HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 465 
respectively. Cornell opened its doors thirty-five years ago, yet, 
with the exception of the first institution I have just mentioned, Cor- 
nell has a larger attendance than any of them. 
_ Mr. Scorr. Are they undertaking anything in the way of soil-physics 
investigations at Geneva? 
President ScuurmaNN. I do not know. I think that they are not 
limited by the law to agronomy or horticulture. 
Mr. Scorr. Is there not any specific requirement in the act of Con- 
gress that you shall teach this soil physics at Cornell? 
President Scuurmann. No. I quoted -to you at the beginning the 
terms of the act of Congress under which these moneys are expended. 
Mr. Scorr. There is no specific requirement of that kind? 
President Scnurmann. No; we are to give instruction in the sciences 
relating to agriculture and mechanic arts, including military science, 
and in the physical, natural, mathematical, and economic sciences. 
Mr. Bowre. You say that the cost of teaching the mechanic arts and 
those allied subjects is many times greater than the amount provided 
for? 
President ScourmMANN. Many times greater. 
Mr. Bowrz. You said that the university should be credited with 
the expenditures on that account, and that they were much in excess 
of the amount received from the Government? 
Mr. ScHurMANnN. Yes; several times over. 
Mr. Brooxs. That would be including students outside of the col- 
lege of agriculture, which has 276 students? 
President ScourmAnn. Yes, outside of agriculture we have colleges 
of mechanic arts and engineering (civil, mechanical, electrical, and 
marine), and colleges of veterinary medicine, architecture, law, medi- 
cine, and liberal arts and sciences, on which we spend hundreds of thou- 
sands of dollars annually. The students of these colleges pay in tuition 
fees more than $200,000 a year. In agriculture, as I have said, stu- 
dents pay no tuition. Then rich men give us endowments for other 
colleges, but never for agriculture. Iam very much obliged to you, 
gentlemen. I want the committee to understand that I am simply 
correcting errors in your records, and that I am grateful to the Secre- 
tary of Agriculture for the help that he has given us in soil physics. 
(Thereupon the committee adjourned.) 
