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ing a somewhat similar site, but not so ' 

 completely shut in by apartment 

 houses. Gothic architecture, like aca- 

 demic gowns, seems to belong to the 

 past rather than to the future, but a 

 traditional environment carries with it 

 much that is good, and there is per- 

 haps move danger in innovation than 

 in imitation. The architect, Mr. Geo. 

 B. Post, has certainly fitted the build- 

 ings admirably to the site and united 

 them to a picturesque whole. It is 

 unfortunate that the modern college 



cinnati has a municipal university. But 

 the New York institution, coordinate 

 with the great state universities, must 

 lead the way. Here all the questions 

 of the relation of the college to the 

 high school and to the university, of 

 liberal to technical studies, of higher 

 education to the state, of public to 

 semi-private and semi-religious insti- 

 tutions, will become pressing. We do 

 not hesitate to express the opinion 

 that the maintenance of education is as 

 completely a public duty as the main- 



Chemical and Mechanical Arts Buildings from College Grounds. 



and the scientific laboratory have not 

 developed a significant architectual 

 form, but it is useless to complain of 

 the inevitable. 



It has been indicated that the Col- 

 lege of the City of New York may be- 

 come one of the storm-centers of educa- 

 tional development. In spite of re- 

 marks made at the installation cere- 

 monies by several of the speakers, in- 

 cluding university presidents, the New 

 York City College is not unique. There 

 are somewhat similar institutions in 

 Philadelphia and Baltimore, and Cin- 



tenance of the courts or of the army, 

 that higher education should no more 

 be left to private initiative than ele- 

 mentary education, and that ulti- 

 mately all the educational and scien- 

 tific institutions of New York City will 

 be unified under the control of the 

 people of the city. 



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