ant professor. In 1898 Olaf M. Brauner was elected assistant professor of drawing and molding. The department met with the special encouragement of President White, who gave it a valuable library, besides additional sums of money for the purchase of books. department or college has conferred 174 first degrees. The The College of Law.-The law school was first organized in 1887. The first faculty consisted of Douglass Boardman, dean, and Profs. H. B. Hutchins, F. M. Burdick, and C. A. Collin. Professor Burdick retired in 1891, was succeeded by Prof. Charles E. Hughes, who retired in 1893, and was succeeded by Prof. E. W. Huffcut. William A. Finch was elected assistant professor in 1891, associate professor in 1892, and professor in 1895. Professors Hutchins and Collin retired in 1895 and were succeeded by Profs. Cuthbert W. Pound and Henry W. Hardon. The latter retired in 1896 and was succeeded by Prof. E. H. Woodruff. Prof. Henry S. Redfield was elected to the faculty in 1898. Upon the death of Judge Boardman in 1891 he was succeeded in the office of dean by Judge Francis M. Finch, an associate justice of the court of appeals. Down to Judge Finch's retirement from the bench, at the end of 1895, the administration of the school was in the efficient hands of Professor Hutchins, first as secretary and later as associate dean. In 1896 the school was rechristened a college, and Judge Finch became director. A building was erected at a cost of over $100,000 for the special accommodation of the school, and was dedicated in 1893 as Boardman Hall. At the same time Mrs. Boardman and Mrs. George R. Williams, the widow and daughter of Judge Boardman, presented the school with the Moak library, a gift which gave the school completely adequate library equipment. The course up to 1897 was a two years' course, but for the class entering in that year and thereafter it was extended to three years. The school has conferred 608 first degrees and 60 second degrees. The New York State Veterinary College was established at Cornell by the legislature of 1894. The State erected and equipped a building at a cost of $150,000, and has since appropriated to its maintenance $25,000 a year. From 1868 to 1896 James Law was professor of veterinary medicine and surgery in the university. With the organization of the State college he was elected director. The rest of the staff, all elected in 1896, are Profs. V. A. Moore, W. L. Williams, and Asst. Profs. P. A. Fish and G. S. Hopkins. Prof. S. H. Gage, since 1877 connected with the department of physiology and zoology, is also upon the staff of the veterinary college. The Medical College opened in the fall of 1898, and is therefore not within the period covered by this sketch. The college is located in New York, and is due to the generosity of Col. Oliver H. Payne, who has undertaken to furnish means for its establishment and maintenance. It is now located in a building in the grounds of the Bellevue Hospital, but a building for its special accommodation is being erected on First avenue, between Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth streets. The first two years of the course are duplicated at the university, so that a student may take these years at either place. There are already registered in the college 274 students. The faculty numbers at the New York college 25 professors, together with a large staff of instructors and assistants. The New York State College of Forestry, like the medical college, does not belong to the era covered in this sketch. It was established under authority of the legislature in 1898, and has for its object education and instruction in the principles and practice of scientific forestry. The act makes provision for the purchase of a demonstration area in the Adirondacks of 30,000 acres, to be the property of the university for thirty years, and then to revert to the State. This area has already been secured, and the college has entered upon its work under the direction of Prof. B. E. Fernow, assisted by F. Roth. 3. AUXILIARY DEPARTMENTS. Three departments of the university may be regarded as auxiliary to all of the others—namely, the department of military science, of physical culture, and of the library. The department of military science is made necessary by the terms of the land-grant act. The department was organized in 1868 by Maj. J. H. Whittlesey, who remained in charge until 1870, being assisted during a portion of the time by Maj. W. E. Arnold. The latter was in full charge from 1870 to 1873. Since that date the commandants have been as follows: Maj. J. W. MacMurray (1873-1875), Maj. W. P. Van Ness (1875-1877), Capt. J. B. Burbank (1877-1883), Capt. W. S. Schuyler (1883-1886), Lieut. W. P. Van Ness (1886-1889), Capt. H. E. Tutherly (1889-1892), Lieut. George Bell (1892-1896). Capt. Walter S. Schuyler was again assigned to the post in 1896, but on the outbreak of the recent war returned to active service as colonel of volunteers. During the early days of the university all students were required to wear a uniform, take part in daily military drill, and observe in general the requirements of the camp as to hours and duties. This rigid military discipline did not continue long, however, and the uniform soon disappeared except at the hours for military drill. At present all members of the freshman and sophomore classes are required to drill three hours a week during the fall and spring terms unless excused for special reasons, such as that they are aliens or conscientiously opposed to military exercises on religious grounds, or are laboring students or physically unfitted for such duties. Lectures are also given to seniors during the winter term on military science. The provisions of the land-grant act have thus been faithfully observed by the university, and few students are graduated who have not had at least two years of military drill. The department of physical culture was one of those recommended by President White in his plan of organization. It was his idea that the university should provide a well-equipped gymnasium with a competent instructor, together with grounds for out-of-door sports, and that regular and systematic physical exercises should be required of all students. It was many years, however, before all of these ends were accomplished. A temporary gymnasium supplied the needs of students until 1883, when the present gymnasium and armory hall was erected. In the same year Edward Hitchcock, jr., was elected acting professor of physical culture, and has since been professor of physical culture and director of the gymnasium. Physical exercise is required during the winter term of all members of the freshman class. Lectures upon hygiene are also given each year in the fall term to members of the entering class, and all students upon entering the university are required to submit to a physical examination in order that the kind and extent of the physical exercise may be prescribed. Similar provisions are made for women students in the gymnasium connected with Sage College. By the generosity of Mr. J. J. Hagerman and Mr. W. H. Sage ample athletic grounds, known as Percy Field, have been provided for out-of-door sports. A commodious clubhouse has been erected upon these grounds, provided with dressing rooms and bathrooms, for the use of students taking part in athletic exercises. The library was organized by Prof. Willard Fiske in 1868, and continued in his charge until his resignation in 1883, since which time it has been administered by George W. Harris, who had been an assistant to Professor Fiske since 1873. Andrew C. White has been an assistant librarian since 1889, and Willard H. Austin since 1892. George L. Burr, professor of mediæval history, has been since 1890 in special charge of the President White library, for which a special room in the library building is reserved. The nucleus of the library consisted of the Anthon collection of classical literature and philology, the Bopp collection in philology and oriental literature, the Ezra Cornell collection in agriculture, and the collection of modern scientific works purchased by the university; in all, something like 15,000 volumes. To this has been added the Goldwin Smith library of historical works, publications of the British patent office, the White architectural library, the Kelley mathematical library, the Sparks library of American history, the May collection relating to slavery, the Schuyler collection of folklore and Russian history, the Rhaeto-Romanic collection, the President White historical library, the Zarncke library of Germanic philology and literature, the Dante collection, the Spinoza collection, various other similar collections, and the yearly purchases of volumes and sets by the university. The law library is made up mainly of the Merritt King collection and the N. C. Moak collection. At the end of its first thirty years the University library contained 183,804 volumes and 35,000 pamphlets, and the law library |