The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-02
Hennepin county Republican committee
during the recent campaign.
NOTES FROM CORNELL.
Items of News From the College O,
the Hill.

Items of News From the College on
the Hill.
| ITHACA, N. Y, Dec. 1.-(Spec:al. AS
is we'll known, Cornell students in me-
| chanlcal engineering are given an &C,
| qua1ntance with the mechanical trades
| over and above their heavy course OF
mathematics and physical science. that
they may understand the materials as
| well as the principles OF the engineer
This work, with these students, takes
| the place of athletic exercises. Outside
the classroom the "Sibley man. usually
employs his muscle swinging q black
sIndun hammer rather than pulling
varsity oar. So enthusiastically do the
| boys amuse themselves in this work that
| the ingenuity of their instructors Is con-
stantly taxed to find new problems TOR
them to solve. Now, in response to a
request from Prof. ThurstOn. the West
inghouse companies, the General Filec-
trio, the Allis Co, and other great
builders Of steam and electric machinery
are oVerhauling their pattern lofts, and
looking up unused samples of fine and
difficult work to contribute to the col
lection of graded exercises from real
life" which are employed IN the practical
work of the university foundry.
Mr.. Arthur Farwell, lecturer on music
in Cornell university, is an advocate of
is to be attained by uniting the wild
melodies of our Indian music to the pre-
Vailing German harmonies. Mr. FarWeil
has made a thorough study of the In
dian music of the Northwest. and is now
at work on Cornell Overture" in
which several of the favorite songs of
the university are to be interviewer with
Indian melodies in the hope of revealing
the possibilities Of a strictly American
music.
President Sckrrman has announced
that the New York State College Of
Forestry at Cornell university, has been
asked to send six trained men to work
in the forestry bureau of the Philippine
islands. He has also been notified that
Fflipinos, graduates of colleges in the
islands, are to lie sent to Cornell in the
near future for a professional training
in the same line. The New York State
College of Forestry has been in ex-
istence only two years, and has, az
yet, graduated only one man. They will
be found, however, as fast as possible.
The Royal Academy of Sweden has ex.
tended to Prof Thurston, of Cornell
university an invitation to submit an
entry in the contest for the Nobel prizes
No one is allowed to compete who is
not recognized authority in his line of
work, and of those who are, only those
specifically invited by the Royal acad-
envy. This invitation, therefore, consd-
tutes distinct and well recognized sci
entific honor.
Cornell university has this year 21i
more students In residence in Ithaca
than in 1899, and in that year there were
1S5 more than ever before. An increase
of 400 students IN two years is a notable
sign of public approval of the institution.
1t is also, naturally, calculated to over
crowd classrooms and laboratories
which before were adequate, and Presi-
dent Schurman states that the questio1
of building bigger, or rather of finding
funds with which to do so, is becoming
acute at Cornell
The extent to which students in Amer
lean colleges pass from one institution
to another in which they expect better
instruction or larger opportunities is not
easily realized. The last report of Pres
ident Sehurman gives some figures on
that immigration into Cornell university,
so to speak, from other colleges During
the past thirteen years the number OF
students who have left other, usually
smaller institutions. to finish in this one
university alone, is ISL. During the