The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-30
CORNELIS GREAT YEAR.
UNUSUAL PROSPERITY FOB TIE IN
sT1TUTTON At ITHACA.
President schurmRn's Annual Report
Attention Called to the New School OF
Forestry and the Medical College in
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President schurmRn's Annual Report
Attention Called to the New School OF
Forestry and the Medical College in
THIS City-Advance in Scholarship.
ITHACA. Oct. 2o.-At the fall meeting Of the
Board OF Trustees OF Cornell University, which
was held here to-day. President Schurman pre-
scented his sixth annual report. Under the
bead OF The Year in General" President
schurman says Of 18e7-9S:
1T Is within safe bounds to say that the year
has been the most prosperous and healthful
and In very many ways the most memorable
In the history OF the university. Not only has
the attendance been larger than ever before.
but. owing to the great advance made in recent
years in the standards OF admission to nearly
all courses. n strikinR improvement has been
wrought and Is now markedly visible In the
scholarship OF this augmented body OF stu
dents. And while the intellectual life OF the
university runs so high, the year has witnessed
q hitherto unparalleled expansion OF its mate
rial resources. Apart from the completion OF
the great hydraulic laboratory and dam at
Triphammer Falls. the enlargement Of Sage
Chapel. now practically finished. and the addi-
ton to Morse Hall. which ls already begun
all OF which have been charges on the existing
resources Of the university t~reasury-the req
ords OF the year are illustrated by three splen-
did benefactions.
The mansion OF the late Chairman OF the
board was conveyed by his sons-Dean Sage
and William II. SaRe-to the university as o
memorial to their father. to be used as an in
Urinary. And they not only fitted 1t up and
equipped 1t for that purpose. but for lts per-
petual maintenance they presented with II an
endowment OF 100000. The State OF New
York. following the precedent Of the leGisla-
ton establishing at Cornell the State Veteri-
parry college. established this year the New
York State College OF Forestry. which. ,lik Q the
State and administered by Cornell University.
The laboratory Of this college will be the
demonstration area Of 80, 900 acres of forest
In the Adirondacks which the State pur-
chases.
But the most splendid gift OF the year is due
to the generosity Of q new benefactor whose
muniticence has enabled the Board Of Trus-
tees. without expanding one cent OF their in
come, to establish q great department which
%cational work OF the u1iversity-a department
OF medicine: and 1t Is the ambition Of this gen.
erou5 benetactor to make the Cornell Univer-
slty. Medical College. which has Just been or
Ranized, second to none in the world. 1t Is at
once q high honor and q signal mark Of public
confidence that Cornell University should have
been selected. BOTH by the State and by pri-
benefactions and the organ Of such noble pur-
poses. It is q new illustration of the discov-
cry. long ago made by shrewd business men
like Cornell, Sage, McGraw and Sibley. thatin
this university, phllanthroplsts may find an
unexcelled field for the Investment OF funds In
perpetual trust Fl the elevation OF the human
race"