tered over which her grateful sons are already found. There is an imperative necessity now for an abundant endowment; one worthy of the wealth Providence has lavished upon that region, worthy of the heavenly gifts He has imparted to its churches "from generation to generation," worthy of the work a world waiting for gospel light demands in the present "fulness of times."

In the town of Washington a revival of unusual power was granted from on high, since the commencement of the year; as one fruit of which some sixty souls were awakened, the larger part being from among the students of the College, and the young ladies of the excellent Seminary there under the care of Mrs. Hanna. At Canonsburgh there has been a less degree of interest, but several of the students have been brought to the knowledge of the Saviour.

LAFAYETTE COLLEGE.

Lafayette has, during the present year, gloriously emerged from her period of darkness and trial. Through the munificence of A. Pardee, Esq., this College has been handsomely endowed as to the Scientific Department. The report of the energetic president, Dr. Cattell, is so full and gratifying that we only add the expression of the most hearty gratification of the Board with this result; a feeling in which the Church of neighboring regions generally will join, in the hope that this Institution will be a powerful ally to the cause of truth in coming days.

Since the date of my last report the endowment of $100,000 for the College has been completed, and Mr. PARDEE, the same generous friend who gave us $20,000, added the munificent sum of $100,000 for a SCIENTIFIC COURSE. The Board of Trustees have thus been enabled not only to provide for the comfortable support of the present Faculty of the College, but also to add eminent Instructors in the various departments of Physical Science, and to organize a thorough Scientific Course parallel to the Classical. This plan has been adopted by many of the best Colleges in our country to meet the wants of that large and increasing number of students who wish to study the Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Modern Languages and Literature, History, Rhetoric, Logic, and Mental and Moral Philosophy, as thoroughly as they are studied in any of our colleges, and who would be glad to enjoy the cultivation and learned habits and associations of college life, but who will not study Greek and Latin.

The Trustees of the College are deeply impressed with the thought that our present collegiate system has grown up under the fostering care of the Church, and that the relations of our old college studies to manly culture and religious training, have been studied by generations of Christian educators. They have therefore taken care that the new course shall not be removed from the old land-marks, and that as far as possible the old approved methods of instruction shall be used in all the departments of study. It will be found that the new course includes all the studies of the old except the Ancient Languages, and it is believed that the method of teaching the English and other modern Languages, which has been for some years in use in the College, may be so adapted to the students of the new course as to give in a good degree the same kind of discipline that is usually derived from the study of Greek and Latin.

In addition to this general course of instruction, which is designed to lay a substantial basis of knowledge and scholarly culture, optional studies are arranged for the Senior year and for a POST-GRADUATE COURSE, so that the students may, if they

choose, devote themselves to studies essentially practical and technical, viz., ENGINEERING, Civil, Topographical and Mechanical; MINING and METALLURGY; ARCHITECTURE; and the application of Chemistry to AGRICULTURE and the ARTS. There will also be afforded an opportunity for special study of TRADE and COMMERCE; of MODERN LANGUAGES and PHILOLOGY; and of the HISTORY and INSTITUTIONS of our own country.

It is perhaps scarcely necessary to add that the Trustees of the College, (selected for their responsible positions by the venerable Synod of Philadelphia,) intend that the whole Scientific Course shall have the Christian character which they have endeavoured to impress upon the studies of the College, and that science shall be here so taught as to become "the handmaid of religion.' In not a few of the special schools established for scientific and technical studies in this and other countries, the instructions of able men have indirectly, if not directly, undermined the foundations of faith, especially in the existence of a personal God, and in the inspiration of the Scriptures. All the departments of this course will, therefore, be in the hands of Christian scholars, who will not fail to improve, in their various instructions, the opportunity constantly recurring of directing the student from Nature to Nature's God. But in addition to this, and also to the systematic and thorough study of the word of God in all the classes, special lectures will be given upon the connection of Science with Revealed Religion, that the student may be thoroughly informed upon the issues that are made, and be prepared to meet the arguments from Physical Science, by which our common Christianity is usually assailed.

In making this provision for a more thorough and enlarged Scientific Course in the interest of Christian education, we have not overlooked the importance of the old Classical Course, or suffered it to become in the least impaired. It will be conducted as heretofore, (we hope even with increased efficiency,) as the regular introduction to the special professional study of Theology, Medicine, and Law, and also as a thoroughly tried means of securing the culture and elevation of mind, and of imparting the useful and liberal learning which becomes a Christian scholar.

A kind Providence has raised up for us other friends, to provide increased facilities for instruction in the College. Besides the Astronomical Observatory, (mentioned last year as the gift of a citizen of Easton,) the handsome and commodious Chemical Hall, erected by the munificence of BARTON H. JENKS, Esq., is nearly completed, and is fitting up, with all the most approved modern appliances, for operation in inorganic, organic, and analytical Chemistry, and especially in Assaying and Metallurgy. By the liberality of JOHN I. BLAIR, Esq., we have added to our grounds over ten acres of valuable land, and the citizens of Easton have raised over $20,000 for additional buildings.

For all of this we are grateful to God, who has thus turned the hearts of so many noble men towards us, and we humbly pray for his blessing, that Lafayette College may continue, with the many other excellent institutions of our Church, to send forth good influences, and may become, more than ever, an arm of the Church in the work of Christian education.

I am afraid of making this statement too long, or I would like to say something about the wants we still have such as a chapel, library, dormitories, apparatus, &c., &c., but God who has been so good to us, and laid our foundations so broad and deep, will doubtless send, in his own time, the right men to supply these pressing needs. Meanwhile, we respectfully but earnestly beg the prayers of God's people that all our young men may be taught of the Spirit, and go forth to their various spheres of duty fully prepared for every good word and work.

Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., April, 1866.

WILLIAM C. CATTELL, President.

HANOVER COLLEGE.

Hanover College was founded forty years ago next January, by a devoted and honored father in the Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Dr. Crowe; at first a grammar-school, six years later it was chartered as a College. It has been distinguished by having edu

cated wholly, or in part, more than three thousand young men, by having enjoyed more than two-score revivals of religion, by the number of ministers at home and missionaries abroad from among its alumni, and by having been the mother of the New Albany Theological Seminary, which was afterwards removed to Chicago.

The following report from the Rev. Dr. James Wood shows that this Institution maintains its former spirit, though its operations have been interfered with considerably by the war.

Hanover College has been in operation as usual during the past year. The Faculty consists of a President and four Professors. The number of students is somewhat less than in several preceding years, owing chiefly to the diminution of candidates for the gospel ministry. We have generally had between thirty and forty of this class, but now less than twenty. This falling off in candidates, I regret to learn from your Circular, extends to the whole Church-a circumstance which ought to prompt the people of God to offer earnest prayer to "the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers into his harvest."

Hanover College has been preeminently distinguished as a College for educating ministers. There are now twenty-two students of this College in three of our Theological Seminaries, viz.,-eleven at Princeton, four at Allegheny, and seven at Chicago, and several are studying privately, and supporting themselves by teaching. Two candidates for the ministry, who would be now in our Senior Class, are also absent from College the present year, engaged in teaching, for lack of means to pay their current expenses. They are expected to return next year. The high price of board has likewise kept away a number of other young men, as I learn by letters of inquiry on this subject. If our candidates were as numerous as usual, and others had not been prevented from coming by the causes here indicated, the number of students would have been fully equal to that of any year since my connection with the College.

The religious interest has been greater than ordinary during a part of the year. Professors of religion have been revived, a spirit of prayer has been awakened, and the inquiry has been made by a few of the unconverted, What must we do to be saved?" Two of the students have been received into the communion of the Church by a public profession of faith; and I trust there are a few others whose minds are tender with regard to their sinful and perishing condition. One has recently expressed to me a solemn purpose to lead a new life, and the students' prayermeetings are attended by several who are not members of the Church.

Our financial condition has not changed materially since my last annual report. Our indefatigable agent, the Rev. Levi Hughes, has, however, added to our current expense fund, and has made some addition to our permanent fund. On the whole, we have reason to thank God and take courage.

Hanover, April, 1866.

CARROLL COLLEGE.

JAMES WOOD, President.

This Institution has, through a long series of trials, been compelled to drop its place as a college. If the efforts of the brethren in the North-west prove successful, as there is every reason to believe they will, in founding a commanding college or university which will unite the aspirations of the several Synods of that important portion of our country, then the course proposed by the present intelligent principal of Carroll is the most judicious. It may be readily a classical academy "of the first grade." And in that less ambitious but most useful position, we would bespeak for it the earnest co-operation of the Church in that region.

The school opened upon the 5th day of March, 1866, (a rather unfavorable season,) and now numbers thirty pupils, male and female. The ground here was already pretty well occupied by a very well conducted public school, an Episcopal school for boys, and a female seminary, as well as a Catholic school, &c.; so that the best friends of the Institution say we have done much better than they had expected. I have at present no assistance in teaching and do not propose to employ any, except as may be required by increased numbers; probably not during the summer. I devote my whole time and energies to the work, and am doing doing all I can to make of it a classical school of the first grade. It is proposed by the friends of Carroll to organize the regular college classes as soon as possible.

The material is good. The fact of their being two departments with almost entirely different studies, under the charge of the same teacher, renders it rather difficult work at present; but I am willing to endure almost any amount of trouble if it may conduce to future good. None of them studied the classics, but I have one class well started now in the Latin Grammar. Also classes in Algebra, History, Chemistry, Philosophy, Botany, &c. I have also formed the members of the school into a Literary Society, for the purpose of cultivating their powers in composition, elocution and debate. Every five weeks we have a rigid examination of each individual scholar in all the matter passed over during that time, with grades, &c. WALTER L. RANKIN.

Waukesha, Wisconsin, April, 1866.

CENTRE COLLEGE.

"Centre College, Kentucky," said the Rev. Dr. Van Rensselaer, in 1853, "is the oldest institution in the Presbyterian Church, on a denominational basis. Indeed, it is somewhat remarkable that the first Synodical College should have been established at Danville, and the first Presbyterial Academy at Bardstown, by the Presbyterians of Kentucky." During the terrible trials of the past few years, the country and the Church have had reason to be thankful for the influences that have proceeded from Centre College, and from its offspring, the Danville Theological Seminary. Its honored President, the Rev. Dr. Wm. L. Breckinridge, wrote in January, with reference to the last year: "The Institution has about held its ground as to the number of students, perhaps gained a little; but the persons change very much, and come and go constantly. Things are looking better now than for some time past, as to numbers. But the agitation of the public mind on political and ecclesiastical subjects must subside before we can do here as formerly. The hearty sympathies of the Church are with its ministers and institutions in Kentucky. And countless prayers have been lifted, and will be lifted up to God, that He would save it from disunion, strife, and destruction, and that He would remember His covenant with the fathers, so eminent for their faith and works of good, that are now in their rest; and bless the sons after them. Surely we have a pledge of this in the information recently received, that a powerful revival of religion has been granted to the churches at Danville. It is stated: "The people of God were greatly strengthened and revived. Great numbers of unconverted people were awakened-more than one hundred persons publicly manifested concern for their souls. About seventy have made profession of

faith in the Lord Jesus, sixty of whom have been united with the two Presbyterian churches in this place-others will unite soon. Of this number about a dozen are students of Centre College; eight or ten are heads of families. Of the pupils of Caldwell Institute, under Professor Hart, all who were not previously professors of religion, except four, were under religious impressions, and the most of them are indulging a hope in Christ, and will soon unite with the church here or at their homes."

HIGHLAND UNIVERSITY, KANSAS.

This Institution, which is yet in its inceptive state, occupies a peculiarly interesting position as a direct offspring of the Foreign Missionary work. The light planted upon the far distant prairies of Kansas by Presbyterian missionaries a generation ago, to guide the heathen wanderers to the knowledge of the truth, as those have gradually been driven away, has remained to shine for blessing and good to the advancing generations of our own race. We may be assured that the blessing of a faithful God will abide within its walls, and that its influences shall yet be felt over the still more remote wastes now so rapidly and wonderfully rising into power through the uncounted gifts of gold and copper and silver placed there, for his own wise purposes, by the Great Creator. The following report has been received for the last year. We commend the claims of its "great necessity" upon the consideration of those who would sow good seed where it will be likely to grow.

There have been in attendance during the year about one hundred students. There have been usually three teachers employed. One engaged in giving instruction in the classics. This department is as yet small. About fifteen have been studying Latin, four studying Greek. Another teacher has given instruction in Mathematical and English studies. A goodly number have been pursuing these branches, viz., Algebra, Geometry, Natural Philosophy, Grammar, Rhetoric, &c. A third teacher is employed in the Primary Department. The school is in a very

fair condition. All that we need to make it a University in reality, as well as in name, is an Endowment. We can make but little more progress unless we have the beginning of an endowment fund—say $25,000.

If we had had the means to pay two Professors a year ago, there would now be a Freshman Class. As you well know it would be folly to undertake regular College classes without a sufficient number of competent men to take them through a regular course of liberal education, and the competent men cannot be got without some salary. In short, an Endowment is our first and last and great necessity.

It gives me great pleasure to inform you of a great and powerful work of grace that was manifested in our midst a few weeks ago. About forty, the most of them in the school, were hopefully converted. May we not take this as an indication that God intends to make this Institution an instrument for good? While God is sending us a revival here, may He also lead our brethren in the East to contribute out of their abundance to this young Institution, and thus place it upon a permanent foundation.

WILLIAM BISHOP, President of Board of Trustees.

From City College, San Francisco, we have no report. The Secretary of this Board, as one of those connected with the initial