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department of pathology, and amply provided with the means of illustration of the materia medica.

For the use of students in painting, the college of fine arts has several thousand photographs, engravings, and chromo lithographs, and a good collection of plaster casts procured several years ago. To these have been added in the last year a very fine collection of casts presented by a friend in New York, and the celebrated Wolff collection of engravings, containing 12,000 sheets of rare and costly etchings and engravings representing the great masters of the art in all ages. This great collection was the gift of Mrs. Harriet Leavenworth, of Syracuse, in April, 1889.

Special facilities for the study of the masters of the organ are afforded.

The university has two pipe organs, which are employed for instruction and practice. The one in the large hall of the John Crouse Memorial building, built by Frank Roosevelt, is perhaps unsurpassed in perfection and completeness by any organ in America. The one in the university chapel, built by Johnson & Son, though smaller and of less range, is of most excellent quality.

PROPERTY, ETC.

From its foundation the university has been coeducational, and young women and young men have been admitted to its classes on an equal footing. It does not provide rooms or board for its students, but they are responsible, like other citizens, to the laws and ordinances of the city. The income is derived from tuition receipts and productive endowment funds. The net value of its property in 1890 was about $1,792,655. The number of students in 1889-90 was 575 exclusive of those pursuing post-graduate courses of study. Since its foundation 783 have taken the bachelor's degree, and 98 the degree of doctor of philosophy.

FACULTY.

The following have been prominent members of its faculty: Joseph Cummings, afterwards president of Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.; John M. Reid, secretary of missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church; William Wells, professor of modern languages of Union College; S. A. Lattimore, professor of chemistry in Rochester University; Alexander Winchell, of Michigan University, and E. O. Haven, late bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

PUBLICATIONS.

Announcement of Syracuse University, 1871, 16 pages.

Annuals from 1872 to 1890, inclusive.

Announcements of College of Medicine, 1872 to 1890.

Manual of College of Fine Arts, 1874, 1875, 1882.

Post-Graduate Courses of Study, 1876, 1878, 1883, 1884, 1886, 1889.

Syracuse University: Inauguration and Corner Stone, 1871, pp. 40.

Inauguration of Alexander Winchell as Chancellor of Syracuse University, pp. 79. Bulletin of Biological Laboratory No. 1: List of Birds of Onondaga County, by Morgan K. Barnum. No. 1, pp. 34.

Syracusæan [Student Annual], 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881.

Onondagan [Student Annual], 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890.

University Herald, Monthly, Vol. I-XVIII, 1872-1890.

Syracusan, Monthly, Vol. I-XII, 1877-1890.

University News, Weekly, Vol. I-III, 1888-1890.

Annual Report to Board of Trustees, 1874, by Alexander Winchell, pp. 17.

Address to Members of Conference of the M. E. Church in New York, 1875, by Chancellor Haven, pp. 4.

Statement of Syracuse University, 1878, Chancellor Haven, pp. 12.

Charter and By-Laws of Syracuse University, 1887.

Statement of Syracuse University, 1884, by Chancellor Sims.

Alumni Record of Syracuse University, 1872-1886, including Genesee College, 1852– 1871, and Geneva Medical College, 1835-1872. Prepared by J. H. Tartman, "78; C. W. Winchester, '67; L. M. Underwood, '77.

ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, 1871, BROOKLYN.

This college was incorporated in 1871 under the general law for the formation of benevolent, charitable, scientific, and missionary societies. It is under the control of the Roman Catholic Church, and maintains a theological as well as a collegiate department.

The president of the institution is the Very Rev. J. A. Hartnett, C. M., and the faculty comprises eleven members. The number of students in 1896 was 109 and the net value of its property about $400,000.

ST. BONAVENTURE'S COLLEGE, 1875, ALLEGANY.

This is a college in the hands of the "Brothers of the minor order of St. Francis, who are vowed to poverty and devoted to education." Beyond a bare support they draw nothing from the funds of the college. The order insures to the college a perpetual succession of competent teachers. It was founded as an academy in 1859, and given a conditional charter by the regents in 1875, which charter was made absolute January 11, 1883. Allegany, in Cattaraugus County, is the seat of the college. Its reports to the regents are very meager, and few facts as to the value of its property can be given. The total income in the year 1888-89 was $33,600, of which $30,500 was from tuition fees. It is under the presidency of the Very Rev. Joseph Butler, O. S. F., who has a force of 20 instructors. The students number 103. The courses of study are four-commercial, scientific, classical, and ecclesiastical.

1 Reports of January 11, 1881, of committee of regents on question of granting full charter, quoted in Hist. and Stat. Rec., p. 340.

CANISIUS COLLEGE, 1883, BUFFALO.

Canisius College is of recent origin. The only trustworthy information obtainable concerning it is to be found in the historical and statistical record of the regents, 1885:

Canisius College is located in Buffalo and conducted by the members of the Society of Jesus. It was incorporated (by the regents) without provisional requirements January 11, 1883. In the report made by the committee at the time of granting a charter it is stated that the buildings are very extensive and admirably adapted to the uses of the college. Its library and philosophical apparatus are good, and the revenues abundant for its uses. The property with which it was proposed to endow the college was estimated to be worth $240,600 by fair and competent judges.

A few more facts in regard to the history of the college can be found in the regents' annual reports.

It is under the direction of Rev. John I. Zahm, S. J. There are 30 instructors and 62 students; the course is of three years' duration, the sophomore year of the usual college course having been omitted.

THE NIAGARA UNIVERSITY, 1883.

Is under the auspices of the Congregation of the Mission. It was incorporated by the regents in 1883, and consists of three distinct departments-the Seminary of our Lady of the Angels, at Suspension Bridge, and the law school and the medical school in Buffalo. The chancellor of the university is the Very Rev. Patrick MacHale, C. M., D. D.

STATISTICS OF STUDENTS AND INSTRUCTORS.

Department of Arts:

Students of college grade
Instructors.

86

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The instructors receive no compensation for their services except that required by the rules of the order.

The net property amounts to $187,560.

ST. FRANCIS COLLEGE, 1884, BROOKLYN.

[Prepared by order of the president, Brother Jerome.]

St. Francis College was founded in 1859, incorporated in 1868, and chartered in 1884. It occupies commodious and well-arranged premises at 300 to 312 Baltic street and 29 to 33 and 37 to 47 Butler street, near Court street, Brooklyn. It has a frontage of 175 feet on each street. The buildings are five stories high, with a fine court between them adorned with lawns, fountains, shade trees, and flower beds. The president, vice-president, and, generally speaking, the majority 3176-28

of the staff belong to the Franciscan Order, but eminent lay help is promptly secured whenever death or any other inevitable mishap leaves a void in the ranks of the religious. As a rule, the lives of the latter are so uneventful as not to be interesting to the general reader, and they all die with the wish expressed or implied that the record of their services should be entombed with their bodies. This is true, in a special manner, of the religious order of which Francis of Assisi was the founder. We could give several names of the past and present of high distinction in the different departments of our collegiate programme, and of some who have made a mark in English literature, but in deference to well-known modesty we shall refrain from making them public.

The fortune of the college, financially speaking, has varied with the times, but the attendance has been always very respectable and remarkably steady from entrance into any of the classes to the commencement evenings, when the names of graduates are announced. A general average of attendance struck for the past twenty years might be put down at 360, including boarders and day scholars. The attachment of alumni and students to the college and its traditions has become a household word in Brooklyn. The entertainments given by the literary unions in connection with the college and the several commencement exercises have won unstinted praise from the press and public audiences.

The course of studies embraces English literature, rhetoric, poetry, elocution, history, geography, phonography, and science of accounts; mathematics; the physical sciences-natural philosophy, chemistry, outlines of physiology, botany, zoology, and geology; the Greek and Latin, French and German languages. The educational programme has been gradually extended, comprising at present every branch required for entering first-class universities and any department of professional studies or mercantile pursuits. The library of the college has 1,500 volumes of the very choicest selection in literature, science, and art. Many of the graduates of the college have acquired a high reputation in different walks of life. The college is extensively represented in the Catholic priesthood throughout the diocese of Brooklyn and in other dioceses of the United States adopted by its graduates. It has also a large and distinguished showing in the legal and medical professions, and its alumni are found in some of the foremost mercantile firms of Brooklyn and the neighboring cities. Our commercial department is entirely separate from the classical, scientific, and philosophical. We have not as yet been pained with the report of a failure on the part of students who received diplomas from this department.

Brother Jerome, president of the college, has from its infancy watched over its destinies and largely shaped its programme and progress. He has been ably assisted by many talented members of a

religious body of teachers whose numbers and sphere of usefulness are annually extending. Nearly every section of the United States is represented in our classes, and we have had for some years quite a number of students from Mexico and the States of Central America.

POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF BROOKLYN, 1890.

FOUNDATION.

The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, incorporated under the laws of the State of New York, is the completed reorganization and outgrowth of the former Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute. Its origin dates from the foundation of that institution, which was incorporated by the board of regents as an academy in April, 1854.

Its curriculum, at first preparatory, in the main, for college and for business pursuits, was steadily enlarged and extended, until, by the year 1870, two courses of study had been provided, leading, respectively, to the degrees of bachelor of science and bachelor of arts.

Its powers under the academic charter and its equipment were found inadequate for advanced work, and it was finally determined to procure a new charter with wider powers. In January, 1890, a college charter was granted by the regents to this institution under the name of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.

DEPARTMENTS.

The educational institution as now established comprises two general departments, viz, the institute and the academic department.

THE INSTITUTE.

The institute comprehends all the higher educational work. It provides at present in its various departments of instruction four-year courses of study, equivalent in all respects to like courses in colleges and technological schools leading to the bachelor's degree. The conditions for admission correspond generally to those for entrance into the freshman class of the leading schools of science and arts. The institute courses are, however, specially arranged to secure a continuity and progression in the advanced branches of those courses of study which are begun in the academic department of the institution.

THE ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT.

The academic department comprises the preparatory courses of the institute and all work lower in grade than that conducted in the institute.

Its courses are designed to prepare students thoroughly for entrance into the institute or for admission into any of the colleges. It provides also for students not intending to pursue a college or technical

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