The Colleges marked thus (*) are under the direction of the Baptists; thus (†) Episcopalians; thus (1) Methodists; thus ($) Catholics.

With respect to the Colleges which are unmarked, the prevailing religious influence of those that are in the New England States, is Congregationalism; of the most of the others, Presbyterianism. Norwich University, Vt., is an institution recently established by the Universalists.

By students in the above table, with respect to the New England Colleges and many of the others, is meant undergraduates, or members of the four collegiate classes; not including such as are pursuing professional education, or such as are members of a preparatory department: but the greater part of the students in the Catholic Colleges, and also in many of the other Southern and Western Colleges, belong to the preparatory department; and in some of the new colleges in the Western States, all or nearly all the students enumerated, belong to the preparatory department.

The whole number of students, on the Catalogue, including those of theology, law, and medicine, as well as undergraduates, in Harvard University in 1838, was 382; in Yale College, 564. In the University of Pennsylvania, in 1837, in the Collegiate Department, 100, in the Academical Department, 139; and in the Medical Department, 401; total, 640.

The Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution, at Hamilton, N. Y., is a Baptist seminary, designed for educating young men for the ministry; but does not confer degrees, though it has a collegiate department with four regular classes, and a course of college studies for four years. Number of students, according to the catalogue of 1837-8, theological department, 16; collegiate department, 65; academical department, 45; shorter course, 31:- total, 157.

Some of the Colleges above enumerated, are not in full operation; and scarcely deserve a place in the Table. Several other Colleges have been incorporated, which are not yet fully organized.

Bowdoin.

Waterville.

Dartmouth.

VACATIONS IN COLLEGES IN THE UNITED STATES.

Vermont Univ.

Middlebury.

Harvard.

Williams.

Amherst.

Brown.

Yale.

Washington.

Wesleyan Univ.

Columbia,

Union.

Hamilton.

Geneva.

College of N. J.
Rutgers.

Penn, University.
Dickinson.
Jefferson,
Washington.
St. John's.

St. Mary's.

1. Com., 3 weeks; -2. Friday after 3d Wed. Dec., 8 weeks;
Friday after 3d Wed. May, 2 weeks.

1. Com., 5 weeks; 2. 2d Wed. Dec., 8 weeks.

- 3.

1. Com., 4 weeks; 2. Last Mond. Dec., 6 weeks; -3. Thursday preceding the last Wed. May, 24 weeks.

1. Com., 4 weeks; -2. 1st Wed. Jan. 8 weeks.

1. Com., 4 weeks;-2. last Wed. Nov., 1 week; -3. 2d Wed. Feb., 2 weeks;-4. 3d Wed. May, 2 weeks.

1. (Two terms of 20 weeks each) from the end of the 1st term, 6
weeks; 2. from the end of the 2d term to Friday after Com-
mencement, 6 weeks.

1. Com., 4 weeks; -2. 3d Wed. Dec., 6 weeks;
May, 3 weeks.

1. Com., 6 weeks; -2. 2d Wed. Jan., 2 weeks; -3. 1st Wed.

1. Com., 7 weeks; -2. Thursday before Christmas, 2 weeks; 3. Thursday before 12th April, 3 weeks.

1. Wed. before Christmas, 8 weeks; - 2. preceding com., 4 weeks. 1. From August 1, to the First Monday in October.

1. Com., 6 weeks; -2. in Dec. 4 weeks;-3. in April, 4 weeks. 1. Com., 7 weeks; 2. Dec. 4 weeks from Wed, before Christmas; -3. 3d Wed. April, 4 weeks.

1. Com., 6 weeks;-2. at Christmas and New Year, 2 weeks; 3. in April, 3 weeks.

1. Com., 6 weeks;-2. 1st Thurs. after 2d Tues. in April, 5 weeks. 1. Com., to Sept. 15; -2. Dec. 21 to Jan. 7;-3. April 7 to May 1. 1. Com., 6 weeks; -2. Dec. 2 weeks ;-3. April, 2 weeks.

1. Com. to the 15th of Sept. ;-2. Friday before April 1st, 2 weeks. 1. Month of October; 2. Month of April.

1. Month of October; 2. Month of May.

1. Good Friday, 10 days; -2. Last Wed. in July to the 1st Monday in Sept. ;-3. Dec. 23d to 1st Monday in Jan.

1. Com. to the 1st Monday in Sept.

Mt. St. Mary's.
Columbian.

1. July 1 to August 16.

1. Com. to 1st Wed. Nov. ; -2. 1st Wed. May to 1st Wed. in July.

William and Mary. 1. Com. to the last Monday in October.

Hamp. Sydney.

Washington.

1. From 4th Wed. Sept. to 1st Nov.;-2. 4th Thurs. April to 1st June.

1. Last Thurs. in June to 1st Sept. A recess of 9 days at Christmas. Univ. Virginia. 1. July 20 to September 10.

Univ. N. Carolina, 1. Com., 6 weeks; -2. Dec. 15, 4 weeks.

Coll. S. Carolina. 1. July 1 to the 1st Monday in October.

Univ. Georgia. 1. Com., 1 week; -2. 1st Nov. to 15th Jan.; -3. April 1st to

April 15th.

Univ. of Alabama. 1. Com. to the 1st Mond. in Dec. ; - 2. 1st July to 1st Mond. Aug. 1. Com., 3 months, viz. July, August, and September.

Mississippi.

Louisiana.

Greeneville.

Nashville.

E. Tennessee.
Transylvania.

Centre.

Augusta.
Cumberland.
St. Joseph's.
Georgetown.

Univ. of Ohio.
Miami.

Western Reserve.

Kenyon.
Cincinnati.
Marietta.
Indiana.

Illinois.

1. Com, 4 weeks 2. Dec. 20 to Jan. 10.

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1. Com., 5 weeks; - 2. 3d Wed. in March, 5 weeks.

1. Com., 5 weeks; -2. 1st Wed. April, 5 weeks.

1. Com., 4 weeks; 2. 1st Thursday April, 4 weeks.

1. Com. to 1st Monday Nov. ;-2. 2d Mond. March, 6 weeks.

1. Com. to Thurs. after 3d Wed. Oct. ;-2. After a session of 21 weeks, 4 weeks.

1. Com., 6 weeks; -2. in Feb. 21 weeks from 1st vacation, 4 weeks. 1. Com. to the 1st February.

1. The month of August.

1. Com. to 3d Monday Oct.; -2. 1st Monday March, 6 weeks.

1. Com., 6 weeks; -2. Wed. after 2d Tuesday April, 4 weeks.
1. Com. to 1st Mond. Oct.; -2. 2d Thurs. March, 3 weeks.

1. Com., 5 weeks; — 2. 2d Wed. Jan., 5 weeks;-3. 1st Wed. May,
2 weeks.

1. Com., 8 weeks; - 2. after a term of 20 weeks, 4 weeks.
1. Com. to 1st Monday in Sept., only one vacation.

1. Com., 10 weeks; -2. ending 2d Wed. March, 2 weeks.
1. Month of May;-2. Month of October.

1. Com. 8 weeks; -2. Wed. before 5th April, 6 weeks.

EXPLANATION. Vacations of Bowdoin College. 1st, from Commencement, 3 weeks ; — 2d, from the Friday after the 3d Wednesday in December, 8 weeks ; — 3d, from the Friday after the 3d Wednesday in May, 2 weeks.

For a notice of the Roman Catholic Seminaries, see page 132.

Cambridge, Mass.
New Haven, Conn.
New York City,
Carlisle, Pa.
Williamsburg, Va.
Charlottesville, do.

Lexington, Ken.
Cincinnati, Ohio,

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Schools for the study of law are much less frequented than schools for the study of the other professions. The first institution of this nature, of much note, that was established in the United States, was the Law School at Litchfield, in Connecticut, which had, from 1798 to 1827, 730 students; but it is now discontinued.

The above statements of the number of churches, ministers, and members of the several denominations, have been derived chiefly from recent official documents published by the different denominations; but the last column contains rather a vague estimate, which has appeared in various publications, of the total number of people who are attached to or show a preference for the several different religious persuasions.