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 764 YALE COLLEGE partly upon those of Harvard and partly upon the Oxford statutes, were printed in Latin ; and this was the first book printed in New Haven. It was published first in English in 1772. At Saybrook the course of study had been limited to Latin, Greek, Hebrew, logic, metaphysics, theology, and physics; but after the removal to New Haven the curriculum was enlarged, especially in mathematics. Up to 1755 the instruction was given entirely by the rector and tutors, but in t hat year a professor of divinity was chosen. A chair of mathe- matics, natural philosophy, and astronomy was established in 1770 ; and in 1802 was founded a professorship of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology, and in 1805 one of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Since then the corps of instructors has gradually increased, until now (1876) the college has in its several departments nearly 100 professors and assistants. The other facul- ties, as now constituted, were organized as follows: medicine, 1812; theology, 1822 ; law, 1824; philosophy, 1847. The government of the college was administered by the president and 10 fellows, all of whom were clergymen, till 1792, when, in consideration of certain grants from the state, the corporation voted that the governor, lieutenant governor, and six senior assistants in the council (called senators under the constitution) should become fellows, thus making the corporation to consist of 18 members besides the president. In 1871-'2 the legislature passed an act providing for the substitution of six graduates of the col- lege as members of the corporation in place of the six senior senators. These six fellows, to be elected by the alumni, were so divided that one vacancy in their num- ber should occur each year ; and this annual vacancy is now filled by the election of a graduate to serve for six years. All the de- partments of the uni- versity are subject to the corporation, the legal title of which is " the President and Fellows of Yale Col- lege in New Haven ;" but the immediate government is vested in the president and pro- fessors, who constitute the faculty. The pres- ident is ex officio head of each department, but each is practically independent in its internal management, and has as its executive officer a dean, director, or chairman. The university alone has the power to confer degrees. Yale college has had ten rectors and presidents, whose names and terms of service, and the number of classes and total number of students graduated under each down to 1874, are given in the following table : PRESIDENTS. Yeui. ClfUMt. OradutM. Abraham Pierson 1701-1707 1707-1719 1719-1722 1722-172o 1726-1789 1789-1766 1766-1777 1777-1795 1795-1817 1S17-1846 1846-1871 1871 6 18 4 2 15 -'7 11 17 22 80 26 8 18 60 86 29 247 757 M M 1,109 2.843 J..-4.-, 856 Sum < 1 Andrew (pro tempore) Timothy Cutler Samuel Andrew (pro tern pore) Ellsha Williams Thomas Clap Naphtali Daggett Ezra Stiles Timothy Dwight Jeremiah Day Theodore Dwight Woolsey .... Noah Porter Total number of graduates Deceased in Is74 8,464 4,606 Total living graduates in 1874...:7:.." 8,858 The principal buildings of Yale college oc- cupy a square of about nine acres, N. W. of the public green. The main academical buildings are the " old brick row," fronting on College street, consisting of South college (built in 1794), the Athenaeum (1768), South Middle col- lege (1752), the lyceum (1808), North Middle college (1808), the chapel (1824), and North college (1821). Divinity college (1836) was demolished in 1870 to make room for Durfee hall. Behind the principal row are the labora- tory (1782), the college cabinet (1819), and the old Trumbull gallery, erected in 1832 for The Library. the collection of pictures left to the college by Col. John Trumbull, which were removed to the art building in 1868. On the W. side of the square is the library (1844), a fine Gothic structure of Portland sandstone. On the N. corner is Alumni hall (1853), used for the an- nual examinations and graduates' meetings. The school of fine arts (1866), the most elabo- rate of all the buildings, occupies the W. cor-