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HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE .<br />

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leges in, the region<br />

originally<br />

called the Northwest-Ohio,Indiana,<br />

Illinois,<br />

Michigan,<br />

Wisconsin<br />

.<br />

<strong>and</strong><br />

New<br />

Engl<strong>and</strong> has sent<br />

about 900, chiefly<br />

to the medical<br />

school ; Central<br />

<strong>and</strong> South America<br />

more than<br />

700 ; Great Britain<br />

<strong>and</strong> the British<br />

Provinces<br />

more than 400 .<br />

At present, examinations<br />

for<br />

admission are<br />

conducted annually<br />

in some fifteen<br />

cities <strong>of</strong> the<br />

THE MEDICAL LABORATORY .<br />

Union, among<br />

meet had to be made during that time for<br />

which are Chicago,<br />

St . Paul, Bay<br />

City, Atlanta, Rochester, San Francisco,<br />

the whole number <strong>of</strong> students in attend- <strong>and</strong> Galveston . An examination is held<br />

ance, whether they remained for entire or also at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Isl-<br />

for partial courses, the number above, <strong>and</strong><br />

66,747, represents practically the attend- The explanation <strong>of</strong> this wide academic<br />

ance upon the <strong>University</strong> . It has gradu- influence is found in the evolution <strong>of</strong> the<br />

ated nearly 17,000 -- twice as 'many as <strong>University</strong> itself . It has been <strong>and</strong> is a<br />

Yale, <strong>and</strong> about 2500 less than Harvard . growing institution . From the circum-<br />

Its faculties now number 273 pr<strong>of</strong>essors stances <strong>of</strong> its origin it is non-sectarian :<br />

<strong>and</strong> instructors -- about 35 less than Har- the first American university founded<br />

vard, <strong>and</strong> 80 more than Yale . Its stu- without administrative relations with<br />

dents number 2500 -- 790 less than Harvard, any religious sect . Yet from the begin-<br />

<strong>and</strong> 150 more than Yale. The influence <strong>of</strong> ning it has retained harmonious relations<br />

the institution is only suggested by such a with the various churches, <strong>and</strong> many<br />

statement It becomes clearer if the state- eminent divines <strong>of</strong> different denominament<br />

be made more in detail . American tions have belonged to its Board <strong>of</strong> Trus-<br />

universities have regions <strong>of</strong> influence . tees <strong>and</strong> to its faculties . It lies never had<br />

First, the region <strong>of</strong> which the institution a chair or faculty <strong>of</strong> theology, but from<br />

is the immediate centre, then a region time to time it confers the honorary de-<br />

usually extending directly west <strong>of</strong> that gree <strong>of</strong> Doctor <strong>of</strong> Divinity upon clergy-<br />

centre . Harvard <strong>and</strong> Yale have a zone men <strong>of</strong> various denominations who seem<br />

<strong>of</strong> influence in all States <strong>and</strong> Territories in its opinion entitled to such an honor .<br />

from, New Engl<strong>and</strong> westward . The in- Had Franklin been an active churchman,<br />

fluence <strong>of</strong> Pennsylvania has been chiefly had Pennsylvania been identified a hun-<br />

in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, dred years ago with a powerful ul ecclesiasti-<br />

Maryl<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong> southern New York, which cal polity, without doubt the early influ-<br />

in the aggregate have sent 35,000 students . ence <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong> would have been<br />

From Virginia <strong>and</strong> the States south have as great in the West as that <strong>of</strong> Harvard or<br />

come more than 13,000 ; from the States <strong>of</strong> Yale. At last the academic world has<br />

north <strong>of</strong> the Ohio, only a few more than caught up with Franklin's ideas . Har-<br />

1000, a small number, owing to the domivard <strong>and</strong> Yale have long been non-sectanating<br />

influence there <strong>of</strong> Harvard <strong>and</strong> rian . Ecclesiasticism, sectarianism, are<br />

Yale, <strong>and</strong> to the early founding <strong>of</strong> col- vanishing from American university life .

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