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 ITHACA, NEW YORK 
 1915 
 
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 Foundation 
 
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 Endowment 
 
 THE COLLEGES OF 
 CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
 
 "I would found an institution where any 
 person can find instruction in any study" 
 
 — Ezra Cornell 
 
 CORNELL UNIVERSITY was incorporated by the 
 legislature of the State of New York on April 27, 
 1865, and to the University there were appropriated the 
 proceeds of the sale of land scrip representing nine hun- 
 dred and ninety thousand acres of public lands granted 
 to the State in accordance with the provisions of an Act 
 of Congress, approved on July 2, 1862. The amount 
 realized from the State's sale of this land scrip was 
 $688,576.12. 
 
 Toward the endowment and maintenance of the new 
 university, Ezra Cornell, at its foundation, donated 
 $500,000, and two hundred acres of land with useful 
 buildings, along with several smaller gifts for special 
 purposes. 
 
 A large portion of the land scrip sold by the State of 
 New York was purchased by Ezra Cornell under contract 
 providing that the profits derived from the sale of the 
 lands should accrue to Cornell University. Under this 
 contract of purchase, and by the wise administration of 
 Ezra Cornell and the Board of Trustees through its Land 
 Committee, of which Henry W. Sage was for many years 
 chairman, Cornell University has up to August 1, 1914, 
 realized $5,040,383.85. 
 
 Cornell University was opened on October 7, 
 
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BRIDGE OVER NORTH GORGE. FALL CREEK 
 Leading to Prudence Risley Hall 
 
A RAINY DAY 
 On the Way to the Library Past McGraw Hall 
 
The 
 University 
 
 The Faculty 
 
 and 
 
 Enrollment 
 
 The 
 Colleges 
 
 The University is at Ithaca, New York, a city of fifteen 
 thousand inhabitants, located at the south end of Cayuga 
 Lake. The University Campus, lying high on the slope 
 of the hills east of the town, commands an exceptionally 
 beautiful view of the western hills and of the valley and lake. 
 
 In 1914 the University, including the Medical College 
 in New York City, had approximately one hundred and 
 seventy-seven professors, one hundred and eleven assistant 
 professors, and four hundred and sixty instructors and 
 assistants, a total of approximately seven hundred and 
 fifty persons on the staff of instruction. 
 
 The student enrollment for the year 1914-15 was five 
 thousand three hundred and forty. 
 
 The following colleges and departments comprise the 
 University: 
 
 The Graduate School (degrees A. M., M. M. E.. 
 Ph. D., etc.). 
 
 The College of Arts and Sciences (degrees A. B., 
 B. Chem.), 
 
 The College of Law (degree LL. B.), 
 
 The Medical College (degree M. D.), 
 
 The New York State Veterinary College (degree 
 D. V. M.), 
 
 The New York State College of Agriculture (degree 
 B. S.), 
 
 The College of Architecture (degree B. Arch.), 
 
 The College of Civil Engineering, including Hydraulics 
 and Sanitary Engineering (degree C. E.), 
 
 The Sibley College of Mechanical Engineering and the 
 Mechanic Arts, including branches of Mechanical, Elec- 
 trical, Industrial and Mining Engineering (degree M. E.). 
 
 The Summer Session comprises work in several col- 
 leges and is conducted for six weeks in July and August. 
 
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The 
 
 Graduate 
 
 School 
 
 The College 
 of Arts 
 and Sciences 
 
 The purpose of the Graduate School is to provide the 
 student with the method and discipline of original research, 
 to the ultimate end that he may contribute to the advance- 
 ment of knowledge. In furnishing this opportunity for 
 independent study and investigation, the Graduate School 
 seeks to make the conditions such as will enable the student 
 to devote himself wholly to his chosen field. Unhampered 
 by the restrictions that necessarily obtain in undergraduate 
 work, he will come into freedom of association with older 
 scholars, who will seek to make his work profitable to him 
 by giving such aid and direction as he may need. 
 
 The branch of knowledge to which the student intends 
 to devote the larger part of his time is termed his major 
 subject. The other fields of study selected, which will be 
 necessarily more restricted in their scope and which should 
 in general be selected with reference to their direct bearing 
 upon the major subject, are termed the minor subjects. 
 Candidates for the Doctor's degree are required to select a 
 major subject and two minor subjects; for the Master's 
 degree, a major subject and one minor subject are required. 
 Three years of residence is the minimum requirement for 
 the Doctor's degree, and one year for the Master's degree. 
 
 The College of Arts and Sciences aims to provide 
 opportunity for the acquisition of a liberal education. 
 Except in the course leading to the degree of Bachelor of 
 Chemistry, the College lays down no fixed curriculum, 
 but allows its students, with four restrictions, to follow 
 their own interests. The College also cooperates with 
 the technical and professional colleges of the University, 
 and with the Graduate School, by affording to such as 
 desire it the preliminary training needed for advanced 
 work in any department of knowledge. The material 
 equipment of the College includes Goldwin Smith Hall, 
 
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devoted to instruction in the humanities and one of the 
 finest buildings for this purpose in the United States. 
 The College The preparation afforded by high schools and acade- 
 
 of Law mies is generally not an adequate foundation for profes- 
 
 sional study. This has been shown by experience and is 
 now recognized by those most interested in legal educa- 
 tion. The College, therefore, offers two courses of in- 
 struction, one extending through four years and the other 
 through three years. 
 
 The four-year course is designed primarily for those 
 students who have only the preparation afforded by high 
 schools and preparatory schools. The first year of this 
 course consists almost entirely of studies pursued in the 
 College of Arts and Sciences. It includes a single law 
 subject, torts. Of the subjects in Arts and Sciences three 
 are prescribed, the remainder are elected by the student, 
 but his election must be made with the advice and consent 
 of the Dean of the College of Law. A year of carefully 
 selected college work is thus afforded preliminary to pro- 
 fessional study. 
 
 The three-year course is designed for college graduates 
 or for those who have completed at least one year of college 
 work. It includes only law subjects, with a limited oppor- 
 tunity after the first year for electing subjects in Arts and 
 Sciences. Both courses include the same law subjects, 
 and both are designed to afford a thorough training in the 
 principles of Anglo-American law, in both the substantive 
 law and the law of procedure. 
 The The aim of the Medical College of the University is 
 
 Medical ^ot alone to train practitioners of medicine of the highest 
 
 College possible efficiency, but also to ground its students so thor- 
 
 oughly in all the fundamentals of modern medicine that 
 they may be prepared to take an active part in the progress 
 
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MAIN QUADRANGLE 
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 A WINTER SCENE 
 
 The Central Avenue Bridge over Cascadilla Gorge Main South Entrance to the Campus 
 
UNIVERSITY CAMPUS 
 A Glimpse atross the Main Quadrangle 
 
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The New 
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 Veterinary 
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 The New 
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 College of 
 Agriculture 
 
 of medical science, as physicians, as teachers, and as in- 
 vestigators. To accomplish this, it is necessary that the 
 students shall enter upon their medical course only after 
 a thorough preparatory training. Such a training may be 
 obtained by a satisfactory college course which shall in- 
 clude at least a year's specified work in Physics, in Chem- 
 istry, and in Biology. To students thus thoroughly 
 prepared for the medical course, the faculty are able to 
 offer an exceptionally strong course and, with the small 
 classes, to give an unusual amount of individual attention. 
 As stated in the act to provide for the administration 
 of the State Veterinary College: "The State Veterinary 
 College, established by chapter 153 of the laws of 1894, 
 shall be known as the New York State Veterinary College. 
 The object of the said Veterinary College shall be: to con- 
 trol investigations as to the nature, prevention, and cure 
 of all diseases of animals, including such as are communi- 
 cable to man and such as cause epizootics among live 
 stock; to investigate the economic questions which will 
 contribute to the more profitable breeding, rearing, and 
 utilization of animals; to produce reliable standard pre- 
 parations of toxins, antitoxins and other productions to 
 be used in the diagnosis, prevention and cure of diseases, 
 and in the conduction of sanitary work by approved 
 modern methods; and to give instruction in the normal 
 structure and function of the animal body, in the pathol- 
 ogy, prevention and treatment of animal diseases, and in 
 all matters pertaining to sanitary science as applied to 
 live stock and correlatively to the human family." 
 
 In 1906 the Legislature passed an Administration Act 
 defining the purpose and activities of the College of Agri- 
 culture thus: "The object of the said College of Agricul- 
 ture shall be to improve the agricultural methods of the 
 
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BAILEY HALL 
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state; to develop the agricultural resources of the state in 
 the production of crops of all kinds, in the rearing and 
 breeding of live stock, in the manufacture of dairy and 
 other products, and in determining better methods of 
 handling and marketing such products, and in other ways; 
 and to increase intelligence and elevate the standards of 
 living in the rural districts. For the attainment of these 
 objects the college is authorized to give instruction in the 
 sciences, arts and practices relating thereto, in such courses 
 and in such manner as shall best serve the interests of the 
 state; to conduct extension work in disseminating agricul- 
 tural knowledge throughout the state by means of experi- 
 ments and demonstrations on farms and gardens, investi- 
 gations of the economic and social status of agriculture, 
 lectures, publications of bulletins and reports, and in such 
 other ways as may be deemed advisable in the furtherance 
 of the aforesaid objects; to make researches in the physical, 
 chemical, biological and other problems of agriculture, the 
 application of such investigations to the agriculture of 
 New York, and the publication of the results thereof." 
 The College The purpose of the College of Architecture is to give 
 
 of Architec- j-}^g j^ggt training possible within the time limits of a 
 '■"^^ college course; to give the fundamentals at least of that 
 
 broad cultural training universally recognized as essential 
 to the success of men who must meet others of the most 
 varied training and experience, and who must work with 
 them as professional advisors on important problems in- 
 volving not only questions of personal taste but also 
 business problems of great magnitude; and, at the same 
 time, to give a thorough training in the science and art of 
 an exacting profession which on the one hand touches 
 closely the engineering professions and on the other is 
 itself one of the fine arts. 
 
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The College 
 of Civil 
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 Sibley 
 College of 
 Mechanical 
 Engineering 
 
 The usual college course as at present established is 
 of four years' duration, with opportunities for graduate 
 work. In recent years, however, technical standards and 
 technical efficiency in practice have advanced so rapidly 
 and so far, and demand for broad education in addition to 
 professional training is becoming so pronounced that a 
 four-year course is no longer adequate to meet the highest 
 demands. It is therefore strongly advised that the stu- 
 dents plan whenever possible to spend five years or even 
 six, rather than four, in collegiate work, taking not only 
 advanced professional studies but also additional work in 
 the humanities. 
 
 The courses of preparatory and professional studies in 
 the College of Civil Engineering have been planned with 
 a view to laying a substantial foundation for the general 
 and technical knowledge needed by practitioners in civil 
 engineering so that our graduates, guided by their schools, 
 may develop into useful investigators, designers and con- 
 structors. 
 
 The facilities for instruction and for advanced investi- 
 gators are believed to be thorough and efficient. Labora- 
 tory work is required in chemistry, geology, mechanics, 
 and testing materials. In addition to the special library 
 and laboratories of the college, all the other libraries, col- 
 lections and laboratories of the University are open to 
 civil engineering students. 
 
 Sibley College is organized not only to teach the 
 fundamental principles that underlie the various branches 
 of mechanical, electrical and mining engineering, but also 
 to give such practical training and such instruction in the 
 economics of engineering as is possible in a technical 
 school. In addition to giving this broad fundamental 
 instruction, it is intended to prepare the student for 
 entering one or more of the following special fields: 
 
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A. Electrical Engineering. 
 
 B. Heat-Power Engineering. Steam Engineering or 
 Internal Combustion Engineering. 
 
 C. Structural and Plant Engineering. 
 
 D. Ship Design and Construction. 
 
 E. Industrial Engineering. 
 
 F. Mining Engineering. 
 
 Summer In establishing the Summer Session as an official and 
 
 Session integral part of the academic year the Trustees of the 
 
 University provided by resolution that so far as possible 
 instruction for high school teachers should be given in it 
 including all subjects of secondary education. This was, 
 and continues to be, the primary object of Cornell's Sum- 
 mer Session: to advance Education by helping those en- 
 gaged in it. Due recognition is made of the proper rela- 
 tions of instruction in subject matter and in methods of 
 teaching, and teachers in every kind of school, and in 
 nearly all grades, find provision for their own improve- 
 ment. 
 
 But the scope of the Summer Session has advanced 
 far beyond this original plan. It is attended now not only 
 by teachers, but by many undergraduates of Cornell and 
 of other colleges, who wish in this way to shorten the 
 period of residence for their degrees and to enlarge their 
 training by taking subjects not available in the winter, 
 or not given in their own colleges. Advanced students in 
 the most varied fields find here in the summer a rare 
 combination of opportunity for out-of-door work in pure 
 or applied science with the library and laboratory facili- 
 ties of a great university plant. 
 
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Photographs by John P. Troy, Ithaca, N. Y. 
 Plates by Hurst Engraving Co., Rochester, N. Y. 
 Printed by The Morrill Press, Fulton, N. Y. 
 
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