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Of the above amount, nearly $100,000 has been paid in. portion of the remainder will probably be collected.

It may not be improper, in this connexion, to notice the decease of the Hon. James Hillhouse, which took place Dec. 29th, 1832, in the 78th year of his age. Mr. Hillhouse was the treasurer of the College for more than fifty years. "A statement of his efforts and influence in behalf of Yale College, since he became connected with it as an officer, would be a record of some of the most important changes in the history of the institution. It was his foresight and diligence, and his great personal influence with the Legislature more than any thing else, which obtained for the College in 1792, after the assumption of the State debts by the federal government, a grant of the outstanding revolutionary claims a most seasonable relief, which saved the College from extinction and laid the foundation of its subsequent prosperity. It was his influence, too, which at the same time effected that change in the charter by which the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and six senior Senators for the time being, are members of the corporation. When he came into office, there were only three College buildings; and the entire corps of officers of instruction and government, was the President, the Professor of Divinity, the Professor of Mathematics, and two tutors. He formed the plan on which the line of buildings has been spread out and is still to be extended. He has seen eight College buildings added

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to the venerable pile. He has seen one department after another annexed to the system of instruction, and one professional school after another, organized to meet the wants of the country; till the humble and feeble institution, for the existence of which its best friends trembled, has been advanced from the rank of an obscure seminary to the high station which it now occupies, as in many respects the first literary institution of a mighty nation, and not the least among the great luminaries of the world."*

Mr. Hillhouse's office as treasurer, is now filled by Wyllys Warner, Esq., who acted as agent for the College in procuring subscriptions to the above mentioned fund.

PROFESSORSHIPS.

In 1831, a separate professorship of the Greek language and literature (which had formerly been connected with that of the Latin language) was established, and Theodore Dwight Woolsey, Esq., a graduate of the College, was appointed to the chair.

A like division was also made in 1836, in. the department of Natural Philosophy and Mathematics: Prof. Olmsted retaining the charge of the former, while the newly created professorship was filled by the appointment of Anthony Dumond Stanley, Esq., a graduate, and previously to his appointment, a tutor in the College.

* Sketch of the life and character of the Hon. James Hillhouse, by the Rev. Leonard Bacon, in the Christian Spectator for June, 1833.