CORNELL UNIVERSITY

an institution of higher learning, situated at Ithaca, N. Y. Its incorporation dates from 1865 and it was opened to students three years later. Cornell University was so named in honor of Ezra Cornell, who contributed $500,000 to an endowment fund on which the institution was founded. The gift was conditioned upon the a istance of New York State, which at the time had been allotted by the federal government some millions of acres of public lands for establishing colleges of agriculture and of mechanical arts. The donor stipulated that the State apply the proceeds of the sale of these public lands to this object, but that the scope of the university he sought to establish be broadened to embrace a curriculum from which a student could obtain tuition on any subject. The State legislature accepted the gift on these conditions and thus Cornell University came into being as an institution of general learning as well as for the teaching of agriculture and technic ology. The charter also provided for free tuition for students living in the State to a number equal to that of the A embly districts. The annual grant of free tuition goes to 600 students, and a similar privilege is extended to students of agriculture and veterinary medicine. The university’s divisions embrace the graduate department; the colleges of arts and sciences, law, medicine, agriculture, architecture, and civil engineering; the Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanic Arts; and the New York State Veterinary College. The college of agriculture is a state establishment. The civil engineering college covers instruction in bridge, railroad, sanitary, municipal, hydraulic and geodetic engineering, while the Sibley College has departments specializing in mechanical, experimental, electrical, marine and railroad mechanical engineering, and in machine design, shop - work, and naval architecture. Hiram Sibley, and his son, Hiram W. Sibley, are notable among the uni ver The numerous gifts the institution has received include large sums from the Sage family, spent in adding substantially to its building, equipment and service. John D. Rockefeller contributed the Rockefeller Hall of Physics; A. D., Barnes a Christian A ociation building; Willard Fiske a library fund of some $500,000; and Oliver H. Payne the Cornell Medical College in New York City. The library contains 655,000 volumes and includes the Zarncke collection, given by Wm. H. Sage, and a pricele historical collection presented by Andrew D. White. Recent additions are a new laboratory of chemistry, under construction in 1921, at a probable outlay of $1,500,000, the gift of George F. Baker, of New York City, and a department of dairy industry, added to the State College of Agriculture, for which the State legislature appropriated $400,000. In 1922 the University had an endowment fund of $18,829,400, a student roll of 5,477, and a faculty numbering 900, headed by L. Farrand LL.D., who was inaugurated president in 1921.