SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

situated at Syracuse, N.Y., was founded in 1870 as a development of Gene see College, which dated from 1849. It is coeducational and non-sectarian. There are colleges of liberal arts, medicine, fine arts, law, applied science, pedagogy, forestry and agriculture, as well as a graduate school, library school, a school for oratory, and a station of the U.S. Weather Bureau for instruction in meteorology. The university has a notable stadium and library, the latter containing the historical collection of Leopold von Ranke, bought in 1887 and houses in a building provided by Andrew Carnegie. In 1922 there were 5100 students and a teaching staff of 460 under the presidency of C. W. Flint.