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tion of the College. The roll during the present session, we under- 

 stand, has registered more in actual attendance than at any previous pe- 

 riod. The enterprising spirit evinced by the members of the Institution 

 in the publication of a monthly Literary and Scientific Journal^ the im- 

 provement of the grounds attached to the building, and the erection of 

 a large and beautiful HalJ^ for tlie reception of the valuable and increas- 

 ing Cabinet of the Linnaean Association are all encouraging indications 

 of the flourishing condition of this seminary of learning. 



Pennsylvania College, we think, has peculiar claims upon the pat- 

 ronage of the community. Few institutions offer more inducements for 

 young men to enter their walls or furnish greater facilities for the acqui- 

 sition of knowledge. Its location is beautiful and proverbially healthy. 

 Its government is paternal and the tone of its moral feeling is perhaps 

 higher than that of any other literary institution in the land. The terms 

 are reasonable and the course of instruction extensive. Of its Faculty 

 we need not speak. All, acquainted with the gentlemen appointed by 

 the Trustees to give instruction, know that they are zealously devoted 

 to their work and deeply interested in the mental and moral improve- 

 ment of those committed to their care. 



This Institution especially needs the sympathies of the Church un- 

 der whose auspices it was established. Its importance to the ministry 

 cannot be too highly estimated. Here the youthful mind is developed 

 under the influence of those sacred truths which we value above all 

 price. Here is exerted a power designed to elevate the intellectual 

 character of the Church, and furnish those who minister at her altars 

 with that knov.ledge so essential to success. 



Those, who projected tlie establishment of this Institution, and have 

 been laboring faithfully and indefatigably from the beginning to advance 

 its interests, must regard its present prosperous position with the most 

 lively satisfaction. 



We have, however, wandered from the object we had in view, when 

 we seated ourselves to notice the Catalogue. Our design was not to urge 

 the claims of the College. It has won its way to public favor, and pro- 

 cured the confidence of an intelligent community without a resort to that 

 system of pufling practiced so generally at the present day. Her growth 

 is not of a mushroon character. She has risen by her own inlriiisic 

 merits, and now occupies an honorable position among the first institu- 

 tions of the land. Our object i:5 to present some reflections, .suggested 

 by the appearance of the Catalogue, relative to those who have gone 

 forth from the College, and, haculum in vianu, commenced the active 

 duties of life. Although not much more than a half score of years has 



