A history of public education in Rhode Island, from 1636 to 1876 ... Comp. by authority of the Board of education, and ed. by Thomas B. Stockwell ...

224 PROVIDENCE.
The number of students connected with the University is at present,
255. The triennial catalogue, published in 1873, gives the names of
2,540 graduates, more than one-fourth of whom have been ordained and
set apart for the work of the Christian ministry. This enumeration does
not include the three classes which have graduated since the Spring of
1873. Of the graduates from the beginning, upwards of one hundred
have been honored with the degree of Doctor in Divinity, including
bishops eminent for their piety and learning, missionaries at home and
abroad, presidents of colleges and theological schools, and religious
teachers whose names are conspicuous in the republic of letters, and
whose virtues and deeds will be held in grateful remembrance by the
manifold churches of our common Lord.
R. A. G.