438 UNIVERSITIES IN THIS STATE. 



upon the property instead of on the people, is the same 

 in both. The import-duties levied by the Federal 

 Government are also the same in both. 



As regards their condition in comparison with our own, 

 it will also be borne in mind that a property-tax of one- 

 half of a per cent, added to the sum yielded by our import- 

 duties, would realise nearly the whole of the 50,000,000 

 of which our present Imperial revenue consists. It is 

 not, therefore, with the view of escaping taxation that 

 our island-born will choose to go to the United States. 

 If that be the main object, the colonies are the places to 

 be selected. 



Feb. 21. This morning I went out to Cambridge, and 

 spent a pleasant hour or two with Professor Asa Gray, 

 whose works on botany are so deservedly esteemed, 



The Harvard University, which is situated at Cam 

 bridge, is the oldest in the Union, having been founded 

 in 1636. From this circumstance, as well as from its 

 large endowments, its extensive library, the numerous 

 staff of professors it possesses, and the literary or scien 

 tific distinction to which some of its teachers have always 

 attained, it holds probably the highest place among the 

 universities of the United States, though, in the total 

 number of resident students, it is excelled by several of 

 the others. In Massachusetts there are four universities, 

 namely, 







Harvard, at Cambridge, with 20 300 82,000 Unitarian. 



Williams, at Williamstown, 9 180 9,650 ^ Congregational. 



Amherst, at Amherst, 12 166 16,000 \ Trinitarian. 



Holy Cross, at Worcester, 14 120 4,220 Roman Catholic. 



Harvard professes to have no sectarian bias, inasmuch 

 as the students are allowed to attend public worship at 

 any church they prefer ; but, as a Unitarian minister 

 officiates in the college chapel, it is fair to set it down 

 as under the direction of that denomination. It was 



