New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-27
THE WORK AT CORNELL.
AN INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT WHITE.
IMPROVEMENTS MADE N TIRE LAST YEAI-woMEN

/ n Wlfh ".
The AFFAIR." Of the University however. are always
nppermOst in his mind. and he ia spending part If
the time, even of this vacation. in work for its adj
| Vancemrnt. He said on Saturday evening shat
| not only had the institution been doing its best
work during the present wear. but that some Of the
most remarkable experiments ever attempted in
| university management had been successfully car
| siderable attention.
However ! don't mind that President White
continued, for know the success of these eXreri-
| ments Is bound 10 make itself felt in time
| tor instance, gentleman comes along who
| Ginids MS beautiful chapel, upon the conli-
non mat attendance upon its services shall
| not he compulsory. That Of itself was
| a thing unknown to American colleges Presently
announcer Young man comes along who offers $50 600
10 round chaplaincy tor the chapel. NO. said
| 70 hlm we will not take it for that purpose Onrs
S 10 ceIIam extent an institution founded by the
State: and we would neither have the right nor do
We wish 10 graft any form of sectariansm upon it,
f 3u' II yoa VIII give me the money
tRe services fn3 Nf thd to mos. be used to secure
| ~ den9minations. who shall preach hero az stated
Iimcs throughout the year, shall be very glad to
t uSe Iur Iat purpose That experiment was
| We have had there the most eminent diyincs from
an parts OF the country representing I'll denomna-
lons and All creeds Of the Christian religion The
| interest which the students have shown in these
sermons crowding the chapel TO lis fullest capac-
y is IN striking contrast With what you will if
you snon1d go INTO the Yale Chapel. for instance
any me day. For mex. term we have secured one
OF the most prominent preachers from each of the
1 II
markablc series of sermons ever given in n college
chapel. The beneficial effects of such n system
upon the students cannot he overcstmated
, ADother great experiment of this wear has been
Inc establishment of the course in political science
ms Is especially intended to give Young men the
proper training for public life: bnt il also affords
better preparation han any Of the college courses
has done for journalism for law. II includes he
ordinary instruction IN Latin, science and mathe-
les given IN the classical course: then thorouph
work III international law-whch believe TO be
very essentials then general history. ancient and
modern, and moro especially American history The
special instruction which gives the name TO the
course takes the shape largely of lectures by non
Resident professors. This wear we have had lectures
by Professor adams of the Johns Hopkins Univcr-
sty, Professor Adams. of the University of Michi-
gam ana Professor Herbert Tuttleand next term We
shall have Professor Ely of Columbia College The
coise noWeyer' Is NOT yet fully organized and will
hot De III complete running order until next year"
49,, 80 lar - coeducation IL concerned" President
mt" continued, " It is going on with the same
success as from the first. The number of Young
women at sage College is not very large nor do
ever expect TO see II increase very considerably.
The number of yOung women who are willing 10
spend the TOUR best years of their life after the
necessary preliminary study 10 the higher form of
education that is given IN such an institution. is
comparatively small And the number of the par
ents who are willing that their daughters should
receive such training in n cocducaional institution
- perhaps Sui smaller 1t requires a COCA deal Of
decision OF character and pernaclty of purpose for
young woman 10 separate herself from the most of
her friends for such training But the consequence
Is that those we do have ore above the average in
winch they nave done, as tested by the university
| examinations, has been Of a very high grade"
PRESIDENT W hte also spoke Of the many ways in
which the University had been deve. Oping during
tine year. Henry ". Sage, who founded the Sage
College, had been putting mp a fine conservatory in
the rear of the Sage College buildings and Hiram
Sl1ley Of Roche ster. who built the stone structure
occupied by the College of Mechanical Arts had
FURNISHED money for the construction of the adj
dillonal building now erecting for the same college
OF the nine structures which form the University
buildings proper, SIX are OF stone and two
OF brick and stone. The single wooden build
mg-the labOratOry-was intended to he temporary
only, ana Is sOOn To make way for handsome stone
building 10 be used FOR the purpose, and to be
situated at he north end of The campus The plan
IL 10 nave two great groups OF buildings. Those IN
the principal group all built of bluestone with
Whlte limestone trimmings, and IN the florentlne
sSie % archllecluIe lhey VIII DE arranged III me
form OF quadrangle about n quarter of q mile
square. Upon the west side, overlooking Cayuga
ID Ike and the valley, now stand the NlcGraw build
ing ana the North and South buildings. The new
Sibley building is in limo with these, ut the
library building that is contemplated will occupy
the corresponding place at the southwest corner
The Sibley College, built in ISL Is on the north
side and will have a. companion the new labOra-
tory building. Upon the east the houses of the
President and several Of the professors. but II is eX
pected that in time there will be rows OF college
buildings of the same style as those upon the east
and south sides, thus cOmpetln" the quadrangle.
he only bindings in the other group to the south
are the Sage College and the Sage Chapel.
President White added that the increased income
of the University derived frem the sale OF some of
its Western lands and from generous gifts had ena-
hlpd the trustees to develop its work in many dl-
rectiOns during he year. The salaries Of all the
professors bad been raised and considering the
parative cost of living in small city ike Ithaca,
they now rs large as were paid by any inStltu-
ton in the country, with the possible exception OF
Columbia College Among tue new professors was
Moses Colt Tyler, who came from Michigan UnIycr-
sty 10 take the chair of modern history. President
White said that there was no Truth IN the rumor
that MIR. Tyler soon to 20 70 Columbia; he had
distinctly rell ed 10 be candidate for the vacant
place. -
During tie year, $4,000 had been expended in
retIlrnshing the Department of Physics with proper
apparatus; $4,000 in the importation of proper
model, for various departments, and 100000 In
making additions to the library The library was
now the third in size. and probably the second III
value of the college university Libraries in the
brary by The wife of Professor Willard Fiske
would probably prove 10 be very large. The Uni
yer.ity lands in the West were constantly lncrcas-
inc i'm value and would eventually make the lnsti
tuition one of the wcathicst IN the country. Ey
elusive of those sold year ago. the University still
owned between 100000 and 100000 acres OF land
that were finely situated, and the value OF which
would steadily apr eciate. he President thought
the prospects of the institution were never before
SO bright the tone of scholarship so ngh, nor the
educational work so wei done now. lie spoke
of the action of the NeV-YOrk Alumni Association
n week ago in regard to legislation affecting the
choice of trustees The requirement, he sand, which
the aumni desired that vote of thirteen trustees
very annoying because il perh; pS would sometimes
be impossible To get together thirteen trustees
fir on ali paris of the State. But, although THIS
wGs INSTRUCTED zeal and probably p oceeded rom
n lack of knowledge OF the circumstances, The Ir1Sl-
dent said that he was better pleased with il than
10 find that the alumni were apatheuc and not tax
ing any interest III the institution.
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