New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-10-28
CORNELL UNIVERSITY.
ANALYSIS OF REGISTRATION FIGUREs-THE
HYDRAULIC LABORATORY.

Ithaca ~ " oct President Schurman has
announced that the registration up TO the present
time shows an attendance OF .s52 as against 1871
a. tho -0rresp0nding date last year, the highest
enrolment over recorded up 20 that time These
figures a9 rot include the registration in the Med
ical College in New-York. which is not yet
finished u thought that the total attendance for
Tie year w. boz about twenty-five hundred. or II
the Summer school and the Winter School in Agri-
cuit.re ave included. about three thousand In the
academic department there over four hundred,
ae-1s, ss) asst year sbley College has reg
is'erel about six hundred and fifty. increase OF
-1 o,.r Ias, year. Of these 20e are freshmen. The
Coles. ~ civil Engineering shows 50 large an In
crease t.at the sections have been doubled IN size
ea.t .rlct0r now having about thirty men. In
te .e-e % Architecture The registration re-
mains Practically the same. u the College Of Asri-
cll'-.. seventy students have thus far registered
g. al. tst sevenfy-four last year Twelve OF the
eEff... -aw students are freshmen. and there are
tweye graduate students The Veterinary College
has rer stored twenty-nine an increase Of five over
lsst The entering class Of sixteen IS just
do-t. -.af - last fall The College OF Forestry
has el over 200 per cent; last year It had five
s'uder. while this year It has sixteen Besides
these .out nifty students from the other colleges
are tai e.. work in forestry In the College OF Law
there l76 undergraduates as against l6o last
year duate students are no longer received
lie re- ,fration shows a slight increase hot"ilh-
sldAlfE the engtheninR or the COuIse ~ tHioo
years and me raising Of the entrance requirements
70 the level Of the academic department The
Graduate school shows increase Of about 10 per
Gent in the Ithaca branch OF the Medical college,
there seventy -hve. against thirtyeight ias'
year There are also thirty-hve students from the
genera. curses taking work In medicine hs s,,
Total o. 10 IN the college as opposeo " -
--ai last year. The registration OF the MeuIca q.
.-ese IN Ncw-York will probably show s-ie I'
Increase dough IN the present quarters not many
It. Christian Association has decided not 10 hold
t'. more meetings on Sunday afternoon, since
'.0 lf. fl.nd % conflict II way with me Ntspvi,
s.t.if The chapel. Instead. the ASSOCIATION NH
Bod .sleral meeting on the last Wednescay
etf of each month. this meeting Will take tIle
place NJ the regular weekly prayer meeting OF uia9
we.t To will usually be addressed by some PROM
meri clergyman or other pubic speaker OF tn99
CITY vicinity The first OF these meetings her1o
o. Wednesday. was addressed b. the Rev J. l.
stone q Cortland
President schurman has been appointed mem IN.
gen " me College Council OF the University o. '1io
sis'e ~ New-York. his term OF ONCE expiring III
Professor Nathaniel Schmidt has been invited oy
lte Lc0c Iratique des Hautes Etudes 10 prepare d
paper on The Gods q Jemen. 70 be presshteu, al
me meeting ~ the Congress international oe ans
iore des Religions. which is 10 take place IN rams
ln September 1910
Aleyne ireland has begun course OF twelve