June 26th,-Tuesday.-Final examination of Senior Class. This Class numbers fifty-five members, and is the largest ever graduated by the College. Prof. Chadbourne and Delegate to Greenland started upon their journey to-day.

June 27th,-Wednesday.-Commencement parts awarded. Salutatory, Nicholas E. Boyd. English Orations, A. L. Allen, S. S. Boyd, G. B. Emery, Chas. S. Perkins, J. L. Phillips, T. B. Reed, A. N. Rowe, E. B. Scherzer, J. W. Symonds, W. W. Thomas, Jr., J. H. Thompson. Philosophical Disquisitions, H. H. Burbank, E. R. Mayo. Literary Disquisitions, J. M. Brown, H. P. Brown, A. H. Davis, W. G. Frost, W. L. Haskell, A. W. Oliver, C. F. Penney, F. W. Webster. Disquisitions, S. C. Farrington, G. P. Hawes, L. R. Leavitt, Henry C. Robinson. Discussions, John F. Appleton, A. F. Bucknam, L. G. Downes, A. Jones, B. K. Lovatt.

The Peucinian and Athenæan Societies, impelled by a spirit of emulation and rivalry, have both made great improvements in their Libraries. Somewhere between three hundred and four hundred volumes have been added by contributions from the Senior and Junior Classes. The Athenæan, following the example of its rival, has thoroughly renovated its Library Room. New alcoves have been put up, a careful and accurate examination of all the volumes has been made, and, as a result of this labor, a complete alphabetical catalogue, with a topical index, will be issued before Commencement.

It was expected that a catalogue of the College Library would have been printed before this time; but Mr. Tucker, Librarian of the College, saw fit to alter the whole plan for another much more convenient. Investigation and examination have proved the great value of the College collection of volumes, and the catalogue will show that we have a Library here which would be an honor to any College. There are now sixteen thousand bound volumes upon its shelves, and four thousand unbound.

The Cleveland Society of Natural History have completed the arrangement of its specimens, and opened its Cabinet to the inspection of the curious. Starting a year ago, the Society has great reason to be proud of its present position. By contributions and the indefatigable exertions of some of the most ardent naturalists, it possesses already as fine a collection of minerals as the State affords. The Library is no inferior one, and it is doubtful whether most of the works can be

found elsewhere in the State. Letters from the South and West, proposing exchanges, have reached the Society, and every thing augurs well for its future success.

The Cabinet of the late Prof. Cleveland has been purchased for the College, by the Committee appointed by the Boards for that purpose. A much higher amount than the Cabinet was really worth, was paid for it, out of respect to the memory of Cleveland, and as a further testimonial to his eminent usefulness and worth.

A reading-room has been for some time in operation here, and the opportunities it affords for political information are well improved by our politicians in embryo.

A great desideratum at Bowdoin is a well-arranged and properly conducted gymnasium. The Students feel this, and have given vent to their feelings by petitioning the Boards. The subject will be brought before them at their next meeting, and it is to be hoped they will look favorably upon it.

The Senior Class have placed in the College Library a bust of President Woods. The work was executed by Mr. Frank Simmons, a young artist, and reflects great credit upon him.

IV. BROWN UNIVERSITY.

THIS Institution, which was founded in 1764, owes its origin to the desire of the Baptists in the American Colonies to secure for members of their denomination a liberal education, without subjection to any sectarian tests. At the suggestion of the Rev. Morgan Edwards, the Pastor of the First Baptist church in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Baptist Association, in the year 1762, resolved to establish a College in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, where Roger Williams had first recognized the principle, and enjoyed the blessings of "soul liberty," and where, "because the legislature was chiefly in the hands of the Baptists, was therefore the likeliest place to have a Baptist College established by law." The Rev. James Manning, a graduate of the College of New Jersey, was commissioned by them to travel through the Northern Colonies, for the purpose of furthering this project.

In the year 1763, Mr. Manning visited Newport, then the most flourishing commercial town of the Colony of Rhode Island. He was very cordially received by the Deputy Governor Gardner and several prominent citizens. The subject he had come to present was not altogether a new one to their minds; for the spirit of religious toleration, and the large and liberal views which had characterized the Colony from its beginning, had already awakened in them the desire for a seminary of learning, which should be conducted on the principles Mr. Manning proposed. His visit served to strengthen this desire, and to give definiteness to their purposes and plans.

In 1764, a charter for the College was obtained from the Legislature of the Colony. Its chief provisions were: the exclusion of all religious tests for applicants for admission, and of all sectarian teachings in the College course; equality of privileges for all Protestant denominations, the choice of Professors without regard to denominational views; and government by a President of Baptist sentiments, and by a Board of Fellows and a Board of Trustees, in which, though the Baptists were to have the predominance, other denominations in the Colony were to be fairly represented. Of the twelve Fellows, eight, including the President, were to be Baptists; and of the thirty-six Trustees, twenty-two were to be Baptists; five, Friends; four, Congregationalists; and five, Episcopalians. The corporate name of the Institution was to be, "The College or University in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New England, in America," until it should be honored with that of some eminent benefactor-an anticipation in due time happily fulfilled.

In 1765, Mr. Manning, who had in the mean time become the Pastor of a Church in Warren, a town on the Eastern side of Narragansett Bay, and had opened a Latin school there, was elected President of the College. Being empowered to act "at Warren or elsewhere," he at once began the work of instruction at his place of residence. In the following year, Mr. David Howell, a graduate of the College of NewJersey, who was afterwards honored with high political and judicial trusts in the State of his adoption, became Mr. Manning's assistant.

As funds were needed, both in the support of the Instructors, and for the ultimate erection of a suitable College building, Mr. Edwards, in 1767, visited England and Ireland, for the purpose of soliciting aid. His subscription paper, bearing the honored naines of Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin West, may still be seen in the College archives. Collections for the same purpose were made in South Carolina and Georgia, and in the Philadelphia Churches. The first Commence

ment was celebrated at Warren, in 1769, when seven young men were graduated. A contemporary account preserves the interesting facts, that both the President and the candidates were dressed in clothing of American manufacture, and that the audience, composed of many of the first ladies and gentlemen of the Colony, behaved with great de

corum.

The four principal towns of the Colony, Newport, Providence, Warren and East Greenwich, now appeared as rival claimants for the honor of becoming the site of the building which it was proposed to erect for the College. It was promised to the largest contributor to the building fund, and was secured by Providence. The subsequent history of the Institution has given its friends reason to congratulate themselves on this result. In 1770, the foundation of "University Hall,” the oldest of the four buildings of the College, was laid. The spot selected for it was the crest of a hill which then commanded a view of the bay, the river, with the town on its banks, and a broad reach of country on all sides. Now that the buildings of the city have crept up the hill, and, gathering round the College grounds, have stretched out far beyond them, thus shutting out the nearer prospect, the eye can still take in from the top of " University Hall," the same varied and beautiful landscape which once constituted one of the chief attractions of the site.

During a portion of the revolutionary period, from 1777 to 1782, the College was disbanded, and a gap occurs in its history. Some of the Students entered the army; others completed their studies elsewhere. The dormitories and recitation-rooms were surrendered to the use of the State Militia, and to the sick and wounded of our French allies. In 1786, President Manning, whose graceful deportment, elegant scholarship, and wise and Christian character had commended him to all his fellow-citizens, was appointed to represent the State of Rhode Island in the Congress of the United States. In 1791, he died, lamented by all classes, and by none more than by the graduates of the College, of which he was the real founder, and which owed to him its guidance and its prosperity.

President Manning was succeeded by the Rev. Jonathan Maxcy, who, during the previous year, had held the temporary appointment of Professor of Divinity, in anticipation of succeeding to the Presidency. For ten uneventful years, Dr. Maxcy was at the head of the College. In 1802 he became President of Union College, and in 1804 President of the College of South Carolina.

The Rev. Asa Messer succeeded Dr. Maxcy in the Presidency of

Rhode Island College, and held this office until 1826. In was in the early part of his administration that the College received its present name of "Brown University." In 1804 Mr. Nicholas Brown, a member of a family already celebrated in the annals of the State for its public spirit and its mercantile integrity and enterprise, and a graduate of the College under the Presidency of Dr. Manning, having already given to the Library a valuable collection of Law books, presented to the Corporation the sum of $5,000, as the foundation of a Professorship of Oratory and Belles Lettres. It was thereupon voted, that the College be thenceforward styled Brown University, in honor of its most distinguished benefactor. This was, however, but the beginning of Mr. Brown's benefactions to the University which bears his honored name. In 1821-2, a second building, for the accommodation of the increasing number of Students, was erected at his sole expense, and at his suggestion named "Hope College," after his only sister, Mrs. Hope Ives.

In 1826-7, Dr. Messer was succeeded by the Rev. Francis Wayland, D. D. The period of Dr. Wayland's Presidency was marked by greater changes and more numerous improvements in the condition of the College, than had been effected by either of his predecessors. In its earlier years, the course of study was enlarged; the standard of scholarship was raised; the number of Professorships was increased; within the halls,

"There dwelt a sage called Discipline;"

and sharing in the President's high aspirations and earnest enthusiasm for sound learning and thorough study, the Professors and the Stu. dents labored with a spirit worthy of their leader. For more than a quarter of a century Dr. Wayland was identified with the interests of the College. He stamped it with the impress of his own lofty character. His pupils partook of his intense moral earnestness and high and severe sense of moral obligation, and went forth into life with the exalted aims and studious habits, which he both encouraged and illustrated.

Library.

Under Dr. Wayland's auspices, the Library-now one of the chief boasts of the College-may be said to have been first. established on a permanent basis. The rudiments of a Library had indeed been secured through the endeavors of Mr. Edwards, the early friend and agent of the University. To these had been added books purchased by subscriptions, in which the Brown family had been largely represented, donations from the Bristol Edu