[180]
has been 224.
The applications for the next term do not amount to 100; nor, when all have been received, can it reach 110.
I therefore, Gentlemen, appeal to you, for your interference in this matter, requesting that the restriction may be removed, & this Department put upon the footing of the others in this particular.
Otherwise, I fear that as at present organized, it cannot exist another year.
I have the honor to be,
Gentlemen, your ob'dt servant
[Addressed externally to the President and Fellows of Harvard College.]
[Report of Committee.]
Corporation of Harvard College, July 26, 1845.
The Committee to whom was referred the Memorial of Professor Longfellow on the subject of the arrangement of the studies of the undergraduates by the faculty of the College, & desiring that the restriction as to the number of modern languages that may be studied at once should be removed, have attended to the subject, & ask leave to report, that they have, in common with the other members of the Corporation already considered the general subject of the 