, 1880-12-19
The Colleges and Their Grounds-How
the Undergraduates Are
CHARTERED.
Order OF the ColIege.Day-Study In the
Mornings, Recreation in the :.
Afternoons.
The Dinner and the Dining-Hall-Even-
ings in the Combination
Room."
,Ne,1 Fork Home Journal.

anu Valuable from LQt ptatEll IOullH5 Ol LlIfcl
| in Europe must possess unusual sense or be
favored with unusual opportunities. The
| great tllrong follow generally a single path,
and their itineraries read much AS it made by
a single hand. At intervals appears an indi-
yidual who pushes his way into the by-places,
| eschews all such matters as make up the
| staple of the guide-books, and sets himself to
see things which others overlook. Such a
one is Mr.. w. w. Nevins, who has just pub
lisllcd volume of "Vignets Of Travel in
| England and Italy" [Lippincott &c Coz. Ills
visit to Cambridge is an example of his way
of doing things. lie goes to the old town,
| and by the influence of friend quarters
himself in the college buildings, in the un-
dergraduate chambers. lie then begins his
observations, which are thus recorded in lis
notebook.
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY,
as I suppose every one knows, is a collection
of independent colleges, each with its own
separate government, buildings, grounds,
history, and associations. These colleges to-
day are seventeen in number, and they make
up both the University and the town. II you
will tnke seventeen silver dollars and half
dollars, and throw them down on piece OF
white paper irregularly but rather close to-
gether, draw circles with pencil around
each Of the coins. and then connect these
circular Enclosures by convenient lines fndi-
eating streets and walks, you will have a
pretty good idea of the plan Of Cambridge
Town. It is simply village which has
grown up and around the gro1lnds-or what,
III Pennsylvania, is called the "campus
the several colleges.
What first strikes an American stranger
with some surprise is the comparatively
limited extent OF these grountls--the terri
torial plant of the college. In our inlagina-
tions these colIeges-vellerable in aye and
tradition, and lowered with the associations
OF centuries-riSe in magnificent proportions,
aud seem to stanu in princcly domains in
glebe nnd forest AS q matter Of fact, the
not greater acreage III its grounds thun& &klo
average American college; in fact,
HAS NOT SO GREAT.
Harvard, am sure, has larger grounds than
most Of the English Colleges. So have
Princeton and Union, and, l believe Yale.
u his is afeady ysry bS N
glish colleges have grounds equal in
those Of Jefferson and Washington At M
Gan,onsburg, or franklin and Mar
hem. or Dickinson 1T C Carlisle Q Of Lafayette
at Easton. or the institution at Mercersburg,
or even Of our University of Pennsylvania,
planted on costly acres in the buit-up streets
OF sraat city. All these have greater all
vantages In the way of scenery, and room,
and possible establishment, and artistic en-
r!cilme1t Of their grounds than the average
Eng!lsn cotlcee q lne 1Wo grcat universities:
oolne OF tne collese-bulld1ngs mere consist
o. 2ut stnEe s.fneiasei u G witn sach GROUNDS
On these limited academic fields, however,
the colseerated wealth of long centuries has
peen layls!led, under the guidance and
liz
~ t; " @ aie ESt ~ u c.t1tisatlun ~, u oa
oi,e eoG ete. ~ ne % gr9unaS m q soe 81 1e afger
la1u OUT Win
PARK AND LANDSCAPE EFFECTS
such MS have hardly been reached anywhere
in our country. Even the smaller ones are
carefully dressed and worked, so that an acre
or two will often set forth n wonderful study
of foliage or hue. And all are crowded with
Grand old tombs, moldy, barely-declterable:
legends, arlu0rlal bearings, monuments OF
history. the graves OF martyrs, statues, arcE-
es, solemn ruins, memorial gatewnys, monu-
thousand works Of art and ennobIipg asso--
Citations: In the successive architecture OF
1ii:ny Of these noble editiccs, and III the chain
ot names, and graves, and monuments, you
can read the history OF England from Lie
twelfth l. century down.
1t Is this splendid endowment OF TRADITION,
this continuous legended memorial OF the
scholarship anu p1ety or ages, when Is
TIE wEAE111 OF TIE ENGLISH COLLEGE.
1t is the contrast with this which makes our
thin. and nleagre.
Another disiilusion ia tho fact that the
number Of undergraduates in these English
colleges does not differ materially from the
seventy up through tie hundreds, iu some
one or two eases touching a thousand, just as
in our detached American colleges. Il is the
massing Of these English colleges in one