THH PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 
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THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 
THE SCIENTIFIC LABORATORIES | 
OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 
THE colleges first established in this 
country prior to the revolution, apart | 
from the two in Virginia, have all be- | 
come great universities within the past 
forty years. Harvard, Yale, Columbia 
and Pennsylvania have preceded 
Princeton in this development, and for 
a period it was doubtful whether | 
Princeton should be ranked among the 
universities or the colleges. 
When, on the o¢easion of its sesquicen- 
tennial celebration in 1896, the official 
name of the College of New Jersey was 
changed to Princeton University, it 
was not so much a measure of what 
had been accomplished as a promise of 
things hoped for but unseen. The 
prophecy is now, however, in course of 
fulfilment. Princeton, it is true, has 
among 

neering. 
no professional schools, except its de- 
partments of civil and electrical engi- 
A law school was once estab- 
lished, but it lasted only two years. 
No school of medicine is in contempla- 
tion, though the first two years of a 
'medical course could be given to ad- 
vantage. The theological seminary in 
the village has supplied a large propor- 
tion of the students registered in the 
| graduate department, but it has no 
official connection with the university 
and is too narrowly denominational to 
be regarded as a graduate school of 
theology. 
In most of our universities, however, 
the professional schools scarcely form 
an integral part of the institution and 
the graduate school is the place in 
which university and research work is 
work has _ been 
accomplished. - Such 

HOLDER HALL, a dormitory erected by Mrs. Sage. 
