New-York tribune., 1878-06-26
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

i I1AhN AMI UNIV
WAITING FOR COMMENCEMENT DAY-LAwRENcE
| SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL NEW BUILDINGS - THE
| AGAssn MUSEUM RECENT GIFTS.
| tFRoM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIBUSEl
| CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June 23.-An air of quiet
and Summer repose has already come over the ancient
halls and venerable trees Of Harvard Square; the
long vacation almost TO have begun ITS course
And still day has not yet come nor viii
! it until Wednesday next Unlike the other col
lege Harvard proongs the closing exercises OF
three weeks instead Of one. All work pract-
cally ends with class day. and this celebrated last
Friday. The baccalaureate sermon was preached a
week ago to-day because II necessary thai it should
be preached the Sunday preceding the termination OF
the college year. The successful writer for the Bowdoin
Essay Prize announced nearly month since while
! the BoylstOn Prize Speaking was on Thursday last
| There only now remain the exercises OF commencement
| day, which win be observed on Wednesday Of this
| week, together with the annual meeting OF the
| Alumni and Of the Phi Beta Kappa Society,-the
latter however TO be heldion Thursday Between class
day and commencement day nothing practically Is done
| The underclassmen usually go hOme many Juniors go
aso and not few seniors, provided they are sure Of
their degrees and have paid their bills, 10 secure the
right 20 CO. Already about oue-fourth OF the present
graduating class have left town, and Others will follow
them tonight and tomorrow. Some are on the ground
at New-LOndon with the crew. Students ind 1t dull
| business TO remain here with nothing 20 do, and
u
flight TO the pleasures Of home and the
cOmpanionship OF friends from whom they have long
been absent To-day the senior who tarres here yet
awhile sits himself lazly in his room, now fragrant with
many bouquets that gathered In on class day he
writes his last letters his alma mater, and waits
pectant learn the result OF his application tor de-
gree. There 100 applicants Last year forty failed
but year the failures will not 1t is said be over af-
tcen College sports will not be responsible for more
| than one Of the Gfteen n they are for any,
The Lawrence Scientific School win not have
more than three four graduates. The pro-
gress Of this institution has not bocn as crafty
ug as could DO wished It's Is In marked contrast
with that Of the Sheffield School at Yale, which has
reached an eminent standing among institutions Of s
kind Two causes are cited here for the limited
Of the Lawrence School first among them "a the Shelf
rd School Yale, which otract the greater part OF
| scientific students who desire 70 attend Now
England college. The second, and doubt
| very important reason, is the elective sys-
TEN u the regular COLLEGIATE course, which IA very
broad-probaby giving the greatest freedom Of choice
OF all the ugscidss colleges the country. candidate
for the degree Bachelor OF Arts, after the first
may drop all OF his LATIN, his Creek and his mathe-
| matlcs and m the sophomore year may choose moro
than one-af 81 bis studies suit hmself IN the
unmr Dee may choose scveu-oghtLs. and N tho senior
/ hc NAV choose thrm all. In college having 90 vast q
system of instruction Harvard, and many facilities
IN all departments. % we're easy 20 ind What science
most men might wish, and at the same time one can
secure y. A., which men generally value above b. s.
| Harvard. like Yale aud Princeton. has grown very
stktngy OF late years In buildings and other
fences The ancient quadrangle has not undergone many
changes but IN every other direction new atruct
uros some Of them of great proportions, have sprung
up Memorial Han, with its noble Gothic corridor and
vast dningroon, forcbly suggestive oi the historic
| westminislor Hall IN London. within the past
year the completion Of IT, eastern end known San
der's Theatre. where prize speaking aud commence
uent exercises are ncli The library buldlns copied
after the Gothic sty" prevalent AZ oxford JpNesitY,
has received eyteus on which completes the hgure
! Of a cross Justin Wlusor. formerly snpeun.endeut OF
BosOn Public Library has become 'hIarian OF the
! Harvard collection, aud has made mauy improve
ments In ia system a bulletin Is PuolsIru
every three months Ol new books received ahH contains
lit rry and historical u"c- written ny professors Oh tue
| university. Tue Peabody Museum OF ArchT'losy aha
Ethnoogy, which was long ln BJylstou lal' anu Wncb
has be, many collecting a rdHcleut building
nom the George Peabody st luu1, u{n. ~ one ule
10 purchase tue library Ouldius uhls ltseu 4t uome
now Iu "a structure Of H. own over ucar tie DIVINITY
School within short distance Of 10 stands the Asassz
| refrcsning DIVINITY W0DIs, and now hrst developed
! ra.ist may be said to be r. lied IL Is ucarly
So re of years gassz began his work upon ibis
opy about onetruth OF tho projected building Bad teen
completed, and the collections 80 iar as they e"ah be
Alexander Aglssiz fell the responsibility OF completing
! the plaus which his father had conceived II was no
easy task Tue founder uf the museum, to whom every
Oject familiar and eacn had It's acs In hs plans
EFF room after room crowded win sprcmehs oi an
! every Mich aud corner where bottle or tray would
rest All this has brca changed but hY6 years OF time
and work have nee ssiry 10 complete nc DuldnB
ana ,sS 'ic tSi ibsr tbousans an ON thousands
OF obrcs represent striking evidence OF the energy
and tLDrOuchurss OF mOuern scicDtihc WORK inc an-
living and animals extinct before man was on toe eaftu
has been tne object here 10 Drag together IN one
! cOmpaniODshlp. ... a.,
| past year Mrs. Anna seayer has gwen $1,000 on
cundtOu that 500 OOO shall DO appued 10 the eCIOn
Of building 20 be- known suavcr Hall and that SlO-
| 900 remain us an endowment. Tor new gymnasium
! $4,000 has been lven aud ground IL already brOken
for tne building, near the Scientific School THIS git
| comes from Mr. Augustus Heminsway, o. Bls,
| ton. The structure viii De in tte .Oiu 'oiuhial
! IN need OF a new building, has fund IN
progress, and wncn IL shall rtich G2OOOOO que i3hua
! lions will BE- begun new durmitory, costing SsOOOO
aud known He ton Hail, haB Dttu put UP ~ iFd'e
snecuatiOp but Il Is pronounced failure IL IS out Ot
the wAy Is cneapy built, ana Beck Hal ana Lltle's
BLOCK the former OF winch was built IN l51O-I qua the
latter greatly enlarged tuly meet tle uenau 30" % u
mores For the departments Oi n.trucsO one hotaDs
] lmprOyement has been made. heretofore graduates
wishing 10 remain In the university Tor hrther stuuy
found nothing beyond the Ordinary Orancnes qn ~ ~
course except In the departments OF ana medicine
W.bng TO pursue their studies further In auns,
metaphysics the languages they lAu no hutquat,,
means Of doing IT, But now special post Riauuates
dcuartmeut has Oeen Organized, ana iOt ptIsouh ON
IWauty-onc years Of age, who have not mhtrcnated,
| bat who wish tO pursue some sptoAlly, as
chemistry or comparative anatomy, atfal gemeus nave
been e4teuded from two years u three anu stuoeh
rrauircd 10 nave reading bnOWelBe Ol ~ ioaet Ouo
/ IN, dprp language. Examinations afe cAprcteu uh'tss
the applicant presents diploma OF n. d. LFOih '04o
! good college.
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