Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-27
ART At COL j N B|A
Establishment of a School
Practically Assured.
TO BE ON A HIGH GRADE
INSTITUTIONS ALLIED WITH THE
METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY.
Proposed School of Journalism - Ar
rangement Of the Buildings
Thousands of Students.
TO BE ON A HIGH GRADE
BY WILLIAM E. CURTIS.
Correspondence of The Star and the Chicago Record
. Herald.

| BY WILLIAM E. CURTIS
Correspondence of The Star and the Chicago Record
! Herald.
| NEW YORK, May &c, 1905.
| movement is on foot, and it's success
is practically assured, to establish, in con-
| nection with Columbia University, school
| on the plan Of the Beaux Arts of Paris.
An agreement has been entered into by the
| National Academy OF Design and the
| trustees of the university, under which the
| latter grant (rent free) a plot of ground
| IOx2GO feet in area at the southeast cor
ner of Broadway and 10th street, as a site
| for a school of fine arts. The members OF
| the academy agree to raise the sum OF
$500 600 of which 100000 has already been
| subscribed, to cover the cost of the build
| ing, which has been designed by Mck1m'
! Meade & White. The trustees OF the uni
versity will aid in raising the funds Inc
| school will be represented in the university
| council by its dean on the same basis
| as the other professional schools, and the
| trustees agree to provide faculty ana
maintain professorships In architecture
| music art history, art-criticism, architect
| ure sculpture and such other branches as
may be decided upon. The students ad-
| mitted to the school are to have all rights
| and privileges enjoyed by other students
! Of the university, and diplomas and de-
| grees will be conferred upon graduates
| fulfilling the requirements.
| At a recent meeting of the trustees OF
| the university Charles F. Mckim ana
| Thomas Hastings were appointed directors
| of ateliers with the rank of professors
| in the school of architecture There are
| several art schools in New York, but none
| of a grade so high as it is proposed TO
| make this one.
Allied Institutions.
Columbia University. under its present
| &c ayfa i
| usefulness and influence in various direc-
| tons and has already become one of the
! greatest institutions in the world. 1t has
| recently entered into a close alliance with
| the General Theological Seminary of the
| Episcopal Church, with which it will here
| after have the same relations that now
! exist with the Union Theological Seminary
! of the Presbyterian Church; and its DEAN
| the Very Rev. Wilferd L. Robbins, has al
| ready taken his seat as member OF the
| university council Under this arrange
| ment the representatives of the two theo-
| logical schools become members of the
| governing body of the university, and STU
| dents of the university have the privilege
| of lectures and instructions at the semi
| naries in ethics, Greek Testament history,
| the Semitic languages, the philosophy of re-
| ligion and other studies required for the
| degrees of master of arts and doctor of
| philosophy. Without relinquishing their in
| dependence or individuality the three lnStl-
| buttons will hereafter have close utilization
| and cooperate in making theological train
| ing as scholarly and as catholic as posi-
| BILE.
Last year the College of Pharmacy of the
| city of New York. founded in 1929 became
| a member of the university system by an
! agreement similar to those under which
Barnard College for Women and the Teach
| ers' College We're incorporated in the uni
| versity. The graduates of the College of
| Pharmacy will receive their degrees for the
| first time from the president of the univer-
| inc lrO1fl an
| is of the Oldest and most important
| schools of pharmacy, and by this action
| the university influence is extended over
| another branch of professional education,
| and a large, important and useful body of
| men will receive u higher recognition Tor
| their calling.
Proposed School of Journalism.
| Joseph Pulitzer proprietor of the New
York World, has given 81 ,OOO0 GOO in trust
| for the establishment of a college of jour
| nalism under the care of the university.
| Under the terms of the gift he reserved TO
| himself the right to select whenever he
| sees fit, an advisory board composed of
| practical editors and publishers, who shall
| decide upon organization and courses
| of study, and determine several novel QuaS-
| tons which are involved in the scheme.
| Practical newspaper men have always re-
garded colleges of Journalism with con-
| tempt and have treated them with ridicule.
Our best reporters and editors have been
graduates of city composing rooms and
country printing offices, and Horace Greeley
expressed the sentiment of the practical
men of his profession when he said that he
did not want any college graduates or
other horned critters around his Office
| Every managing editor and city editor who
| has had to deal with ambitious ana sell
confident young men fresh from college
| knows exactly what Mr.. Greeley meant;
| but it must be conceded that college ed
| ucation need not prevent man from be-
l fhnp a
| good lawyer or farmer. The difficulty has
| not been in the education. but in the men,
| and there people who believe that a
| school of Journalism may be made prac-
| teal and useful. In other words, young
| man who intends to be a reporter or ed
itor may be benefited by instruction. in
| forma ton and advice from experiencedmem-
| bers of the profession. 1t is also conceded
| in these modern days that a college grad
| uate may be qualified for manufacturing
| OF mercantile career by postgraduate
| course, as well as lawyer or a doctor or
\ a minister.
| An unusual degree of interest has been
| manifested in the proposed school of jour
| nalism and several students have already
| offered themselves: However Mr.. fun.zef
| has not yet selected his board and the open-
| ing of the school has been deferred for the
| present.
Recent Gifts to Columbia.
Columbia has recently received gifts
| amounting to nearly two and half mil
| lions Of dollars. About one-half of this
| sum has been for endowment, and the
| greater part of the remainder for buildings
| and grounds. During the past three years
| the educational resources of the institution
| have thus been increased more than $780,
| 600 and that is exclusive of an anonymous
gift Of quarter of million for chapel,
| an equal sum from Mr.. Adolph Lewiston
| for a school of mines, $35O,O00 for Hartley
| Hail. a dormitory now nearly finished, and
! pledges of several other large amounts. The
| most recent gft-half million dollars for
| a new lecture hall-like most of the others.
| is anonymous and report has been circu-
! lated that 1t came from member of the
present senior class, who resides with his
| family in the city. A reporter Of one of
the morning newspapers called up this
young mans family on the phone to make
some inquiries and was answered by his
| father.
HAS your son given half million dol
lars for a building for Columbia Uni
versity?" asked the reporter.
He is not here now" was the reply. "Ill
ask him about 1t when he comes home"
The new building will be named In honor
Of Alexander Hamilton, gentleman of