New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-31
PRESIDENT SCHURMAN'S REPORT.
YEAR OF PROSPERITY FOR CORNELL UNI-
vERsITY-THE NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL.

YEAR OF PROSPERITY FOR CORNELL UNI-
vERsGTY-THE NEW MEDICAL SCHOOL
Ithaca, y. Y. oct 9o-At the fall meeting o, thu
Board OF Trustees which was held here to-day. Pres
iIent Schurman presented his sixth annua! report.
President Schurnan says Of ls99S II. is within safe
bounds 10 say that the year has been the most
prosperous and healthtul and in very many ways
the most memorable in the history OF the Uni
versty Not only has the attendance been larger
than ever before but owing 10 the great advance
made in recent years in the standards OF admission
10 nearly all courses. striking improvement has
been wrought and Is markedly visible In thu
scholarship Of this augmented body OF students
And while the intellectual lie OF the University
runs so high the year has Witnessed a hitherto
unparalleled expansion OF It's material resources"
Ia speaking OF the students President Schurman
makes the interesting statement that the age o.
freshmen at entrance has been falling continuously
tor three years although the standard OF require
ments for admission was at the same time con-
tinuously rising "Median age" o. Cornell iresh-
men was nineteen years and eleven months N
1876. nineteen years and eight months III l>%-5i
and nineteen years ana seven months IN lN:'-'>
Apparently this can on.y that the high schools
OF the country .rc rapidly increasing III tnclrncy.
Of Cornell President Schurmau among no
signs OF increasing prospcriy i2T ne sradnatr de
partment that AN unprecedentedly .arge numosr ..
Graduates. having satisfactorily competed tn'F
candidacy received the Pm. ID. degree-tweuty -three
pcrsons-whch IL ~ per cent h!sher IMAM tAe NUM-
Der for any preceding year ,
Under the head OF the hcdu'Hll' htpd lH' i'' ~
choice of studies by freshmen mo" entirely ;reel
forms the topic of CHIEF interest. II has been
found that there larg" preponderance or elrc-
lives In languages being 52i 10 81 or an other stud
les I'm the latter hgure are included 10 courses
elected I'm science. eighty m history and political
science and seventy-seven In mathematics. the most
popular scienCHs are chemistry ana phySloosy yet
more courses are elected in Latin than IN both
fhe event OF the year. and one OF the epoch
making events in the whole history or Cornell
i'ni~ersity was the establishment % the Medical
College. The president says:
1t, afale - -
city the ideal OF "A medical department would 20
one which should be located IN New-York city bat
which should AT the same time utilize the scientific
instruction offered I'm the academic department at
Ithaca. j. practice this means provision FOR full
four-year IN New York. with the duplication
at Ithaca OF the first two years o; the course-the
scientific bases Of medicine-lnatomy. physiology
chemistry bacteriology histology. etc.
Thanks the generosity and wisdom OF Colonel
Oliver II. Payne. this ideal IL an actually. All
the advantages OF Cornell University rural and
the science OF medicine. The great hospitals OF
NeW-York City with which an unusually large pro
portion OF the faculty are connected I'm the capacity
~ surgeons or physicians. make II imperative that
by all students OF the college In that city where
the opportunities OF clinical instruction are literally
unsurpassed
The report closes with a section on the financial
situation OF Cornell which shows that the donations
received In ls9,-'9s footed up sS7.l95 The total
income for the year including State appropriations
o. $500 for the state Veterinary College ana $500
for the College OF Agriculture. S6t3o0o COrneH
had invested August l. 1895 S.. 2a 59a which bore
the average rate OF interest OF 5s25 per cent W
this A02,.3& Is In old Investments bearing per
cent On this large portion OF Cornelrs capital not
more than per cent be expected when IN q
feg years Il falls due and has TO be reinyesteJ'
President sehurman therefore calls for more gi''s