leges are not made in one day nor in one decade. It will take more
than Leland Stanford's twenty millions of endowment to give his
University a solid and enduring fame. Colleges, indeed, like all the
great and permanent institutions by which society is upheld, and the
welfare and progress of humanity are secured, are the slow growth of
generations. The selection of the present site of the College cannot be
regarded as other than fortunate; first, because of its proximity to
Boston, the most important literary centre of the new world, where it
may constantly feel the pulsations of every intellectual movement that
takes place in the domain of thought; and, secondly, because, owing to
its contact with the foremost college in the land, it has been compelled
to adopt and maintain the highest standards in its work. The result of
this is seen in the steady growth of recent years. During the last five
or six years there has been a good percentage of attendance from schools
in the immediate neighborhood of the College which have heretofore sent
their students almost exclusively to Harvard. Men have been drawn to the
College wholly without reference to denominational lines, simply because
they believed the College had advantages to offer unsurpassed by any
institution in the country. Within the last two years the College has
made a gain in students of at least forty per cent. The whole number who
entered the different departments in the year 1884-5 was sixty-one, and
although the number entering in 1885-6 was somewhat less, yet the whole
number in the College is greater than ever before, namely, one hundred
and forty, of whom twenty-six are in the Divinity School, and the
remainder in the College of letters.

The course of study originally adopted was substantially that of the
leading New England colleges. It has adhered throughout very firmly to
its standard. The ten associated colleges of Southern New England voted
at their annual meeting in 1879 that it is desirable to adopt a system
of uniform requirements for the admission of students. Tufts was one of
the first to accept the scheme proposed by the conference of examiners
in the different institutions. The faculty as originally constituted
consisted of three professors beside the president; and for many years,
the entire work of the College was performed by not more than five
teachers. The gifts and benefactions of Dr. Walker, designed mainly for
the promotion of mathematics