Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-05

taken In arranging the work OF the City
College to insure close contact between the
instructors and the students.
The latter are divided into sections aver
aging not more than twenty-five students
each. Those composing a section are kept
together from the beginning to the end of
the course, a rule, and circumstances
rarely arise which result in division or re-
arrangement of these sections. The section
policy is so well settled part of the City
College system that the recitation rooms In
the new buildings. now partially occupied
only, are all too small to accommodate
larger number than twenty-five, so that a
cHange of policy in the future would neceS-
state complete remodeling of the buildings
themselves It is held by DR.. Finley the
trustees and the faculty of the City College
that by this plan the student gets all the
advantage Of studying in a large college
without losing the advantages enjoyed by a
student In smaller institution.
New Yorks City College also differs from
most other colleges In this country or else
where rs at present conducted In the small
number of lectures given. In the main in
stead of attending lectures and taking
notes, submitting later to examinations,
by which they stand or fall, the students
attend daily recitations as in the lower
schools. This method may be considered
old-fashioned in some quarters, but It's re
suits are believed to justify adherence to
it and there is thought of change.
Both the classical and the scientific
complete facilities for mechanical training,
including workshops. 1t is insisted that
every student shall receive training In pub
lie speaking; this is another of the dis
tinctive and undoubtedly one of the most
valuable features of the college
Many Nationalities Represented.
Inevitably the students in such a college,
in so cosmopolitan city as New York
are of many nationalities. Merely to read
over the official lists of graduates since
the foundation of the college is to get
some notion of the transformation that has
taken place in the population of the city
Thus the first five names In the list of
graduates In 1853 were Birdsall Brant,
Clark. Compton and Corwin; the first five
names In the list for 1900 were Abrano-
WITT, Adams, Agramonte Albert and Bail
let.
1t may be said of these latter-day stu
dents Of the New York City College that
a more earnest lot can hardly be found be-
tween the oceans. Born, as so many of
them are, of parents coming from lands
where the higher education is unattaina fle
10 people of their class these boys enter
the city College with thirst for Informal
ton that seems positively unquenchable
1t Is not hard to get them to give atten-
ton to their studies. On the contrary It is
difficult to induce them to devote enough
time 10 recreation. between periods thew
are to be heard in the corridors discussing
not foot ball or base ball or any other
sport, but mathematics, history, chemistry,
or whatever subject in the course happens
to come up just then, with all the vehem-
ence that might attend debate upon which
life itself depended. In their pursuit of
knowledge they are undoubtedly the most
eager students of any of the colleges and
universities in the land.
After graduation rather a large proper
ton of them go into the learned profess
sions, such as the law and medicine while
as compared with the graduates of other
colleges, rather a small proportion go into
the various branches of engineering and
other technical lines. They are as intense
ly loyal to the college as they are eager
in their studies
Old and New Buildings.
When the college of the City Of New
York opened It's doors 1t was housed at
the corner of East 23d street and Licking
ton avenue, location then well uptown.
in an oblong red brick building, with
gables and ornamental towers and pin
nacles, which was erected to be it's home
Fully up to date and of ample size at the
time, it has long been outgrown, and, some
years ago. 1t was decided to provide new
home in the shape of a really imposing