Boston illustrated; . whole available space is already occupied by the nu-merous buildings required by an institution of such magnitude. Some of themore recently erected dormitories are fine specimens of architecture, and ad-mirably suited to the use for which they were designed. Among these areThayer Hall, an imposing structure containing sixty-eight suites of roonas, builtin 1870, at a cost of $115,000 ; Grays Hall, a long five-story brick building,erected in 1863, and containing fifty-two suites; and Matthews Hall, an ornateGothic edifice, which was built in 1872, at a cost of $120,000. An
Boston illustrated; . whole available space is already occupied by the nu-merous buildings required by an institution of such magnitude. Some of themore recently erected dormitories are fine specimens of architecture, and ad-mirably suited to the use for which they were designed. Among these areThayer Hall, an imposing structure containing sixty-eight suites of roonas, builtin 1870, at a cost of $115,000 ; Grays Hall, a long five-story brick building,erected in 1863, and containing fifty-two suites; and Matthews Hall, an ornateGothic edifice, which was built in 1872, at a cost of $120,000. An importantchange was effected in 1865, after long discussion, in the government of the uni-versity ; the overseers, constituting the second and more numerous branch ofthe university legislature, were originally the Governor and Deputy Governor,with all the magistrates, and the ministers of the six adjoining towns. Afternumerous changes, which were, however, only changes in the manner of select- 144 BOSTON BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. 145 ing the clergymen who should constitute this board, the power of choosing theoverseers was, in 1851, vested in the Legislature. All this system has sincebeen abolished. The graduates of the college now choose the entire change, which has been gradually gomg on for some years, gives stu-dents a much wider range of studies than formerly. The number of electivestudies has very greatly increased, and one is not now, as formerly, compelledto pursue a fixed and unalterable course, but may choose the branches he willpursue in accordance vrith his tastes and his intended business in life. There
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