NEW YORK UNIVERSITY. 



MM and member* of the liberal professions. Tli.> 

 council of the univrsity, as BOW eoMtitatod, i- 

 fiually divided b. two-ii incmben selected from the 

 alumni and Irum the whole Uxlv of citizen* 



The plan of the uuivcrsiiv in iln- BUodtoflti round- 

 era w*a bioad and iar-eeeitii.' ll<m . MU-rt Callatin. 

 preaklont of the OOUJH d in !>.'.!. -.nd in a pabtifl meet 

 ing, O.-t 30, 1830, u to tin- i-lii.-f object! of tin- uni- 

 versity : "One b to eoatplste tke toaiBB oomeooBd 

 in the college*, . . . BBOtoer is to diaTuee knowledge. 

 The early statutes contemplated a department of arts 

 and scienoe, corresponding to tin- faulty of philosophy 

 in a German university, a department "I' DWOJOHSB and 

 a department of law] Tin- first depart meiit it was 

 intfii led should exist in two divisions, tin- first to ac- 

 ciiTpplish such obj.-eUi as were named by Mr. liallatin. 

 the second to correspond to the well known American 

 ". . ' 



The following is the statute as to the two divisions of 

 Ihe department of arts and science^ The first "shall 

 "Inprise professorships tor instruction in the higher 

 branches of literature ami science. which shall be in- 

 creased according to the progress of discovery, the 

 wants of the community, ami the linam-ial means of the 

 university. The second shall embrace wliat is usually 

 deemed a full course of classical, philosophical, and 

 iiiatlieinatieal instruction, and also a complete course 

 if English literature." This statute, which contem- 

 plated what is now known as tho work of " the gradu- 

 al* division," or "university work proper" in arts 

 and scienoe, was a halt' conturv ahead of the demand 

 for such work in America, which is only now begin- 

 nine to be made and to be responded to. 



Nevertheless, university work proper, so far as it aims 

 ' 'to diffuse knowledge," has been achieved by profes- 

 sors of the university from the first. Samuel F. B. 

 Morse, while a professor, conceived the recording tele- 

 graph, and in an address in 1 s ",:; named as its birth- 

 place the present I'hiloiuitheaii Hull. 



Prof. John \V. Pripcr here tirst applied photography 

 to the representation of the human countenance. 

 Among other deceased processors eminent for their 

 labors for the public were Henry P. Tappan, Taylcr 

 Lewis, George Hush, John C. Draper, and Henry 

 Dra|>er. 



It is probable that tho chief work of the faculty of 

 arts and science in time to come will be in accomplish- 

 ing the two objects pointed out by Albert (iallatin, 

 n uiiely : the instruction of graduate students, and the 

 diffusion >d' knowledge. 



In IHHG a graduate division was formally opened, 

 which enrolled the first year twelve resident students 

 and the second year thirty one, besides several non- 

 resident students. In answer to demands upon this 

 division instruction in new fields has IK-CII begun, as, for 

 example, comparative religion and pedagogies. 



But the- main cffirt id' the faculty of arts and 



science has been expended from the beginning in car- 



r'inir on undergraduate instruction, such as ordinarily I 



leid- to the bachelor's degree. A College has floiir- 



i-hc 1 win -h h;is graduated a class each year, beginning 



with ls:;-J. It* standard of admission meets fully the 



re iiiiimniidatinns of the State regents. Election is 



offered liclwccii the "scientific" course leading to the 



of h.i.'helor of science, and the "classical." 



_ to bachelor of arts, and also between altcrna- 



udies in limited mcoMirc. 



Hut ever)' student, in order to take the bachelor's 

 di-.TPf. must have pursued extended studv in each of the j 

 three fields into which learning is divided, viz. : (I) Ian 

 and literature; ('J) mathematics and natural 



; (.'.) philosophy and history. The least amount 

 1. 1 <-\:uw work assigned any of die thriH' field" is lour 

 hundred hours in the four years' course. Fourt 



.nd instructors take part in the Work for 

 undcri.T.ntu itei The numlier of undergraduate stu- 



- at the |.re-cnt I : TII. 

 Xuc >-r la divided int.* cnive terms of thirteen weeks 



each, including certain recesses. But in certain yi*rs 

 tin- third (crm is shortened to twelve weeks. The 

 tuition is free in the ordinary undergraduate eour-c, 

 and there are certain prizes and fellowships. There 

 are no halls, students U-ing expected to reside at their 

 own home- or in approved lamilii - the gradu- 



ale division, and the coll. <je proper, the department 

 of aits and science includes in its iilan whatever tech- 

 nical or professional schools, outside of law, medicine, 

 or theology, the university may establish. At pre-ent 

 there exist a school of civil engineering, a school of 

 chemistry and assaying, and a school of pedagogy. 

 The degree of civil engineer is given to such students 

 as have taken the degree of bach.dor of scien <. and 



have pursued the special engii ring course for four 



vears, the last year to follow the attainment of tin! 

 ba helor degree. No degree is given for special work 

 in chemistry. The school of MfUgOgy offen instruc- 

 tion in the philosophy of education to teacher- of 

 higher attainments and experience. This school has 

 Keen recently founded. Other professional or tech- 

 nical schools are in contemplation. 



The work of the faculty of arts and science is carried 

 on in the building on Washington Square. East, ex- 

 tending from WttUagtoa Place to Waverlcy I 'lace. 

 This building, erected between 1832 and ls.i.">. is con- 

 spicuous even among the many later edifices of New 

 \ ork city. It contains wcll-furuished, though not large, 

 laboratories of physics and of chemistry, a geological 

 cabinet, and a library. Great advantage is derived 

 from the nearness of the Astor Library. 



The department id' medicine, commonly known ns 

 the University Medical College, is the second depart- 

 ment of the university in age, but the first in the 

 numlier of its professors and students. It was or- 

 ganized in ls-11, under a faculty of six professors, of 

 whom the Inst known are l>r. Valentine Molt and 

 Dr. John W. Draper. The building was on Broad- 

 way, near Bond, and not far from the main unu 

 edifice. In ls">l a larger edifice was erected on Four- 

 teenth street, adjacent to the Academy of Mu.-ic. 

 Upon the burning of this, in I.s7i'>. the faculty removed, 

 alter a temporary stay in the New York Hospital, to 

 East Twenty-sixth street, fronting the Bcllevuc !!<.-- 

 pilal Siiuare. A temporary building was used until 

 1879, when the present main edifice was erected. To 

 this the west wing was soon added, and in !S,s7 the 

 east wing, which is "The Ijoomis Laboratory." Tho 

 main building contains the lecture-room and the am- 

 phitheatre, each seating ">IH> students, together with the 

 professors' private rooms and the dissect ing room. The 

 west wing contains eight section-rooms, or small lecture- 

 rooms. In these the material available to the univer- 

 sity, through it.s dispensary and through the depart- 

 ment of the commissioners of charities and corrections, 

 is brought under the observation of each student, and 

 thoroughly utilized in the system of "section-teach- 

 in'..'" devised by (his faculty and peculiar to this school. 

 The college dispensary treats over '.IKKI patients an- 

 nuallv. The mall-rial for clinical lectures from Uelle- 

 vue Hospital, and other hospitals and dispeii-ai'ie-. 

 with which the lecturers are conm-ctcd, is so great th it 

 the faculty in l^v'i resolved to provide special facilities 

 for advanced students in the way of instruction in 

 diagnosis and treatment. The graduating el:ts- i: 

 divided into seel ions of twenty live each, which receive 

 separate instruction for one or two hours daily through- 

 out the term, under the ten principal professors In 

 Issii an unknown friend of the university, by (he gilt 

 of $l()0,n:Mi, secured to the department of medicine a 

 laboratory buildinir, atlachitcj- to his gift two condi- 

 tions: first, that the name of the donor should not \x> 

 made public; and second, that the building should IK! 

 known a- "The l/iomis laboratory of the .Medical 

 Department of the I'niversiiy of the City of New 

 York." The buildinir. live stories fire proof, isfurnMied 

 with every valuable acccory Tor its purposes Ldiora- 

 torics of luateria niedica, physic.-, chemistry, physi- 



