THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 



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THE PEOGEESS OF SCIENCE 



THE SCIENTIFIC LABORATORIES 

 OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 

 The colleges first established in this 

 country prior to the revolution, apart 

 from the two in Virginia, have all be- 

 come great universities within the past 

 forty years. Harvard, Yale, Columbia 

 and Pennsylvania have preceded 

 Princeton in this development, and for 

 a period it was doubtful whether 

 Princeton should be ranked among the 

 universities or among the colleges. 

 When, on the occasion of its sesquicen- 

 tennial celebration in 1896, the official 

 name of the College of New Jersey was 

 changed to Princeton University, it 

 was not so much a measure of what 

 had been accomplished as a promise of 

 things hoped for but unseen. The 

 prophecy is now, however, in course of 

 fulfilment. Princeton, it is true, has 



no professional schools, except its de- 

 partments of civil and electrical engi- 

 neering. A law school was once estab- 

 lished, but it lasted only two years. 

 No school of medicine is in contempla- 

 tion, though the first two years of a 

 medical course could be given to ad- 

 i vantage. The theological seminary in 

 the village has supplied a large propor- 

 tion of the students registered in the 

 graduate department, but it has no 

 official connection with the university 

 and is too narrowly denominational to 

 be regarded as a graduate school of 

 theology. 



In most of our universities, however, 

 the professional schools scarcely form 

 an integral part of the institution and 

 the graduate school is the place in 

 which university and research work is 

 accomplished. Such work has been 



Holler Hall, a dormitory erected by Mrs. Sage. 



