The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-23
HARVARD. UNIVERSITY.
THE ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1873 WORK OF
THE YEAR.

THE ANNUAL REPORT FOR 187S-THE WORK OF
THE YEAR.
The Harvard annual report shows that in numbers.
Harvard like Yale and Ann Arbor. is fast coming up
with the great English universities, there being 34l
students OF all classes ia attendance at Harvard
during 1875 While divinity has not prosperel there
OF late years the law and Medical schools show
heavy classes and great activity The decision of tho
Court Appeals Last March allowing those holding
degrees from law schools outside of New York 10
dispense with two out of the three years rkshp
which they would otherwise have to spend before
admission to the Bar, puts he Harvard Law student
footing with the graduates OF the Column
bia law school III TINS respect. and works
a decided benefit OF the si3 undergraduates $50
have boarded at the handsome Alumni Hall at q cost
OF only ~ U3 week, white President Eliot, in
noting the tact that the other twotfths pay IS q
week at private houses shows by carefully prepared
tables that nearly every kind Of food cheap at
Cambridge in 1878 ia 1858. yet at the latter date
students paid for table board but 81 week He well
explains tho difference by saying that students like
their parents and the community Mt large have got
into the habis OF living less plainly than they used
to, and he urges parents tho wisdom OF training
their sons to plain living
The admission of women to the university course
is proving wise step, Where very few applied at
irst there were actually seventy nino candidates 1t
tho preliminary examination of 1873, while the wide
and deep interest the plan IL attested by the fact
that inquiries about At have steadily poured in from
every state i'll the Union. From notwithstanding
batch OK letters from who in former years had
won scholarships Ut the University President Eliot
concludes that IN aiding parents in taking deserving
students through. free from tho pnchings OF want,
and so sustaining the health Oh not lew who in
various fields in after life. prove most useful to their
fellow men, in diminishing debts tor oducation and
in many other respects, they n most valuable
boon. While but four students died in Cambridge
ia 1879 and great attention is paid to sanitary
condition OF the buildings and grounds the Prcsi-
dent well critcises the habit common in the
country, Of sending only the feeble and sckly to col
lcgc.
from the geological Museum Professor Agassiz has
steadily sent collections to schools and colleges all
over the country. The Arboretum, in facing the
question how 70 tree tho wornout and exposed lands
OF the Atlantic soaboard ana the trceess Western
states urges the railroad companies, the parties
most heavily Interested, to look to the latter work.
while individual effort must take of the
by the direct inspiration OF the Arborctuln nearly
four hundred thousand trees were planted In our
land during 1878. surely most valuable service Alto
gcthcr tho busy workers at the university have had
good year. and II the public could only hear oftcner
from the debating societies and gain an earnest of
the kind OF men we are to have from these in the
future il would prove benefit 20 the contestants.
and be 10 help them not only now but la their
later and more public life.