. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations. ol Review, also amonthly, established in 1886, and edited by the pupils of the school; 21G GAZETTEER OF MASSACHUSETTS. together with the collegiate journals—the Harvard Advocate andthe Harvard Lampoon — which are bi-weeklies. The city schoolsare in the highest degree of efficiency, of the usual approved grading,and also include normal and training schools for teachers. Theyoccupy 35 buildings, valued, with appurtenances, at nearly $900, University (earlier, Harvard College, as it is stillfamiliarly called),
. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts : with numerous illustrations. ol Review, also amonthly, established in 1886, and edited by the pupils of the school; 21G GAZETTEER OF MASSACHUSETTS. together with the collegiate journals—the Harvard Advocate andthe Harvard Lampoon — which are bi-weeklies. The city schoolsare in the highest degree of efficiency, of the usual approved grading,and also include normal and training schools for teachers. Theyoccupy 35 buildings, valued, with appurtenances, at nearly $900, University (earlier, Harvard College, as it is stillfamiliarly called), founded in September, IG06, is not only the oldest,but perhaps the best endowed and most extensive institution of thekind in America. The college lands, lying in a compact body, butdivided into spaces of various form and extent by hne, shadedavenues, embrace an area of about sixty acres, and are occupied by asmany buildings. In closer proximity, in the college yard of 22 acres,stand the substantial structures used for lodgings, recitations, museum, f^f^^Jt- ffjS £J. library, law-school, public worship and other purposes. On the samegrounds, east of these stately buildings, are the residences of thepresident and some of the professors, surrounded by shrubbery andembowered in ancient trees. One of these halls dates from 1682, andHolden Chapel from 1741. In addition to this group of classic hallsand private residences, the university has, on the north, the LawrenceScientific School, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the DivinityHall, the Sanders Theatre and Memorial Hall, and other noble build-ings, surrounded by lofty elms ; and on an eminence half a mile to thewest, on Garden Street, is the Cambridge Observatory, with its grandrefracting telescope ; and another interesting appurtenance of the col-lege, near by, is the Botanic Garden. The noted University Annexfor Women, so highly regarded, was founded in 1879, and has beauti-ful grounds and buildings not far from the colle
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