On one side of us stands a home where shelter is provided for lonely, destitute, suffering age; a home where it is housed and watched and cared for, tenderly and lovingly, till the good God is pleased to call it to a better than any earthly home. On the other side rises another comely edifice, where provision is made for the spiritual and intellectual training of the otherwise uncared-for youth, the lambs, if sometimes almost outcast ones, of the Saviour's flock. And here, between the two, is placed the house of God, the God of the widow and the fatherless. How beautiful the symbolism. How eloquent, beyond all possible words of man, the unspoken words of this holy and calm retreat, in the midst of a city's life, and stir, and business! How this temple of the Lord seems to pour out, even beyond its walls, blessings of mercy and of love on the aged who come bither to spend in peaceful seclusion the remnant of their days, on the young who are gathered from what might be places of sin, and must be places of danger, to be trained for that active life from which the others have wholly passed away. 'The sparrow hath found her an house and the swallow a nest where she may lay her young; even Thy altars, O Lord of Hosts, my King and my God!'

No work like this has ever before made memorable a year in our diocesan annals; few have so illustrated the annals of our Church. I bless God that it blesses my episcopate. I bless God that it blesses my brother's rectorship. And with a full heart of grateful affection I offer here, before God's altar, to him whose generous heart and unsparing hand have planned and executed it, the honest, earnest tribute of our united thanks. Nor, as I utter these words, can I refrain from adding that no man has cause to know better than I do the thoughtful care for the holiest interests that enter into that whose noblest works you are brought into contact here to-day. memorial, this venerable and historic parish has now another. there are in the remembrance of one on whom, all unworthy as he is, God has laid heavy burdens of responsibility, which that care has helped to lighten, that one would, were this the time or place, most gladly tell you. Enough here to say that the thought of them has mingled with this blessed service, and given it for him a greater even than its own great fullness of solemnity.

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To you, dear friends, my brother the rector, and the members of this parish, a sacred trust is here committed. I rejoice to feel that it presents to you no new or untried field. This work of instruction has long been going on, even from the days of the venerated Croswell, among you. Nor is it any new thing for you to care for the suffering, the lonely, and the poor. It is now several years since I stated to the diocese that a home for aged and destitute women had been 'begun and carried forward in a very quiet and unostentatious way' by this parish. I congratulate you to-day that all this work for Christ finds here a home in perpetuity, and a home where it connects itself with Christian worship. Only then, when it mounts upward to God in prayer and praise, does Christian service for bodies or for souls reach its full breadth of purpose, or go down to an abiding depth of steadfastness. So, then, be it here forever! Alms and prayers, work and worship, let all be offered here to God as the ages pass onward to their consummation! While each act of love, each deed of service, each word of prayer, each note of praise, swells the Church's glorious antiphon with which, to the Lord Who says to her, expectant and waiting, 'Lo I come quickly,' she makes her answer, 'Even so come Lord Jesus.'

SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL OF YALE COLLEGE

NEW HAVEN, CONN.

HISTORY.

IN the year 1846, a 'Department of Philosophy and Art" was instituted in Yale College, on the same general principles as the Departments of Law, Medicine and Theology. One design in this movement was to secure better opportunities of scientific instruction for chemists, agriculturists and other students who might or might not have been members of the Academical Department. A special "Analytical Laboratory" was soon opened for the instruction of these scholars. Six years later a class in Engineering was commenced. These classes soon became known as the "Yale Scientific School," and were the beginning of the present organization. In 1860, a liberal endowment was received from Joseph E. Sheffield, Esq., of New Haven, (amounting to upwards of $100,000, and subsequently increased by further gifts of $60,000) in consequence of which the name of "Sheffield Scientific School was given to the establishment. The school, as enlarged and re-organized, was almost exactly such a college as was contemplated in the Act of Congress of July 2, 1862, so that the Legislature of Connecticut was led, almost unanimously, to bestow upon this department of Yale College the income of the fund derived from the sale of land scrip. The act directing this appropriation was approved June 24, 1863.

TRUSTEES.

The Trustees of the institution are the Corporation of Yale College, consisting of the President of the College and ten Clerical Fellows, the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and six senior Senators of the State. The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and three senior Senators, with the Secretary of the State Board of Education constitute the State Board of Visitors, and with the Secretary of the School, the Board for the appointment of State Students. The following persons compose the Board of Visitors in September 1867 :-His Excellency James E. English, his Honor E. H. Hyde, Hon. George Beach, Hon. M. T. Granger, Hon. A. J. Gallup, and Rev. B. G. Northrup. The Secretary of the School is Professor D. C. Gilman. The President of Yale College and the thirteen professors of this department form a Governing Board," responsible to the corporation.

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SALE OF THE SCRIP.

The amount of the national land-grant conferred upon Connecticut was 180,000 acres. The scrip representing this endowment was sold by the Com. missioner of the School Fund, in accordance with the directions of the Legislature, on terms approved by the Governor of the State, Hon. W. A. Buckingham.

The price which it brought was 75 cts. per acre, yielding a capital of 185,000 dollars. This was first invested in United States Ten-Forty bonds, bearing interest in gold at the rate of 5 per ct. per annum; but subsequently the Legislalature directed that these securities should be sold and the proceeds invested, instead, in Connecticut State Bonds bearing interest at 6 per cent. in currency. The annual income from this fund is therefore $8,100.

OTHER FUNDS AND PROPERTY.

The school is the owner of a spacious and commodious edifice provided by Mr. Sheffield, at a cost, including outfit, &c., of about $100,000. It has invested funds, the gift of various parties, amounting to about $70,000,-and has also large collections of books, apparatus, instruments, and specimens in Natural History. Besides its own peculiar property, the school as a department of Yale College enjoys the advantages of the Public Library of the University, the Peabody Museum of Natural History, the Yale School of the Fine Arts, and other costly and serviceable endowments, which could not be replaced for half a million of dollars.

EXPERIMENTAL FARM.

No effort has been made to purchase a farm for experiment or practice. The funds of the institution are at present quite inadequate to this outlay; and the instructors believe that many if not all the advantages looked for in such an investment may be secured by observation and experiment on private farms in the neighborhood of New Haven, without expending any considerable sum in the purchase and management of a school farm, beyond a piece of ground suitable for a botanical garden and for occasional experiments, which would be a welcome accession to the school.

MANUAL LABOR.

There has been no proposal to require manual labor of the students, nor would the suggestion meet with favor. Some of the students of their own accord take part in mechanical pursuits or other industrial occupations,-and there are abundant opportunities for physical exercise in the scientific excursions which are kept up through the summer, and also in the college gymnasium, and in boating, skating, etc.

MILITARY INSTRUCTION.

Thus far military instruction has been given by an annual course of lectures from a Prussian military officer, who was a Brigadier General in the recent war for the Union. He has expounded the principles of strategy and tactics, with diagrams and other means of illustration, in an interesting and profitable manThe provisions for military instruction proposed by Congress in the act of July 26, 1836, are now under consideration by the authorities of Yale College, and their action may modify these existing arrangements.

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PUBLIC LECTURES.

Courses of public lectures have been given the last two years to mechanics in Sheffield Hall, and to farmers assembled in different parts of the State.

TUITION AND FREE SCHOLARSHIPS.

The charge for tuition is $125 per year, payable $45 at the beginning of the first and second term, and $35 at the beginning of the third term. The special student in Chemistry is charged an addition of $75 per annum for chemicals and the use of apparatus, and must supply himself with certain articles at a cost of five or ten dollars per term.

Forty free scholarships, open only to citizens of Connecticut, have been established by the State, and more than half of them are already occupied. If more applicants should appear than there are vacancies, the preference is to be given to those who have become orphans because their fathers served in the army or navy of the U. S., and next, to those who need pecuniary assistance; it being understood that all applicants must be fitting themselves for industrial occupations. The appointments are moreover to be distributed among the several counties in proportion to their population.

LODGING AND BOARD.

The school owns but one building, (known as "Sheffield Hall," the gift of Mr. Joseph E. Sheffield,) which is devoted to the necessary rooms for instruction, laboratories, museums, library, &c.

The students lodge and board in private houses. Some public provision to lessen the cost of living; for example a good dormitory, and a public boarding house conducted by the students with the co-operation of the faculty, are both most desirable.

ADMISSION.

All who enter the Sheffield School must be at least sixteen years of age, and must have mastered Algebra, Geometry, and Trigonometry,-besides what are called "the higher English branches." The entrance examinations on these studies are strict, as they are not pursued in the school, and are essential to successful progress. The regular examination is at the close of the third term and the beginning of the first term, (eight weeks after commencement.)

REGULAR COURSES OF STUDY.

The regular courses of study occupy three years, each year having three terms, two of fourteen and one of twelve weeks. During the first or Freshman year, the entire class is taught in the same studies, which are partly mathematical, partly scientific, and partly linguistic,-the object being to lay such a foundation of scholastic discipline as will be useful in any special department of study. During the second and third years, the students group themselves in seven sections, the professional character of which is clearly indicated by the titles, viz:

1. CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY.

2. CIVIL ENGINEERING.

3. MECHANICS.

4. MINING AND METALLURGY.

5. AGRICULTure.

6. NATURAL HISTORY AND GEOLOGY.

7. SELECT COURSE OF SCIENTIFIC AND LITERARY STUDIES.

In all these sections attention is paid to the French and German languages. Examinations are held at the close of every term; and once a year there is an examination in writing on the studies of the year. These courses lead to the Degree of "Bachelor of Philosophy," conferred by Yale College. The Degree of "Civil Engineer" is conferred on students who pursue an advanced course of engineering, and that of "Doctor of Philosophy" on those who study for two years after having attained to a Bachelor's Degree in Arts, Philosophy and Science, and who pass a successful examination in higher departments of science.

PARTIAL COURSES.

Students qualified to pursue advanced courses of instruction in Chemistry, Practical Astronomy, Zoology, and other branches taught in the institution are admitted to partial and selected courses adapted to their special wants. One object of this arrangement is to aid young men to qualify themselves to become Professors, Teachers and independent investigators in various departments of natural science. There is also a "shorter course in agriculture, definitely arranged and announced.

INSTRUCTORS.

The President of the institution is Rev. THEODORE D. WOOLSEY, D. D., LL.D. The Chairman of the Governing Board is Professor JAMES D. DANA; and the Professors and their departments are as follows:

Mathematics.

Chemistry.
Assaying.

Some of the students are also required to attend lectures in the other depart. ments of the University,-especially the lectures on Physics and Astronomy by Professor E. Loomis, on Human Anatomy and Physiology by Dr. L. J. Sanford, and on Mental and Moral Philosophy by Rev. Professor N. Porter.