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present year is the election of Dauiel C. Gilmau, A. M., presideut of the 

 university. Presideut Gilman is a graduate of Yale College, and was 

 for several years professor in the Sheffield Scieutilic School of that 

 college. He has spent some time in Germany in the study of science in 

 the University of Berlin. His inaugural address was delivered at Oak- 

 land November 7, 1872, aud is replete with i)ractical observations on 

 the principles and character of the education which our republic de- 

 mauds. 



Sufticieut time has not yet elapsed to bring the university into so com- 

 jdete an organization of its different departments as is contemplated by 

 the regents and faculty who have it iu charge. A farm of about 200 

 acres has been provided for the agricultural department, but it has not 

 been improved, nor are students instructed in agriculture outside of the 

 school-room. The university has eleven professors aud three assistants. 

 The lands granted to the agTicultural college by Congress July 2, 18G2, 

 have been located, and are being sold gradually iu small quantities, but 

 at present the State supports the university and college by an annual 

 appropriation of $72,000. It is in contemplation soon to remove the 

 university aud college from their present location in Oakland to a farm 

 or park five or sis miles north of Berkeley. 



CONNECTICXJT, 



Yale College — Sheffield Scientific School, at New Haven, Rev. Noah 

 PorteVf J). B., LL. J)., xiresident. — The prosperity of this school is in- 

 creasing. In 1870 an effort was commenced to raise, by private dona- 

 tion, a fund of a quarter of a million of dollars for its further endow- 

 ment, and, by the indomitable energy of its officers, the sum desired has 

 been secured. AYith one exception, that of Mrs. Susan K. Higgin, a 

 native of this country aud widow of Eobert Higgin, esq., of Liverpool, 

 England, nearly the whole amount was contributed by i)ersons residing 

 in Connecticut and New York. Mrs. Higgin, when on a visit to New 

 Haven in 1871, gave the very liberal sum of £5,000, from which the 

 school has realized 828,000. This donation was made for the endow- 

 ment of a professorship in dynamic engineering, which is called the 

 Higgin professorship. Joseph E. Sheffield, esq., of New Haven, from 

 whom the school takes its name, has given to it, at different times, 

 $250,000, exclusive of a large building which he is now erecting, esti- 

 mated to cost $100,000 besides the land on which it stands. This build- 

 ing is located on Prospect street, north of Sheffield Hall, also given to 

 the school by Mr. Sheffield, and worth $100,000. It will be used for 

 lecture-rooms, class-rooms, and cabinets, aud will be completed iu 1873. 



Since the establishment of this school, iu 1847, it has received from 

 all sources, for buildings, apparatus, library, endowment of professor- 

 ships, instruction fund, subscriptions to current expenses, prizes, &c., 

 the sum of 8175,000, all of which, except 8135,000 granted by Congress 

 as a national endowment fuud, has been given by appreciative and lib- 

 eral citizens. It is proposed to build a new chapel for the college 

 and this school as soon as the committee, appointed for that purpose, 

 shall be able to adopt a suitable plan. The sum of 880,000 has already 

 been secured for this object. A friend of the school has ottered to give 

 $10,000 for the establishment of a professor's fuud, on condition that 

 $50,000 shall be raised before tlie commencement of 1873. Ten thou- 

 sand of the remaining sum required have been subscribed, accompanied 

 with a check for half the subscription. Hon. O. F. Winchester, of New 

 Haven, has given, this year, thirty-two acres of land on Sachem's Eidge, 



