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 496 HARVARD UNIVERSITY have accommodations for nearly 700 students. The remaining buildings include Massachusetts hall, erected in 1720, H olden chapel, and Har- vard, University, and Boylston halls, all de- voted to recitation, lecture, and examination Appleton Chapel. rooms, offices, and laboratories ; Appleton cha- pel, with seats for 900; Gore hall, containing the library ; and Dane hall for the law school ; besides several residences occupied by the ']' jyy, i i" B < "'?' -_^j Gore Hall. president and professors. In the near vicinity of the college yard are the gymnasium, the scientific and mining schools, the divinity school, and the museum of comparative zoolo- gy. About three fourths of a mile N. W. of the college group is the botanical garden, con- taining a valuable herbarium, and near it the observatory. On the delta near the college yard stands Memorial hall, erected by the alumni and friends of the college in commemo- ration of the students and graduates of the university who died in the national service during the civil war. It is constructed from designs by Ware and Van Brunt of Boston, of red and black brick, with copings and window tracery of Nova Scotia stone, and is 310 ft. long by 115 ft. wide. The interior comprises three grand apartments : dining hall, 164 by 60 ft., and 80 ft. high, capable of seating 1,000 persons; memorial vestibule, 112 by 30 ft., and 60 ft. high ; and the academic theatre. The dining hall, said to be the grandest college hall in the world, will be used for college festivals, and probably by the Thayer club, an organiza- tion supported and managed by students for the purpose of obtaining board at cost. The great west window, 23 ft. wide and 30 ft. high, will be filled with stained glass, as will also in course of time the 36 side windows. Be- tween the dining hall and the academic theatre, which is not yet completed, is the memorial vestibule, surmounted by a tower 200 ft. high. The interior is surrounded by an arcade of black walnut, with marble tablets inscribed with the names of the 120 students commem- orated, and the date and place of their death. The walls above are simply decorated in color, with Latin inscriptions, mostly taken from the poets. At either end are large windows tilled with stained glass. The estimated cost of the entire structure is $575,000. Besides the college proper, the university comprises the divinity school, law school, medical school, dental school, Lawrence scientific school, school of mining and practical geology, Bussey institu- mmjaaimx sK^ ^ on ^ agriculture and horticulture, observato- ry, botanic garden and herbarium, and Pea- body museum of Amer- ican archaeology and ethnology; and is con- nected with the mu- seum of comparative zoology. All of these are in Cambridge except the medical and dental schools, which are in Boston, and the Bussey institution, which is in Jamaica Plain. A no- tice of the Episcopal, theological school in Cambridge appears in the catalogue of the uni- versity, but there is no connection between the two institutions. During the past few years many radical changes have been made in the courses of study in the college, with a view of perfecting a system of instruction