New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-26
CORNELL UNIVERSITY.
CLOSE OF A PROSPEROUS YEAR.

of commercial communication runs through the PIC
tnrcsoue village Of Ithaca the seat Of Cornell Uni
versity and is probably owing TO this isoaton tfat
so little is actually known OF the character and re-
sources Of the only creat school of learning IN the
State Of New-York which has been built mp by the
public bounty. Those connected with the univer-
sity know how genuine and general on the part oil
the comparatively few strangers who do find their
way to Ithaca. are the expressions of surprise at
discovering here An establishment so young yet
on the whole so well equipped, and
with so many of the better features
of The older colleges. AZ the visitor wanders about
the campus from building to building, past chapel
and college and long lines Of professors dwellings,,
along walks aud drives already enshadowcd by Wig
orous elms. or rs he goes from museum TO museum,
from laboratory TO laboratory, entering one large
lecture-room afe another it is difficult for him 10
conceive that all this is the work of little more than
a decade But the nineteenth century reads all the
old proverbs anew. As one gazcs at the memorial
tablets erected in the University Chapel to the half
dozen professors of whom death has thus early de-
pryed Cornell II is easy to fancy ones self looking
at the similar monuments at Oxford, or in the long
corridors of scholastic Bologna CornelPs brief
past is already becoming traditional.
The productive funds of Cornell University now
amount to 81 2G3,9 800 4S, which with the sums re-
cciyed from students yielded Sl40,50l II. It's
Ithaca real estate is valued at $713,G73 81, and the
equipment pro vided for its various departments at
$3.50 $50 OF. Besides its already invested endow-
ment the University still owns body OF Western
lands comprising 293, 70s.sJ acres. For that por-
ton OF this domain which consists of Wisconsin
pine lands the authorities recently refused an offer
Of 80 $50 900; but the demand for this species of
property Is now great that the university viii
doubtless soon be induced to part with its Western
possessons There can thus be little doubt that
within the course of a few months the funds VIII
Weld an income as large as that enjoyed by any sim
liar institution in the country. This brief financial
exhibit ought to be supplemented by statement in
regard to the prospects of the University Library
recent special bequest to this department Of the in
stltution which is speedily to become available,
will produce it is estimated, yearly income not far
short of 500, 900. Under proper management the
library ought, therefore, to find itself soon in
condition not only to supply all possible needs
of the professor and student, but to make
itself useful as centre of research to all scholars
resident in central and western NewYork at an in
convenient distance from tho great collections OF
the metropolis.
The record of the academic year just closed shows.
in most directions healthy progress. instruction
has been given TO 3S4 students of all grades by 80
professors and lecturers and IS assistant professors
or instructors OF the professors two were new APP
pointments-Professor Moses Colt Tyler 10 the
chair of American history and literature, and Pro-
fessor John Burkitt Webb to the chair OF applied
mathematics. An additional general course-that
of history and political scence-has been instituted,
Nor which the services of five extra lecturers were
secured, namely. DR.. i. A. Freeman. Professors [.
X. Adams and II. c. Adams, Mr. r. s. Ely and Pro-
laSt-naued lecturlug
throughout the year. Among the subjects especially
treated were International Law. Tariffs and Taxa
ton, Suffrage and Representation, Municipal Coy
ernuout and Administrative Reform. In the
technical departments work has been carried on IN
thisteen dis met and different Laboratories and
draughting- rooms, all abundantly supplied with
apparatus, models and other materials Two
hours of laboratory practice is considered equal
IN reckoning the time due the university by the
students to one spent in the lecture-room. and
nearly all the courses require more or less OF TINS
practical ,bOr. One of these scientific workshops
Thus presents during term time. q bnsy scene, and
one which would have unpleasantly shaken the
nerves OF an Oxoman or Leipnger OF the last cen
nry These youths in working aprons or in their
shirt sleeves in the midst OF the whiu of machinery
or the shaking of bottles, surrounded by draught-
ing-boards. or seated before dssectingta6les seem
hardly to be maintaining the traditions of an arts
tocracy Of scholarship.
DESPITE the rgidly unsectarlan character of the
institution. n certain amount of religious inStruc-
tion has been furnished by means of the Dean Sage
sermons, forty-two in number. preached by twenty
one uo.ed diyires of various denominations. In no
preceding year has this list OF university preachers
exhibited 50 many names of high repute 1t includes
those OF Bishops Simpson, Harris, Hurst and Doane;
Of the Rev Drs. Phillips Brooks, Edward G. Robin
som Alexander Mckenzie, Reginald Heber Newton,
{, orge d. Boarlman, Brooke Hereford, Washing
ton GLADDEN. aud George 7. Fisher of Presidents
Scclye. of Amherst, and Brown. of Hamilton, and Of
Principal Grant. of Kingston.
I'm he University Library, during the past few
months considerable corps of assistants has been
engaged in preparing the collection for
its future acceSslous. great amount OF work,
neglected in former years for lack Of means, has
been accomplished under IN appropriation by the
trustees of $4,000 Much cataloguing and IN
dexug has been done, nearly 5000 volumes have
been bound aud many incomplete sets Of works
have been made perfect. The number of periodicals
currently received has been increased from 1917 to
I46 while there were added TO the library during
the twelvemouth 2.56S volumes and $40 pamphlets.
Lato IN the year the Issue OF a serial. The Library
akin in its character to The HdrUard Bulletia was
begun
The principal structure now IN course of erection
il the Chemical and Physical Laboratory, a stone
edce OF four stories, promising TO be the most spa
cious establishment Of its class this side OF the
Atlantic Ii stands at the north end of the campus,
is furnished with motive power from the adjoining
Sibley College and with water from the university
reservoir, and Will be ready for occupancy before
the close Of the year. Externally IT IS decorated
with largo mcdaIons Of the WORLDS famous chem
lists and physicists Near the other end of the
campus a new building, to contain rooms for gym
nastic practice, armOry, military drill-
room and baths, has been commenced.
one of the features of this structure.
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