New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-08

s,,r;nc tho sour vears course, are also appended
The committee then recommended 'no UNIV
resolutions which were not acted upon
P,solr That the scheme for course 81
aud collegiate study for women, nv
together with the schedules anneAeu' We "ffi
S,selred That public notice be given Of the acton o.,
the Board and that It DO % sraneements for the
Arst entrance examination.
ANIMAL REPORT OF PRESIDENT BARNARD
President Barnard in his annual report mace no
raferenoe to the education OF women. suo)ect
>xh;cb has occupied considerable space in his former
reports Concerning the proposed plan Of making
the college a complete university he saws in part;
our college has taken the functions and assumed
the character OF proper university IL aIs iaT m
~ he IN fsis adequately 10 provide in many branches
Of knowledge the instruction for when tneIe Is a.u @
long been pressing demand. America VIII YET hhVo
her universities offering advantages equal 70 those OF
the most celebrated similar institutions ~ 05e nns
The reception gwen by the press to the statement
Gently made PS ~ the ssss ns Of M adeGua
OF IT. TO its educational needs anoros mos.
ans Of public Opinion have lent their
phatic and IN most cases their ~,
ara on PSe foundation presented by Columbia COLLEGE
Ereaf National university. This proposition Is
Stizens who p9ssess the means TO its realization
There Is reason also for the belief that srIan 70
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and Natural Hstorr already in existence ~ me ne g,,
may open their treasures 20 the students OF I'm. OF
versy SO that while maintaining IKE our ocnIV ,or
Medicine. their corporate ndesenaehee' 'ne! "'' ava
educational purposes be identihed WIN 10
Mention is made OF the few changes IN the facui-
ties and of the large attendance Of students there
oro1 5,a in ali the schools-290 in the Depart
ments Of Arts; 276 IN the School of Mines; 400
in the Law Department: so in the School of Point
zeal Science. and 543 in the School OF
Medicine The age of the students al
graduation and their average scholarship, the
report says are encouraging. The college discipline
is represented to be satisfactory and encouraging.
The elective system is praised and one-hai o. Inc rhe
students are said to be studying French. . Inc
working of the system adds Dr.. Barnard, mas
amply justified the anticipation of those VINO ao-
yocated ITS introduction Additlonsi tr rIn
work in tie several schools is SAID to be satsiactoI-
lily advancing aud the outlook never was more cheei.
full than now. In closing his report the presideut
recommends an Improvement the academic
nomenclature. He advises that there should be foni
faculties--cf Arts Applied Sciences; JurlsprudeneSe
and Medicine. Under each general head he woulu
have ths several schools arranged.
A PROFESSOR AND A LIBRARIAN ELECTED.
Besides the reports mentioned there were tive
elections yesterday Benjamin I. Lee was elected
professor in the Law School to succeed ex-Judgt
Dillon who resi- ened his position last June Melyi
Dewey of Bos'on was elected college librarian, al
salary of $500.
JURISPRUDENCE In the Law School is of a New-Eng
land family. although he was horn IN this city II
1889. lie was graduated from Williams College IL
1885 and entered the Columbia Law School, being
ameinber of the first class that pursued complete
course of study there Being admitted 20 the oa1
IN 1861 he studied in the law firm OF IL. and >
Riker real estate lawyers in NasSau-st
In short time with Alvin A
Alyord he organized the law firm. Of
Lee q Alyord which continued until the death O
Mr. Alvord in 1875. Mr.. Lee is now member OF
tho firm of Turner, Lee g. Mcclure. of No. 20 Mas
sau-st Among the prominent sultS IN which pr
Lee las participated were those arising from TIT
Erie and the Iowa Central Railway foreclo sures
Another was the suit against the Goodyear Denta
Vulcanite Company which was carried 10 th'
United States Supreme Court. Mr. Lee was one OF
the counsel for the company. and succeeded IN nav
ing the patent sustained. His present him IS ont
of he firms employed by the Mutual Life Insurance
Company.
Mr. Dewey was graduated from Amherst College
in 1874. For about five years be was in charge o.
the library in that college. In 1876 he organ zee
the American Library Association In Boston; amc
soon afterward founded The Library Journal. III
was later the secretary of the American Metric Blu
reau, which he organized and Of which DR.. Bar
nard is president The FIVE libraries Of the college
ara 10 be merged into one, and an effort WI Di
made to form circulating library for the college
constituency, TO be open every day from a. H. III
1Op ~ New books are to be added, the whole
collection is to be classified and, if possible, de
partment of photography ana Library Economy
will be formed.