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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



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gradually developed at Princeton in 

 the course of the past few years, and 

 there is likely to be now a mutation 

 which will place the university among 

 those where productive scholarship and 

 creative research are most cultivated. 

 The difficulties in regard to the grad- 

 uate school which have been so widely 

 exploited are in fact rather trivial and 

 are now fairly solved, as the university 

 has not only money for a residence hall 

 but also for the men who are the real 

 university. The Swan bequest of 

 $300,000, the gift of $500,000 from Mr. 

 Proctor, once withdrawn but now re- 

 newed, and the Wyman bequest, 

 amounting probably to over $2,000,000, 

 are all for the graduate school and 

 give it a free endowment scarcely 

 equaled at any other university. 



Like all our institutions Princeton 

 has spent relatively too much money 

 on buildings and too little on men. 

 But the money has come freely and the 

 architectural setting at Princeton will 

 appeal to the alumni and to the gen- 

 eral public as the worthy exterior 

 manifestation of a great universitv. 



It is also true that Princeton has done 

 much for its men. In the preceptorial 

 system it has undertaken to extend the 

 personal contact between teacher and 

 student which is one of the most 

 marked advantages in the teaching of 

 the sciences, to the departments not 

 having laboratories, and has brought 

 to Princeton some fifty selected men of 

 the younger generation with the rank 

 of assistant professors. The method 

 adopted may be open to certain criti- 

 cisms, but this group of men has added 

 greatly to the strength of the univer- 

 sity. In the meanwhile the laboratory 

 departments have been developed both 

 by buildings and by men. The depart- 

 ment of physics has been made one of 

 the strongest in the country and one 

 of our leading zoologists has been 

 called as head of the department of 

 biology. 



The buildings recently erected for 

 physics and for natural science are 

 shown in the accompanying illustra- 

 tions. In both of them the academic 

 Gothic style has been well adapted to 

 laboratory construction. The Palmer 



