New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-24

Cornell University. then, was Opened for The re,
ception Of students In october. 1865 1t stands on
the slope of the Cayuea Lake Valley. at the
head of IN" lake. which stretches away To the north
in fun view for score Of miles. The prospect in
all directions is of surprising beauty. The
grounds of the university comprise 20 acres on
which, in the memory of the present generation,
fields of wheat and corn were growing as Presi-
dent White used often to remind the students In.
deed. such crops still flourish there, for 80
acres are devoted the of the College of Agri-
culture and its farm. The rest. forming the campus
the site Of eight stone buildings and five brick
buildings, Tor COLLEGE PURPOSES ana more MA, ,hn
thirty residences OF members or the lacuity. MOT
rill and White Halls are two intellectually similar
buildings. each one hundred and siXty-tve by fifty
feet. and four stories high, containing ecture-rooms
recitatiOn-rooms. Offices etc McGraw Hall, the gift
Of John McCiraw two hundred by sixty feet with a
campanile one hundred ana twenty feet nigh con-
tains library. museums. lecture-rooms and labora-
tories. Lincoln Hall. two hundred by seventy feet.
and five stories high IS the nome OF clv engineer
ing and architecture. The great congerles or build
lev of Rochester. is devoted to mechanical
cheering and the mechanical arts FRANKLIN Hall
Morse Hall by that Of Chemistry Sage College
the gift Of Henry w. Sage provides dormltories ana
"A gymnasium for the women students, and con-
tains also botanical lecture-rooms and laboratories
Ana a anS tb Mamgorl Thape was erected in
honor OF Ezra Cornell John McGraw and Jennie
McGraw Fiske. Another large building is used as
an armory and gymnasium. Barnes Hall. built by
A. : Barnes of New-Yorls Is the home Of the
Place. one OF the largest and oldest buildings. pro;
vides two hundred living rooms FOR students ana
library building. opened two years ago. the git
of Henry W. Sage.
Such is. I'm meagre outline, the material equip
men of the institution Il was opened on October ,
| Z 1868 with Andrew -. White az president On MS
resignation Charles Kendall Adams was IN 1879
chosen To be his successor: and when he also re-
signed. in 1872 the present incumbent Jacob Gould
Schlrrnan was elected to the place. Ii now has
hundred and twenty-five instructors ana sixteen
hundred or more students. both sexes meeting on
equal terms There more than five hundred free
| Scholarships. The library contains 10000 volumes
The major courses OF study are score In number
ranging from art to agriculture. from metaphysics
to veterinary science. For broadness of view and
for depth Of thought for enterprise IN advanced
methods and for conservative horoughness OF schol
arshp alike the great school commands the atten-
! ton and the admiration OF the world. Al twenty
five years old II stands signal example OF
mighty Institution OF learning made. not grown.
built I'm "A single generation, not through the accre-
ton OF ages and II reaZes-not, perhaps, entirely,
but about as nearly any seat OF learning In the
world-the supreme ideal Of its founder: AN insti-
tuition where any person can find instruction In any
study.