addition to the important cabinet already belonging to the College, Mr.
Barnum authorized Prof. Henry A. Ward to furnish a fine zooelogical
collection. This collection comprising several hundred choice specimens,
selected with special reference to purposes of instruction, has been
received, mounted and set up in cases specially designed for the
purpose.

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. He was unremitting in his solicitation of
gifts from friends and acquaintances and from publishers and
booksellers. The interest awakened by him has never flagged. There are
now in the possession of the College upwards of twenty thousand bound
volumes, many of them rare and of great value, and eight or nine
thousand pamphlets. The collection has entirely outgrown the quarters
assigned to it, and needs a building specially adapted to its use. A
gentleman of ample fortune has privately assured the president that such
a building shall be supplied at an early day.

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 $100 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. Moreover,
on account of the isolation of the College, there being no villages in
immediate contact with it on either side, it is not only extremely
favorable for study, but admirably adapted to those who are obliged to
practise economy. Probably there is no institution in America where a
student can have equal advantages at so low a cost.

FOOTNOTES:

[A] The publishers have taken the liberty of incorporating in his
article this portrait of President Capen.

THE MENDICANT.

BY CLINTON SCOLLARD.

Like some way-weary mendicant came I
Unto the court where Love holds pot