Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-27

eraI years ago. AFTER t1e present site OH
Morningside Heights was purchased. CO.
lumbia is exceedingly fortunate, like Johns
Hopkins and Stanford universities. in being
able to start anew on vacant ground and ar
range its buildings in size. style and leca-
ton in a symmetrical and artistic manner.
without the sacrifice of individuality or con-
venence. The plan adopted provides for
double, or rather quadruple, quadrangle.
with the present library tone of the finest of
modern buildngs) in the center. When the
group is completed it will be unsurpassed
except by Leland Stanford University.
The university now owns 34.5 acres on the
summit of Morningside Heights. with park
on the east and on the west and surrounded
by other buildings for public purposes of
similar Importance like the Cathedral of st.
John the Divine, st. LukeS Hospital ana
the tomb of Gen Grant The property oc-
cupied represents value of from sixteen
| to eighteen millions of dollars. while other
! real estate held as investments is valued at
| nearly as much more. making the total real
estate holdings upward of thirty-five mil
! lions.
| The income of Columbia is in the neigh
| borhood of 81, 500 600 year This includes
Barnard College for Women and the Teach
ers College, to which Mr.. Rockefeller has
recently given half a million dollars and
| has promised to duplicate dollar for dollar
all contributions made by others toward the
! endowment fund. Barnard continues to
| grow in influence and public confidence. and
| not only ranks with the highest colleges for
women elsewhere, but holds its with
Columbia College, the corresponding aca-
demic department for men students.
The new university chapel will be quite as
notable a building as the library, and dis
tinguished example of ecclesiastical arch-
lecture. 1t will be cruciform in shape. the
| greatest length being I'D feet and the width
at the transept II feet. with about LOCO sit
tings In the body and 100 in the choir.
Nearly 5000 Students.
The books of the registrar show total
of 1881 students, an increase of $40 over
last year. This is exclusive of extension
students. of whom there 1854, as
against $50 last year. The academic de-
partment has 534, increase of 6; Bar
nard, 1856 an increase of 3, and the grad
uate faculties of political science philoso-
ply and pure science have 1S2, an in
crease of SO from last year. There are "a
students in the school of architecture; 80
in the school of music; $40 in the law
school; $50 in the medical school. $50 in
the school of applied science and 435 in
the college of pharmacy.
The number of foreign students at CO.
lumbia is remarkable. They come from
Asia, South America and from almost every
country of Europe, because the reputation
of the university in certain departments
is strong enough to draw them across the
seas Nearly 1,50O of the total number of
students graduates of other colleges,
representing PA American and 81 for
eign institutions. Most of them in the
school of liberal arts and sciences candi-
dates for the higher degrees and to obtain
a thorugh training in Columbia's methods
of investigation and research. The graduate
schools play far larger part, both relative
ly and absolutely, in the intellectual life
of Columbia than in that of any other uni
versity. They are the stimulus to vigorous
investigation research and publication by
the professors, and the contributions to
knowledge issued annually from Morning
side Heights in number and importance, are
equal If they do not exceed. those issued
from other institutions of learning. The
lac 1t.,1n IA Ions liCt e NaJI-
odicals, which regularly go out from CO.
lumbia and take no account whatever of
the thousands of monographs magazine
articles and other publications by the Of
fcers and students.
University Organization.
The organization is democratic and eff
fective, Each faculty is a legislative body
with almost unrestricted power over its
own branch of university work The uni
versty council, made up of the deans of
the several faculties and of one additional
representative chosen from and by each
faculty, is not as is usual, ornamental
body, but a sort of senate or upper legisla-
tive chamber, decisive voice in shaping
the policy of the institution
But the greatest distinction of Columbia
among educational institutions is that it is
pre-eminently and dominantly a university
of the urban type. AS President Butler said
the other day: Our business and academic
organization, our administrative machinery
and operations, resemble more those of a
great railway or industrial corporation than
the old-fashioned familiar rural college.
The material problems of the university
are urban problems both in size, complex
ity and amount. The vigorous intellectual
life of the university is urban and its great
productive capacity
Columbia was founded during the reign
of George II, and was originally known as
Kings College. The purpose of the insti-
tuition set forth in the original announce
ment, October 81, 1874, is:
"a serious, virtuous and Industrious
course of life being first provided for, it is
further the design of this college to instruct
and perfect the youth in the learned Ian
guages and in the arts of reasoning exact
ly of writing correctly, and speaking elo-
quently, and in the arts of measuring and
numbering, of surveying and navigation of
geography and history, of husbandry, COM
merce and government; and in the knowl-
edge of all nature in the heavens above us,
and in the air, water and earth around us;
and the various kinds of 'meteors, stones,
minerals and mines, plants and animals,
and Of everything useful for the comfort,
the convenience and the elegance of life,
in the chief manufactures relating to these
things; and finally to lead them from the
study of nature, to the knowledge of them
selves. and of the God of nature, and their
duty to Him, themselves and one another;
and everything that can contribute to their
true happiness both here and hereafter