New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-01-04
AMONG THE COLLEGES.
CORNELL
rnr APPLIANCES roE EXPERIMENT IN DEPART


MFNTS USEFUL 70 AGRICULTURE;
Ithaca, y. v Jan 3 (spccaD. -work in the Agrtcri-
*ural Experiment station and in the Meteorological ID"
r.au is not Interrupted by vacations. These TWO
State organizations intimately connected with tne
regular work of the university with mutual advah
tage. The Headquarters of the state Meteorological
Bureau I'm Lincoln Hail. over which the we'V"e'
signals daily displayed. The director OF Inc 'oT
lege Of Civil Engineering, Professor e. A. Fuer'es
Is also director of the bureau. The WORK on the hh
cultural Experiment Station is not centralized az
present, but II will be soon rs the Agricultural
building Is ereotss The chemical work is done In the
Chemical Building the botanical WORK I'm the botanical
Laboratories. The entomologist, Professor ComstocK
has however special building for his WORK tha' mas
come TO be known the lnsectdry. IL IL a green
house FOR raising insects When particular insect
Is to be studied the hrs. thing done Is 10 ma ont
what II feeds The plant that furnishes food is
then raised In the greenhouse the insect placed upon
IL, and the professor and his assistants study the
creature under It's normal conditions frolcss'r
Bailey the horticultural, has also fine equipment
for his department OF tho experimental work. lie
recently published important bulletin on the 10
mato plant that had hitherto received little scientific
attention.
In the early days of the university the impression
was prevalent that Cornell a place where any
person could receive education including board
and clothes, free That impression has nearly dsal-
peared but it is interesting 30 what actually is
done by the university to aid INDECENT students Every
year there OLE Undergraduate students receiving
freetuiOn. Tuition is in courses 800, in others
1928 per year. 1t is certain that fully half these
students would pay the higher This represents,
therefore, annual gift by the university OF about
S57 900 To this should be added the amount eX-
pended for scholarships and fellOwshps so that The
total Is sos 900, representing the income at
per vi ST. 800 0OO Even this does not represent
all that is done for "a considerable number of graduate
students also receive free tuition and the university
probably gives further aid concerning which no fsnres
are attainabie.
The appearance Of Professor Branerd q. Smiths
book, Familiar Talks 10 Young Men Who Would
Speak in Public" calls attention to the progress that
has en- made in the Department Of OratoTy. The
Woodford prize competition for the senior class has
long been feature of the senior year. 1t now takes
place. it should, in commencement week. The
seniors are already preparing their oratonS. The
I" 'S6 Memorial Prize" has been established junior
prize in defamation. At the reunion OF the class OF
S6 last June it voted 10 increase the fund left to
establish the prize and if possible TO make it equal
the value of the Woodford prize 500 The value OF
the prize Is at present about 800.
Professor ana students have been greatly inter-
escd in the movement electric road up East
Hill. franchise has finally been granted 10 some
Wilkesbarre capitalist but AS vet no work has been
done on the line. The most practicable route seems
to be up stewart-ave. crossing Cascada Gorge over
the new bridge OF the Town and Gown Club, past the
residence OF Frank Cornell and thence on to the CAM
pus A good dead of reluctance Is manifested TO al
lowing the road 10 the campus at all.
The rise in value of property the university
reminds one OF Western towns when boom strikes
them Few people would have supposed ten years
ago that Cornell University which then had about
$50 students, would be to-day All institution bringing
all told not far from 1000 people TO Ithaca owing
to The peculiar location there is little ground avala
bic for building near the campus, and the pr1oe OF
such land there is has advanced enormously. one
piece which ten years offered for $500 Is now
selling at rate that will make ii bring $4,000. and
lots amounting 81 900 have already been sold rom
e. Rents prOpOfionOtely high. and the younger
married members Of re instrTctng force have great
difficulty IN securing satisfactory homes.