the Wm. Curtis Noyes, the Truax, and the Mears libraries. An interesting apartment in the library building is the Memorial Hall and Art Gallery. It is set aside for "historical paintings, landscapes, plaster casts, figures in bronze and marble, engravings, tablets, ancient coins and other works of art, along with autographs and portraits of distinguished alumni and of officers and benefactors of the College." Here are portraits of the Rev. Samuel Kirkland, the Rev. Samson Occum, the Indian Orator, Presidents Backus, Davis, North, and Fisher, Dr. Edward Robinson, Professors Catlin, Avery and North, Hon. Gerrit Smith, the Rev. Albert Barnes, Hon. Henry A. Foster, Judge Charles H. Truax, Hon. John Jay Knox, Wm. C. Noyes, Silas D. Childs and others prominent in church or state or college. Here is also a portrait bust of the Hon. Edwin C. Litchfield, by Hiram Powers. Among portrait painters represented are Huntington, Spencer, Elliott, Andrews, Wells, Healy, Peebles and Carpenter. The first named of these artists, Daniel Huntington, President of the National Academy of Design, was at one time a student at Hamilton. While in College he painted upon "bass-wood canvas," a portrait of the College janitor, "Professor Twitchell," who "one day as he was going his dusty rounds was quite willing to rest awhile in the young artist's room and be "booked for immortality." This portrait is still preserved in the College library with a label in the Greek professor's "eagle-quill chirography: * 66 Τα Μελλοντα роoztat," "coming events cast their shadows before."

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also portraits of students who fell in battle for their country.

The late Hon. James Knox, LL.D., of Knoxville, Ill., bequeathed a fund to the College, which has enabled the trustees to complete the Knox Hall of Natural History. Students interested in plants find the Sartwell Herbarium of great value, and the Barlow collections afford fine facilities for those especially interested in ornithology and entomology. In the Laboratory is suitable apparatus for the use of students of chemistry. Those who wish to become more thoroughly acquainted with mineralogy find the extensive College collections of great service.

Old alumni of Hamilton College will be surprised as they wander up the "old poplar" walk to South College, to see a handsome brick building of modified Romanesque style, confronting them at the entrance to the campus, near South College, says the Utica Herald. It stands like a porter's lodge, guarding

the gate, and the fitness of such a guardian will be recognized when it is known that it is to be the home of the Young Men's Christian Association of the College. The building was erected through the generosity of Horace B. Silliman, of Cohoes, who is one of the Trustees of the College, and equally interested in Education and Christian Association work. Mr. Silliman was a prominent member of the late State Convention of the Y. M. C. A., held at Watertown. His connection with the College Association at Old Hamilton will be more than simply providing a comfortable and even luxurious home for it, but will take the form of personal interest in its welfare. Yet it is but proper to add, that to the Christian young men of the College belongs some of the credit of this elegantly appointed Hall, for had they not labored faithfully in Christian work and for their fellow students, the donor would not have felt like bestowing such a valuable piece of property upon the institution. The Association at Hamilton College stands higher in interest and results than any other Association, and this building will not detract from its usefulness or zeal. The structure is of Deerfield red brick, with heavy brown stone trimmings. A tower at the southeast end terminates in a covered balcony or observatory. The tower is about the same height as the peak of the main roof, and is very graceful, giving a finish to the eastern facade. The facade contains, on the right, the main entrance, under a protected arch or vestibule of brown stone, over which are several Roman windows, and a recessed balcony built in the wall. The gables are neatly capped and trimmed, and are at right angles.

On the right of the vestibule is the reading room, 18x30 feet, well lighted and finished in oak, with open fire-place, and door leading to pleasant parlor in the rear. On the left is a handsome refreshment room, 19x20 feet. Near the entrance are the cloak room and Secretary's office. The cellar contains ample storage room, and a Cohoes steam heater, with a patent steam register under the hall. A curved stairway and balustrade lead to the second floor. There a pleasant suite of rooms is found, part of which are for the Association President, or Secretary. A large room for prayer meetings and similar gatherings occupies the main portion of this floor, being separable into two rooms by folding doors. There is also a small committee-room. The rooms are all handsomely ceiled and finished, and well heated

and ventilated. The wood work is in the natural oak. A narrow stairway leads to the half story above, where there are a commodious loft and two "summer rooms opening out into a balcony, the wooden floor of which is laid over a tin roofing. From these, there is a fine view of the college grounds. In the basement of the buildings are to be baths, supplied with hot and cold water. The college boys may well thank Mr. Silliman for his generous gift, which, when complete, will have cost him over $20,000.

The thoughtful spectator looking out from the balcony of the Y. M. C. A. Hall, will rapidly survey a century's changes and improvements* on College Hill. Before him will appear a multitude of thoughtful faces, youthful and old, and the forms of many men, Indian and whites. He will see Kirkland and Schenandoa and Steuben laying the corner-stone of the first building. He will see the Principals and Students of the old Oneida Academy going in and out. Then will follow a long procession, in which he will see many eminent and godly men-College Trustees, Benefactors, Presidents, Professors and Students. The dates of the erection of the various buildings testify to the uninterrupted efforts of the friends of learning, and of Christianity to enrich the minds and purify the hearts of successive student generations.

* Hamilton Oneida Academy, corner-stone laid 1793. Commons Hall, built 1813, used as Mineralogical Cabinet 1850, remodeled as Knox Hall of Natural History 1883. South College, (Hamilton Hall), erected 1814, remodeled and renamed, (Hungerford Hall), 1873. Middle College, (Oneida Hall, erected 1797), Kirkland Hall erected 1822. North College, walls built 1824, completed as Dexter Hall 1842, remodeled and renamed, (Wm. H. Skinner Hall), 1884. Chapel erected 1825-7, refurnished by the Hon. Truman P. Handy, Cleveland, Ohio, 1882. College Bell presented by Mr. Dan el Nolton, Holland Patent, N. Y. Motto on Bell, Ora et Labora, (Pray and Labor); Clock in Chapel spire, presented by the Hon. John Wanamaker, Philadelphia, Penna., 1877. Hamilton Oneida Academy pulled down 1829. Gymnasium erected 1853. Litchfield Observatory erected 1854; Telescope Mounted, 1857; Observatory enlarged, 1875. Chemical Laboratory erected 1855. Perry H. Smith Library Hall, corner-stone laid 1866, completed 1872. Silliman Hall, (Y. M. C. A. Building), erected 1888. Society Halls.-Sigma Phi Place, corner-stone laid 1871, completed 1873. Alpha Delta Phi Lodge, (Eells Memorial), corner-stone laid 1876, completed 1883. Chi Psi House, purchased 1882, remodeled 1883. Psi Upsilon House, erected 1885. Delta Kappa Epsilon House, purchased 1885, burned August 17, 1886, rebuilt 1888. Delta Upsilon House, erected 1888. Theta Delta Chi House, erected 1888. In 1853, the campus park was laid out at a cost of $6000. At that time the stone walls, etc., were removed to make room for hedges. Previous to this date a continuous walk extended in front of the Halls as now, and paths from North College, South College and the Chapel lead to the openings in the fence in front. The original College Campus was a rectangular plot of four acres. The plan of those having charge of improvements, was to bring under cultivation about twenty acres of land immediately surrounding the College buildings. This would include the plot especially designated for an ornamental garden, by Mr. Kirkland in his deed to the Trustees of the Hamilton Oneida Academy.