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the world. Its new grounds and buildings, costing $8,000,000, 

 are but a symbol of its educa- 

 tional position. New York Uni- 

 versity, with its beautiful new site 

 and buildings, has grown in equal 

 proportion. The City College is 

 erecting new buildings, and high 

 schools have been established. 

 Our libraries have been consoli- 

 dated, the building for the great 

 public library is in course of 

 erection and numerous branch 

 libraries have been founded. 

 The American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History has more than quad- 

 rupled the value of its buildings 

 and collections, and the Metro- 

 politan Museum of Art has 

 equally increased its galleries 

 and endowment. The Botanical 

 Garden, the Zoological Park and 

 the Aquarium have arisen as by 

 miracle. Hospitals, asylums and 

 all kinds of public institutions 

 have increased even more rapidly 

 than the wealth of the city. In 

 spite of Tammany Hall, in spite 

 of reform administrations, our 

 public, educational and scientific 

 institutions have developed in a 

 way that has perhaps never been 

 equalled hitherto or elsewhere. 



In this marvelous development 

 there are two failures that we 

 must all regret — one, the sta- 

 tionary condition of our Academy 

 of Sciences, the other, the dispersal of our institutions over such 



