"Most of

forming a large quadrangle, or open enclosure. these buildings," said Professor H., "are used as dormitories, or they contain rooms for sleeping and study. They are known among the college boys as Matthews Hall, Massachusetts Hall, Holworthy Hall, Hollis Hall, etc. This stone building here is Appleton Chapel, where morning prayers are conducted by "preachers to the University." Gore Hall contains the college library of 300,000 volumes. One of the largest and finest of these brick structures is Sever Hall, used for recitation rooms."

The professor showed them several recitation-rooms, and the children were astonished to learn from him that

HEMENWAY GYMNASIUM.

young men in college sometimes fail and make sad blunders in recitation, just as smaller people do.

The professor next escorted them to Austin Hall, which is used for the Law School, a very prosperous department of the University. There are also a Divinity

School, a Medical School, a Scientific School, and several other important departments.

"Have you a gymnasium, Professor?" George asked. "Yes, one of the best in the country. Come with me and I will show it to you. It is furnished with the best kinds of ordinary gymnastic apparatus. It has many new appliances for developing the different parts of the body. Many students practise here daily."

While the boys were visiting and examining the gymnasium, Mr. Cartmell and the others went into the celebrated Museum of Natural History founded by Professor Agassiz, "the great teacher." Here they saw arranged in different rooms specimens of all kinds of animal life, from the tiniest

creature which inhabits a pool of water up to the mastodon and whale.

The two parties met again in Memorial Hall, by far the largest and finest building at Harvard. It is built of red and black brick trimmed with Nova Scotia stone, surmounted by a beautiful tower two hundred feet high. They first entered the vestibule, which is a great hall sixty feet high and surrounded by marble tablets containing the names of the different college departments and the

names of the one hundred and twenty students who fell in Then the professor led them into the

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gallery of the dining-hall.

"This hall," he said, "is

large enough to seat one thousand persons at once. It

is one hundred and sixty-four feet long. The walls are adorned with portraits of noted men connected with the college."

While he was talking over five hundred students came in to dinner. The dinner was served with the same elegance and refinement seen at the best hotels, and the expense to the students is only a little above cost.

At the other end of Memorial Hall they saw Sanders Theatre, which is used for Commencement exercises, lectures, concerts, etc.

On their way home Mr. Cartmell said: "To see the College grounds and buildings and one or two professors, as we have to-day, gives you only a poor insight into college life. One must live with the boys and study year after year thoroughly to understand what it means to go through college.

"We have had no time to see or to learn about the great technical schools, such as the Institute of Technology, or the private and parochial schools. Free public schools have helped to make this land great and prosperous. The people in the different States and cities vote their money freely to support these schools, and the poorest child can in the United States obtain almost without cost a well rounded education."

LESSON IX.

ALONG THE SHORE.

AFTER the haying was finished, Mr. Cartmell proposed a trip to Newport for a change.

This place, with its fashionable life, its beautiful residences, and attractive drives, delighted them all.

They saw of course in their ride the historical Windmill, the Casino, a beautiful place for entertainments, the Glen, the Dumplings, or the entrance to the harbor, and Fort Adams.

Then the driver left them at the ocean end of the main street, called Bellevue Avenue, and they returned on

foot by way of the Cliff Walk. Here they passed cottage after cottage, with all their beautiful gardens and lawns, and handsome English-like grounds on one side, and the restless sea on the other. For three miles this beautiful panorama unfurled itself, ever new, ever beautiful, ever fascinating. Such a walk as this is not paralleled in this country, if in Europe.