ENDOWMENT FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. 629 



II. 



Imiiiediately ooiinectod with onr colleges and universities is another 

 liehl, in which additional endowments are greatly needed, viz: for fel- 

 lowshi[)s in science for post-graduate studies. 



U})on the post-graduate Avorkers, the future ot science, and the re- 

 cruits for future teachers ai;d professors, nuist necessarily depend. In 

 that view the importance of post-graduate endowments in science can 

 scarcely be magnirted. The great majority of the young men from 

 whom all the new recruits must be drawn luive litth' or no pecuniary 

 means. After graduating, often through many difliculties, they must 

 face the question of their future calling. They must consider what 

 promise of a reasonable and comfortable sui>port a life ilcvoted to sci- 

 ence affords. If this lisk should not deter them, still there are many 

 with talents of a high order who would be absolutely unable to proceed 

 further in the advanced scientific studies necessary to qualify them to 

 enter upon remunerative scientific work, or to obtain situations as pro- 

 fessors or assistants, except by the aid of substantial endowments for 

 their support, during the three or four years more of necessary assidu- 

 ous study. 



In the stress of modern life, and in the allurements towards more 

 certain pecuniary results, nothing but such endowments can avert the 

 withdrawal from scientific ])ursuits of many young men of high promise, 

 whose genius and tastes and ambition strongly incline them to science, 

 and who would be secured to it if this temporary sui)port were afforded. 



The endowments of our colleges and universities in aid of ])ost-gradu- 

 ate work in science are nuich less, I suppose, than is commonly 

 imagined. I find no such suj)port for post graduate work in science, 

 either at Cornell University, at the University of the City of New 

 York, at Brown Univ<^rsity, at Amherst, or even at the Johns Hopkins 

 University. No stalenient of the endowments (tf the new Clark Uni- 

 versity at Worcester has as yet been ])nblished. I'riiUH^ton, though 

 luiving a hundred undergraduate scholarships, lias bnt one j)ost-gradu- 

 ate fellowship Ibi- science; Yale but two, — the Silliman and the Sloane 

 Fellowships. 



('(tlumbia College iias two fellowships expressly restricted to science, 

 viz.: The Tyndall l^'ellowship of ^(MS annually, and the Barnard Fel- 

 lowship, before referred to, of about $500 annually. Besides these, 

 however, twenty-four general uni\ ersity fello\vshii)S have been estab- 

 lished, of $500 each, for post-graduate study, of which eighteen are in 

 ])resent operation. About one-third of these are assigned to science; 

 making now eight for science at Columbia, with i)robably two more in 

 189."> or 1894. In architecture, moreover, there are thr(;e additional 

 noble i)ost-graduate fellowshi[)s at Coluud)ia, the Schermerhorn of 

 81,300 annually, and the two Mcdvim Fellowships of $1,000 each, to 

 sui)port study in foreign travel. In the Medical Department, also, 

 there are five valuable i)rizes for proficiency. 



