New-York tribune., 1908-11-09
TO EDUCATE NEW YORK
DR.. Butler Tells What Is Needed to
Make Tt Citg of Culture.

Tho renor. of rr Nicholas Murray Butler TO the
trustees OF Columbia University. made pubic VesleI-
day. showed that. for the first time IN me eieFe
wears in which columbia has occupied us present
site m Mo-ninrside Heights. the year had passed
without any especial addition 10 the debt or impair
rTent OF capital. There was a denciencg OF sAS'-
81 o. in general income but rents sufficient to meet
this were due though not collected during the year
because of the expiration OF leases ana noh-Colh-
petiop OF negotiations for their renewal
This satisfactory condition. says the report was
obtained only by rigid economy. ana can ne con
tinued only by further exercise OF this economy
re, he, the new buildings cannot be had without
large additional endoEments- In the year l%'-oe
gifts TO Columbia amounted 70 s01l9S "a more tha
$3.50 600 less than IN the preceding acederrlo Ve4i.
Ia the last seven years the university has received
= Total of S102s62as 5s The value Of real estate
holdings nov Is placed at s33. .7s1621 61 The bud
get for the corning year places the expenses al
s2l021I6 20. and the income from fees from STU
dents at 0z5 40 Al. The difference Is TO be maze
up rron rentals interest on Investments and nisce
Isneous sources
Dr Butler SAYS the need for several new buildings
is imperative to accommodate the rapid growth Of
the university These buildings, he estimates Will
cost about 100000. The completion Of Kent Hail,
the new Law school building, Of University Hall to
cost about s. oOo 600 another lecture building, a
students clubhouse and new dorrnitory on South
Field are included IN this estimate
The continued rapid growth Of the college is
matter for sincere congratuaton. says Dr. Butler,
fully thought out and persistentIy executed have
commended themselves and are commencing them
selves parents and teachers. The education which
Columbia College offers may be said TO he old
fashioned in the best sense OF the word neverthe-
less il is modern il its spirit its vigor and its
wealth Of opportunity
Dr. Butler speaks in praise of the work done at
the summer session, whose attendance now has
reached the total Of 1852, OF whom $50 were ma
circulated students. both TO the aims Of those
nd Tie
the work OF extension teaching and the policy Of
the combined course" put into effect al CoiuTn-
hia. predicting that before many years the com
bined viii be universal throughout the United
States
In ending the report he makes strong plea Tor
New York culture city saving.
The New York Of to-day and much more the
New York Of the next generation, REQUIRES for It's
and finest spirits amply endowed and eauippsd for
50 ordered and arranged as to be useful to the
scholar and Instructive 70 the public. library SO
te0ty managed that the intelligent reader may al
wsys turn II assured OF helpful service: en-
dowTnent for providing music Of the best type that
win not only educate and refine the musical taste
hours of thousands and millions Of the teenng pop
uation. and finally : p-o-lsion which VII m insure %
knowledge how best and most speedily TO improve
the domestic and economic conditions OF It's less
fortunate members in order that they. too may he
SCI free Tor that growth IN knowledge and th7t
wider education which viii make OF them their
children better Americans and better human beings
= the philanthropy and almost bOUndisSs wealth
OF New J ork could be directed into these definite
channels, and II they could De taught 10 cease
from scattering themselves over thousand and
one more o. less competing and conflicting pur-
poses and aims. the progress Of New York toward
the place of the first of the worlds culture cities
would be rapid indeed. Fifty millions Of dollars
or. better Yet. hundred millions OF dolars-aT-
piled in equal parts 70 the endowment OF eacE
o. the five culture agencies that have mentioned
would q for New York and for
America Millions OF well intended dollars are
wasted every year by uuwise giving.
Diversity Is sought where there should ne con
centraCion. the uniTupOT1aDt Is exalted above the
essential. and the bizarre not tnfrsquentlT takes
The place OF the fundamental New York needs men
and OF wisdom adequate 10 their wealth.
and who viii resist the temptation
10 scatter and divert the benefits which their
gifts may bring 70 pass, ana VINO will turn them
into one Of the few main channels from which
alone can q future New York and { future
America that viii be splendid as high minded
and cultivated as they are powerful and rich