November 1, 1895.] 



SCIENCE. 



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ments of Natui-al Science has been given 

 by Mr. Schermerhorn, but at least six 

 other buildings are needed. Much work 

 has already been done on the new grounds, 

 and the autumn of 1897 has been fixed as 

 the time when the University shall remove 

 to its permanent home. 



The College of Physicians and Surgeons 

 (School of Medicine of the University) will 

 remain at its present site, and the buildings 

 have been enlarged at a cost of $600,000. 



During the year 24,839 bound volumes 

 have been added to the Library, making the 

 total number of books over 200,000. More 

 than $25,000 was contributed during the 

 year for the purchase of books in addition 

 to special gifts. 



Thirty University scholarships of the 

 value of $150 each have been established 

 for graduate students. In connection with 

 President Low's gift and at his request 

 eight University scholarships and a Univer- 

 sity fellowship were established. Twenty 

 scholarships are also to be maintained by 

 the Trustees in Barnard College, and the 

 Trustees at their own motion established a 

 professorship to be known as the ' Seth Low 

 Professorship' of American History.' 



The increase in the number of students 

 in the University continues. The total 

 number of students was 



1891-92 1573 



1892-93 1641 



1893-94 1805 



1894-95 1943 



Of these 649 already held degrees repre- 

 senting 136 American and 26 foreign insti- 

 tutions. There were in the School of Philoso- 

 phy 95 graduate students, in the School of 

 Pure Science 34 and in the School of Political 

 Science 94, and in addition students in the 

 Senior Class of the School of Arts attend 

 these schools. 



The total number of instructors was 265, 

 of whom 53 were professors, 8 emeritus pro- 

 fessors and 15 adjunct professors. The 



most important addition to the School of 

 Pure Science was the appointment as profes- 

 sor of mathematics, under an arrangement 

 with Barnard College, of Professor Frank 

 D. Cole, from the University of Michigan. 



The report lays especial stress on the im- 

 portance of a liberal training as a founda- 

 tion for professional education. In discuss- 

 ing this question President Low writes : 



" Men cannot afford to postpone their specializing 

 in study until"so late in lite as twenty-two or twenty- 

 three years of age. In England and Germany they 

 begin to Specialize at nineteen and twenty, and they 

 ought to do so here. In the newer country it is 

 harder, not easier, to postpone the actual duties of 

 life. It is in this light that I interpret the recent 

 proposition from Harvard to give the Bachelor of Arts 

 degree in three years, and it is certainly in this light 

 that our own action is to be understood of permitting 

 our college Seniors to study under any of the univer- 

 sity faculties. Our Freshman Class at Columbia aver- 

 ages at entrance a little above seventeen years of age. 

 * * * * But now that the university has appeared in 

 this country as a place for specialization ideally to be 

 founded on a previous liberal training, it is clear that 

 the liberal training must either be omitted altogether 

 or be confined to those years to which it properly be- 

 longs. These years I conceive to be broadly from 

 sixteen to twenty." 



President Low is justified in reporting 

 " for the University a year of vigorous, in- 

 spiring life, whether regard be had to the 

 current activities of the year, or to the 

 progress made in laying the foundations of 

 the University upon the new site." 



GENERAL. 



Theee have been two additions of im- 

 portance to the Stanford Faculty for this year. 

 Dr. H. H. Powers, of the department of 

 economics in Smith College, appointed to 

 the chair of economics and social science; 

 Prof. F. J. A. Davidson, of Toronto Uni- 

 versity, to the assistant professorship of Ro- 

 manic languages; the latter appointment 

 being to fill the vacancy made by the res- 

 ignation of Pi'of. W. S. Symington, Jr., 

 who takes a professorship in Amherst. Dr. 

 Henry C. Meyrs, instructer in chemistry. 



