THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY REGISTER 1893-94 SECOND EDITION "I would found an institution where any person can find instruc study." tion in any EZRA CORNELL. ITHACA, N. Y. PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OT ANDRUS & CHURCH TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE. Calendar 5 Foundation and Endowment 8 Officers of the University 16 Admission and Classification 30 Residence and Graduation 40 Graduate Work and Advanced Degrees 44 Courses oe Study Prescribed for Degrees 49 Courses oe Instruction 59 Departments 104 The University Library 148 The Sage Chapel and Barnes Hall 151 Scholarships, Fellowships and Prizes 153 The School of Law 160 Summer Courses 171 List of Fellows and Scholars 177 Catalogue of Students 186 The Twenty-Fifth Annual Commencement 249 The Associate Alumni 258 Index 262 i8q4- JANUARY. MAY. SEPTEMBER. S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 1 7 8 9 10 11 12 1.3 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 2 3 4 5 b 7 8 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 20 21 22 23 24 25 2b 16 17 18 !9 20 21 22 28 29 30 3i 27 28 29 30 31 23 24 25 2b 27 28 29 3o FEBRUARY. JUNE. OCTOBER. i| 2 3 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 11 12 4 5 6 7 8; 9! 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 7 9 IO 13 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 14*5 ib 17 18 19 20 18 19 2021 22 23 24 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 21 22 23 24 25 2b 27 2526 2728 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 28!29 30 31 MARCH. JULY. NOVEMBER. I 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 4 5 b 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 i.S 16 17 18 19 20 21 11 12 13 14 151b 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 18 *9 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 3i 29 30 3i 25 2b 27 28 2930 APRIL. AUGUST. DECEMBER. 123 4 5 6 7 1 il 2 3 4 1 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 5 6J 7 8 9 10 11 2 3 4 5 b 7 8 I5'l6 17 18 19 20 21 12 13 14 15 ib 17 18 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 19 20 21 2223 24 25 ib 17 18 19 2021 22 29 30 26 27 28 29^0 3i 2324 25 26J27J28 29 3031 THE UNIVERSITY CALENDAR. 1893-94. FALL TERM 1893. Sept. 20 Wednesday Entrance Examinations begin. Academic Year Begins. Sept. 25 Monday Registration of new Students in the School of Law, and of matriculated Students. Last day of Registration of matriculated Students. Matriculation of new Students Sept. 26 Tuesday -J in technical courses. University Scholar ship Examinations begin. Matriculation of new Students in general Sept. 27 Wednesday courses (except Students in the School of Law.) Instruction begins in all departments of Sept. 28 Thursday the University. President's annual address to the students. Thanksgiving Recess, from the evening of Nov. 3 1 Thu.-Mon. Wednesday, Nov. 29, to the morning of Dec. 4J Tuesday, Dec. 5. Latest date for announcing subjects of Theses Dec. 1 Friday for advanced degrees, and for Baccalau reate degrees in the general courses. Dec. 15 Friday Term Examinations begin. Dec. 2 2 Friday Term ends. WINTER TERM-ii Jan. 3 Wednesday Registration for the Term. Jan. 4 Thursday Instruction begins. Jan. 11 Thursday Founder's Day. (Latest date for announcing subjects of Theses Jan. 12 Friday for first degrees in the technical courses. Feb. 22 Thursday Washington's Birthday. March 24 Saturday Spring recess begins. THE CALENDAR. SPRING TERM1894. April 3 Tuesday Registration for the Term. April 4 Wednesday. Latest date for presenting Woodford Prize April 9 Monday X Orations. Latest date for presenting Commencement April 27 Friday X Orations. Latest date for presenting Theses for ad May i Tuesday X vanced degrees. Latest date for presenting Theses for bac May 7 Monday < calaureate degrees. Latest date for receiving applications for May 15 Tuesday \ Fellowships. May 25 Friday Eighty-Six Memorial Prize Competition. May 3o Wednesday Latest date for receiving applications for Teachers' Certificates, for Special Mention, June Friday for degrees in History and Political Science and in Natural History, and for Medical Preparatory Certificates. June 14 Thursday Instruction ends. June 15 Friday Entrance Examinations begin. June 17 Sunday Baccalaureate Sermon. June 19 Tuesday Class Day. [Alumni Day. June 20 Wednesda -j Annual Meeting of the Trustees. I Woodford Prize Campetition. June 21 Thursday Twenty-Sixth Annual Commencement. THE CALENDAR. SUMMER COURSES. Inverte- ___ Summer term in and , f Entomology June 20 Wednesday \ -^ / / y brate Zoology begins. July 6 Q^ursday "j Summer Courses begin. j Summer Courses (except in School of Law) Aug. 16 Wednesday i end. Aug. 30 Wednesday Summer Course in School of Law ends. Aug. 30 Wednesday Summer Term in Entomology ends. FALL TERM1894. Sept. 19 Wednesday Entrance Examinations begin. 'Academic Year Begins. Registration of new Students in the School Sept. 24 Monday of Law, and ofmatriculated Students. Ex aminations for admission to the School of Law. f Last day of Registration of matriculated | Students. Matriculation of new Students Sept. 25 Tuesday in technical courses. University Scholar ship Examinations begin. Matriculation of new Students in general Sept. 26 Wednesday courses (except Students in the School of Law). f Instruction begins in all departments of University. annual Sept. 27 Thursday -{ the President's address 1 to the students. Nov. Thursday Thanksgiving Day. f Latest date for announcing subjects of Theses Dec. 1 Saturday for advanced degrees, and for Baccalau reate degrees in the general courses. Dec. 22 Saturday Christmas recess begins. WINTER TERM1895. Jan. 3 Thursday Registration for the term. FOUNDATION AND ENDOWMENT. Cornell University was incorporated by the Legislature of the State of New York on the 27th of April, 1865, and opened on the 7th of October, 1868. The existence of the University is due to the combined wisdom and bounty of the United States, the State of New York, and Ezra Cornell. By an act of Congress, approved July 2, 1862, it was provided that there should be granted to the several states public lands, "thirty " thousand acres for each Senator and Representative of Congress, from the sale of which there should be established a perpetual fund " the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated, by each state which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the states may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial " classes in the several pursuits and professions in life. The Act for bade the use of any portion of the aforesaid fund, or of the interest thereon, for the purchase, erection, or maintenance of any building or buildings ; but the several states claiming and taking the benefit of the provisions of the Act were required, by legislative assent pre " viously given, to provide within five years at least not less than one ' ' college for carrying out the purposes of the Act. The share of the State of New York was nine hundred and ninety thousand acres. The scrip was delivered to the comptroller, who was authorized, by the Act passed May 5, 1863, to receive it and with the approval and concurrence of other State officers to dispose of or* the whole or any portion of it for cash, for stocks of the United vStates or of the States, or some other safe stocks yielding not less than five per cent. Under this Act eight thousand acres were sold at eighty-three cents and sixty-eight thousand acres at eighty-five cents, producing together sixty-four thousand four hundred and forty dollars. But as other states were their at a offering scrip much lower rate, sales soon ceased. Furthermore was there the greatest uncertainty in re- FOUNDA TION AND ENDO WMENT 9 gard to the disposition which the Legislature might ultimately make of the fund that was expected to accrue from the sale of the land scrip. Meantime Ezra Cornell was dreaming of a project which he had come to formulate in the memorable words : "I would found an in " stitution where any person can rind instruction in any study. By a union of his own resources with the proceeds of the land grant he saw a way to the realization of his purpose. This union was effected by the Act of April 27, 1865, establishing Cornell University, and ap propriating to it the income of the sale of public lands granted by Congress to the State of New York ; and the founder's broad con ception of a University was reconciled with the narrower purpose of the Act of Congress donating public lands to the states establishing colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, by pro viding in the charter that "such other branches of science and knowledge may be embraced in the plan of instruction and investiga tion pertaining to the University, as the trustees may deem useful and " proper.