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229 females. Tke Medical College is situated on tlie 

 outskirts of the citj. It is a large and elegant struc- 

 ture of brick and granite. The fee for a full course 

 of lectures is $60 in advance, "with a matriculation 

 fee of $3. There are several fine halls and other 

 public buildings in Worcester. The American Anti- 

 quarian Society, at this place, was founded in 1812, 

 by Isaiah Thomas, LL. D., who published the first 

 newspaper in Worcester, in 1775, and, a few years 

 after, the first English Bible in America. The hall of 

 the society is a large and elegant building, 104 feet 

 long and two stories high, in which is a library of 

 12,000 volumes, a valuable cabinet of antiquities, and 

 many interesting specimens of early printing. Wor- 

 cester is well supplied with schools, some of which are 

 splendid buildings. The school at which three of 

 my children attend, is built of brick, fifty by fifty- 

 eight feet, three stories high, and crowned with a 

 cupola. It cost $11,000. In the lower story is a 

 sink-room, play-room, ward-room, and committee- 

 room ; on the second floor are two Infant school-rooms, 

 each accommodating one hundred scholars, with 

 spacious recitation rooms adjoining. The third floor 

 is a Primary school-room, with two recitation rooms, 

 and will seat one hundred and sixty scholars. The 



