COLLEGES IN THE UNITED STATES.    701

umes. Students in 1850, 66 ; alumni, 257 ; faculty, the president and 6 professors. Commencement
is on the first Thursday in August.

Accessus.    Succession of Presidents.    Exitus.

1824.    ....    Rt. Rev. Thomas C. Brownell, D. D.....1831.

1831.    ....    Rev. Nathaniel S. Wheaton, D. D. ....    1837.

1837.    ....    Rev. Silas Totten, D. D,......

Rev. John Williams, D. D.

TUSCULUM COLLEGE, TE.

This college was founded in 1794, at Greenville. It has but 2 instructors at present. The number
of its alumni in 1850 was 110, and of students 41; volumes in the library, 3000. Commencement is
on the third Wednesday in September. James McLin president.

UNION COLLEGE, N. Y.

This college is situated at Schenectady, 15 miles from Albany. It was founded in 1795. The
college buildings are each 200 feet long, four stories high, of brick, covered with a white stucco. The
institution has a valuable library of 15,000 volumes, apparatus, and funds in profitable investment.
It has 12 instructors, 230 students in 1850, and over 3000 alumni. Commencement on the fourth
Wednesday in July.

Accessus.    '    Succession of Presidents.    Exitus.

1795......Rev.    John Blair Smith. •...... 1799.

1799......Rev.    Jonathan Edwards, D.    D......1801.

1801......Rev.    Jonathan Maxcy, D. D...... 1804.

1804......Rev.    Eliphalet Nott, D. D.

UNION COLLEGE, TE.

This college, located at Murfreesboro', has recently gone into operation, having been founded in

1848. It is Under the direction of the Baptists. It has 5 instructors; in 1850 it had 65 students.
It has gathered about 800 volumes as the commencement of a library. Its commencement is fixed for
the third Wednesday in July. J. H. Eaton president.

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, VT.

This institution was incorporated and established at Burlington, in 1791, but it did not go into op-
eration till 1800. It is finely situated in the most elevated part of the town, about a mile east from
the shore of Lake Champlain, 245 feet above the surface of the water, and commands an extensive
and delightful prospect. A large college edifice of brick, completed in 1801, was consumed by fire
in 1824, after which three brick edifices were erected, which have since been united in one, 250 feet
in length by 40 in width. The faculty consists of the president, 5 professors, and 1 tutor. The
college has well-selected libraries containing about 12,250 volumes. It has a valuable collection of
specimens in different departments of natural history. There is a medical school connected with
the college, in which instruction is given by 3 professors. Undergraduates in 1850, 95; whole num-
ber of alumni, 416. Commencement is on the first Wednesday of August.

Accessus.    Succession of Presidents.    Exitus.

1800......Rev.    Daniel C. Saunders, D. D. .    .    .    .    1814.

1816......Rev.    Samuel Austin, D. D. .    .    .    1821.

1822.    .    .    .    .    .    Rev.    Daniel Haskell, M. A.    .    ...    1824.

1824......Rev.    Willard Preston, M. A...... 1826.

1826......Rev.    James Marsh, D. D.      1833.

1834......Rev.    John Wheeler, D. D.      1849.

1849.    .    .    .    .    .    Rev.    Worthington Smith, D. D.

UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

This university was chartered by the legislature in 1831. It is located in the city of New York,
and is projected on the liberal scale of the universities of the continent of Europe. According to
the plan of the institution, it embraces two general departments. The first comprises professorships
and faculties for instruction in the higher branches of literature and science; the second embraces what
is usually deemed a full course of classical, mathematical, and philosophical instruction, and also a
complete course of English literature, mathematics, and the sciences, with their application to agricul-
ture, to the arts, and generally to the ordinary purposes of life. The first chancellor of the uni-
versity was Rev. James M. Mathews, D. D. To him succeeded Hon. Theodore Erelinghuysen,
LL. D., who resigned in 1850. At present, the office of chancellor is not filled. Instructors, 11;
students, in 1850, 151 ; alumni, 320; library, 4000 volumes. An elegant and costly stone edifice has
been erected for the use of the university, which fronts towards the west upon Washington Square.
Commencement is on the Wednesday preceding the 4th of July.