000 for endowment from the following Conferences: Troy, $10,000; Genesee, $15,000; Central New York, $10,000; Wyoming, $20,000; New York, $3,000 and Northern New York, $2,000. Statistics of Syracuse University. Students in Attendance. Males. COLLEGE OF Females. Total. 1872-73... 83 25 108 1873-74. 102 34 136 1874-75.. 122 26 148 1875-76.. 22 52 52 32 43 38 42 43 1881-82. 133 23 156 40 8165 .82234 60 9 18 22 220 63 11 15 26 238 5 Grand total of Graduates of Syracuse University.. Grand total of Graduates of Genesee College adopted by Syracuse University... 5 CA | 22 | 2 || College of Medicine in the Syracuse University. The Geneva Medical College, in 1872, was transferred with its library and its collections to Syracuse, a majority of its Faculty continuing their services in the new location. A number of resident physicians and others united with them, and arrangements were made for hospital and classical instruction. The removal was sanetioned by the Trustees of Hobart College. The name first assumed was "The College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Syracuse University." In June, 1875, this school adopted a full graded course of three years, with an extension of the scholastic year to nearly double the usual length, it being the second College to adopt this course. The studies are arranged as follows: First Year-Anatomy, Physiology, Chemistry, Histology and Botany. Second Year- Anatomy, Physiology, Chemistry, Materia Medica, Practice, Surgery, Obstetrics, Pathology and Clinics. M. A. Ph. D. Total. Third Year - Therapeutics, Practice, Surgery, Obstetrics, Diseases of Children, Pathology, Gynæcology, Forensic Medicine and Ophthalmology, with Clinics and Dental Surgery. The years are divided into two terms, and ample facilities are offered for laboratory work, use of the microscope, and hospital instruction, there being two hospitals in Syracuse - St. Joseph's and the House of the Good Shepherd. The College has a Dispensary. No special buildings have been erected, and the College is organized under the University charter. ST. BONAVENTURE'S COLLEGE. [Founded in 1859, and conducted some years as a private Academy.] On the 1st day of March, 1875, the Regents granted a provisional charter to St. Bonaventure's College, located in the town of Allegany, Cattaraugus county. Its site is about half a mile south of the village, and the main edifice was finished in 1869. A donation of 200 acres of land, and $5,000, was given by Nicholas Devereux, toward its establishment. The charter of 1875 was in the form of a perpetual charter, with the following addition: "Provided always, and these presents are upon the express condition, that if within the term of five years from the date hereof, the Trustees of the said College do not present to us, the said Regents, satisfactory evidence that they have invested for the use of the said College, funds amounting to at least $100,000, in," etc, "or that they have made such other provision to insure the efficient working and permanent establishment of the said College as shall be satisfactory to ne the said Regents, then this charter and all the provisions thereof, may, by a declaration of us, the said Regents, to that purport, to be entered on our minutes, be declared to be absolutely void and of no effect; but if evidence of such investment be so furnished, then and in that event, and on the declaration of us the said Regents, under our common seal and in that behalf, this charter shall thenceforth become and be perpetual." With respect to this requirement of an endowment of $100,000, as embodied in the ordinance for the incorporation of Colleges by the Regents, adopted by the Board in 1851, it was remarked by the committee appointed to consider the question of allowing a full charter, in a report made January 11, 1881, that the statutory requirement had fixed no pecuniary limitation, but had left it discre. tionary with the Regents to place such restrictions as they might deem proper, and add: "There is no law, statutory or otherwise, requiring as a prerequisite to the chartering of a College any pecuniary fund. Policy requires that an institution of so high a nature should not be created without sufficient evidences that if created, it will be stable and efficient in the diffusion of the higher branches of learning, and judg ment of these evidences is left entirely by law to the Board. Its ordinances do not and cannot limit its power; and so the Board must have determined, when it passed upon the original application of, and granted its present charter to St. Bonaventure College. That charter plainly proves that the Board did not deem the possession of an invested fund of $100,000 essential to the stability and efficiency of the College, or a prerequisite to the grant of a perpetual charter. * * * The College is conducted by Brothers of the Minor Order of St. Francis, who are vowed to poverty and devoted to education. Beyond a bare support, they draw nothing from the funds of the College. The Order insures to the College a perpetual succession of competent teachers. Its buildings are commodious and in all respects fitted for the uses of the College. Its library and philosophical apparatus are very respectable. All necessary revenues for the uses of the College are assured. We can see no reason why its petition should not be granted." Upon this recommendation the charter was made absolute, January 11, 1883. The grounds (200 acres) are valued at $30,000; Buildings and Furniture, $159,000; Library and Philosophical Apparatus, $17,000; Revenue from all sources (1883), $21,684; Expenditure (1883), $28,540. The College embraces in its instruction Ecclesiastical, Classical, Scientific and Commercial Courses. Its last report shows that its faculty is composed of thirteen members, viz.: Dean President Very Rev. Theophilus Pospisilik, O. S. F. Professors — Philosophy and Logic, Very Rev. Fr. Michael, O. S. F.; Latin, Higher Mathematics, Elocution, Geometry, Rhetoric, History and Geography, Rev. Joseph F. Butler, O. S. F.; Natural Philosophy, Natural History, Chemistry and Astronomy, Rev. J. J. Molloy, O. S. F.; Latin and Greek, Rev. Francis P. Coen, O. S. F.; French and German, Rev. John Roser, O. S. F.; Rhetoric, English Literature and French, John T. Goodwin; Rhetoric, Geometry, Algebra and History, Pamfilus A. Ennis, O. S. F.; Latin, Greek and Mathematics, Celsius L. Murphy, O. S. F.; Instrumental and Vocal Music, William F. Krampf, D. M. THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art was established by Peter Cooper, LL. D., of New York city, who deeded the completed building and property April 29, 1859, to six Trustees, under the condition that "the above-mentioned and described premises, together with the appurtenances, and the rents, issues, income and profits thereof, shall be forever devoted to the instruction and improvement of the inhabitants of the United States in practical science and art." In the administration of this plan, the following departments have been organized and maintained: (1.) A Free Reading-Room and Library. In 1883-4 number of periodicals taken in reading-room, 451; number of books in library, 17,810; number of visitors to reading-room, 549,707. (2.) A Free. Art School for Women. In 1883-4 number of applicants, 600; number admitted, 275, besides students in "pay" class 149. (3.) A Free School for Women in Wood-Engraving. In 1883-4 number received, 33. (4.) A Free School of Telegraphy for Women. In 1883-4 number admitted, 76. (5.) A Free Class in Phonography and Type-writing. In 1883-4 number admitted, 68. (6.) A Free Night School of Science (classes in Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Analytical Geometry, Descriptive Geometry, Calculus, Mechanics, Physics, Engineering, Astronomy, Chemistry, Geol |
