To the north and south, but at some distance, were two smaller symmetrical buildings used as dwellings. Each of the principal College buildings, contained residences for two or more Professors' families the remainder being chiefly occupied as dormitories and rooms for Literary Societies. The chapel, recitation-rooms, Library, office, etc., were mostly provided for in the "Colonnades," and in the terminal buildings at their eastern end.

A central circular building, midway between North and South Colleges, graced the original plan, and for about sixty years was a familiar object upon paper. In 1858 the foundations were laid and carried up to the level of the first floor, and there the work rested. After the election of President Potter the work was resumed, and it has since been finished at a cost of about $120,000, a part of which sum was contributed by near relatives of the President. It is known as "Alumni and Memorial Hall."

This building has sixteen equal sides, is eighty-four feet in diameter, and fifty feet to the top of the walls. It is surmounted by a dome, which rises 120 feet above the floor, and the interior forms a spacious rotunda, with galleries, used for a time for the Library, and serving as a repository for works of art.1

story dwellings, connected by a four-story building, the latter faced with pilasters to the whole height and arches extending up to include the first and second stories. Each College building is 200 by 40 feet on the ground. The end portions are used as residences for Professors and the central part as dormitories for students. This central portion has three separate entrances front and rear, with four rooms on each floor, making, originally, forty-eight rooms in each College. Within the past few years a renovation of the interior has been undertaken, and rooms in some cases connected for greater convenience, so as to appear more cheerful and home-like.

The colonnades are each 250 feet in length by 25 in breadth, and terminate in square-roofed buildings one story higher. These buildings are each eighty by fifty feet on the ground. The North Colonnade and building are used for chemical and philosophical apparatus and lecture-rooms, the chemical laboratory and cabinets of the Engineering Department. Those on the south are used for chapel, library, cabinet, office and recitation-rooms.

In the "Decennial Review connected with the Annual Report of the President of Union College" (1882), p. 75, the following reference is made to this building : "Architects of experience and others in no way interested remark that it is more beautiful and useful than similar buildings of American Colleges, and when finally arranged, will furnish larger accommodations for Commencement purposes, etc. For winter use, temporary compartments by curtains or partitions would make the main floor or galleries comfortable and convenient. It can be utilized also for Baccalaureate and other gatherings of the public and the Alumni, and for a Glyptotheca. By its temporary use it has aided the Library in development and endowment, while its galleries are receiving contributions of art objects and its rotunda, with busts and tablets, forms a noble Memorial Hall."

At some distance to the rear of this there has recently been erected a building with an open colonnade concentric with Memorial Hall, at a cost of about $40,000. It is known as " Powers' Hall," in honor of the late Thomas Henry Powers, who made a donation of $3,000, and expressed an intention of largely increasing his benefactions in the way of a substantial endowment. A sudden and fatal illness prevented even a record of this intention, but his widow in memory of her husband and his namesake, her only son, increased the gift by adding about $45,000. This building is used for the Library, and recitation-rooms.

A President's house was built in 1873, upon the grounds south of South College, and a gymnasium in 1874, in the rear of the same College building.

Military Instruction. In 1873 a course of military instruction was instituted, under an army officer detailed for the purpose, and this is still continued. All able-bodied students are expected to attend its exercises; but the two higher classes may elect physical culture, three times a week, or history in two apportionments a week. In special cases, the same may be allowed to members of the two lower classes. Work in this department is credited as in other studies, and neglect debars from privileges as in case of other duties. Instruction consists in drill, target practice, military signaling and surveying, field fortifications, organization of volunteers and militia, and other practical information that would be useful in the emergency of war.

Preparatory School.- Union College has never had a Preparatory Department. The "Schenectady Academy," after its revival in 1818 the "Schenectady Lyceum" of later date, and at the present time the "Schenectady Classical Institute," have practically afforded the facilities of such a department, but without having any organic connection with the College. The name of the Principal of the latter (who is also Superintendent of city schools in Schenectady) is by courtesy placed with the Faculty in the College catalogues.

2 The Library of Union College contains about 20,000 titles, and is classified and catalogued upon the best method. There are also two good Society libraries. A free reading-room has been maintained, supplied with newspapers and periodicals, American and foreign.

Prizes.-The late Hon. Horatio G. Warner, LL. D., of Rochester (class of 1826), Regent, founded a prize of Silver plate, worth $50, for highest standing in the performance of College duties and deportment.

The late Hon. Albert C. Ingham, LL. D., of Meridian (class of 1847), founded an annual prize of $70, in plate, medal or money, for best essay on one of two assigned subjects in English Literature or History.

The late Hon. William F. Allen, LL. D., of Oswego (class of 1826), established three prizes of $25, $20 and $15, for best essays on any subject, submitted by appointed members of the Senior class. The Clark prizes, to the members of the Junior class, for best essays on assigned subjects in English Literature.

Four Oratorical prizes, two to Juniors and two to Sophomores. Scholarships.- Ordinary scholarships, there are two grades, depending upon good conduct and diligence, one receiving full deduction of the term bill and the other half.

John David Wolfe Memorial Scholarships, established by Miss Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, upon a fund of $50,000.

Levi Parsons Scholarships Fund, $50,000, yielding $300 a year to two, $200 a year to two, and $150 a year to eight students, to relatives of the donor bearing his name and living in Fulton, Montgomery or Hamilton counties, and after these, others from these counties, in an order of preference specified.

Mason Scholarships, founded by Miss Ellen and Miss Ida Mason, of Boston.

Clarkson Nott Potter Scholarships. Credits on term bills.
Cornell Scholarships.

McClelland Scholarships, founded by Dr. John McClelland, of New York (class of 1832), and affording credit on scholarships.

State Scholarships, founded upon State endowment, and considerable in number.

Union School Scholarships, limited to Schenectady, and subject to certain pledges and conditions.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT.

The following statement shows the condition of the College at the close of its financial year, May 31, 1882 (Regents' Report of 1884):

For prizes, scholarships, etc....

For gratuitous aid to 142 students..

For improvements and repairs of buildings and

$8,115 03 26, 643 32 4,875 79

$39, 634 14

$21,915 52 260 00

3, 000 00

1,792 75 3,528 58 6, 446 58 15,329 27

$52,272 70

4. Benefactions during the year.

Mrs. T. H. Powers et als., for Powers' building...

Gifts through President Potter...

Levi Parsons, for indigent students..

William K. Vanderbilt...

Sums from sundry persons, less than $1,000 each..

Total..

$35,000 00

1,800 00 1,500 00

5, 000 00 5,793 00

$49, 093 00

LIST OF PRESIDENTS AND PROFESSORS OF UNION COLLEGE FROM THE BEGINNING.

Presidents.

Rev. John Blair Smith, D. D., 1795-99.
Rev. Jonathan Edwards, D. D., 1799-1801.
Rev. Jonathan Maxcy, D. D., 1802-04.

Rev. Eliphalet Nott, D. D., LL. D., 1804-66.

Rev. Laurens Perseus Hickok, D. D., LL.D., Acting President, 1861; President, 1867 to '68. Hon. Ira Harris, LL. D., Acting, 1868-69.

Rev. Charles Augustus Aiken, D. D., Ph. D., 1869-71.

Rev. Eliphalet Nott Potter, D. D., LL. D., 1871-84.

Hon. Judson S. Landon, A. M. (ad interim), 1884

Professors.

John Taylor, A. M., Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 1797. Died 1801.

Rev. Andrew Yates, D. D., Latin and Greek, 1797-1801. Moral Philosophy and Logic, 1814-2-. Died 1844.

Cornelius H. Van der Heuvel, LL. D., Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 1798-99. Died 1799.

Benjamin Allen, LL. D., Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 1800-09. Died 1836.
Timothy Treadwell Smith, A. M., Greek and Latin, 1801-03. Died 1803.

Rev. Thomas Macauley, D. D., LL. D., Lecturer on Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 1811-14. Died 1862.

Rev. Thomas C. Brownell, D. D., LL. D., Logic and Belles-Lettres, 1806-11. Lecturer on Chemistry, 1811-14. Rhetoric and Chemistry, 1814-19. Died 1865.

Pierre Gregoire Reynaud, French, 1806-22. Died

Rev. Henry Davis, D. D., Greek, 1807. Died 1852.

Frederick R. Hassler, Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 1810-11. Died 1843.

Rev. Francis Wayland, D. D., LL. D., Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 1821-26. Died 1865.

Rev. Robert Proudfit, D. D., Greek and Latin, 1818-19. Emeritus, 1849-60. Died 1860. Rev. Alonzo Potter, D. D., LL. D., Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 1822-26. Rhetoric and Natural Philosophy, 1831-45. Honorary Vice-President, 1847-65. Died 1865. Joel Benedict Nott, A. M., Lecturer on Chemistry, 1822-23. Professor of Chemistry, 1823-31. Died 1878.

Benjamin Franklin Joslin, M. D., LL. D., Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 1827-37. Died 1861.

Rev. John Austin Yates, D. D., Oriental Literature, 1827-49. Died 1849.
Rev. Pierre Alexis Proal, D. D., Instructor in French, 1826-36. Died

Isaac W. Jackson, LL. D., Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 1831-77. Died 1877. Rev. Thomas C. Reed, D. D., Adjunct Professor of Political Economy and Intellectual Philosophy, 1831-49. Latin, 1849-51. Died 1883.

Chester Averill, A. M., Adjunct Professor of Chemistry and Botany, 1884. Died 1836. Rev. John Nott, D. D., Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, 1839-44.

Edward Savage, A. M., Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy. 1837. Died 1840.

Jonathan Pearson, A. M., Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy. 1839-49. Natural History, 1849 Agriculture and Botany, 1873 — Librarian.

John Foster, LL. D., Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 188949. Natural Philosophy, 1849

Rev. James Nichols, Assistant Professor of Languages, 1839-41. Died 1864.

J. Louis Tellkampf, J. U. D., German. Lecturer on Civil Polity and History, 1838-48. Died 1876.

Rev. Robert M. Brown, D. D., Assistant, Greek and Latin, 1846.

William Mitchell Gillespie, LL.D., Civil Engineering and Mathematics, 1845-68. Died 1868. Hon. Reuben H. Walworth, Law, 1847.

Wendell Lamoroux, A. M., Instructor, 1849-50. Modern Languages and Assistant Professor of Belles-Lettres, 1850-58. Acting Professor of Modern Languages, 1862-64. English Essays, 1876

Alexander M. Vedder, A. M., M. D., Anatomy and Physiology, 1849-63. Died 1878. Tayler Lewis, LL. D., Ancient Oriental Languages and Literature, 1849-63. Ancient Languages, 1868-77. Died 1877.

Elias Peissner, A. M., German Language and Literature and Instructor in Latin, 1854-68. Colonel; killed at Chancellorville, 1863.

Rev. John Newman, D. D., Latin Language and Literature, 1852-68.

Charles A. Joy, A. M., Ph. D., Chemistry, 1855-57.

Samuel T. Freeman, A. M., Lecturer on Law, 1855.

Alexander J. Thomson, A. M., Lecturer on Law, 1856-63.

Charles F. Chandler, Ph. D., LL. D., Chemistry, 1858-65.

Benjamin Stanton, A. M., Professor and Principal of Union School, 1858-63. Latin, 1863-74. Died 1874.