New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-01
DIR. BARNARD ON COLUMBIA
EXAMINATIONS AND COLLEGE PLANS
MEETING OF TRUsrEEs-PRoPosED COURSE on
STUDY.

MEETING OF TRUsTEEs-PRoP0sED COURSE OF
STUDY.
The autumn and winter term at Columbia Col
lege begins to-day, and the trustees Will hOld tnen
first monthly meeting OF this college year. Lsse
week the entrance examinations were held, and IN
q conversation with TRIBUNE reporter on SatuI-
day President Barnard expressed satIstaotlOn WIN
the prospects of the college for the coming year.
While 1t Is impossible at present TO tell tne eAaGs
size of the various classes, the comparison WIN
former examination weeks he said. was favorable.
Regarding the much discussed plan for the ad-
vancement of the education of women, which was
adopted recently by the college trustees, Dr. bar
when the prescribed course of study was laid
down bv the trustees last spring / did not thibk
much good would come from It. The trustees we're
asked TO do one thing and they did something
entirely different, and people wanted what they
sought But during the summer there were many
letters received inquiTng about the plan,
aud from persons showing so much inter
est IN the matter that L expected tneIe
would be more candidates for examination
there have been four One IL from BTIdgepOrt ana
two are from this city, and do not know the nome
OF the fourth. Two of them will take the classical
course OF study and two the English course. 40
not know where they will pursue their stndles the
trustees pan allowing them to de so anywhere
outside OF the college, coming here only iOf eAauS
nations and for their certificates at the end OF Tue
four years course. The young woman from DIdggo-
port j. the daughter of wealthy faGtlIy' het
sister was recently graduated from wellesley Cof-
ega. bis 10 not great step towards cOeduCdJtOb'
which must be advanced slowly, tue opposition 10
it arising mostly from mscOnceptOn regarding the
assOCI alton of the All the arguments fhiS u
against coeducatiUn have been successfully met ana
answered in the colleges that have adopted II; DHt
for THIS year, a. ieas. th9 plan i5Id down ~ 'no
trustees OF Colombia viii be tried.
will any new courses OF study DC pursued lhis
year I" asked the reporter. 90,
At the meeting of the trustees several p.ans VIII
be submitted to them and referred 10 the Commit
tee on the Course Of Study. We propose TO lay Out
three four iul courses OF study In the undergrad
nate department. one more or less classical one more
tip faun
to tho study of literature IL Is proposed 10 SuOst-
tute these for the elective studies now pur-
sued. and when a student has chosen one OF these
he will be required to follow 1t as closely as
he required to follow the hOnorrd old claSsl'
cal course. There is also another difference IN the
proposed plan. The elective studies at present 40 not
begin until the Junior, year while
the new courses OF study VIII Degh
in the Freshman year. the trustees have decided 10
give course in sanitary engineering without
comforting the degree OF Sanitary Engineer ms
course is made up OF portions of other courses, ana
is not an entire course, while 1t Is nearly so, ana
until one or two more professors are ADDED III Inls
department no degree will be conferred. Inc
Commute on the School OF Electrical Engineering
has never reported Mayor Low, of Brooklyn, as its
chairman. The trustees have taken the ground
that the various telegraph, telephone electric guJ
and electrical power companies VINO need men
trained in electrical engineering should be VIKING
to help educate them. Ii they VIII contribute
general working plant costing about Slo,OOO, ana
pay ST., coo year toward tue running expenses Oh
the new school will bear the rest OF the expenses
or course that is conditional ON the offer that MT.
Edison made to the COllege-to deposit has eXhlDl-
ton plant, valued, | think, at nearly Sl5O,OOO,
The expenses of the school would be about $4,000
per year. much of which would have to be paid
outside OF the students fees. The School of Mines
does not pay half OF Its expenses, Whllethe annual
fees of the students there are about $4,000, tue
expenses are 100000 The Law School is tine
only one that is not burden on the general fund
Of the college, and It was burden Tor more
than twenty years IL is possible that course
In Arabia may be established this year by the trus-
tees The only changes in the faculties are those
mentioned in The TRIBUNE OF last MOnday-Pro-
lessor Lee the Law School and two instructors III
the Academic Department, one in German and
scandinavian and the other IN French"
"What about the "a, 100000 endowment fundT
Personally | do not know that there has been
any subscription received toward IT. The idea IN
starting this fund last year was TO show the public
that the college IN need OF money with the hope
that If the fund was not raised soon, gentle Ell OF
means might remember the institution Id Their
wills" 80
- Is the new library in working order ~
"Ihe books from the five llbraTlrs-C Oilege, Law
School School of Mines School OF Political Science
tho new library building, but they have not been
classified yet. Twelve persons are now at Work on
the card catalogue under the direction OF MGIYlI
Dewey, the new librarian"
IL was learned further that the register of the
applicants for examination shows q total Of Ill
names. Last spring 80 presented their names and
tAe others were registered during last week. IBIS
is a slight falling OFT from last year. when there were
11S rrgistered-0S III the spring and 20 IN the iall
The School for Political Science Will probably be
larger this year than last The register III the Law
SchUO tuat was opened Saturday showed the
names of II juniors and 30 seniors a larger num-
Der than usual for the first day. At the School of
Mines llS nave applied for examination. The
number Is fully large as that of last year and
will be some what increased.