Real Estate... Other Property. Equipment of Departments and Furniture.. Total property, exclusive of western lands un 844, 834 22 353, 047 06 sold and the McGraw Funds now in suit... $4,897, 272 20 Sales during the year, 4,087.54 acres. .. 5,089,000 feet of pine from 3,778 acres (land re served).... Total sales.... $38, 839 00 21, 582 00 $60,421 00 Of the land sold, 1,183.60 acres was pine land, containing 3,340,000 feet of pine, which sold at an average price of $12.37 per acre, or $3.95 per thousand feet for the pine, and $7.25 per acre for the land, and 2,903.94 acres of farm land (having no pine) sold at $8.33 per acre. The sales of pine (land reserved), were at the average price of $4.24 per thousand feet. The land remaining unsold, June 1, 1884, consisted of 164,503.19 acres, of which 96,762.8 acres are pine land, containing 287,442.000 feet of pine timber, and the balance, 67,741.11 acres, consisted of about 32,000 acres of cut-over land, and about 35,741.11 acres of farming land, which contained 23,847,000 feet of scattering pine, making total of pine timber, 308,290,000 feet. The total receipts during the year were.......... Excess of receipts over disbursements..... $330, 586 51 24, 507 04 $306, 079 47 The balances on current land and timber contracts amounted to $2,085,004.28, carrying six and seven per cent interest. Taxes average 93 cents per acre, an increase due to an advance in the assessment of timber lands, which had increased from ten to fifteen per cent, and in many cases to more. The expense of carrying the lands had been 12.98 cents per acre. 66 The Ten-year Book of the Cornell University " (1868-78), give the following summary of occupations of the graduates down to 1877, inclusive: Dead, 10; total Graduates, 486; total number of Matriculates, 1868-78, 2,403. Principal Buildings owned by the Cornell University, with the Year when Built, Sizes, Uses and Cost. 1. Morrill Hall, 1868, 165 by 50 feet, 4 stories. Used for offices, lecture and recitation rooms. Cost, $70,111.25. 2. Cascadilla Place, 1868, 195 by 100 feet, 5 stories. Built one-third at the expense of citizens of Ithaca, and the remainder by the University. Used for Dormitories. Cost, $72,010.94. 3. Civil Engineering Building, 1869, 100 by 100 feet, 2 to 3 stories. Used by Civil Engineering Department. Cost, $23,699.12. 4. McGraw Building, 1871, 200 by 60 feet, 4 to 5 stories. Built by John McGraw, and used for Library, Museum and Natural History Department. Cost, $120,000. 5. White Hall, 1873, 165 by 50 feet, 4 stories. Used for lecture-rooms, etc. Cost, $80, 485.16. 6. Sibley College, 1871 and 1884, main building 166 by 40 feet, with extensive workshops. Built by Hiram Sibley. Used for Mechanic Arts. Cost, $65,000. 7. President's House, 1871. Built by Andrew D. White, at a cost of $50,000 and used as President's residence. 8. Sage Chapel, 1873. Built by Henry W. Sage, and used as University Chapel. Cost, $30,000. 9. Sage College, 1875, main portion 168 by 40 feet, south wing 125 feet, north wing 85 feet. Built by Henry W. Sage, and used for Ladies' Dormitories and Botanical Department. Cost, $165,000. 10. McGraw-Fisk House, 1882. Built by Mrs. Jennie McGraw. Cost, $210,000. 11. Physical and Chemical Laboratory, 1883. Used for Chemistry and Physics, and cost $85,000. 12. Military Hall and Gymnasium, 1883, 160 by 60 feet and a wing. Used for instruction in Military Science and Gymnastics. Cost, $35,000. 13. Memorial Chapel, 1883. Attached to Sage Chapel. Cost, $20,000. Besides the buildings above given, there are several valuable farm buildings belonging to the University; while on the campus stand sixteen Professors' residences, and one Society house. Certain buildings are also "endowed" to the amount of about $200,000. COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. The "New York Free Academy" was established July 27, 1846, wholly at the city cost, it being the pioneer of Free Academies in the State. It was sanctioned by a law passed May 7, 1847, which referred the question of maintenance by tax, to the electors, at a special election in June following, and it was confirmed by a vote of 19,404 to 3,409. The following Professorships were established: 1. Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. 2. History and Belles-Lettres. 3. Latin and Greek Languages and Literature. 4. French Language and Literature. 5. Spanish Language and Literature. 6. Chemistry. 7. German and Drawing. The Academy was opened January 27, 1849, with HORACE WEBSTER, LL. D. (formerly of Geneva College), as President, and was a success from the beginning. From the first, none were admitted but those who had passed through the course in the Public Schools. The attendance increased rapidly, and as the need was felt, additional instructors were appointed. Of the latter, there were three in 1848; ten in 1849; fifteen in 1850; seventeen in 1851, and twenty-two in 1852. 2 In 1854,1 full powers were granted for conferring degrees, but the name was not changed to the present form until 1866. Under this act the Board of Education were made ex-officio Trustees of the College. It has since been steadily advancing and adding new departments of study as the occasion required.' 1 Chap. 267, Laws of 1854. 2 March 30, 1866. In an account published in "The Public Service of New York" (vol. III, page 406), the following tribute is paid to the early friends of this institution : "The founders of the College are the People of New York. Prominent among its benefactors and promoters may be mentioned: Townsend Harris, first Minister from the United States to Japan, President of the Board of Education in 1846-47, lately deceased; Robert Kelley, President of the Board of Education, 1848-49; Judge Joseph S. Bosworth, member of Executive Committee, 1847, 1848, 1849; Hon. Luther Bradish, Chairman of Executive Committee, 1850, 1851, 1852; Erastus C. Benedict, LL. D., late Chancellor of the University of the State; Wm. H. Neilson, President of the Board in 1855, and again in 1873, 1874, 1875, Judge Richard L. Larremore, Chairman of the Board of Trustees in 1868-69; Hon. Samuel B. H. Vance, ex-Mayor and Chairman of Executive Committee. Also, Ephraim Holbrook, Seth Grosvenor, Duncan C. Pell, Edwin Burr, Charles S. Cromwell, The expenses of this College from the beginning to 1880 were: For lot and building, $91,373; salaries, repairs and supplies, $2,757,152; total, $2,848,524. The property of the College is reported as follows in the Regents' Report of 1884: Grounds and buildings, $212,000; educational collections, $82,300; funds for Library and Prizes, $40,750; received from the City Comptroller the preceding year, $119,159.19; income of Library and Prize Funds, $1,543.06; paid for salaries, $101,882.98; improvements and repairs, $6,122.36; for other purposes, $12,696.91. The endowment of the College is by a law passed May 1, 1872,' fixed at $150,000. The main College building is on the corner of Lexington avenue and Twenty-third street, and contains sixteen recitation-rooms, a lecture-room, three drawing-rooms, a chapel, a library of three rooms, a laboratory, offices for the President, Secretary and Registrar, apartments for Janitor and several store-rooms. The building used by the sub-Freshmen class contains eleven recitation-rooms, an assembly room and store-rooms in the basement. The library numbered in 1880, 18,200 volumes of well-selected works, valued at about $45,750. A repository for text-books, numbered 16,500 volumes. The laboratory is well provided, and the collections, apparatus, models, charts, etc., are ample for illustration and were valued at $14,700. A cabinet of Natural History was valued at $2,000, and architectural models, casts for drawing-class, etc., as much more. Instruction is given in all departments, excepting Drawing and the Fine Arts, by text-books, and in most departments lectures are delivered. In the three higher classes the students are exercised in composition and oratory. Prize speaking is had at Commencement by three members of each of the three highest classes. The Seniors and Juniors each deliver two original discourses annually before the entire College. Sophomores are exercised in declamation throughout the year. Freshmen are required to write compositions once a month. The course extends through five years, and graduates receive de Augustus H. Ward, Elisha Riggs, James Kelly, John Claflin and George R. Lock. wood, the donors of funds and prizes bearing their names and described in this article. The only private benefactions that the College has received, except donations of books, apparatus, etc., made at various times, and prizes mentioned hereafter, are the following: In 1852, Ephraim Holbrook, $5,000, to be applied, at a future period, to the purchase of books for the library. In 1857, Seth Grosvenor, $30, 000, for books for the library." 1 Chap. 637, Laws of 1872. grees of Bachelor of Arts, or of science, according to the studies pursued. There is also a Post-graduate course in Civil Engineering, and a short Commercial course of one year only. To the end of the Sophomore year, the studies are alike, but in the last two years students may take a Classical or a Scientific course. An extended series of prizes has been established.1 The College being, through the action of its officers and alumni, associated with the following Universities and Colleges, viz.: Amherst, Brown, Columbia, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, New Jersey, Wesleyan and Yale, in the support of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the school is open to any properly qualified graduate of this College. The Museum of Natural History in 1884, contained 6,000 specimens; 550 in Botany, 250 of Vertebrata, 1,600 of Invertebrata, 2,000 in Mineralogy, and 1,600 in Lithology, Geology and Paleontology. Among them may be mentioned a set of Conchological specimens from the Smithsonian Institution; a very valuable collection of the Unios of the United States, presented by Mr. Isaac Lea, of Philadelphia, and a complete series of the Corals of Florida, presented by Major Walter McFarland, of the Engineer Corps, U. S. A. There were also fifty models in glass, illustrative of the Radiata and the Protozoa, and wire models illustrating the principles of Crystallography. 1 These are reported in the Thirty-sixth Annual Register for 1884-5, as follows: 1. THE PELL MEDALS. Founded in 1849 by Duncan C. Pell, $500, providing a gold medal annually for highest rank in all studies. In 1856, a silver medal was provided for second in rank. 2. THE CROMWELL MEDALS. Since 1850, $500, for a gold medal annually, for best scholar in History and Belles-Lettres, and since 1856 a silver medal for second best. Founded by Charles T. Cromwell. 3. THE WARD MEDALS. By Augustus H. Ward, since 1853, twenty bronze medals, for proficiency as specified. 4. THE RIGGS MEDALS. By Elisha Riggs, since 1864, $1,000. Two gold medals for English Prose Compositions in two higher classes. 5. THE CLAFLIN MEDALS. By John Claflin, since 1871, $1,250, for two gold and two silver medals. Greek and Latin. 6. PRIZE OF PRESIDENT OF BOARD OF EDUCATION, since 1852. Public Speaking. 7. PRIZE FOR BEST DECLAIMER OF A SELECTED POEM. Since 1855. 8. THE LOCKWOOD PRIZE. By George R. Lockwood, since 1857. Translation from English into French. 9. THE KELLY PRIZE. By James Kelly, since 1868, $1,000. Two prizes for best debaters in Literary Societies. 10. THE BELDEN PRIZES. By William Belden, since 1883, $1,000. Pure Mathematics; a gold and a silver medal. |
