what is ultimately intended to be a large and imposing structure. It contains laboratories, recitation-rooms, a grand vestibule in which there is a marble bust of the donor, and where the skin of the famous elephant Jumbo, and the skeleton of another elephant, are to be deposited. There is also a large exhibition-hall, fifty feet wide by seventy feet long, filled with cases which contain an admirable collection of mammals, birds, fishes, and reptiles, purchased by Mr. Barnum from Professor Henry A. Ward of Rochester, N.Y. Mr. Barnum's benefactions, up to the present time, amount to upwards of fifty-five thousand dollars. But he has other important gifts in contemplation.

ITS EASY AND LIBERAL POLICY.

The college has been distinguished for its liberal policy towards those young men who are obliged, on account of limited means, to struggle for their education. The charge for tuition is one hundred dollars a year. But there are more than thirty scholarships in the gift of the college. By means of these, the tuition may be cancelled for those who prove their worthiness by superior attainments. In addition to these, gratuities are given in cases of need; so that the instruction is practically free to all men of promise and fidelity, whose circumstances require it.

It is a gratifying fact, that some of the most distinguished and successful of its graduates are from among those who have enjoyed its pecuniary favors, and who would have found a liberal education impossible without them.

THE LIBRARY.

It

The library has had, on the whole, a very satisfactory growth. Dr. Ballou's extraordinary love for books led him to bestow particular attention upon its formation. would be interesting to get an insight into some of the methods which he used in securing contributions to what in his view constituted the core of an institution of learning; but many Medford people who remember the persistency of Dr. Ballou's methods, also his unruffled good nature, will clearly see how it was that in a few short years he brought together from so many different sources so large a collection of books, and laid the foundations of a great library. The interest awakened by him has never flagged. There are now in the possession of the college

more than twenty thousand bound volumes, many of them rare and of great value, and about nine thousand pamphlets.

We have given large space to this history of Tufts College, because it is a Medford institution, and because its prosperity is so largely the result of the labors of a Medford man, whose like we shall not see for many years to come. Rev. Hosea Ballou, 2d, D.D., was a great and good man, an excellent citizen, a faithful pastor, a puresouled Christian; and, as the first president of Tufts College, an honor to the institution and to the town of Medford.