COLLEGES IN THE UNITED STATES. NOTE. The colleges marked thus (*) are under the direction of the Baptists; thus (†) Episcopalians; thus () Methodists; thus (4) Catholics. The prevailing religious influence in the others, is, in New England, Congregationalism, and in most of the others, Presbyterianism. The Norwich University, Vermont, is established by Universalists. THERE are in the United States ninety-two colleges and universities, exclusive of medical, theological, and law schools, and various seminaries, denominated collegiate schools, where a thorough collegiate course of studies may be pursued, but where degrees are not conferred. The names and locations of these ninety-two colleges are as follows. The figures denote the time when they were founded: Maine.-Bowdoin, 1794; Waterville,* 1820. New Hampshire.-Dartmouth, 1770. Vermont. University of Vermont, 1791; Middlebury, 1800; Norwich University, 1834. Massachusetts.--Harvard University, 1638; Williams, 1793; Amherst, 1821. Rhode Island.-Brown University,* 1764. Connecticut.-Yale, 1700; Washington,† 1824; Wesleyan University, 1831. New York.-Columbia,† 1754; Union, 1795; Hamilton, 1812; Hamilton Literary and Theolo gical 1819; Geneva,+ 1823; University of New York, 1831. New Jersey.-College of New Jersey, 1746; Rutgers, 1770. Pennsylvania.-University of Pennsylvania, 1755; Dickinson, 1833; Jefferson, 1802; Washington, 1806; Allegany, 1833; Western University, 1819; Pennsylvania, 1832; La Fayette, 1832; Marshall, 1836. Delaware.-Newark, 1833. Maryland.-St. John's, 1784; St. Mary's,§ 1799; Mount St. Mary's,§ 1830; Mount Hope, 1832. District of Columbia.--Georgetown,§ 1789; Columbian, 1821. Virginia.-William and Mary,† 1693; Hampden-Sidney, 1783; Washington, 1812; University of Virginia, 1819; Randolph-Macon,+ 1832. North Carolina.-University of North Carolina, 1791; Davidson, 1837. South Carolina.College of South Carolina, 1834. Georgia. University of Georgia, 1785; Ogle thorpe, 1838. Alabama.-University of Alabama, 1828; La Grange,† 1831; Spring Hill,§ 1830. Mississippi.-Jefferson, 1802; Oakland, 1831; Mississippi, 1830. Louisiana.-Louisiana, 1825; Jefferson, 1831. Tennesssee.-Greenville, 1794; Washington, 1794; University of Nashville, 1806; East Ten nessee, 1807; Jackson, 1830. Kentucky.-Transylvania, 1798; St Joseph's,§ land, '1825; Bacon, 1836; St. Mary's§ 1822. 1819; Centre, 1822; Augusta, 1825; Cumber Ohio.-University of Ohio, 1821; Miami University, 1809; Franklin, 1825; Western Reserve, 1826; Kenyon,† 1826; Granville, 1832; MarietWoodward, date not ascertained. ta, 1832; Oberlin Institute, 1834; Cincinnati, 1819; Woodward, date not ascertained. Indiana. Indiana, 1827; South Hanover, 1829; Wabash, 1833. Kendrean, 1834; M'Donough, 1837. Missouri.-University of St. Louis,§ 1829; St. Michigan. Michigan University, 1837; Marshall, date not ascertained. The following table will show the aggregate number of instructers, &c., &c., in the colleges in each state respectively : 18,650 20,120 Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Some of the colleges enumerated on the pre- | addition to these, there are other Catholic semiceding page, are not in operation, and this tabu-naries not properly organized as colleges, viz.: lar statement is made up from the catalogues of Mount St. James' Seminary, Worcester, Massaeach, with as much correctness as possible. There chusetts; Nyack College, on the Hudson, about are several other colleges incorporated, and the thirty miles north of New York; St. James' Litebuildings in progress of erection. Among these erary Institution, Frederick, Maryland; Cincinwe may mention Girard college in Philadelphia, nati Athenæum; and St. Philip's College, near and a Catholic college, the ground &c. for which Detroit, Michigan. has recently been purchased, in Westchester county, about thirteen miles from the city of New York. To these brief statistics of the various colleges in the union, we append those of other public institutions, belonging to the republic of letters, of In the preceding statement it will be observed | inferior rank, but proportionably efficient in their that eight Catholic colleges are enumerated. In | respective spheres of action. ALBANY FEMALE ACADEMY. DUTCHESS COUNTY ACADEMY, FOR BOYS. THIS institution is situated in North Pearl- THIS academy was incorporated in 1792, and Street, Albany, and is one of the most flourishing the building in which the school was held, stood female seminaries in the country. The edifice in a populous part of the Village of Poughkeepsie was erected by an association of gentlemen each subscribing a certain sum, and receiving a certificate as a stockholder. The stockholders annually elect thirteen trustees, who have the general management of the institute. The institution is divided into six departments, exclusive of those scholars in each of the higher departments, who are pursuing the study of the foreign and dead languages, &c. The books used in each department are of an appropriate kind, suited to the capacities of the learners of various ranks, and consist of the most popular school books of the day. The general direction of the Institution is committed to a principal, assisted by well qualified teachers permanently attached to each department. The Academy has a well filled Library attached to it, and a complete Philosophical apparatus for experiments in the various sciences. It contains also a Cabinet of minerals, and specimens in other branches of Natural Philosophy. At the close of the Academic year, a public examination of the pupils takes place, and gold medals and other premiums are awarded to those who excel in the respective departments of study. Ample arrangements are made for boarding pupils who come from a distance; and the expenses incurred by a young lady, including boarding and tuition in all the branches of study required for a diploma, are two hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum. until 1836, when, through the liberality of several gentlemen, a new and handsome edifice was erected in the suburbs, upon an elevated and healthy site. The present building is of brick and stone, sixty-eight feet long, forty-three feet wide, and three stories high, exclusive of the basement. All the branches taught in the higher seminaries of learning, including the classics and the various sciences, form the course of study in this institution. In order that all the teaching may be practical and thorough, the Trustees have furnished a good Chymical, Mechanical, Mathematical and Philosophical apparatus, and provision is made for a Library. The Academy has ample arrangements for the accommodation of boarders, and the moral government of the institution is such as to make parents well assured that their children are there receiving instruction in sound ethics as well as in letters. The expenses for boarding scholars, including books, (except for the languages,) stationary, bed and bedding, washing, fuel, lights and tuition, (except in the modern languages and drawing) are ninety dollars per term. We speak from personal knowledge when we say, that a more healthy location, and greater advantages to be derived from a contiguity with a handsome flourishing village, and steam-boat navigation, cannot be desired; and that the Principal, WILLIAM JENNY A.B. is well qualified in every particular for the important station which he fills. The Academic year consists of two terms of twenty-three weeks each, commencing respectively on the first Wednesday of May and Novem ber. BERKSHIRE MEDICAL INSTITUTION. February, and continues till the last of August. During the months of February, March, and April, practical anatomy with operative and demonstrative surgery are attended to by the professor of surgery and physiology; who also hears recitations on the principles and practice of surgery. From eight to eleven lectures a week are given. Recitations and a course of instruction in the theory and practice of medicine, materia medica, THIS institution is located in Pittsfield, the shire &c. by the professor of that department. Instructown of the county of Berkshire, in the state of tion is also given in botany and mineralogy. AdMassachusetts; a large and flourishing inland mission to the library, cabinet of anatomy, natural village, near the centre of that county, and in the history and mineralogy, is gratis. The annual western part of the state. The institution is con- lecture term begins in September, second Wednected, in some respects, with the college in nesday, and continues fifteen weeks. There is a Williamstown, in the north part of that county. vacation of two or three weeks, from the last It was established with the approbation of the Wednesday of May. Medical degrees are conlegislature, and has received some aid from the ferred at the close of the lectures, and at the anstate. Most of the colleges in the country, have nual commencement of Williams' college. lately had medical establishments connected with Ample provision has been made by the trustees them; and the college governments exercise for the accommodation of those who may resort some authority and control over them. There to the institution and attend the lectures and reare many advantages resulting from this connex-citations. ion to the students in the medical department. There are two spacious and elegant buildings There are six professors in this institution; viz. with convenient apartments for students, large of surgery and physiology; general anatomy and lecture rooms, an extensive collection of minerphysiology; the theory and practice of medicine; als, a valuable herbarium, anatomical museum materia medica, pharmacy and obstetrics; medical and theatre equal to any in the United States. jurisprudence, botany, mineralogy, chymistry and natural philosophy. The number of students is from eighty to one hundred. It is stated, that board, including washing, can be had for one dollar seventy-five cents per week. ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA · The whole fees to be paid by the pupils, amount THIS structure, at the corner of George and to forty dollars for a course of instruction design-Twelfth Streets, is improved by the Academy of ed to be complete and eminently practical. The Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The institution reading term begins on the first Wednesday of originated in 1812, with a few gentlemen, who held conversations once a week, upon natural history. It was chartered in 1817, and from that time to the present, has been in a most prosperous condition. Originally, the building was a place of worship for a society of the disciples of Emanuel Swedenborg. Many alterations have been made in it, since it was occupied by them. The edifice is of a quadrangular form, about forty-four feet square, surmounted by a dome. The interior exhibits a large saloon, and a gallery, midway between the floor and ceiling. The library contains three thousand volumes-two thousand of them being upon subjects of natural history. The lower floor is chiefly occupied as a library and meeting-room. The collections of natural history are deposited in the gallery. These include ten thousand plants, three or four thousand minerals, five thousand geological specimens, twelve hundred shells, five hundred birds, and two thousand reptiles-besides small but increasing collections of fishes, quadrupeds and insects. They are neatly arranged, according to the most approved systems. Citizens and strangers are admitted gratuitously to the Museum, on Tuesday and Saturday afternoons. Some of the most distinguished naturalists of America and Europe, are among the corresponding members of the academy. The resident members are between fifty and sixty in num ber. PROFESSIONAL LIFE. THE ambition of adopting "professional life," of all kinds, at the present day, is the source of countless instances of misery. Every profession in England is overstocked; not merely are the prizes beyond the general reach, but the merest subsistence becomes difficult. "The three black graces, law, physic and divinity," are weary of their innumerable worshippers and yearly sentence crowds of them to perish of the aching sense of failure. A few glittering successes allure the multitude; chancellorships, bishoprics, and regiments figure before the public eye, and every aspirant from the cottage, and the more foolish parents of every aspirant, set down the bauble as gained when they have once plunged their uncall the world. But thousands have died of brolucky offspring into the sea of troubles which men ken hearts in these pursuits; thousands, who would have been happy behind the plough, or opulent behind the counter; thousands in the desperate struggles of thankless professions, look upon the simplicity of a life of manual labor with perpetual envy; and thousands, by a worse state still, are driven to necessities which degrade the principle of honor within them to humiliating modes of obtaining subsistence, and make up by administering to the vices of society, the livelihood which was refused to their legitimate exer |