prices as follows: Perpetual scholarships, $500; twenty years, $100; ten years, $50; six years, $30; four years, $20; two years, $15.

An extra charge of $3 per term is made for German and French.

Boarding in private families costs from $3.50 to $4 per week.

Many students board in clubs, at an average price of $2.50 per week.

In private families, furnished rooms cost $1 per week.

The Institution has been largely indebted to its successive Presidents. A source of their influence has been their Sunday afternoon lectures. These were begun by Rev. F. Merrick in 1854. They were kept up until 1873, when they were temporarily suspended during the fitting up of the Chapel. It was by these that Dr. Thomson obtained his wide reputation and exerted his chief moulding influence.

The Faculty has not greatly changed during the thirtytwo years of the University's existence.

The first President of the O. W. University was Rev. E. Thomson, M. D. Mr. Thomson was a native of England, but his education was American. The home of his youth was Wooster, Ohio. He attended college awhile at Cannonsburgh, Penn., and then graduated in medicine at Philadelphia. In 1832 he entered the ministry in the North Ohio conference of the M. E. Church. In 1838 he was elected President of Norwalk Seminary, and filled the place five years. Then he was called to edit the Ladies' Repository, Cincinnati. In 1846 he became President of the O. W. University, filling the place with great success for fourteen years. In 1860 he was called to edit the Christian Advocate, in New York. After four years of editorship he was elected one of the Bishops of the M. E. Church, in 1864.

He was honored with the degree of D. D. by the Indiana Asbury University, and with that of LL. D. by the Wesleyan University, Connecticut. He died in Wheeling, Va., March, 1870.

Bishop Thomson's writings have had a wide sale. They embrace Essays, Sketches, Letters from Europe, Our Oriental Missions, and Evidences of Revealed Religion. (Cincinnati and New York.)

The second member of the first Faculty was Rev. H. M Johnson, A. M. He was a graduate of the Wesleyan University, Connecticut. His chair was that of Ancient Languages. Dr. Johnson accepted a professorship in Dickinson College in 1850, of which he was afterwards President.

Next in order stands S. Howard, A. M., who was Professor of Mathematics in the year 1844-5. Dr. Howard was subsequently for many years President of the Ohio University at Athens.

In the catalogue of 1845-6 appears for the first time the name of Rev. F. Merrick, A. M. Mr. Merrick had studied in the Wesleyan University, Connecticut. In 1836 he was elected Principal of the Amenia Seminary, N. Y. From 1838 to 1842 he was Professor of Natural Science in the Ohio University. During the year 1842 he preached at Marietta, Ohio. The years 1843-44 he was financial agent of the O. W. University. From 1845 to 1851 he held in the University the chair of Natural Science; and from 1851 to 1860 that of Moral Science. On the resignation of Dr. Thomson in 1860 he was elected President, and held the post until 1873, since which time he has sustained to the College the relation of Lecturer on Natural and Revealed Religion. President Merrick has persisted in declining any higher degree than A. M.

At the same time with Mr. Merrick came into the Faculty Rev. L. D. McCabe. Mr. McCabe graduated at the Ohio University in 1843, under the Presidency of Dr. W. H. McGuffy. In 1844 he was elected Professor of Mathematics and Mechanical Philosophy in the Ohio University. In 1845 he was called to the same chair in the O. W. University, and occupied the same until 1860, when he was transferred to the chair of Moral Science and Biblical Literature. In 1864 a new professorship-that of Philosophy-was established, and to this he was invited.

In 1855 he received the degree of D. D. from Allegheny College, and in 1874, that of LL. D. from Syracuse University. For the past few years he has served as Acting President.