The Library contains 1554 volumes, obtained by donations from individuals. The reading room is furnished with valuable periodicals. The Seminary possesses a collection of minerals; chemical apparatus, procured in Germany with special reference to laboratory practice; a manikin and twelve magnified models ordered from Dr. Auzoux, of Paris, with a skeleton and other appliances for anatomical study to the value of eight hundred dollars, and the nucleus of an art gallery in a collection of photographs and casts. The number of pupils for the school year 1875-6 is 100. Nine in the Senior class. The number of graduates of this Institution, including the Senior class of 1876, is 150. The uumber who have engaged in teaching, after graduation, is 102. The number of regular teachers is 11, an increase of 4 over the number employed in the earlier years of the Seminary. Lectures in Chemistry are given by Prof. E. W. Morley, of Western Reserve College. During the present school year, lectures in English Literature have been given by Prof. N. P. Seymour, of Hudson, Ohio, and lectures in Physical Geography, by Hon. T. W. Harvey, of Painesville. It is expected that courses of lectures will form a part of the instruction of each year, and that an advance will be made in every department of study. Lake Erie Seminary enters upon the new century with promise of success in its work of training women for the highest service in the church and in the world. MARY A. EVANS, Principal. TABLE SHOWING THE ATTENDANCE AT LAKE ERIE SEMINARY ANNUALLY FROM EACH STATE OF THE UNION AND FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF MARIETTA COLLEGE, Founded at Marietta, Ohio, February 14, 1835. The historian of one of the most prominent of our State Universities, after describing the stormy times through which the Institution had passed, says: "But the best thing which can be said of the Law school is, that it has no history. No differences of opinion as to its management have ever been brought before the public; its classes have matriculated and graduated in succession, and nothing has arisen to furnish matter of discussion."* What is here said of that Law school may be said of Marietta College. From its establishment to the present day it has been singularly free from excitements and troubles, and it has pursued the even tenor of its way, aiming to give the best possible training to the young men who have sought its privileges. The Trustees have never been divided into parties, and its Faculty has ever been harmonious. In the sense in which the word "history" is used in the paragraph quoted above, the College furnishes little material for an historical sketch, and perhaps this is the best thing which can be said of an institution of learning. The College at Marietta has always been closely identified with the place where it is located, and its name is much more than a mere designation. The beautiful town at the mouth of the Muskingum was settled in 1788 by the Ohio *Ten Brook's American State Universities and the University of Michigan, p. |