New-York tribune., 1871-06-01
CORNELL UNIVERSITY-

TIE LECTURES OF GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS AND
BAYARD TAYLoR-sIX NEW PROFESSORS EN-
GAGED-GENEROUs GIFTS OF PRESIDENT
WHITE AND WILLIAM KELLY-C0MMENCE-
MENT WEEK.
ITHACA, May 27-The valley Of Cayuga is
surely one OF the prettest OF those formed by the In
terror lakes OF NewYork and its smiling hilIslopes are
clad lust now with yerure which they have put with
all the marvellous celerity OF a Norwegian Spring What
were Yesterday gray skeletons to-day greenrobed
trees and the mold Of last week is now waving with
luxurant clover. May, which began as sort OF MID
March, abruptly bossomed into June and IL ending in the
midst of August heats. Just at this period OF twtternS
birds and blooming flowers and warm lake-breezes-the
Spring trimeser as 1t is styled in the local academca
dalect-occurs the appropriated to the nonres
dent Professors OF the Cornell University Their lectures
began almost simultaneously with the opening OF the -
mester The students Of the College OF Agriculture nave
been listening 20 course MarketGardening by MI D.
J. H. Gregory OF Marblehead, to one on small FRUITS ny
Mr.. A. s. Fuller OF New-YOrk City, to one on Large
Fruits by Mr. j. j. Thomas Of Union Springs ana 10 one
on General Agriculture by Prof. John stanton Ooulu
but the whole University been attending the lectures
of Prof George william Curtis which came to an ehd
two evenings ago. The lectures OF Prof. GURUS were
delivered at the outset In one of the spacious University
lecture-roOms but the place waS. so uncoliortaoAy
crowded by the Philistlnes-as the t0wnspeOple anu
other extraacademica people are styled In student par
''N"'
to the largest hall in Ithaca, which has been oyered
every evening The chair held by Prof Curtis is that OF
Recent Literature and his Of twelve lectures this
year. like his last SERIES embraced tho later authors VI
England and America. His themes were wen cDoseh'
comprising Introductory discourse on the character
OF letters discourse the growth OF American hte
rature careful contrast OF BulwerLytton and Disraeh
an essay on the position held by female WRITER'S together
with elaborate criticisms OF Dickens Thaekeray, ha"
thorne Carlyle, Miss Bronte, and Miss Evans AIMING
prose authors, and Of Tennyson, the Brownhgs, o"h
burne and ClOugh, among poets. Ihe matter Vi 'es'
lectures was every way worthy OF the cathedra, "o
the style was brilliant and the delivery exqusltey per
feet He is to be followed by Prof Theodore W. Dwight
whose lectures on the American Constitution begin next
Monday and by Prof Bayard Taylor, whose course on
German literature commences the first OF june flo
Taylors subjects drawn this year from the earlier He
rary periods OF Germany, as follows; l. Ihe beeln
nincs Of German Literature; O. The Mnnesnger; .. Inc
German Epics of the Middle Ages A. The Nibeungenled
g. The Literature Of the RefOrmation G. The Lltera-
ture OF the Seventeenth Century The courses OF Pres
dent White and Prof. Goodwin Smith were completeu
week Those OF the resident scienunc proleS'ol'
The niverfv continues to be so greatly crowded with
students that large increase OF the teaeng olS ~
he necessary the coming year. Happily recent very N
tensve sales OF University lands which nave % m
annual cash income OF the lnstu%u3h % IL pV ,h Sers
OF the Faculty and six new chairs are 10 De
0my HgrcnItuTe Latin and Rhetoric-the last re-
sgting from division OF te cl5 f he Enosb Ian,
guage and Literature. The new charOf Agriculture lds
of the Royal grcultura College at Glas
neven Ireland The chair of Comparative Anatomy VIII
graduate of the Universities of GOtngcn and Edinburgh
and author several geological works of
ability Besides these SIX ordinary Professors two or
three nonresident Professors are to be chOseh-li-
cludng, as it rumored Mr.; w. D.. Howells, the poet,
editor of The AHdnttc M0nthy 10 the chalr OF lI nan
Lterature-and several AsssIantPrOfessors The entire
faculty at the beginning of the year lsIl-2 VIII thus
the present Professors are also be increased with the
new year. and early IN the course the erection OF SAh
stone eliice is TO be commenced. ..
The University Library, at present ming Two laree
and twelve small ones, Is soon 10 De remover 10
the McGraw building, now competlhe "itin .e . ~ P
six months the accessions 10 Its treasures nave hOtaD
enhanced its value and utility Beside te ayas vi I h
large sums, two important glis 10 the noly 49, bn
madeOne from President White and the 0ther irO the
Hon william Kelly OF Rhinebeck. The former mas
given his collection Of architectural works costing nearly
$4,000 and comprising the principal recent WORKS on %
OF Building and Design In English, German ana
Kelly Mathematical Library: OF which the purchase Is
tn ,be m bst edtons of E%Ier Newton Calico Kepler
Leibnitz Descartes, Pascal, D'Alember Steyin, Mer
and the other prominent mathematical writer's OF
OF the last and present centuries, and nearly every
mathematical periodical OF any note European OF Amer
can. The Newtonana OF the Kelly Library numbers up
ward hundred titles. The large collection OF works
English history and literature presented to the library
rched by the continued liberality of its donor,
student world, like every other world, literary,
political social, has its agitations aud sensations.
Its present "craze" at Cornell is boating, to which
impulse given by the speeches and converse
tons of Tom Brown" Dlr. Hughes during his recent
visit here. Several bOatcubs have been organized,
which, aided by public subscription and the cooperation
OF the University authorities, have erected two large
lighthouses and purchased number OF shells and prac-
tice-bOats. Two principal crews and haa-dOZen minor
have been formed; Cayuga Lake, which Il rarely
frozen furnishes OF the most admirable water
courses in the country for the cultivation Of this
sport. Commencement week begins with Monday,
June 49, and during the following days addresses will be
delivered by Horace Greeley, Prof Daniel c. Gilman OF
Yale Rossitor W. Raymond United States Commissioner
OF Mines and Others while Wednesday, June 2l Gov.
Hoffman will dedicate the Sbley building which Is
Commencement itself will be the 22d OF June when
fifty candidates for degrees Will be turned into
B. AS and b. SIS and PHI b s. This ceremony to he
preceded the evening of the 18th OF june by the
nual OTatOrical contest for the WoOdford Gold Medal
Even with its large income and liberal gifts, the Cornell
University is still poor Its departments
and the number Of students Ocking to its halls
great, that it needs much ampler Resources. The
understand, are many and various 1t wants more
prOfes sOrshps with such salaries Will bring Ithaca
the AgassiZe the Lowes the Peces the Gbbses of the
country needs scholarships for the multitudes OF
poor students that continually knocking at its doors
Ii wants books and models and apparatus or every
knd-bOtanica gardens and geological gardens and
seryaOries and workshops. 1t needs more buildings To
accommodate its growing collections, and more collec
tions to put them Its equipment is the whole
much in advance any the older institutions outside
future thanks to the landgrant secure but IN the
intervening years which must eapse before the final
sales OF the lands il should be sOutly backed by the
generosity Of NewYOrkers in every section OF the state
FOREIGN GOSSIP