The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-09-19
HERE'S TO old BROWN.
What President {. Benz. Andrews
Says Of the New College Year.
AN INCREASE OF rs PER CENT.
A Detailed Resume of the Changes and
improvements to be Put In Force
This Year on College Hin, From the
President of brown.

Regarding the prospects OF Brown
University for the college year that opens
this week. President 4. Benjamin An
drews says:
.The year opens at Brown University
with the prospect of much larger at
tendance tlal ever before Counting
women students, the lew enrolment
will not fall far short OF 200, an increase
of nearly Z, per cent. IL Is more likely 10
exceed these figures. The dormlt0ry ac-
commodations were exhausted IN June.
Two large aud commodous houses near
the campus, each able to shelter about
TWENTY-FIVE men, have since then been
fitted for use AS dormitorles. Iness are
now full, without providing for All apph-
cants, One hundred and ten young men
have at this date, sept. ID, appiied Tor ad-
mission to the Freshman class. ana Dy
the first OF the term the number VIII
probably reach at least lsV.
''I'he old courses OF study have all been
amplified of late, and a great many new
ones added. The important department
of the fine arts has just been given an
and endent status aud placed In the
ch 20 OF Prof. w. Q. Poland, who was
last year director of the American School
of Classic cal Antiquity at Athens.
"A department. of the English language,
independent of rhetoric aud OF English
literature, has been created, with Prof
j. NJ Manly, Ph. d., at his head. Mean
time more courses tnan heretofore are To
be offered in English literature, To which
a new professor. w. &. Bronson, A. NJ,
called from DePauw University, Indiana,
will devote his entire strength. The de
partment Of philosophy has enlarged its
force and is undertaking additional work.
"a psychological laboratory has been
instituted, in which DR.. K. Is. Delabarre
is engaged upon new and interesting
problems OF tnat science. The chemical
laboratory has just been completely re-
modelled so as to supply working places
for l30 students, about double what could
be accommodated before the professorship
OF Natural Theology, founded some years
ago by the late ProI. Romeo Elton, is now
filled, its incumbent being James Seth,
A. NJ, lately Professor OF Philosophy in
Dalhousie College, Halifax. Prof Albert
Harkness has resigned the Greek chair,
and Irving j. Manatt, Ph. D., LII. d., re.
Gently Chancellor OF tho University of
Nebraska, succeeds him. Rhetoric is TO
be taught By new plan, involving the
detailed individual drill in composition of
every student pursuing this branch.
'Io insure improved thoroughness in
freshman mathematics the new class will
be broken into smaller sections than here
tofore. The above and other changes
necessltate net addition of nine men TO
our teaching force, four of whom. how
ever. will not devote their entire time to
the work of instruction.
by vote of its corporation on Sept. 2,
1901. Brown University opened all its ex-
aminat1ons TO women. By a further vote,
on June 2l, 1892, IL opened all It's degrees
TO women. BY third vote, on June %,
1892. to women already holding Bachelors
degrees, and, TO other women of liberal
education who may secure special per-
mission, 1t opened. on the same terms as
TO men, all those Of its courses of instruc-
tion which are intended for graduate
students. This is the most liberal action
toward women yet taken by any of the
old American universities. So far as its
graduate department Is concerned, Brown
now places women on exactly the same
footing as men. In respect to instruction,
examinations and degrees, the two sexes
are treated precisely alike.
. In the undergraduate department the
university offers to examine all women
candidates. and to crown with any Of its
degrees every woman candidate who
passes all the examinations required for
che degree sought; but, in this depart
ment. IL does not yet offer to women any
classroom instruction. First-rate under
graduate instruction for women is, how
ever, provided otherwise. nnder ths direct
surveillance Of college officers.
" An elegant and well-lighted building
near the university forms the headquar-
ters OF the Women's College, and L. Il.
Snow Is its Dean. 1t Is expected that
about thirty young ladies will at once
avail themselves Of these new privileges.
Ultimately the number will treble this
TIE University Extension numbers
over fifteen hundred out-pupils, and oc-
cupies centres throughout RHODE ISLAND
and Eastern Massachusetts,. We believe
this to be beginning Of q most useful
educational mission. Active measures
are in progress greatly To enlarge ia scone
''The War Department has recently de-
tailed Lieut.. William j. Pardee of the
Twenty-ffth Infantry as Instructor in
military tactics In Brown University. His
work with the Sophomore and Freshman
classes will begin az once"