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cessions of the present year. Should the limit of numbers admitted 

 be increased another year, further extension will be again necessary. 

 This number (one hundred in the freshman class and about three 

 hundred total) cannot, however, be increased until the science 

 laboratories are enlarped. The physical laboratory, which was 



courses, this limits the number which can be taken as that of the 

 entering classes in the Sibley College as effectively as the size of 

 the college itself. The number of students in the technical courses 

 of Cornell University this year is not far from six hundred, in the 

 university a thousand undergraduates. 



SiBLE-i College (from ■ 



Electrical Room 



built to give ample accommodation to the classes of three or four 

 ■years ago, and to work forty or fifty students, was last year called 

 upon to receive eighty, and must this year accommodate one hun- 

 dred. Further extension must precede any further increase in num- 

 bers received there ; and as this is an essential part of the work of 

 the mechanical engineers, both of the regular and the electrical 



Referring to the plans which are given below, it will be seen that 

 the whole upper floor, an area 1 50 feet long by 40 feet in width, is 

 devoted to drawing. The larger rooms are for the use of the lower, 

 and the smaller for the higher classes. Ultimately it is supposed 

 that the whole building may be appropriated to the work in machine 

 design and experimentation, the lower floor being used for the pur- 



