A large class of hasty reasoners are accustomed to talk and doubtless to think, of the English Universities as old hulks water-logged, or run aground in the stream of modern improvement, regions systematically opposed to emendation, and uninvaded by the much boasted-of “march of intellect,” where the same things are taught in the same way year after year and age after age. How far this reproach may be applicable to Oxford I shall not pretend to say, but there certainly never was an academical institution less liable to the charge than Cambridge. I will venture to say that there is not an American College which has experienced during the last ten years so many and so important changes, additions, and improvements, as that great University. Nor is this to be wondered at when we consider that the governing body comprises men of different pursuits and preferences, Classics, Mathematicians, and Divines in large numbers, Metaphysicians and Casuists more numerous than an outsider or one superficially acquainted with the place might suppose, followers of natural science, less influential than the other classes, yet not without their weight, all eagerly on the look-out for any improvement in their favorite branch, and equally so for an occasion of urging their claims to greater attention and privileges.