, 1875-09-05

coming up smiling after its battles are over
and the dead and wounded are got out Of the
way. It's course Of instruction has never
been much impeded by the quarrels among
its Trustees, for which fact all honor is due
to the self sacrificing spirit Of its Faculty and
the sustained spirit and enthusiasm Of its
students. The criticism has never been
made upon it, even by its most persistent
critics, that its Faculty is not able, or that it's
work Of instruction, so far as it pretends
to 20, is not well covered and faith
fully done. It is well known tlat
the country contains no better instructor
in Greek than Prof. Boise, whose textbooks
have made his name familiar in every college
in the land. DR.: MATHEWS enjoys literary
celebrity Us an author which is due as largely
to his professional familiarity with English
literature as to his graces of style and cul-
ture. Profs. WHEELER, FREEMAN, HOWE,
Dexter, and CLARK have also ably sustained
their respective departments Of Chemistry,
Latin, Mathematics, and Of Zoology, Com
parative Anatomy, and Physiology. The De-
partment Of Science, recovering from the
effort made during the last year to abolish it,
has expanded by the recent action Of the
Board Of Trustees into college wherein*ssv
eral Professorships have been competently
filed.
Prof. JoHN ". CLARK, late organizer and
director of the celebrated geological museum
at Kensington, England, and well known
among British sayans as lecturer upon
geology and the kindred sciences. accepts the
Chair Of Geology and brings with him q
cabinet covering the whole range Of geo.
logical meteorological, archaeological, and
archaeological science, and complete in it's
adaptation to the work OF instruction in these
departments. Prof CLARK is q scholar OF
high attainments, and leaves nothing to be
desired in departments Of science which have
for the past half century exercised q vitallz-
ing and renovating influence over the tone OF
public thought upon many questions con-
nected with the origin and destiny OF man.
Prot. and Brig.-Gen. HUDNu1, one OF the
most accomplished educators the West has
ever known, returns to the University after
IN absence of several years, and assumes the
| very important Chair (under the new reglme)
Of Civil Engineering and Physics. During
his former connection with the University
Gen. Hupxur won in large measure the in
terest and regard of the students by his clear
! and practical mode Of instruction While
the railroad mania was sweeping over the
country the University found it impos-
sible to outhid the railroad corpora
tons, and Gen. HUDNUT was almost forced
| avey from his Professorship employment
most concenia1 to him-into the practical
xnoer;ntendence Of the construction Of sew
ergl Iowa railroads. Gen. HUDNur is a
graduate Of Dartmouth College and of its
| Chandler Scientific School, and had large
experience in the army during the War in pro-
| iecting Notifications, and other departments
Of war-engineering, which has been supple
| mented BY an active career as CIVIL eng1nee1'
| especiaIly in railrond- building.
Prof, DExs1ow, Of the College Of Law, viii
| instruct the senior class in political economy
and constitutional and international law
The orations delivered by the members o.
the last graduating class contained severa
pointed demands that in future more atten
ton should be given to this branch OF study
Prot. DxNs1ow holds views upon poitica
economy which have never been entirely il
accordance with those Of this journal, Will
which, however, for number Of years b
was connected II he shall bring to his lee
lures on political economy as much original
ty and ability as he exhibited as journals
upon this and other newspapers, he will i1o
bue the minds Of the University student
with a class OF opinions upon tariff an
currency questions which We do not regar
as sound. It is believed that, in &C
dition to these engagements OF tn
Faculty and course Of instruction, certa1
negotiations now pending with othe
, instructors will not be entirely unsuccessful
The changes thus far made place the sc'e1
tic Department On IS broad bas's as u !.
Sheffield Scientific School could claim at Il
commencement, and 60 far to jushfy Il