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 YALE COLLEGE 765 ner of the square. It cost more than $175,000, and was presented to the college by Augustus Kussell Street. Near it is the bronze statue of Kector Pierson, by Launt Thompson, erected in 1874. On the E. corner of the quadrangle is the new chapel (1875), a cruciform building of New Jersey sandstone, with a rounded apse at the E. end of the nave. It will seat 1,050 persons. This and the dormitories named Farnam and Durfee halls, which adjoin it, con- stitute a part of the new structures intended to surround the quadrangle. Farnam hall (1870) is of brick and blue stone, and Durfee hall (1871) of New Jersey sandstone. Of the buildings off the main square, the new divin- ity colleges, called East (1870) and West (1874) Divinity halls, furnish, besides class rooms, apartments for 150 students. The Marquand chapel (1870), connected with the East hall, will seat 250 persons. The buildings of the Sheffield scientific school, called respectively Sheffield and North Sheffield hall, and of the medical school, are conveniently situated and well adapted for their purposes. The law school occupies the entire third story of the county court house. The departments of in- struction are comprehended under four divi- sions or faculties, as follows : philosophy and the arts, theology, law, and medicine. Under the first are included the undergraduate aca- demical department, the undergraduate section of the Sheffield scientific school, the courses for graduate instruction in both of these de- partments, and the school of the fine arts. Applicants for admission to the undergraduate academical department must be at least 16 years of age, and are required to pass an examina- tion in Latin grammar, Sallust, Cicero, Virgil, and Latin prose composition ; Greek grammar, Xenophon, Homer, and Greek history ; higher arithmetic, algebra, and the first two books of Euclid ; English grammar and geography; and the elements of the French or German lan- guage. The course of instruction occupies four years. Each year is divided into three terms: the first term begins 11 weeks from commencement, which is held on the Thurs- day after the last Wednesday in June, and continues 14 weeks ; the second begins on the first Thursday in January and continues 13 weeks ; and the third begins 10 weeks before commencement. The faculty of this depart- ment consists of professors of moral philoso- phy and metaphysics, of natural philosophy and astronomy, of geology and mineralogy, of Latin, of mathematics, of Greek, of rhetoric and English literature, of history, of chemis- try and molecular physics, of modern lan- guages, of German, and of political and social science; three assistant professors, in mathe- matics, Latin, and English literature ; and two tutors. Instruction is partly by text books and partly by lectures. Public examinations are held at the close of the first and second terms, and at the close of the year on all the Studies of the year. The annual charge for tuition, room rent, and incidentals is $140. The necessary annual expenses for board and instruction are from $375 to $650. Provision is made for the education without charge of about 100 indigent students, and there are 24 scholarships, yielding $60 to $100 a year, which are bestowed on deserving students of small means. The academical department has two fellowships, the Douglas and the soldiers' memorial, each having an income of about $600, which are bestowed upon recent gradu- ates who shall reside in New Haven pursuing non-professional studies. The first may not be held more than three years by any one in- cumbent, and the second not more than five years. The Berkeley, Clark, Bristed, and Woolsey scholarships, yielding from $46 to $120 a year, and many prizes, from $10 to $250 a year, are given to successful students. The degree of bachelor of arts is conferred on those who have completed the course, and the degree of master of arts on bachelors of arts of two years' standing, who give evidence on examination, after one year's non-professional study in New Haven, of having made further satisfactory progress in liberal studies, or on bachelors of arts of three years' standing who may prosecute their studies elsewhere, and may give evidence by their printed writings or on examination that they are worthy of the de- gree. The course for graduate instruction in this department embraces three groups of studies. The first group comprises political science, history, philosophy, and English liter- ature ; the second, philology, including instruc- tion in Sanskrit, Hebrew, and the other Semi- tic languages, the elements of the Chinese and Japanese languages, Anglo-Saxon and the early forms of English, old French and Provencal, the older Germanic languages and literature, the American Indian languages, and in special Latin and Greek authors ; the third, the mathe- matical and physical sciences. The terms cor- respond with those of the undergraduate de- partment, and the course of study occupies two years. The fees are from $100 to $150 a year. The degree of doctor of philosophy is conferred on those who have fulfilled the re- quirements of the course. The Sheffield sci- entific school, which is partly analogous to the academical department and partly to the pro- fessional schools, was founded in 1847, but did not take its present name till 1860, when it was reorganized and placed upon a firm foun- dation through the munificence of Joseph E. Sheffield of New Haven, whose gifts to the school have exceeded $850,000. In 1864 it received the avails ($135,000) of the national land grant of 1862, and thus became the col lege of agriculture and mechanic arts for Con- necticut. The faculty consists of 16 profes- sors and 13 instructors and assistants. Candi- dates for admission must be not less than years of age, and must pass an examinatio English grammar, history of the United States, geography, Latin, arithmetic, algebra, plane