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Travels Through Part of the Ubited States and Canada in 18180 and 1819
Travels Through Part of the Ubited States and Canada in 18180 and 1819 Author:JOHN M. DUNCAN General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1823 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: LETTER V. -' Yale College -- Histoky Government Professors -- Requisites For Admission -- Course Of Study -- Degrees -- ' Commencement' -- Prizes -- Medical Department -- College Discipline -- Hours Of Study Expense Of Education Literary Societies -- Library -- Philosophical Apparatus -- Cabinet Of Minerals Comparison Of American And Scotish University Education. New Haven, August, 1818. The buildings of Yale College make a conspicuous appearance when entering the town from the eastward, and the effect is considerably heightened by three churches, which stand at a little distance in front in a parallel line. The ground between the College and the churches is neatly divided and enclosed, and ornamented with trees. The College buildings are seven in numb'er ; l five ranging with each other in front, and two behind. Three of those in front are plain but uniform erections of brick, four stories high, containing apartments for the students. A chapel with a spire, and a Lyceum with a belfry, occupy the intervals. 1 An eighth was erected in 1821. It is exactly uniform to the three larger buildings, and is a continuation of the front line, with space left vacant for a new Lyceum or some corresponding edifice. Yale College was established at Saybrook in the year 1700,2 and was incorporated by the colonial legislature in 1701. In 1718 it was removed to New Haven. It was originally intended only for the education of young men for the ministry, but as it gathered strength, from individual liberality and public patronage, the range of its studies was gradually extended, until it now embraces the more...« less