YEARS. of Mrs. Caroline Williams of $20,000 was in course of settlement, with prospect of payment but somewhat diminished in amount. Mr. Joseph B. Hoyt, whose subscription was not due until after his death, had concluded to pay the entire sum, and one year's interest, making $21,000. Among the objects of expense needed were an iron fence, costing about $15,000, and a chemical laboratory building that would cost about $10,000. An accession of 306 volumes from the Library of the late E. Peshine Smith, and of 245 from other parties, had been received during the year. Statistics of Attendance and Graduation at the University of Rochester. Of the above there were 5 students in a partial course in 1851, 5 in 1852, and 3 in 1853. GRADUATES IN COURSE. M. S. FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, FROM THE BEGINNING. Rev. Asahel Clark Kendrick, D. D., Professor of the Greek Language and Literature, from 1850; Librarian, 1850-68. * 1850-52. * John Fram Richardson, A. M., Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, 1850-68. John Howard Raymond, LL. D., Professor of History and Belles-Lettres, 1850-56. *Rev. Chester Dewey, M. D., D. D., LL. D., Professor of the Natural Sciences, 1850-68. Rev. John Sharp Maginnis, D. D., Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, Rev. Thomas Jefferson Conant, D. D., Professor of the Hebrew Language and Literature, 1850-54. * E. Peshine Smith, Acting Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 1850-51. Albert Harrison Mixer, A. M., Tutor in History and Languages, 1850-52; Professor of the Modern Languages, 1855-58; Professor of the Modern Languages, from 1867. Isaac Ferdinand Quinby, LL. D., Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 1851-84. Heman Lincoln Wayland, A. M., Tutor in Greek and History, 1852-54. Martin Brewer Anderson, LL. D., Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, from 1853. Rev. Ezekiel Gilman Robinson, D. D., LL. D., Professor of Natural and Revealed Religion, 1853-54. Rev. Sewall Sylvester Cutting, D. D., Professor of Rhetoric and History, 1855-68. Rev. Henry Fowler, A. M., Professor of Political Economy, 1855-58. Henry Augustus Ward, A. M., F. R. G. S., Professor of the Natural Sciences, 1861-75. Alonzo Jonah Howe, A. M., Acting Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, 1862-63. Rev. William Cleaver Wilkinson, D. D., Professor of the Modern Languages, ad interim, 1863-64. Otis Hall Robinson, A. M., Tutor in Mathematics, 1864-67; Assistant Librarian, 1966-68; Librarian, from 1868; Assistant Professor of Mathematics, 1867-69; Professor of Mathematics, from 1869; Harris Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, from 1884. *Rev. James Orton, A. M., Instructor in the Natural Sciences, 1867-68. Rev. Samuel Allan Lattimore, Ph. D., LL. D., Professor of Chemistry, from 1867; Curator of the Cabinets, 1871-83. Rev. Joseph Henry Gilmore, A. M., Professor of Logic, Rhetoric and English Literature; from 1867. William Wallace Gilbert, A. M., Tutor in Latin, 1868-69. William Carey Morey, Ph. D., Tutor in Latin, 1869-70; Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, 1872-77; Professor of Latin and History, from 1877; Professor of History and Politics, from 1883. Rev. Adoniram Judson Sage, D. D., Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, 1870-72. Henry Fairfield Burton, A. M., Assistant Professor of Latin, from 1877; Professor of Latin, from 1883. Edward R. Benton, Ph. D., Acting Professor of Natural History, 1882-3. Of the Graduates of the University of Rochester down to and including 1881,-181 had (in 1878) entered the Christian Ministry; 119 had studied law; 19 had studied medicine; 18 had attained an honorable position as journalists; 90 had engaged in teaching; and about one-third of the whole number had devoted themselves to active rather than professional life. *Deceased. NEW YORK CENTRAL COLLEGE ASSOCIATION. This institution was founded by the American Baptist Free Mission Society, an Anti-slavery Baptist association, and measures for its formation were begun about 1848. The first instructors were inaugurated September 4, 1849. A leading idea in this enterprise was, to afford equal privileges to all, without distinction of sex or color, and to emphasize their position upon the anti-slavery question, one of the professors appointed was a man of color. From about 20 students at the opening, the number had increased to about 110 in July, 1850, and an act of incorporation was obtained April 7, 1851, from the Legislature, which constituted Archibald Campbell, Asa Caldwell, Benjamin F. Remington, Wilbur Tillinghast, Israel Palmer, Ezra Thompson, Charles L. Kinney, Marcus McGraw and their associates a corporation for the promotion of Literature, Science and the Arts, in an institution located at McGrawville (Town of Cortlandville), Cortland county. The Trustees were empowered to grant degrees, and were subject to visitation by the Regents, and to the general provisions of law with respect to corporations. A building 106 by 50 feet in size, three and four stories high, was erected, upon a farm of 157 acres, with the view of giving employment to students by manual labor. A second building 100 by 30 feet, and four stories high, was used as a boarding hall, and for rooms by young ladies. But two reports were made to the Regents; one for 1855, show. ing an attendance of 226, of whom 25 were Freshmen, 5 Sophmores, and 4 Seniors, the remainder being in inferior classes; graduates, 5. In 1857 there were 168 students-16 in the College and 152 in the inferior classes, with 4 graduates. The premises passed into use as a Union School, under the name of the "New York Central Academy and Union School," in 1864. NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Although the idea of establishing an institution for the teaching of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts was not realized until within. a comparatively recent period, it was not wholly overlooked in theory, and upon several occasions. it was expressly included in the programme of new institutions among the subjects to be taught. In January, 1826, the Hon. James Tallmadge, then Lieutenant Governor, made a very lengthy report as chairman of a Visiting Committee appointed to specially inquire into the condition of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the city of New York, and near the close of this report, made the following allusion to this subject: "Before closing this report, the Committee take the liberty to suggest for the consideration of the Regents, one other subject, which has occurred to them in the course of their inquiries. They are aware that the subject is not directly included in the visitorial powers confided to them. But its importance induces them to present it for consideration. It is proposed to extend and apply the Medical Schools, and perhaps the Colleges, to the teaching of Agriculture, Mechanics and the Useful Arts, as collateral branches, and to separate classes. Notwithstanding the liberal endowments made by this State, in the support of its various literary institutions, yet great deficiencies exist, in supplying the requirements of society, and in the adaptation of the sciences to actual practice in the pursuits of common life. The rapid growth of this State, its multiplied resources, and the industry and enterprise of its citizens, make large demands upon the sciences, to aid and co-operate in advancing the general prosperity. It is not sufficient that the sciences connected with Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts are diligently studied and correctly understood by a few votaries in our literary institutions. It seems very necessary that those sciences essential to the prosperity of manufacturing industry should be especially promoted, and adapted to the comprehension of a meritorious class of citizens, whose situation and circumstances, while they deny them the opportunities of an academic life, devote themselves more assiduously to mechanical pursuits, and perhaps as certainly prepare them to advance the public good. If this class of sciences was exhibited to the manufacturer and practical mechanic, in a course of lectures, it would not fail to produce improvements, and confer lasting benefits on the country. Courses of popular lectures for a few weeks in every year, upon Agriculture, Chemistry and Mechanics, with illustrations, and the exhibition of experiments, models and specimens, would secure an advantageous union in the efforts of theoretical and practical men; would awaken the mental energies of the agriculturist and the artisan, and soon produce a new era in the Mechanic Arts. The advantages which may be anticipated from the proposed more intimate union of the efforts of scientific and practical men will be sufficiently illustrated by reference to a recent and familiar case. The hats hitherto in use have been manufactured and stiffened with glues which were dissoluble in water. Within the last five or six years, water-proof' hats, warranted to be impervious to water, have come into general use. The art of making them has been blazoned forth as a new invention, and has been even the subject of 'patent rights.' The important discovery consists in the use of 'shellac,' as the stiffening glue. It is a gum imported and found in all druggists' stores. It is often used in medicine, and a peculiar property of which has long been known to the chemist to consist in its being indissoluble in water, while it readily dissolves in alcohol, and becomes a convenient glue, impervious to water. The discovery and recent invention, therefore, consists in the working mechanic having acquired and adopted into his daily business, the information on this one point, which has been possessed and used for the last century by every chemist, druggist and compounder of medicines. Perhaps, within another century, or, if assisted, within another year, the worker in leather may acquire a like secret, and by saturating his material with some such ingredient effectually protect our feet from moisture. Water-proof cloth has long been a desideratum for mankind. It is said it has recently been manufactured in Great Britain, with the use of the common India rubber.' The manufacturer has hitherto been unable to make a solution of this substance, while the chemist has long known its solubility by the application of bituminous oils, like the 'Seneca oil,' of which the country affords an abundance. The indigent mechanic must rely upon his daily labor for his subsistence. He cannot waste his time, or incur expense, to go in pursuit of the sciences, even as applied to his own occupation. Any separate establishment requiring him to leave his employment, or the apprentice to forego his labor, would thereby be inaccessible to them. To be of utility, it must be fitted to their opportunities and their means; it must be applied to their condition. The school should be organized with a view to convenience and economy, in time and expense, and with the expectation that the manufacturer, the mechanic, the journeyman, apprentice and laborer will become the pupils, and there learn the principles upon which successful practice in their several occupations depend, and acquire additional skill in their respective employments. Some public provision by which these advantages may be extended to this portion of our community seems to be required, as a measure of policy, and an act of equal justice. It is believed it may easily be accomplished under the patronage of the Regents, and by an authority to hold such a course of lectures. Scientific gentlemen would undertake the duties, or the Professors of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy, in the institutions already established, might derive fame and profit, and find employment for their leisure time in this further duty. It would be consonant with their present pursuits. The institutions now provided for medical and literary purposes might thus be made more extensively focal points, from which to radiate the public mind. They would better accord with the situation and condition of our country. The plan of education in our colleges was derived from Europe, where it was established by the Romish priesthood, and it has been adopted here, and since continued with too great a subserviency to precedent. Perhaps at some future time it may be deemed expedient to re-examine the system of education now in |
