THE 
POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 

GUYOT 
gradually developed at Princeton in 
the course of the past few years, and 
there is likely to be now a mutation | 
which will place the university among 
those where productive scholarship and 
creative research are most cultivated. 
The difficulties in regard to the grad- | 
uate school which have been so widely 
exploited are in fact rather trivial and 
are now fairly solved, as the university 
has not only money for a residence hall 
student which 

but also for the men who are the real | 
university. The 
$300,000, the gift of $500,000 from Mr. 
Proctor, once withdrawn but now re- 
newed, and the Wyman 
amounting probably to over $2,000,000, 
are all for the graduate school and 
give it a free endowment searcely 
equaled at any other university. 
Swan bequest of | 
bequest, | 
HALL. 
It is also true that Princeton has done 
much for its men. In the preceptorial 
system it has undertaken to extend the 
personal contact between teacher and 
is one of the most 
marked advantages in the teaching of 
the sciences, to the departments not 
having laboratories, and has brought 
to Princeton some fifty selected men of 
the younger generation with the rank 
of assistant professors. The method 
adopted may be open to certain criti- 
cisms, but this group of men has added 
greatly to the strength of the univer- 
sity. In the meanwhile the laboratory 
departments have been developed both 
by buildings and by men. The depart- 
ment of physics has been made one of 
the strongest in the country and one 
Like all our institutions Princeton | 
biology. 
has spent relatively too much money 
on buildings and too little on men. 
3ut the money has come freely and the | 
architectural setting at Princeton will 
appeal to the alumni and to the gen- 
of our leading zoologists has been 
called as head of the department of 
The buildings recently erected for 
physics and for natural science are 
shown in the accompanying illustra- 
tions. In both of them the academic 
eral public as the worthy exterior | Gothie style has been well adapted to 
manifestation 
of a great university. | laboratory construction. 
The Palmer 
