New-York tribune., 1874-01-15
FAIR HARVARD.

AMERICANS DENDlINb litEh'Li' IL AZ idp'-''.''
STUDIES AFTER GRADUATION.
lFRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRBUsE.l
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Jan. 1.-THE annual re-
port President Eliot to the Board of Overseers OF a
ward University was presented to-day. 1t document
repee with interest not only to the vast number OF lar
ward graduates throughout the country and the host OF
teachers vino preparing scholars for admission 10 s
walls but to every one interested the problems Of
liberal education This like previous reports OF Presi
dent Eliot while showing clearly the gains and improve
ments that have been made in the administration Of the
University, is less laudation Of achievements than
plain straightforward statement Of its capabilities aud
needs IL has been and still is President El0rs policy to
make Harvard equal to the culture demanded to-day
rather than u pay much Difference TO the standards
OF the last century 1t is gratifying to know that the
innovations already made in the methods OF discipline
and instruction have been emincntiy successful Bnt
the University is still much behind the Presidents
ideal The difficulty ia not much in electing ends and
methods to be pursued, IN lack Of means to pursue
those which have shown themselves to be worthy and
necessary The University wants more money, and
money a. an unconditional gift, not hampered by re-
strictons. But If there wno want to give for
special object they will find the needs OF the university
clearly specified in the Presidents report President
Eliot is evidently less concerned with what Harvard DID
last year than with what she ought to do in this
NUMBER AND GRADE OF TEACHERS.
The following are the features Of the report:
The teachers actually employed in the instruction OF
during the current under arrange
made the most part in the year iSI2 are as
follows Professors IS assistant professors 10; tutofs
g. instructors 4; assistants 2; total, 50. The number
employed last year 81, differently distributed
viz: Professors. 2O assistant professors s; tutors O.
instructors I2 assistants Prof. Asa Gray Withdrew
from active service in teaching at the close OF the year
1872 and his work in the college was taken up by
Assistant Prof Goodale who had already acted as
instructor in botany Fortunately Tor the scientific
fpme the University Prof Gray retains his professor
ship and remains charge Of the valuable HerJarium,
which his personal influence and labor, furthered by
generous friends OF science have created The work ID
teaching Of Prof Gurney the Dean has been transferred
to an instructor for the current Four tutors and
two instructors were promoted during the year 10 ne
assistant professors.
The tutors and instructors in service with the
single exception Of graduate OF 1872, persons Of con
siderable age and standing, who have had long and
special preparation Tor the work. There period in
the history of the college when the tutors were gcncr
ally recer; graduates. That period is past.
Three important subjects are now very inadequa'clT
provided Tor at the University although not entirely
neglected. they are English literature, Jurisprudence
and art the latter particularly in its relations TO
literature Distinct endowed prOfessOrsups Of these
subjects are much needed
REQUIREMENTS FOR ADHESION. sc.
Important cnaugcs have been made IN the acquisitions
for admission to college but the standard has not beon
absolutely raised The average age OF a1m'io Is now
eighteen years. Al the Faculties O the University are
agreed t1at desirable to further the
average age OF admission Preparatory work has there
fore been essentially modified but not increased. Tie
optional division Of the admission examination into two
parts sc9arated by an interval Of at least a year. VIII
be very sensible relief to the preparatory schools, and
many candidates. The minimum acquisitions Tor the
degree OF Bachelor of Arts been raised The actual
minimum in elective studies s, as matter Oi Tact,
decidedly higher than IN required studics.
Tn0 professors and students su great ncOnycu!en-
OF the lack of lecture and recitation rooms
Those in usc are inadedualcly ventilated BY the Ia
menlcd death OF 3r. Cyrus Wakefield without wII the
University lost the immediate prospect OF handsome
building containing tho nucunecded lecture and rccta-
tiOn rooms.
Daring the year progress has been made in consoli
d4tu. instruction which had previously been dupll-
catod. including q comprehensive measure by which
students Ia regular standing ia any department Of
the University admitted free TO tao instruction
given any other department, with the exception Of
exercises carried on in the special laboratories. This
action of the Corporation, when 1t to be known
ana understood, will probably have far-rcacbg conse-
qucnces 1t really Increases very much the privileges
OF student in any OF the schools which are grouped
around tho College at Cambridge. 1t is very
great advantage 10 Law student, for example.
who has previously had chance to get such nstruc
ton thai he attend tho College courses, in history
Roman law, and political science. IL is valuable
privilege for a divinity student that he have the
benefit Of all the College teaching Of metaphysics Ger
man, ana parasite Greek On the other hand the un-
dergraduAtcs OF the College already begun avail
theInsclye, of the instruction given at the Scientific
school in lrccand drawing and the subject OF descrip-
live geometry taught ID the Scientific School this
year made "a college elective. Whenever the study OF
ecclesiastical history 10 placed upon proper foot
ing at the Divinity school, by establishing full pro-
ssOrshp OF that very important subject there is every
reason why The should be open elective to
college students The liberal study or Jurisprudence ia
equally fitted for candidates In arts and for candi-
dates in law In short this action taken by the Corpora
ton on the suggestion OF the Academic Council Will
make the opportunities offered TO students all the Gt-
partments richer and ireor.
In the Divinity School beneficiary funds which had.
been previously consolidated have been made into dis
nct scholarships. The OF the gvers OF the funds
properly connected with their gifts and scholarship
emphasized condition Of receiving pecuniary aid.
The numbers caused By the very decided raising
of the standard OF the Law School has only been tenn
porary The quality of young men rcsorting to the
School has been coBspclously improved since ls7Ol.
Two years the required term OF residence rhe
only given those who pass a searching examina-
ton Since September, 1870 $4,000 has been spent
tne law library The President regrets that the Law
School is .nadequatey endowed. successful law
yers," he says, earn much than A .CcO year
these times. before they reach the prime life
The qualities and attaInmens which 20 TO make good
professor of law more salabe in any market than
those which make good professor OF Greek. Hebrew,
or metaphysics, and they available in many more
markets"
The Medical School still has the honor OF standing
alone in ITS efforts TO improve the system Of medical
tn
on the Old plan IN February 1874, for the last time 1t
Will take many years demonstrate the full good effect
OF the change in the system OF the Medical school, a.
indeed Is the with all improvements the higher