The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-11
CORNELL HAS S,46i STUDENTS.
UNTyERSITY'S GROWTH UNDER
PRESIDENT SCHURMAN

Mr. scturmAn In Hls Report FaSors IN
crease OF Teachers Salaries Pension
ing Retired Professors New BuiIdfngs
Erected or IN Course OF Erection.
ITHACA, Nov. I0.-When Jacob Gould
Sohurman became president Of Cornell
h enrolment Of students was 100. Now,
in his fourteenth annual report, he is able
to state that The figures have a little more
than doul led, the numk er Of students in
the university, not counting those in the
summer school and the special winter
courses (nearly sOO). being s.4eI.
Taking up the items in the years record
as President Schurman outlines them to the
board OF trustees. the first point to be noted.
after the changes in the faculty n the
above mentioned board, is the matter of
salaries and pensions. There has teen OF
late considerable discussion Of the question
whether teachers are adequately paid.
President Schurman declares that they are
not. He say that the increase in the cost
Of living calls for higher salaries for teachers.
whether in or out Of college. Cornell has
a fine faculty, and large in proportion to
the enrolment Of students; but IL is con-
sidered that, to make their work more pro-
ductive, the professors should be relieved
Of part Of their present duties and new in
structors added to the teaching force.
An important matter is the ~pensioning
OF retiring professors. The following well
known Cornell professors TALL emeritus)
are now receiving allowances from the
munifcent Carnegie Foundation: Hiram
Corson, English literature; Austin Flint,
M. D., physiology; George c. Caldwell,
chemistry; Isaac p. Rot erts, agriculture;
Charles NJ. Tyler, history religion and ethics.
Cornell Is fortunate also in possessing a
retiring fund OF it's own for its superannuated
professors. The age fixed by both founda-
tions Is 65.
The proportion OF women to. men stu
dents at Cornell rules steady from year
to year at about 10 per cent. This year
there are 3l women studying for Cornell
degrees in course. h women complain
hat they are not on an equal footing with
the male students, but the president thinks
they are fairly treated and that their in
fiuence in the university is AZ great az could
be expected in view OF their numerical
inferiority. DR.. Emily D. Barringer, medi-
cal examiner in Sage College, the women's
college, hnds that most OF the girls who
enter are run down as the result Of over
work in preparing for entrance. Under
her skilful supervision extensive rel rms
are expected; and tue Sage students are
in good hands.
Cornell has kept pace with the other
leading colleges in the matter Of athletic
reform. 1t Is unnecessary, however, to
repeat here the details, 81 they arc already
known TO the public through the spo. ting
columns. 1t is not, however, a work on
su~pererogation to repe.t from President
S~churman's report tie stG tement that the
new Alumni / ield is in part completed
and will at an elrlv date he ready. for the
use of the university, placing the conduct
of athletics on a more satisfactory besls.
Iercy + ield, the present varsity ground,
is badly located, at a distance from the
campus. A plea is made for a new gym
nasium.
During the past year the college OF arts
and sciences has grown moderately in
enrolment and marvellously in ma terie
and equipment, with the acquisition Of two
new buildings, the finest OF their kind.
Goodwin Smith Hall, with a frontage Of 3s4
feet. is the new hone OF the department Of
languages and literature, history, philoso-
ply and economics. The kocksfelier HILL
of FIJI, sizes. given by John d. Rockefeller
and dedicated last June, is deserted as
the finest labor tory on the continent.
1t has 1877 rooms Cor ~classes and lectu' es,
with half a dozen splendidly equipped
special Laboratories.
Other new buildings, especially those for
the Department of Agriculture. for which
the New York IeGislature in 1874 appropri-
ated $25O.OOO. are approaching complet on.
Many of the old buildings are undergoing
alterations, and the campus is teing ex-
tensively improved. These changes con-
st tUte a remarka' lie era of expansion, now
nearinC a natural close. Still, however,
there Is need OF dorn;tories.
The university liz rary at the close OF the
last academic year U9C4-05), contained
SEQ, GS5 volumes and o $50 pam phlets.
Access 'ons durin~ the present year have
nunl cred, respectivelv. IL 957 and 800.
The productive funds OF the university
on August /, 1905. were 81. 1886, s74. As the
avera e rate of interest on university in !
the income availal lie for the present year.
including gifts Int not endowrents. was
81. 1872 4rs. The years expend lures footup
TO 81 IFS, 1857, leaving a ! Glance on the wrong
side Of the hooks NJ $40 ISL. This, plus Ia
bilities for contracts not completed, makes
the years deficit nearly $22 900.
This. however. does not represent the
total OF Cornell's indef tedness. The
TYPHOID epidemic Of three years ago con-
verted an anticipated surplus into a deficit
Of more than s72. onn. swollen " the Gus
tomary annual SHORTAGE (Which forms a
serious item in the administ ration OF every
coIlepe) to the sum of sl04 .6o4.
In closing his report President Schurnau
SAYS that the greatest need of Cornell Is
endowment NJ new profesSorships and i'm
provernent in apparatus and huildin 's.
Next year the univers ~ will
crate The centennial of the birth OF its
founder, Ezra Cornell.