The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation
Arthur Gilman, Ed.

From the oak which Sir Walter planted thus, three centuries ago, sprang Harvard College, the oldest institution of learning in America.

The university of to-day includes the college of the older days, and eight schools: the Graduate School, the Lawrence Scientific School, the School of Law, of Medicine, of Divinity, of Dentistry, of Veterinary Medicine, and that of Agriculture and Horticulture, in which, during the academic year 1895-96, instruction is given to three thousand six hundred students by three hundred and sixty-six teachers. Moreover, the university is not idle during the long vacation; for six weeks the Summer School is in session. In 1895 the students in this school numbered five hundred and seventy-five. Thus, in a single year, the university has given instruction to more than four thousand students.

In matters of administration three of the departments of the university are closely united: Harvard College, the Lawrence Scientific School, and the Graduate School are under the charge of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which, however, delegates to an administrative board, appointed for each, minor questions of government and administration. To the students under its control this Faculty offers four hundred and thirty-seven courses of instruction, divided among the following subjects: Semitic Languages and History; Indo-Iranian Languages; Greek; Latin; English; German; French; Italian; Spanish; Romance Philology; Comparative Literature; Philosophy; History; Government; Economics; Fine Arts; Architecture; Music; Mathematics; Engineering; Physics; Chemistry; Botany; Zoology; Geology; Mineralogy and Petrography; American Archaeology and Ethnology; Anatomy, Physiology, and Physical Training; and Military Science.

Harvard College, from which the university has grown, is the oldest and largest of the departments of the institution. Its standard of admission and its requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts are higher than those of any other American college or university. The requirements for admission, however, are not rigid, for a student may be admitted on any one of four plans of study. Within the college still greater freedom awaits him; once a member of the university he may with hardly a single restriction choose his own course, selecting those studies which inclination, his natural aptitude, or his