IN YALE COLLEGE.

DIED JULY 17, 1825.

AGED 42 YEARS.

Professor Dutton was greatly distinguished for strength of intellect, and the clearness and distinctness with which he communicated his ideas to others, for amiableness of disposition, and faith

fulness in the discharge of every duty. He graduated at Yale College in 1808, was a tutor in that institution from 1810 to 1814, was a minister of the Congregational church at Stratford from 1814 to 1822, and from that time till his death was Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Yale College. "Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his."

In the year 1822, the Rev. Nathaniel W. Taylor, S. T. D., was appointed Professor of Didactic Theology, in the Theological Department.

In 1824, the Rev. Josiah W. Gibbs was elected Professor of Sacred Literature in the Theological Department of the Institution.

On

In the same year, a new chapel was erected, the old chapel being found insufficient to accommodate the increased number of students. the dedication of this building, "a sermon was preached by the Rev. Professor Fitch, before a large assembly, composed of the officers and students of the College, and the citizens of the town. The old chapel, now called the Athenæum, was devoted to recitation rooms, and rooms for the libraries of the literary societies among the students. The library of the College was removed to an apartment prepared for it in the new chapel; and the room in the Lyceum in which it was before contained, has been since used for

lectures, and for exercises in declamation, for which purposes it was much needed."*

The Medical Department of the Institution was deprived of the services of Dr. Smith, by his death in 1829. A monument erected to his memory in the New Haven burying-ground, bears the following inscription:

PROFESSOR OF MED. AND SURGERY,
IN YALE COLLEGE,

BORN AT REHOBOTH, MASS., SEPT. 30, 1762,
DIED IN THIS CITY, JAN. 26, 1829.

In 1831, the professorship of the ancient languages was divided, and Theodore D. Woolsey,

* Prof. Kingsley's Sketch of the History of Yale College.

Esq., appointed Professor of the Greek language and literature.

A similar division of the professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy was made in 1836, and Anthony D. Stanley, Esq., appointed Professor of Mathematics. The department of Professor Olmsted is now termed "the Professorship of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy."

A new professorship was founded in the Theological Department in 1839, called "the Professorship of the Pastoral Charge," and the Rev. Chauncey A. Goodrich was called from the chair of Rhetoric and Oratory in the Academical Department to the head of that professorship. He was succeeded by the Rev. William A. Larned as Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature.

Another professorship was founded in the same department in 1841, called the professorship of the Arabic and Sanscrit Languages and Literature, and the Rev. Edward E. Salisbury elected to that chair.

A few other changes have been made in the Medical and Law Schools, which will be noticed in our survey of those departments.

We have thus traced the annals of Yale College from its origin to the present time.

In conclusion, we have only to remark that the spirit which prompted the Fathers of New Eng

land to rear and transmit to us this institution, seems not to have deserted their successors, and its increasing prosperity gives us encouragement to hope, that the prayer so often uttered by her children will not altogether fail to be realized:

[There can be no doubt as to the correctness of the dates in this Table, as it has been compiled expressly for this work, from the most approved authorities.]

A. D.

1700

1701

YALE COLLEGE founded.

Charter received from the Legislature.

RECTOR PIERSON elected.

1702 First Commencement held at Saybrook.

1707 Rev. Samuel Andrew chosen RECTOR pro tempore. 1716 Yale College removed to New Haven.

The first College edifice built.

1718 The institution received the name of YALE COL