by the citizens of Hiram), the chair of natural science (endowed by Robert Kerr), and that of mathematics and astronomy (endowed by George A. Baker, of Cleveland). In addition to these there is a small endowment fund.

The other salaries and expenses of the college are in the main defrayed by the tuition fees received from students.

RESULTS-SUMMARY.

It is impossible to sum up in statistics the work of a school or other intellectual or moral agent. However, some approximation can be made in that way.

More than 100 persons have taught at Hiram for longer or shorter periods. Counting up the footings in the annual catalogues we have an aggregate of 12,227 students. These include all who were enrolled in the Eclectic Institute previous to 1867, and members of the commercial, English, and art department since. The collegiate students are probably less than 10 per cent. of the above. Of different students there have been about 6,000. The average Hiram student has been enrolled in two annual catalogues; his attendance has been four terms. Since the institute became a college the attendance has been much more regular and these averages are much higher; still, the preparatory classes, which are kept up as in the days of the Eclectic Institute, tend to keep the general average lower than it would otherwise be.

The aims originally set forth have been fully realized. Hiram was never intended to be a school of special training, and has never been a biblical or theological seminary. In all, more than 100 ministers of the gospel have been trained in whole or in part in Hiram. The total number of alumni is 109.

The original charter, which has never been changed in this particular, defines the object of the corporation to be "the instruction of youth of both sexes." In Hiram the experience of coeducation has been successful. The education of youth is no doubt somewhat disturbed by what may be called the sexual differentiations, as most human activities are for that matter; but the disturbance is no more where they are thrown together in the same school than when they are taught apart. On the other hand, coeducation is attended by some positive advantages.

[AUTHORITIES: Hiram College, by B. A. Hinsdale, president, 1876. Historical Sketch of Hiram College, by Prof. A. C. Pierson, based on Dr. Hinsdale, 1887. Annual and general catalogues. The above is chiefly a condensation of Dr. Hinsdale's history.]

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XVIII.-HEIDELBERG COLLEGE.

(TIFFIN, SENECA COUNTY.)

Heidelberg College was founded in 1850 under the direction and auspices of the Synod of Ohio of the Reformed Church in the United States. The object of its founders was to provide educational facilities for their children as the best and surest way of transmitting their civil and religious liberties to those who would come after them, and of providing a ministry adapted to the growing wants of the church. To secure this latter the more fully, a theological department was associated with the college.

The college was formally opened in November, 1850, with 7 students, in rooms rented for the purpose in the third floor of "Commercial Row" in the city of Tiffin. Though small at the start and with poor accommodations, it was soon apparent that a school of a high grade of scholarship was needed in the community and would receive a liberal support. Friends soon began to rally around it, and according to the catalogue of 1850-51, 149 students were enrolled during the first year of its history. There was at this time no endowment and no fund on hand for the erection of suitable buildings, so that the enterprise looked hazardous so far as any prospects for truly higher education were concerned. Yet, as will be seen, the college though sorely hampered at times by financial embarrassments, has maintained its existence and gone forward in its work without any interruption.

The name by which the college has always been known was given by the Synod of Ohio, and was at once acknowledged as appropriate, having been the name of the celebrated university in the city of Heidelberg, which stood in intimate relations to the mother church, and as the name by which the catechism of the church has been known for more than three centuries. In February, 1851, the college was incorporated by the general assembly and given the usual rights and privileges of collegiate institutions. The control of the affairs of the corporation is vested in a board of 24 trustees, elected by the Synod of Ohio for terms of 4 years each, one-fourth of the board retiring each year. The curriculum as originally laid down comprised the following courses of study of 4 years each: Classical, scientific, normal, ladies', and agricultural. This was soon found to be impractical, as it required a larger teaching force than the income of the college would justify. The last three courses were in consequence dropped, and the classical and scientific were the only ones offered for a number of years. An