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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIV. No. 356. 



4 P. M. — Dedication of Woodbridge Hall. 

 Address by Donald Grant Mitchell, LL.D. 



5 P. M. — Farewell reception of the guests and gradu- 



ates of the University by President Hadley and 

 Mrs. Hadley, in the University Hall. 



RESOLUTIONS ON THE RESIGNATION OF TEE 

 PRESIDENT OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. 

 The Council of Columbia University, repre- 

 senting the faculties, has adopted the following 

 minute, on the occasion of the resignation of 

 President Low : 



When Mr. Low became the President of Columbia 

 College, in the academic year 1889 90, the institution 

 consisted of four faculties, in charge respectively of 

 the schools of arts, mines, law and political science. 

 These faculties numbered 122 officers of instruction ; 

 and these schools were attended by 1,134 students. 

 The faculties were connected with each other only 

 through the president and trustees of the college ; 

 and the schools existed alongside of each other with- 

 out any principle or custom of reciprocity. The 

 library of the college contained 91,000 volumes, and 

 the wealth of the corporation was estimated at $10,- 

 500,000. The faculties, schools, library and entire 

 equipment were crowded into the narrow and noisy 

 quarters bordering upon the tracks of the New York 

 Central railway. 



To-day Columbia University consists of nine facul- 

 ties, in charge respectively of Columbia College, Bar- 

 nard College, Teachers College and the university 

 schools of law, medicine, applied science, pure science, 

 philosophy and political science. These faculties 

 now number 385 officers of instruction ; and these 

 colleges and schools are now attended by 4,500 stu- 

 dents. The faculties are now coordinated with each 

 other in the University Council in which all of the 

 educational activities and interests of the university 

 are officially represented ; and a complete system of 

 reciprocity between all parts of the institution and 

 also with the Union Theological Seminary now pre- 

 vails. The library of the university now contains 

 311,000 volumes ; and the wealth of the corporation 

 is now estimated at eighteen millions of dollars, of 

 which one and one half millions of dollars, in round 

 numbers, represent the splendid generosity and muni- 

 ficence of Mr. Low himself. And, finally, the uni- 

 versity is now located upon a site and possesses a 

 physical equipment unsurpassed in beauty, comfort 

 and completeness by those of any institution of learn- 

 ing in the world. 



This magnificent achievement, wrought within the 

 short period of twelve years, has no parallel in the 

 educational history of any country or of any age ; and 



no further or higher proofs of Mr. Low's abilities as 

 an educator and an administrator than the mere re- 

 cital of these facts are necessary. 



But Mr. Low brought to the solution of the prob- 

 lems of the university qualities even more important 

 and needful than these intellectual powers. First 

 and highest among these qualities, and most indis- 

 pensable, was the power to win and to hold the full 

 and unwavering confidence and the cordial and zeal- 

 ous cooperation of all his colleagues, a power which 

 can come only from an innate love of truth, joined 

 with an open mind, a high sense of justice, unbend- 

 ing integrity, kindness of heart and genuine deference 

 in manner. Every officer of the university felt that 

 his interests and the interests of his department were 

 safe in the hands of Mr. Low, and that no occult 

 influences would ever be allowed to prevail in the 

 administration of the affairs of the institution. 



" It is the recollection of these rare and invaluable 

 traits even more than of his administrative abilities 

 which makes the parting with him so hard and re- 

 gretful and which moves this Council to express the 

 hope and wish for itself and for the bodies represented 

 in it that from his seat in the Board of Trustees of 

 the University Mr. Low may still continue to mani- 

 fest his old interest in the development of the univer- 

 sity and may still exert his great powers in the pro- 

 motion of its welfare. 



" Though conscious that these words do not express 

 with any adequacy the feelings of the members of 

 this body concerning the obligations of the university 

 and all of its officers to Mr. Low and their deep regret 

 at his retirement from the Presidency yet your com- 

 mittee would beg to recommend that the minute be 

 spread in full upon the records of the University 

 Council and that the Secretary be directed to transmit 

 a copy of it with a suitable letter to Mr. Low." 



THE CARNEGIE TECHNICAL SCHOOLS. 



The report of the committee of the Board of 

 Trustees of the Carnegie institutions at Pitts- 

 burgh has been made public. It formally ap- 

 proves the scheme of the sub-committee and 

 of the advisory committee of experts on the 

 ' Plan and Scope ' of the proposed Carnegie 

 technical system of industrial education, as 

 outlined by the latter in the report published 

 in Science in July last and commented upon 

 in the address of Mr. Brashear before his sec- 

 tion of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, which appeared in our 

 issue of September 13. 



The committee recommends the organization 



