The Rules With Regard To The
Lodging And Boarding Houses Are Very Stringent.
Any festive
entertainment is to be reported to the president.
No wine or
spirituous liquors may be used, etc. It is not a picturesque
system, this; but it has its advantages.
There is a handsome library attached to the college which the young
men can use, but it is not as extensive as I had expected. The
university is not well off for funds by which to increase it. The
new museum in the college is also a handsome building. The
edifices used for the undergraduates' chambers and for the lecture-
rooms are by no means handsome. They are very ugly, red brick
houses, standing here and there without order. There are seven
such; and they are called Brattle House, College House, Divinity
Hall, Hollis Hall, Holsworthy Hall, Massachusetts Hall, and
Stoughton Hall. It is almost astonishing that buildings so ugly
should have been erected for such a purpose. These, together with
the library, the museum, and the chapel, stand on a large green,
which might be made pretty enough if it were kept well mown, like
the gardens of our Cambridge colleges; but it is much neglected.
Here, again, the want of funds - the auqusta res domi - must be
pleaded as an excuse. On the same green, but at some little
distance from any other building, stands the president's pleasant
house.
The immediate direction of the college is of course mainly in the
hands of the president, who is supreme.
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