tistry to supply the deficiency in the Mechanical Department. This ar rangement, supplemented by the efficient service of the instructors and demonstrators in their department, gave the students a profitable course. — The work of the infirmary shows an increase over any previous year: 6,414 patients have been treated and 12,072 operations performed. Thomas Fillebrown, D. M. D., '69.

THE SUMMER SCHOOL OF 1895.

The Summer School now in session has in its courses taught in Cambridge a registration of 492 persons, a gain in numbers over the total of last year of 58. The advanced field course in Geology and the courses in the Medical School will probably increase the list to about 600, a notable increase on the enrolment of last year, when 507 students were entered. This year several new courses were established with a view to determining the direction in which the instruction should be extended of these the courses in Chaucer, in Freehand Drawing, and in Geography give promise of permanent success; those in the elements of Law, Meteorology, and Highway Engineering have been less fortunate. It is evident by the changes in the attendance in the several classes.that the Harvard Summer School has a firm hold upon the teachers of this country, and that its future advancement will depend upon the extent to which it affords men and women a chance to fit themselves for that profession. The increased resort is almost altogether in those courses which have a value to persons who are engaged in the higher grades of secondary instruction. Thus in one, the History and Art of Teaching, the increase over last year is from 8 students to 36; in the English courses, Language and Literature, from 47 to 84. Equally indicative is the fact that, although the elementary or beginners' course in French and German were dropped, their place being taken by advanced work, the total attendance exhibits a decided gain in numbers.

The only considerable decrease in the attendance on any well established course is in the departments of Chemistry and Physics, where the registration showed, as compared with last year, a diminution of about 25 per cent. The loss is not to be ascribed to any change in the character of the work which is offered. It is probably to be explained in part by the great competition in the way of like instruction which is offered by other summer schools, and in part by the fact that so large a number of teachers have of recent years resorted to the classes in this section of our School, that the demand for the instruction is temporarily supplied. In view of the fact that the Harvard Summer School is quite without endowment, and is thus dependent on fees for its maintenance, it is evidently essential for it to maintain a considerable number of courses so that it may meet the varying tides of demand, and thus obtain insur

ance against net losses. The effect of the great increase of summer schools which have been established in different parts of this country is now evident to those who have the care of our own School in hand. In the first place the increase in numbers does not keep pace with the gain in the correspondence. Moreover, the quality of the persons who attend has undergone a certain change. Teachers of the lower grade or from parts of the country where their pay is small content themselves with the opportunities which may be near at hand and which they can share at less expense than would attend a visit to Cambridge. The result is that we now draw, year by year, in larger proportion from the ranks of the prosperous instructors of the secondary schools. From the point of view of the interests of the University this change is not to be regretted. N. S. Shaler, S. B., '62, Dean.

HARVARD GENEALOGIES.

A Race of Ministers.

Permit me to call attention to a line of college-bred men, worthy of note, not only for its length, but also for the fact that so many of those mentioned, or of their kin, were ministers.

1. Rev. John Ward, died 1598.

2. Rev. Nathaniel Ward, Emmanuel Coll., 1599.

3. Rev. John Ward, Emmanuel Coll., 1626.

4. Elizabeth Ward m. Nathaniel Saltonstall, Harv., 1659.

5. Elizabeth Saltonstall m. 1st, Rev. John Denison, 1684; 2d, Rev. Rowland Cotton, 1685.

6. Rev. John Cotton, 1710.

7. Martha Cotton m. Rev. Ebenezer Thayer, 1753.

8. Catherine Thayer m. Rev. Jacob Abbot, 1792.

9. George Jacob Abbot, 1835.

10. Anne Theresa Abbot m. Rev. Robert Swain Morison, 1869. Thomas Fuller, in his "Worthies of England," says that John Ward, the first named, "had long been a painful minister" in Haverhill, Eng. I cannot discover that he took a degree at any college; but is it too much to assume that, being a clergyman, he had some collegiate training? Two of Nathaniel Ward's brothers were clergymen; Samuel (St. John's Coll., Camb., 1596) and John; a daughter of Nathaniel married Rev. Giles Firmin (Emmanuel Coll.). John Ward, third in the list, who was the first minister of Haverhill, Mass., had no son, but both daughters married ministers.

Nathaniel Saltonstall, the first Harvard graduate in the list, was not a minister, but his son, Gurdon, 1684, was.

Many of Rowland Cotton's kin were ministers: his grandfather, John,

Trinity Coll., Camb., 1602-3); his uncle, Seaborn, 1651, who was the father of John, 1678, and of Rowland, 1696; his father, John, 1657; his brothers, John, 1681, and Theophilus, 1701; three sons beside John, — Nathaniel, 1717, Josiah, 1722, and Ward, 1729. Two of his daughters married ministers who were graduates. A sister of his father married the Rev. Increase Mather, 1656, who was father of Cotton Mather, 1678. Many of Rowland Cotton's descendants in later generations were graduates and ministers. I will name only four: Phillips Brooks, 1855, and his brothers, Frederick, 1863, Arthur, 1867, and John Cotton, 1872. John Cotton, of Newton, the sixth in the list, had three sons graduate at Harvard; only one of them was a minister, — Nathaniel, 1750. Three of his daughters married ministers who were graduates.

Ebenezer Thayer was a tutor in the College for six years. Of his relatives these were ministers: Ebenezer Thayer, 1708; Ebenezer Turell, 1721; his mother's brother, Andrew Eliot, 1737, who was father of John Eliot, 1772; his sons, Nathaniel Thayer, 1789, and Andrew E., 1803; his grandson, Christopher T., 1824.

Of Jacob Abbot's kin the following were ministers: Abiel, 1787, of Coventry and Peterborough, whose grandson, Samuel Abbot Smith, 1849, was pastor of the Unitarian church in Arlington thirty years ago; his cousin, Abiel, 1792, of Beverly; his nephew, Ephraim Peabody, Bowd., 1827, who was father of Francis Greenwood Peabody, 1869, and grandfather of Samuel Atkins Eliot, 1884; his nephew, Abiel Abbot Livermore, 1833, who was for many years president of the Theological School at Meadville; his grand-nephew, Francis Ellingwood Abbot, 1859. His nephew, Ezra Abbot, Bowd., 1830, the learned professor in the Divinity School, was never ordained as a minister. Two of Jacob Abbot's sons-in-law were ministers: A. A. Livermore, previously named, and Horatio Wood, 1827.

George Jacob Abbot, the ninth in the list, was not a minister; but he was for a few years a professor in the Meadville Theological School and helped to make ministers. Robert Swain Morison is a son of the Rev. John Hopkins Morison, 1831.

It will be observed that the above list resembles that of the Wares, printed in the Graduates' Magazine of December, 1893, in this respect, that in the chain of descent some of the connecting links are daughters instead of sons. John Ward of Haverhill, England, is not the ancestor of all the nine who follow him; but the son of the graduate last named, a youth fitting for the college, can claim descent from any of the ten.

Horatio Wood, '57.

The Jeffries Family.

The inclosed list of Jeffries graduates may be of interest.

The family still have a fair copy made from notes of lectures given to the class of 1708, in the handwriting of the first David on the list, signed and dated by him. David Jeffries, the original settler, father of No. 1 on the list, is given on the early lists as an A. M., upon reaching this country.

1. David Jeffries, A. M., 1708.

2. David Jeffries, A. M., 1732; son of 1.

3. John Jeffries, A. M., 1763; M. D., Aberd., 1769; M. D. (Hon.), 1819; gd-son of 1.

4. John Jeffries, A. M., 1815; M. D., 1819; g-gd-son of 1.

5. Benjamin Joy Jeffries, 1854, A. M.; M. D., 1857.

6. Edward Payson Jeffries, 1856.

7. Henry Upham Jeffries, 1862.

5, 6, and 7, brothers; g-g-gd-sons of 1.

8. Walter Lloyd Jeffries, 1875.

9. William Augustus Jeffries, 1875.

10. John Amory Jeffries, 1881; M. D., 1884.

8, 9, and 10, brothers; g-g-g-gd-sons of 1.

78 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass.

The Sewalls.

William A. Jeffries, '75.

Among the families which have been represented at Harvard for more than two centuries the Sewalls should not be overlooked. The old Puritan judge has been represented by an unbroken series of descendants for six generations, as follows:

In the last September number of The Harvard Graduates' Magazine was given, by the Rev. Andrew Oliver, the Harvard record of the Oliver family, descendants of the first emigrant, Thomas Oliver, in 1632. May I add to the list given by Mr. Oliver the names of George Henry Oliver, M. D., 1854, and Joseph Pearson Oliver, M. D., 1871, great-grandsons of Edward Brattle Oliver, H. C., 1739?

Henry Kemble Oliver, '52.

ATHLETICS.