Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-10-19


Professor Taff Of Cornell University
Ithaca, N. y, who l. lust back from
his summer N Greenland, oonRfatu.
laies himself on briug the only g,olo-
gist who has ever seen the entire
Labrador COST from emu 10 end. Tn,
Hope, Ia when he sailed, Kept within
sight OF land al the way from New.
i0undlnud 10 Hudeon straits, goI ng
very slowly because OIL tho ice, and
ihere was ABOUT only one hours dark.
mess during tue entire fortnight con.
sumed IN this way. Professor TAR
has enlayed such an advantage once
before, when hu was on tho United
states Geological Survey. Hu wss as.
signed a task which necesaitated his
diving aefoss tle state Of Texas along
the line Of gfealcst width, a distance
Of l 800 mites.
Education 10 curious thing. A
Russian nihilisi, a gtaIuste OF the
Univufsliy OF 81. Peters ufg, was 10.
ceutly Tufauine advanced studies In
Cornell UniveEsity. lie was profess.
lns HE great admiration br Pfssidont
Lincoln, when some one chance TO
mention his naiassination. Tue Rue
,lan's look OF asiouishm0ht would have
mudc HE fortune On the stage. Yet
this same mao, who did not know
Abrsham LiucOin was aasAaslnaied,
had foad every one VI Coopef'a novels
In n Russian tfanslation.
Tho present prominence Of economic
questions has IT. 'iisci upon the stu.
dents In our univofsitics. At Cornell
Univefaily Tue total registration IN ali
hfsncheu Of political science Wa i7aiu
lt0j.o6 40 against $40 10 1894 p5, IN.
gfowth was cnitny III the diyleion
known at Cornell As "politic.. -
which iroluiss couues on Toe
history u ipoliiiuAi Ideas, The
history OF tho &C 18th aud Ievrlop.
muut OF political institutions, snr,
ihis goes TO show how American
univuTsities serve ~ n sort OF regulator
- tue Political machine, pa ting an In.
creased uumbsT OF educated intn on
tue track VI the truth IN any line la
wnirh the nation 10 particularly 10
need VI light
Cornell students need not 20 TO Ger.
many Tor urrmtny mas been com Nc "a
them. Pf0ieasor Wilhelm Dorpfe Al.
tfut secretary Of the 0rfman Arc 10
logical Institute at Athens, has b,y,,
ltctuflng NJ Cornell ou tue sxeaya.
lions ~ Homet'a Troy, In which IA.
played q par; on tho Greek theat.t.
aud on Geek architecture. Ho Ice.
tured In German. 80 did Pfofsssof
Johauurs Conrad Of tho unlvefsity o
Halle, Germany, who laeluted NJ Cor.
nell last week on recent Hloialistie
legislation m Gefmany. Professor & IN.
rad 4 y pfivy councillor Of thr Ger.
man emperor, and hencs knew whefeoi
ne spoke,
Tho Cornell University library 70.
p0rts n grown tor tho year 1898 d nj
ls,O23 volumes aud 200 pamphlsts.
TOTS REPRESENTS tho normal Rfowth Of
tho library siuos IL endowmsut Nv the
Hon. Henry sage. TOE total number
IL now 1856, 900 vOlumes and 40. 900
pamphlets. About 1900 volumes come
snuually 10 Cornell Uniysrsliy az
giits. During the past year Nj. VIII.
lard Fiske gave 800 chiefly on Danto.
but some 10 DO Auuod 10 tne Rnasio.
komanic collection; eK.Pftsiue,
White and Theodore stanton preseutei
aums 800 each; Professor Cfanu gave
$50 rare anu valuable v0 umus and the
rect came In small gus. The year
was chiefly marked, IN tue matter Of
pufohases, by the acquisition OF large
numuor VI atis Of literary aud rcltntific
periodicals., chiefly Germau aud
eighteoni h'centufy English.
The Cornell UniversiIy campus IL to
have a new gateway at liz enhance.
given ~ the Hon. Andrew ID, White
OF the United States Ven, zuelan com.
mission, Tue gateway, Whioh a 10
estimated viii clsl $4,000, IL Designed
~ Atchilscl W. II. hnl.rE OF Ithaca.
IL 10 u 10 huilt Vi alternate ufsv, of
ONO tAudalono anu limestone. me
roadway opening, seven. con feft In
width, runs between piers twenty.
seven feet Ia width, aud 10 II mixed by
iootway openings seven feet 10 width.
Tablets lot intO the centres OF the wing
walls are inscribed resp otfully as
enter lha' uaily thOu muysst brooms
more learned nnd mOfs ihoughttul; 20
ueparl thai daily thou msytsi bee, me
more use.ul to thy country and 10
manhlnd,' Ihln beiug the tfansiatlon
Of The Inscription oil an OH Italian
gateway anu "rhp Lord bless INV
i1lnl out Aud thy coming la from hi.
.lme i0fih iuftysTmoTr."