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overlooking Cayuga Lake, and the settled val- 

 ley at its head, is unique. In 1890, after a 

 long lawsuit, the large property left to the Uni- 

 versity by Mrs. Jennie McGraw Fiske, was 

 withheld from it by a ruling of the supreme 

 court of the United States. To make up for 

 this, Henry W. Sage, a previous benefactor of 

 Cornell, gave $560,000 for the cost and en- 

 dowment of the new University Library. In 

 addition to this the University has received 

 other large benefactions. The presidents have 

 been: Andrew!). White, 1865-1885; Charles 

 K. Adams, 1885-1890; Jacob Gould Schur- 

 man, 1890 to the present. 



Columbia University. King's College, 

 as Columbia University was formerly called, 

 was founded in 1754, under royal charter. 

 The college was established on a grant of land 

 known as the King's Farm, the property of 

 Trinity Church overlooking the Hudson river. 

 It was then declared by travelers to have the 

 finest site of any college in the world. In 

 1857 it was removed to a block between 49th 

 and 50th streets, New York city, overlooking 

 the East river. From the beginning this loca- 

 tion was regarded as temporary. The present 

 site on Morningside Heights, between 116th 

 and 120th streets, was the field of the battle 

 of Harlem. It overlooks the Hudson river on 

 one side, and north New York on the other, 

 and is once more declared to be one of the 

 finest sites in the world. The original charter 

 made the college non-sectarian. The first 

 class was graduated in 1760 with eight stu- 

 dents. During the Revolutionary war instruc- 

 tion had to be suspended, the president of the 

 college, a royalist, having been forced to flee to 

 England. Names and terms of the presidents 

 are as follows : Samuel Johnson, 1754-1763; 

 Myles Cooper, 1763-1775 ; Benjamin Moore, 

 1775-1776 ; William Samuel Johnson, 1787- 

 1800; Charles H. Wharton, 1801; Benjamin 

 Moore, 1801-1811; William Harris, 1811- 

 1829; William Alexander Duer, 1829-1842; 

 Nathaniel F. Moore, 1842-1849; Charles 

 King, 1849-1864 ; Frederick A. P. Barnard, 

 1864-1889 ; Seth Low, LL.D., 1890 -. 



A medical faculty was established in King's 

 College in 1767 and consisted at first of six 

 professors. In 1860 the College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons became the medical department 

 of Columbia University. Instruction in law 

 was given in 1793. The School of Mines, now 

 the School of Applied Science, through the 

 efforts of Thomas Eggleston, was founded in 

 1863. In 1880 a School of Political Science 

 was opened. Barnard College, where instruc- 

 tion is given to women, was founded in 1889. 

 The School of Philosophy was established in 

 1890, and that of Pure Science in 1892. The 



degrees conferred in the various schools arc, 

 B.A., B.S., LL.B., M.D., M.A., Ph.D., 

 L.H.D., and LL.D. 



Catholic University of America was 



founded in 1884 after a gift by Miss Caldwell 

 of $300,000 to the American Episcopate. 

 From 1889 to 1895 its educational activity was 

 confined to the School of Divinity. In 1895, 

 after the pope had expressed a hope that the 

 University might be able to adapt its work to 

 modern educational needs in a wider sense, 

 schools of philosophy and the social sciences 

 were opened, with departments of philosophy, 

 letters, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biol- 

 ogy, technology, sociology, economics, polit- 

 ical science, and law. During the last few 

 years twelve chairs for the teaching of the arts 

 and sciences have been endowed by individuals. 

 The University is governed by seventeen di- 

 rectors and a chancellor, who is at present 

 Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore. With the 

 directors, who are for the most part prom- 

 inent members of the Catholic clergy, are as- 

 sociated by virtue of their office all the 

 Cajtholic archbishops in the country. The 

 School of Divinity grants baccalaureate, licen- 

 tiate, and the doctor's degrees ; the School of 

 Philosophy confers degrees in letters and 

 philosophy ; the School of Social Science, de- 

 grees of B.A. and M.A. ; the Law School, 

 degrees of LL.B., LL.M., D.C.L., J.C.D., 

 J.U.D., and LL.D. ; while in the Institute of 

 Technology, degrees in civil, electrical, and 

 mechanical engineering, with corresponding 

 master's degrees are conferred. The present 

 rector is Very Reverend Thos. J. Conaty, 

 D.D., J.C.D. 



University of California was instituted 

 by a law which received the approval of the 

 governor, March 23, 1868. Instruction was 

 begun in Oakland in the autumn of 1869. 

 The commencement exercises of 1873 were 

 held at Berkeley, July 16, when the University 

 was formally transferred to its permanent 

 home. Instruction began at Berkeley in the 

 autumn of 1873. The new constitution of 

 1879 made the existing organization of the 

 University perpetual. The College of Califor- 

 nia, which had been organized several years 

 before the University, transferred its property 

 and students upon terms which were mutually 

 agreed upon, and closed its work of instruction 

 in 1869. It had been incorporated in 1855, 

 and through its agency a part of the Oakland 

 property of the University, and the Berkeley 

 site now owned and occupied by the latter, 

 were secured ; a domain of about two hundred 

 and fifty acres, situated on the slope of the 

 Contra Costa hills, about five miles from Oak- 

 land, facing the Golden Gate. The under- 



