high hill on which is built the beautiful city 

 of Middletown, and overlooks the city, the 

 Connecticut river, the extensive Portland 

 quarries, and much ' of the surrounding 

 country. The grounds are extensive and 

 well planted with trees, and are soon to be 

 laid out anew by the landscape gardener. 

 The leading buildings stand in a line north 

 and south, facing easterly, leaving a broad 

 campus in front descending to High street, 

 with the President's house in the north-east 

 corner. Beginning at the north we have the old 

 college building or dormitory, erected in 1825, 

 and which is soon to be remodeled and 

 modernized ; next south the old chapel build- 

 ing, erected in 1825, and now used for recita- 

 tion rooms ; next the memorial chapel, erected 

 in 1868, then the Rich Hall, erected in 1867, 

 and containing the library, and next the 

 Orange Judd Hall of Natural Science, 

 erected in 1870. In a rear line stand Observ- 

 atory Hall, erected in 1825 and remodeled in 

 1868, containing at present the cabinets and 

 natural history recitation rooms, besides a 

 number of student's apartments ; the gymna- 

 sium, erected in 1865, and the old laboratory 

 and work shops. All are of " brown stone " 

 except Observatory Hall, which is brick, and 

 the gymnasium which is a frame building. 



In front of the main building stands the 

 " Class Maple," around which on Class Day 

 — the great day of the collegiate year — the 

 graduating class gather on the green sward, 

 and having smoked the "pipe of peace," 

 according to the old time-honored custom, 

 sing their parting songs and say their sad 

 farewells. 



The Alumni of the University now number 

 948, of whom 814 are still living. Of the 

 whole number 419 are ministers, 149 are 

 lawyers, aud 55 physicians; 37 have been 



