One Hundred Years Ago

Dartmouth College consisted oí a wooden building 350 feet long, 50 feet wide and 36 feet high. At Dartmouth English granirnar añil aritlimetie were text-books In the sophomore year. Princeton, tlie greatest PresbyteriaA college, was a. huge stone ediflce, lts faculty consisting of a president, "; -epresident, one professor, two maste: oí languages and seventy students. Harvard University had four trick buildings; the faculty consisted. oí a president and six professors, and in its balls thronged 130 to 160 students. Yale boasted oL one brick buildiDg and a chapel "with a steeple 125 feet tiigh!" 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, ït is said in a jurious old state report, the college was a building of three stories, "like a brick kiln," and had thirty gentlemen students. The students lodged in dormitories, ate at the "commons" and were satisfied with what we would eonsider prison diet. Breakfast, a small can of coffee, a biscuit, about an ounce of butler. Dinner, one pound of meat, two potatoes and saine vegetables. Supper, bread and milk. The only unlimited supplj furnisted was eider, svhich was passed in a can from mouth to mouth. The days were spoken of as boil day, roast day, stew day, etc.