pupils, and their friends, are to be harmoniously
maintained. The professor in a university teaches as much by his example
as by his precepts.

Besides the resident professors, it has been the policy of the
University to enlist from time to time the services of distinguished
scholars as lecturers on those subjects to which their studies have been
particularly directed. During the first few years the number of such
lecturers was larger, and the duration of their visits was longer than
it has been recently. When the faculty was small, the need of the
occasional lecturer was more apparent for obvious reasons, than it has
been in later days. Still the University continues to invite the
cooperation of non-resident professors, and the proximity of Baltimore
to Washington makes it particularly easy to engage learned gentlemen
from the capital to give occasional lectures upon their favorite
studies. Recently a lectureship of Poetry has been founded by Mr. and
Mrs. Turnbull of Baltimore, in memory of a son who is no longer living,
and an annual course may be expected from writers of distinction who are
known either as poets, or as critics, or as historians of poetry. The
first lecturer on this foundation will be Mr. E.C. Stedman, of New York,
the second, Professor Jebb, of Cambridge (Eng.). Another lectureship has
been instituted by Mr. Eugene Levering with the object of promoting the
purposes of the Young Men's Christian Association. The first lecturer on
this foundation was Rev. Dr. Broadus, of Louisville, Ky.

A few of those who held the position of lecturers made Baltimore their
home for such prolonged periods that they could not properly be called
non-resident. The following list contains the principal appointments. It
might be much enlarged by naming those persons who have lectured at the
request of one department of the University and not of the Trustees, and
by naming some who gave but single lectures.

1876 SIMON NEWCOMB _Astronomy_.
1876 LEONCE RABILLON _French_.
1877 JOHN S. BILLINGS _Medical History, etc_.
1877 FRANCIS J. CHILD _English Literature_,
1877 THOMAS M. COOLEY _Law._
1877 JULIUS E. HILGARD _Geodetic Surveys_.
1877 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL _Romance Literature_.
1877 JOHN W. MALLET _Technological Chemistry_.
1877 FRANCIS A. WALKER _Politica