TO SUBSCRIBERS FOR SETS AND CORRESPONDENTS.

In consequence of the early interruption of communication and delay in binding, it was not practicable to send the fourth volume of the Annals to subscribers, until recently. The whole have now been sent except a box for Albany, Union College and Utica, which waits for the opening of the Hudson. The sets for Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky and New Orleans are forwarded, or in the hands of booksellers to be sent by the earliest opportunity. A Schoolmaster,' Experience, and several other communications are received.

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Keeps constantly on hand and for sale, a large assortment of SCHOOL, LAW, MEDICAL and MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS. Libraries and Schools supplied on the most reasonable terms,

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Teachers and others in want of Books are respectfully invited to call as above.

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THE MEDICAL MAGAZINE.

It has already arrived at the close of its second year of publication. But as it is about to appear under new auspices, we take the liberty to present its claims again for your patronage. The conduct of the Magazine is under the control of thirty physicians of Boston and vicinity, under the name of prorprietors, who choose its Editors, and feel themselves pledged to contribute for its support. It is now under the editorial care of Dr. J. B. FLINT, of Boston, Dr. E. BARTLETT, of Lowell, and Drs. A. A. GoU LD and E. G. DAVIS, of Boston. To ensure valuable communications, the publishers offer one dollar a page for all original matter approved by the Editors. With such prospects of an interesting and well conducted Journal, we confidently solicit the patronage of the Public.

TERMS:-Published on the 1st and 15th of every month, at $4,00 per annum, payable on delivery of the third number.

UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY, on the Principles of Comparison and Classification. For the use of the higher classes in Academies and schools. Accompanied by Royal Quarto Atlasses, both Ancient and Modern, adapted expressly to the work, executed in a neat style, full colored.

MODERN GEOGRAPHY by W. C. WOODBRIDGE, late Teacher in the American Asylun; Editor of the Annals of Education and Instruction.

ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY by E. WILLARD, Principal of the Troy Female Seminary. Author of Geography for Beginners.' Published by BEACH & BECKWITH, Hartford; RUSSELL, ODIORNE & Co., Boston.

The maps of the Modern Atlas are so constructed as to show the two continents in their connections, and the oceans between them; and in addition to the ordinary maps, it contains a Chart of the comparative magnitude of Countries, Seas, Lakes and Islands; a Chart of Climates and Productions; a Chart of the principal Animals of the world in their respective regions; a Moral and Political Chart, exhibiting the Religion, Government, Civilization and Population of each country; and extensive Tables of the Extent and Population of Countries, the Population of Cities, and the Commerce, &c. of the United States.

The Geography contains Sections of the Continents, showing the rise and fall of the land; Geological Maps of the United States and Europe; Sections of the princip 1 Canals in the United States; a Comparative View of Mountains; and about 70 engravings, illustrating principles of Geography, religious rites, manners and customs, and views of cities and natural curiosities.

Extract of a letter to the Author, from the Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society of London, accompanying a set of the Society's Journal:

Your plan is one which, individually, I very much like-very superior in general interest to those systems of Geography which are mere bundles of isolated facts.'

Extract of a letter from Dr. THOMAS DICK, of Scotland, to a gentleman in the United States:

I admire, most of all, the School Geographies which you have done the favor to send me. Mr. Woodbridge's Universal Geography' is a most valuable work, and contains a greater quantity of useful information on all the subjects connected with Geography, than I have seen in somo works presented to the public in large and extensive quartos.'

AMERICAN

ANNALS OF EDUCATION

AND INSTRUCTION.

MARCH, 1835.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

THE first settlers of New England were men who understood and felt the importance of education. While as a body they were well instructed, many individuals among them came stored with the various learning of the English Universities.-Scarcely, therefore, had the pilgrim fathers of New England subdued a few spots in the wilderness, where they had sought shelter from persecution, when their solicitude to transmit to future generations the benefits of learning, impelled them, while yet struggling with many and great difficulties, to enter upon the work of providing here for such an education in the liberal arts and sciences, as was to be obtained in Europe; justly regarding an establishment for that purpose as an essential part of the fabric of civil and religious order, which they were employed in constructing, and which, with some modification, now happily stands so noble a monument of their energy of character, of their love of well regulated liberty, of their wisdom, virtue, and piety.'*

Such is the simple explanation with which the historian of Harvard University introduces the account of the first efforts of our fathers, in opening fountains of knowledge, beside the tree of liberty. Such were the men who founded a system of free schools, which brings home to every inhabitant of New England the ele* Peirce's History of Harvard University.

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Origin of the University.

ments of knowledge; and such is the evidence, that those who are well taught desire to maintain an aristocracy of their own, by keeping the mass in ignorance!

We observed in our last number, that Harvard University was the first established in our country, and that we deferred a sketch of its history, only because we could not procure an engraving in time to preserve chronological order. We now present one, not merely as an ornament to our work, but because it is gratifying to us, and we presume will be to our readers, to have some locality with which our conceptions of an institution, and the intelligence we receive concerning it, may be associated.

It was only in 1636, six years after the first settlement of Boston, that the General Court, or Legislature, of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, devoted four hundred pounds, (a sum equal to the entire taxes of the colony for a year,) for the establishment of a college at Newtown, which two years after received the name of Cambridge, in remembrance of the Alma Mater of many of the principal colonists. A generous bequest from the Rev. John Harvard, of his library, and half of his estate, led the Overseers to give his name to the College; and the extension of the courses of study has led to the title of ' Harvard University.'

In 1638, the regular course of academical studies seems to have commenced. A preparatory Grammar School was soon opened; and the first printing press on this continent, north of Mexico, was established in connection with the college in 1639. This press acquired much celebrity for the number of works it issued, and especially for printing the first books in the native language of our Indians, the translations of the apostolic Eliot; and in later days, it has furnished some of the most valuable editions of classical and standard works.

The first commencement took place on the second of August, 1642, at which nine young men received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. It was celebrated, like those of Yale College, by orations in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, as well as in English. The General Court appointed a large board of Overseers to manage the College; but subsequently gave the immediate direction to a smaller body, consisting of the President and Fellows, with full executive powers, who were responsible to the Overseers for their exercise. Contributions were made in books and money, small in apparent amount, but of great value in those days-some even of 'shillings;'—but, as Mr. Peirce well remarks, They were contributions from the "res angusta domi," from pious, virtuous, enlightened penury, to the noblest of causes-the advancement of education.' A tithe of this liberality throughout the community, proportioned to our present wealth, would leave no struggling'