Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-03

the degree of B. NJ. E. in 1878. In 1885.
after seven years of practical work. first
as foreman of the Straight Line Engine
Company Of Syracuse and later as supern-
tendent of the KingsfOrd Foundry and
Machine Works of Oswego, he returned to
Cornell as fellow in mechanical engineer
ing and took the degree of M. M. E. at the
following commencement In 1887 he
was appointed assistant professor of me-
chanical engineering In Sibley College. In
1891 he was called from here to the profess
sorship of machine design in the University
OF Wisconsin, and since 1892 he has been
IN charge of the department of mechanical
engineering in Leland Stanford, Junior.
University. He has also been engaged at
various times in important work with COM
mercial companies He is a member of
Sigma XII and of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, and the author of
Elementary Machine Design and Materi-
ais Of Machines in addition to numerous
articles in engineering periodicals.
Even Comedians themselves it is de-
clared. do not appreciate the growth of
their alma mater until surprised by an
array of facts and figures. For the under
graduate it Is so natural to think that all
he sees around him has been long since
finished and must ever remain as he finds
it. The university has grown, Sc President
Jacob G. Schurman makes clear in his last
report to the point where new buildings,
new professors, new schools, new courses
of study are Imperative. Alumni begin to
realize that when they knew it. big as it
is old enough now to have a second genera
ton, and the sons of their fathers be-
ginning to get pretty thick. They say it
takes ivy to make a university. and that
grows slowly. But the tendrils are now
well started at Cornell.
Number of Students Enrolled.
The total number of students enrolled in
the university last year was 4,122-the first
year in which the attendance exceeded four
Thn rafn Of hos, hoot,
very rapid. for it was only four years ago,
in 1901-1902, that the aggregate enrolment
first exceeded three thousand. These fig
ures include the students of both the sum-
mer session and the winter college in agri-
culture. Excluding those. and taking ac-
count only of students regularly enrolled
during the academic year, the number reg
istered in the year 1905-1sO6 was S.461. Of
whom 371 were women. The highest en-
rollment of women the university ever had
was 400 in the first academic year of the
twentieth century. The college with the
largest enrolment is Sibley which had ,096
students last year. Next comes Arts and
Sciences, with 705: then Civil Engineering,
with 1875: Medicine. with 304; the graduate
department, with 232: Agriculture. with
with So. and Architecture, with 81. These
students come from every state in the
Union and nearly every civilized country.
1t will interest many people in Washing
ton to know that the District of Columbia
is well represented by some of the best
and brightest students In the university
They are particularly distinguished as a
body by their work in tn eCadet Corps
which speaks well for the military training
that they receive in the Washington schools
They have organized social club. known
by the distinctive name of the Senate.
The past year. 1t is stated, has seen the
elimination, If not the completion, of an
era OF extensive material construction and
reconstruction at Cornell. The most impor-