One Hundred Years Ago

Dartmouth College consisted of a wooden building 150 feet long, 50 feet wide and 36 feet high. At Dartmouth English grammar and arithmetic were text-books in the sophomore year. Princeton, the greatest Presbyterian college, was a huge stone edifice, its faculty consisting of a president, vicepresident, one professor, two mastei of languages and seventy students. Harvard University had four brick buildings; the faculty consisted of a president and six professors, and in its halls thronged 130 to 160 students. Yale boasted of one brick building and a chapel "with a steeple 125 feet high!" The faculty was a president, a professor of divinity and three tutors. The greatest Episcopal college in the United States was William and Mary's. It was under royal and state patronage, and was, therefore, more substantiaily favored than most of our American schools. At this time, it is said in a jurious old state report, the college was a building of three stories, "Hke a brick kiln," and had thirty gentlemen students. The students lodged in dormitories, ate at the "commons" and were satisfied with what we would consider prison diet. Breakfast, a small can of soffee, a biscuit, about an ounce of butter. Dinner, one pound of meat, two potatoes and some vegetables. Supper, bread and milk. The only unlimited supply furnished was eider, K'hich was passed in a can from mouth ;o mouth. The days were spoken of as Doil day, roast day, stew day, etc. Hood's Sarsaparilla, taken at this season, -will make you feel strong and vitoious and keep you from sickness later on. i