esentatives may be found in the principal walks of almost every one
of the learned professions. As an indication of the quality of
scholarship produced, it may be remarked that the catalogue of 1885-6
shows that no less than nine of the officers of instruction and
government, including the president, are from its own graduates. The
board of trustees consists of twenty-nine persons. Of this number ten
are from the alumni of the College.

Silvanus Packard by will directed that the trustees should establish and
maintain out of the rents and profits of his estate, one theological
professorship. The Rev. Thomas J. Sawyer, D.D., was elected Packard
Professor of Theology, and the Divinity School, with Dr. Sawyer at its
head, was organized and opened for the admission of students in 1869. At
first one professor was associated with Dr. Sawyer and very soon another
was added to the faculty. There are at present four professors besides
Dr. Sawyer in the Divinity School. The course of study, at the opening
of the school, leading to the degree of Bachelor of Divinity was three
years. But so large a number of those applying for admission were found
to be deficient in elementary training that the course was lengthened to
four years for all, except college graduates.

In order to give greater encouragement to men having the Christian
ministry in view to secure college training before entering the Divinity
School, after the present year, while a preparatory course of one year
for all who have not the degree of A.B. will be retained, the degree of
B.D. will be given exclusively to college graduates. Upwards of sixty
students, since the organization of the School, have taken the
prescribed course in theology and received the degree of Bachelor of
Divinity. Of this number nearly one half are in charge of important
parishes in Massachusetts, and others in different parts of the country
are occupying some of the most prominent and influential pulpits.

When the present site of the College was selected, the hill was without
trees and almost repulsive in its nakedness. The erection of the main
college building and the first dormitory only served to heighten its
windswept appearance. But other important buildings have been added;
walks and driveways have been laid out; trees have been planted and have
attained, on the southerly slope, a thick and heavy growth, and are
beginning to get a hold upon the northerly side; the reservoir of the
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