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cal drawings recently given by the Novelty Iron Works in New York. 
8. Maps, charts, and reliefs, partly given by the United States Govern- 
ment. 9. Library containing the Hillhouse mathematical library, a gen- 
eral-reference library, and the current English, French, and German 
scientific journals. 10. Access is also had to the extensive college 
library, the cabinets in mineralogy, geology, zodlogy, casts, models, 
designs, &e. 
The tuition is $150 per year, with an additional charge of $5 annually 
for reading-room and gymnasium; $5 to freshmen for chemicals; and 
to special students in the chemical laboratory $25 per term for materi- 
als used. The graduation fee is $10. 
Students for 1870 are: Graduates, 28; seniors, 25; juniors, 57; fresh- 
men, 39; specials, 12; total, 141. 
DELAWARE. 
Delaware College, at Newark, was opened for the reception of stu- 
dents on the 14th of September, 1870, after a suspension of more than 
ten years. 
At a meeting of the board of trustees, held the 19th of July, 1867, a 
committee was appointed to visit the State legisiature, then in session, 
and endeavor to effect a union between the college and the State, by 
which the former should receive the annual interest of the eongres- 
sional grant of land-scrip for establishing a college of agriculture and 
mechanic arts. An agreement was made by which the State was to 
give to the college the annual interest, and the trustees on their part 
were to carry out the object of the grant by establishing a department 
of agriculture and mechanic arts, and to give the State a joint and 
equal interest in the property and government of the college. An act 
‘was passed by the legislature on the 14th of March, 1867, by which the 
institution was incorporated anew under the old name, ‘ Delaware Col- 
lege,” and the board of trustees made to consist of thirty members, one- 
half of whom were to be appointed by the governor of the State, and 
the other half by the members of the old college board. An act 
‘amendatory of the act of 1867 was passed February, 1869, by which the 
powers and duties of the trustees were explicitly defined; and in March 
of the same year a supplementary act was passed giving the appoint- 
ment of students admitted free of tuition, being one from each “ hun- 
dred,” to the members of the legislature from their respective hundreds. 
The new board of trustees organized on the 2d of January, 1869, by 
the election of Rathwell Wilson, president; John Hickman, vice-presi- 
dent, and George G. Evans, secretary. At a subsequent meeting in 
May, 1870, they elected several members of the faculty, and voted to 
open the college on the 14th of September, 1870. 
One of the leading objects of the college is to teach such branches of 
learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts. It is 
designed especially to give a thorough knowledge of the most approved 
methods of conducting the practical operations of the farm, garden, 
and nursery; and to show the results of carefully-conducted experiments, 
and how they may be made of practical value. Particular attention 
will be given to the most profitable kinds of farming for Delaware, 
where the soil and climate are in some respects so peculiar as to 
render much of the instruction given elsewhere of little praetical 
benefit. 
The college embraces three departments: 1. A classical department. 
2. A scientific department. 3. An agricultural department. The fac- 
‘ulty consists of William H. Purnell, president and professor.of moral 
