the University during the year 1905-1906. The executors of the estate of the late Willard Fiske have paid over $413,531 and a considerable balance remains to be turned over on a final settlement. This fund is an endowment for the Library. There was also received from the Fayerweather estate a final balance of $8,529.59. To Mrs. Dean Sage of Albany the University is indebted for a further gift of $15,000 in augmentation of the Sage Chapel Preachership Fund donated by her husband in 1876. The association which owned the Medical College Laboratory in New York City, the estimated value of which is $75,000, turned it over to Cornell University. And the constant munificence of the Founder of the Cornell University Medical College has been, as in past years, though modestly and invisibly, all the same most effectively active. Lastly, the will of the late Mrs. Nancy G. Howe, sister of the late Mr. F. W. Guiteau, founder of the Guiteau Loan Fund, who died at Irvington on the 27th of September, 1906, contains the following provision: "I give, devise, bequeath all the rest and residue of my property to Cornell University situated in the town of Ithaca, New York, to be invested by the trustees or directors of said University in lawful securities, to constitute a fund to be called by and to bear the name of Guiteau and the interest and income thereof to be used in advancing and assisting needful worthy young men in pursuing their studies in said University." The greatest need of Cornell University today is of endowments for professorships to increase and strengthen the intellectual forces which constitute it and by which it is to be made more powerful and more effective. This need has been created by the large and continuous increase in the attendance of students which has characterized the University for some years past. Benefactors to whom such an opportunity of making philanthropic investments appeals may select as objects of endowment almost any department whatever in the varied curriculum of the University-lan guages or history; physics, chemistry, geology, or botany; civil engineering, mechanical engineering, or electrical engineering and feel that their gifts are equally productive of benefit to the University and of serviceableness in the advancement of the highest civilization in America. general department of pure science like chemistry or a technical school like civil or electrical engineering, each enrolling at Cornell several hundreds of students, should appeal with peculiar force to practical men who have made vast fortunes by means of instrumentalities whose efficiency ultimately depends upon the progress of pure and applied science. Next to additional professors the University needs apparatus and equipment and buildings for the professors to use in instruction and research. The Library is now well provided for; but endowments for the great scientific laboratories and for the shops of the technical schools have not yet been begun; and, though the departments of the liberal arts and of physics are at last splendidly housed in Goldwin Smith Hall and Rockefeller Hall, and the College of Agriculture will soon have spacious quarters in the group of State buildings now in course of construction, the department of botany is still homeless, the large classes in civil engineering are still without a suitable hall for instruction and drafting work, and shops for the department of mechanic arts are still an unsatisfied but imperative need of Sibley College, with a laboratory for experimental engineering a close second. The students themselves feel keenly the inadequacy of the provisions which the University at present makes for their physical, economic, and social welfare and also for their education outside the halls of instruction. The young men demand a new and large gymnasium, as the little armory, which was built in 1883 when the University had 405 students, and enlarged in 1892 when the enrollment was less than half the present attendance, is still the only gymnasium which the University possesses. They demand a club house for social purposes, such as the students of Pennsylvania, Harvard and Oxford already enjoy. They demand an auditorium in which they may all get seats at public lectures and addresses, from which more than half of them are now always excluded by the limitations of the largest assembly room on the campus. They demand dormitories or halls of residence and a dining hall on the campus-surely the most beautiful and romantic site in America-in which they may enjoy, along with reasonable provisions for their health and comfort, the inestimable advantage of social intercourse with fellow students and mutual education under a common roof, instead of enforced isolation in private houses with increasingly high prices for board and lodgings to which they are now condemned. Cannot some of these wants be satisfied in 1907 when the University is to commemorate the centennial of its Founder's birth? Could a worthier offering be made to the noble spirit of Ezra Cornell? JACOB GOULD SCHURMAN, President. CHANGES IN THE STAFF OF INSTRUCTION The following new appointments were made for the year 19051906: G. R. McDermott, Professor of Naval Architecture, promoted from an assistant professorship (appointment to date from August 1, 1905), October 28, 1905. J. Moffatt, Lecturer on Moral Philosophy and Christian Ethics, second term, October 3, 1905. L. Illmer, Instructor in Machine Design, October 10, 1905. A. Englert, Instructor in Machine Design, October 31, 1905. C. H. Tower, Instructor in Power Engineering (appointment to date from November 1, 1905), December 5, 1905. W. C. Baker, Instructor in the Outdoor Art Course, December 19, 1905. W. S. Bryant, Clinical Instructor in Otology, December 27, 1905. C. C. Waggoner, Instructor in Physics, promoted from an assistantship, February 13, 1906. A. L. Stewart, Instructor in Electrical Engineering, March 20, 1906. A. L. Magraw, Insructor in Experimental Electrical Engineering, April 3, 1906. H. J. Schwartz, Clinical Instructor in Surgery, Department of Dermatology, May 2, 1906. M. C. Albrech, Assistant in Chemistry, October 3, 1905. C. W. Edgerton, Assistant in Botany, October 3, 1905. M. Harper, Assistant in Animal Husbandry, October 3, 1905. R. W. Curtis, Assistant in the Nature Study Department, October 3, 1905. R. C. Lawry, Assistant in the Poultry Department, October 10, 1905. C. M. DeVed, W. C. Capron, and H. L. Aller, Assistants in Machine Design, October 10, 1905. B. N. Howe, Assistant in Machine Shop, October 10, 1905. H. S. Bush, Assistant in Wood Shop, October 10, 1905. J. J. Frank, J. A. Black, and V. C. Daniels, Assistants in Chemistry, October 10, 1905. C. H. Tuck, Assistant in Oratory, October 10, 1905. F. H. Thompson, Assistant in Wood Shop, October 17, 1905. B. J. Finch and J. L. Jones, Assistants in Physical Culture, October 17, 1905. L. R. Geissler, Assistant in Psychology, October 17, 1905. G. W. Hosford, management of the Farmers' Reading Course, October 17, 1905. P. Hayhurst and J. C. Bradley, Assistants in Entomology, October 31, 1906. M. Morse, Assistant in Chemistry, October 31, 1905. G. D. Brill, to take charge of the General Winter Agricultural Courses, October 31, 1905. A. T. E. Olmsted, Assistant in Semitics, December 12, 1905. R. Hazen and S. Erdman, Demonstrators of Anatomy, December 27, 1905. G. E. Frazer, Assistant in Physical Culture, January 23, 1906. F. E. Lichtenthaeler, Assistant in Chemistry, February 13, 1906. L. B. Turner, Assistant in Machine Shop, February 13, 1906. C. W. Mann, Assistant in Soils, February 13, 1906. H. G. Burnham and I. O. Chormann, Assistants in Chemistry, February 27, 1906. J. Fried, Assistant in Military Science, February 27, 1906. F. E. Gallagher, Assistant in Chemistry, March 13, 1906. J. H. Hathaway, Medical Examiner at the Gymnasium, March 13, 1906. C. F. Clark, Assistant Agronomist in Experiment Station, April 3, 1906. J. R. Pawling, Assistant in Histology and Embryology, April 3, 1906. R. C. Gibbs and H. E. Carver, Assistants in Physics, April 17, 1906. H. C. Frey, Assistant Law Librarian, October 3, 1905. C. E. Cornell, Secretary of the New York State Veterinary College, December 5, 1905. W. W. Baldwin, jr., President's Secretary and University Publisher, February 27, 1906. SUMMER SESSION, 1906 G. P. Bristol, Director, October 3, 1905. C. E. Bennett, Professor of Latin, January 23, 1906. |