COLLEGES. COLUMBIA COLLEGE. This Institution was incorporated by royal charter under the name of "King's College," in 1754, and confirmed in its rights by various acts of the State Legislature, especially by an act passed April 13th, 1787. It is situated at a short distance west of the Park, on a beautiful square between Murray and Barclay streets. The library consists of about 11,000 volumes. This college has always maintained a high character as a seminary of learning, having from the beginning enjoyed the services of eminent Scholars in the various departments of instruction. FACULTY. Nathaniel F. Moore, LL. D., President. Rev. John McVickar, D. D., Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Rhetoric, Belles Lettres and Political Economy. Charles Anthon, LL. D. Jay Professor of the Greek and Latin Languages, and Literature, and Rector of the Grammar School. James Renwick, LL. D. Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy and Chemistry. John Louis Tellkampf, J. U. D. Gebhard Professor of the German Language and Literature. Charles W. Hackley, D. D. Professor of Mathematics, and Physical Astronomy. PROFESSORS NOT OF THE GOVERNING FACULTY. Hon. James Kent, LL. D. Professor of Law. Rev. Samuel H. Turner, D. D. Professor of Hebrew Language. Mariano Velasquez de Cadena, Professor of Spanish Language and Litera ture. George C. Schaeffer, A. M. Librarian. The number of undergraduates at the present time, (January, 1845,) is one hundred and thirteen. The whole number of Alumni to 1840, was 1,800. There is a Board of Trustees, twenty-four in number. Commencement takes place on the Wednesday following the fourth Monday in July. There are two literary societies connected with the college, composed of students and graduates, called the Peithologian and the Philolerian societies. The Grammar School connected with the college, under the superintendence of Professor Anthon, sustains a high reputation; the number of pupils is about 200. THE UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK. This institution was chartered in 1831, and opened for students the following year. The edifice is situated on Washington Square; it is built in the English collegiate style of architecture, of white marble, and presents an imposing front. The number of students in all the departments, in 1843-4, was 450; and in the winter term of 1844-5, it was 509. GOVERNING FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY. Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, LL. D. Chancellor and Professor of Moral Philosophy and Rhetoric. Cyrus Mason, D. D. Professor of Political Economy and the Evidences of Revealed Religion. Elias Loomis, A. M., M. D. Professor of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Astronomy. Taylor Lewis, A. M. Professor of Greek Language and Literature. E. A. Johnson, A. M. Professor of Latin Language and Literature. C. S. Henry, D. D. Professor of Intellectual Philosophy, History, and Belles Lettres. John W. Draper, M. D. Professor of Chemistry and Natural History. PROFESSORS NOT OF THE GOVERNING FACULTY, ARE AS FOLLOWS: S. F. B. Morse, Professor of the Literature of the Arts of Design. M. Giraud, Acting Professor of the French Language. Julio Soler, Professor of the Spanish Language. Felix Foresti, Professor of the Italian Language. The University, although so recently organized, is now quite flourishing, and bids fair to take a high rank among similar institutions in the United States. The Medical Department and the Grammar School are frequented with pupils from all parts of the Union. The whole is under the direction of a Council, composed as follows: MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL. James Tallmadge, President. John Johnston, Vice-President. Theodore Frelinghuysen, Chancellor, Rev. J. M. Mathews, D. D. Rev. Thomas De Witt, D. D. R. T. Haines, Esq. William Curtis Noyes, Esq. Rev. Thomas H. Skinner, D. D. Pelatiah Perit, Esq. Charles Butler, Esq. Paul Spofford, Esq.- MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO. His Honor the Mayor, and four members of the Common Council. The University has been in existence but ten years. In that time it has raised from citizens of New-York about $225,000 for its establishment and support; and $113,000 of that sum was raised in the four years ending with 1842, for the payment of debts, and $35,000 of it within the last named year. The plan and arrangements of the University are laid in the true principles of civil and religious liberty. It was originally intended to be a place open to meritorious youth of humble condition and small means. Such it has been and is-about one-half of all its under-graduates having been of this class; and they have been encouraged without distinction of sect or party. We understand that the present income covers all expenses, and provides for interest on the remaining debt, and keeps the property in repair,-while it gives its professors about $1,500 a year; and their hope of increasing this amount is made to depend on their own ability and enterprise. The establishment of the New-York Historical Society within the University Buildings, gives the society elegant accommodation at a very low price, and to the University access to a library, which with its own, makes up some 18,000 volumes. THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY. The handsome edifice situated on Broadway, called the "Stuyvesant Institute," has been purchased and converted into a medical college for this Department of the University. The Faculty of Medicine connected with this department is composed as follows: FACULTY OF MEDICINE. Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, Chancellor of the University,-President of the Faculty. Valentine Mott, M. D. Professor of the Principles and operations of Surgery, with Surgical and Pathological Anatomy. Granville Sharp Pattison, M. D. Professor of General, Descriptive, and Surgical Anatomy. John Revere, M. D. Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine. Martyn Paine, M. D. Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and Materia Medica. Gunning S. Bedford, M. D. Professor of Midwifery and Diseases of Wemen and Children. John William Draper, M. D. Professor of Chemistry. William Darling, M. D. Prosector to the Professor of Surgery. John H. Whittaker, M. D. Demonstrator of Anatomy. The session of the Medical School commences on the last Monday in October, and continues four months. There were 378 students in the Medical Department for the year 1845. Graduates at the last commencement 97. Whole number of students in all departments, 726. The examinations for degrees commence on the first of March, and are continued daily. The following are the requisitions for the diploma: 1st. The candidate must be 21 years of age. 21. He must have attended two courses of Medical Lectures; one of which must have been delivered in the Medical Department of the University. 3d. The candidate must have studied medicine for three years, (the terms of attending lectures being included in these,) under the direction of a respectable Medical Practitioner. 4th. He must write a Medical Thesis, either in the English, Latin, or French language. Candidates who have complied with the above requisitions may graduate, either at the Commencement of the Medical Department, which takes place early in the month of March, or at the University Commencement in July. FEES. The fees for a full course of Lectures amount to $105. The student can attend one or more of the courses, as he may be disposed, and pay only for the lectures for which he enters. The Fee for the DIPLOMA is $30. The Matriculation Fee is $5. The Fee for admission to the Dissecting-Rooms and Demonstrations is $5. Although an attendance in the dissecting-rooms is considered by the Faculty to be most desirable, it is not obligatory. Respectable boarding may be obtained at from $2.50 to $3.00 per week. UNION COLLEGE. Founded in 1795. Situated in Schenectady. The general control of its affairs is vested in a Board of twenty-one Trustees, eleven of whom hold their seats by virtue of their offices in the state government. These, at present. are Silas Wright, Governor; Addison Gardiner, Lieut. Governor; R. Hyde Walworth, Chancellor; Greene C. Bronson, Chief Justice; F. G. Jewett, and Justices of the Supreme Court; N. S. Benton, Secretary of State; A. C. Flagg, Comptroller; John Van Buren, Attorney General; Hugh Halsey, Surveyor General; Benjamin Enos, Treasurer. The other ten are the Rev. Eliphalet Nott, D. D., LL. D., President of the College; Rev. Alexander Proudtit, D. D.; Guert Van Schoonhoven, Esq. of Waterford; Henry Yates, Esq, of Schenectady; Rev. Mark Tucker, D. D., of Troy; John P. Cushman, of Troy; Rev. Jacob Van Vechten, D. D. of Schenectady; Edward C. Delavan, Esq., of Ballston; Alonzo C. Paige, Esq., of Schenectady; and Jacob L. Lane, Esq. of Troy. The immediate care and discipline of the institution are exercised by the college faculty, consisting at present of the following persons: Rev. Eliphalet Nott, D. D., LL. D., President. Rev. Robert Proudfit, D. D., Prof. Greek and Latin Languages. Rev. Alonzo Potter, D. D., Prof. Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy. Rev. John A. Yates, D. D., Prof. Oriental Literature. Isaac W. Jackson, A. M., Prof. Math. and Nat. Phil. Rev. Thomas C. Reed, A. M., Prof. Pol. Econ. and Int. Phil. Rev. John Nott, A. M., Assistant Prof. Nat. Hist. and Rhetoric. John Foster, A. M., Assistant Professor Mathematics. Jonathan Pearson, A. M., Asst. Prof. Nat. Phil. and Chemistry. William Kelly, A. B., H. Nott, Register. The number of the Senior Class graduated at the Commencement on the fourth Wednesday in July, 1844, was 81; and the whole number on the catalogue of the undergraduates, for the year which then terminated, was 226, whereof 5 died, 4 left, and 7 were honorably discharged. In college, Feb. 1, 1845, 204. Candidates for admission to the Freshmen class, are examined in English, Latin, and Greek grammar, in Virgil, Sallust, Cicero's Select Orations, the Gospels in Greek, and Jacob's Greek Reader, and in Arithmetic and Geography. For admission to any other class, the examination is made in the studies of the preceding class. Students are received, also, not as regular members of the college, but to prosecute any branch for which they are fitted, provided they submit to the col. lege rules. The course of study for the four years, embraces: 1. Rhetoric, Elocution, and General Criticism; 2. Ancient Languages; 3. Modern Languages; 4. Oriental Languages and Literature; 5. Mathematics; 6. Physical Science; 7. Physiology, Natural History, &c.; 8. Moral and Political Science. The annual expense for college bills, and board in the Common Hall, is $108 to $115; for fuel and light, $8.50; for washing, $6 to $8. The college library, and other collections of books within its walls, embrace about thirteen thousand volumes. The college has charity funds which yield $3,300: from which 81 students were assisted during the year. HAMILTON COLLEGE. Founded in 1812. Situated in the village of Clinton, in Oneida county, and about ten miles from Utica. The general control of its affairs is vested in a board of twenty-four trustees, as follows: Rev. Henry Davis, D. D. Clinton. Orin Gridley, Esq., Clinton, Sands Higinbottom, Esq., Oneida, Alexander M. Beebee, Esq., Utica, The immediate government and discipline of the students, are vested in the college faculty, consisting of the following persons: Rev. Simeon North, LL. D., President, and Prof. Intellectual Phil. Rev. Henry Mandeviile, A. M., Prof. Moral Phil. and Belles Lettres. Edward North, A. M., Dexter Prof. Classical Literature. Thomas T. Bradford, A. M., Tutor and Librarian. Theodore W. Dwight, A. M., Tutor. Panet M. Hastings, M. D., Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology. The Maynard Professorship of Law, History, Civil Polity, and Political Economy, endowed by the late William Maynard, Esq., is vacant; but the duties connected with it, were in part performed last year, by the Professor of Moral Philosophy. Commencement is held on the 4th Wednesday in July. The class last graduated numbered 27, of whom 19 took their degrees; and the whole number of undergraduates on the catalogue for the year, was 116. The studies preparatory to entering the Freshman class, are grammar in English, Latin, and Greek; Sallust or Cæsar; Virgil, Cicero, Greak Reader, Geography and Arithmetic. The course for the four years is much as in other colleges. The necessary annual expense for the first two years, is from about $75 to $100: for the last two years, about $85 to $113. The college library, and other libraries within its walls, embrace about nine thousand volumes. GENEVA COLLEGE. Chartered in 1825; and situate on the elevated banks of Seneca Lake, in the village of Geneva, Ontario county. The general control of its affairs is vested in a board of twenty-four trustees, as follow: James Rees, Chairman, Elijah Miller, Rev. John Churchill Rudd, D. D., Rev. Pierre Paris Irving, M. A., William Kerley Strong, Robert Carter Nicholas, Abraham Dox, James Carter, M. D., Thomas D. Burrall, Rev. Henry John Whitehouse, D. D. Rt. Rev. B. T. Onderdonk, D. D., OFFICERS OF INSTRUCTION AND GOVERNMENT. Rev. Benjamin Hale, D. D., President. Faculty of Arts. Rev. Benjaman Hale, D. D., Startin Prof. of the Evidences of Christianity. Horace Webster, LL. D., Prof. Math. and Nat. Phil. |