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THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO, 



Is the best institution of the kind west of the Alleghanies. 

 Its charter was originally procured by Dr. Daniel Drake on 

 his sole application. Its funds, library, anatomical apparatus 

 and buildings are respectable, and its number of students, one 

 hundred or upwards. 



Cincinnati college has languished, but is now rising, un- 

 der an able board of trustees, and under the supervision of 

 Williara H* McGuffey D. D., its worthy and talented president. 



woodward college of CINCINNATI. 



The number of scholars in the Woodward college, is nearly 

 two hundred. Its income from all sources amounts to four 

 thousand two hundred and forty-eight dollars annually. In 

 seven years, the funds of this institution will produce from 

 six to eight (housand dollars annually. It originated in the 

 enlightened benevolence of William Woodward, of Cincinnati. 



His first grant of land for his endowment, was made on the 

 1st of November, 1826, to Samuel Lewis and Osmond Cogs- 

 well, perpetual Trustees. The site of the building was a sub- 

 sequent donation by the same gentleman. It was first char- 

 tered as "The Woodward Free Grammar School." This title 

 was afterwards changed into that of " The Woodward High 

 School," and with the alteration of the name, there was also 

 a change in the character of the institution. The course of 

 study was raised in consequence of the establishment of com- 

 mon schools. These latter, while they supplied the place, 

 filled by the former under its organization, as originally con- 

 templated, seemed to call for an institution of a higher grade. 



As a high school, its course of study has been gradually ex- 

 tended till it embraces every subject usually taught in our 

 colleges, besides the modern languages and book keeping as 

 parts of a mercantile education. In the winter of 1835-6, 

 the trustees applied to the legislature for collegiate powers; 



