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façade is gained from One-hundredprincipal, and-sixteenth-st., 2 flight of steps 325 feet surmounted by posts and an iron wide, subordinate terrace, and grille leading a of twenty steps 140 feet wide thence by a flight the main terrace, from which the Library to eastern and western apBuilding rises. reached by successive terproaches but narrower and entirely subordinate are also races, to building itself is in the classic those on the south. The library designed in the form of a Greek cross, surstyle, dome. At the southern end of and facing the main entrance to the mounted by a the cross University a flight of twenty-six steps eighty-six rises to a portico of ten ionic columns feet wide thirty-five feet high, which form the main enthe structure. This portico is surtrance to mounted by a panel extending its entire length of and filled with inscriptions. The stylobate which is twelve feet above the the main portico. is also the level of the top of the massive terrace, base of the building. whence, thus firmly rises, and at the granite of feet a cornice with a severe planted, the superstructure ornamented cheneau terminates the height seventy but richly which the arms of the cross rise. Above height t to intersection of these arms, rise the a second cornice 100 this, at the supports of the dome to crowned by a feet above the ground, again of less severe than the former and a cheneau more flowing character. At this level a platform railing surrounds the drum of the dome, with a THOMAS S. TOWNSEND. which is of classic proportions and whose summit is 136 feet above upper terrace and 152 feet above One One-hundred-and-sixteenth-st., . at the : main entrance to the grounds. The motive of the portico is echoed on the eastern, westsouthern and northern ends of the cross by means of ern deep pilasters, and the internal angles are adorned with richly moulded classic windows consoles. Bronze doors in the centre of with the portico give access through a lofty marble portal to the main vestibule, paved with marble slabs, and whose walls are decorated with marble plasters, which support a richly panelled and ornamented flat ceiling. Marble doorways lead thence to the left and right, to the president's room and to the office respectively: directly ahead the vestibule opens into the main reading-room, which is on a somewhat higher level and occupies the entire space beneath the dome, which has a diameter of seventy feet. From four piers of limestone at the corners rise four richly coffered vaults corregponding to the four arms of the building. and from which the dome to a height of 106 feet above springs the floor. These vaults are seventeen feet deep and terminate in semi-circular windows occupytheir whole width, forty-four feet wide and ing twenty-two feet high. A colonnade twenty -nine feet high of green Connemara marble, with black Belgian marble bases and cast bronze capitals, the piers and supports a gallery adorned connects, with statues of heroic size beneath the great windows and at the level of the second story. The colonnade gives access to an ambulatory surrounding the reading-room. and thence to the halls and special libraries occupying the four wings of the building: also to the four stone staircases leading to the upper stories. The of the library is set apart for the northern arm Jaw library, the western for the administration, the eastern for the Avery architectural library, while the southern is occupied by the vestibule and adjoining chambers before On mentioned. second story, which is approached by the the staircases at the four angles of the bullding, the already referred to performs the same gallery service as the ambulatory below and connects the various rooms, which are the trustees' room and the president's private room on the south; book stacks containing special libraries and seminar rooms on the east, west and north. The third story is devoted to lecture-rooms, of there are ten, and to rooms for officers of which The main depository for books is the college. situated in the ! basement of the buliding, which is entirely above ground. The cost of this building, it is understood, will approximate the sum of $1,000.000. TWENTY-FOUR BROOKLYN SCHOLARSHIPS. Dr. Low further said that it was his desire to this the trustees gladly assented) that (and his gift should be made the means of extending college privileges to some of the boys and girls of his native city under conditions calculated, as he believes, to be of service to the Brooklyn, both public and private, in maintaining a high standard efficiency. Accordingly twelve Brooklyn scholarships for boys have been established in Columbia College, and twelve Brooklyn scholarships for girls are to be established in Barnard College. The Brooklyn scholarships are to be awarded by competition to Brooklyn boys and giris prepared for college in any school in Brooklyn, either public or private. They are to be offered three a year, beginning with the autumn of 1596, and each scholarship is to be held for the full college course of four The winner of a scholarship is 1 to have years. the privilege of assigning the income of a scholarship to any other competitor, while retaining for himself the honor of being known as A "Brooklyn scholar." The president also desired to show his interest in the advanced university work which is developing , so rapidly at Columbia, and accordingly eight university scholarships, to be known as the President's University Scholarships, are to be established. Two will be awarded in the a autumn of 1896, and thereafter two will be added annually until there are eight in all. These scholarships are annual. The president also desired to associate the name of his class with a university fellowship. The Class of '70 Fellowship, therefore, has been established, to come into existence on July 1, 1895, and the trustees have appointed, on the nomination of the president, as the first fellow Lewis Buffet Carll. the well-known blind mathematician, who was a classmate of President Low, and who, in spite of his blindness, was graduated second in his class. As Barnard College 19 a separate corporation from Columbia College, the trustees have agreed to pay to Barnard College annually the money necessary to maintain the Brooklyn scholarships for young women, and, in addition, enough to maintain four graduate scholarships at t Barnard College, to be known as Curtis Scholarships. Three of the Brooklyn scholarships and one of the Curtis scholarships are to be awarded in the fall of 1896, and the number 19 to be gradually Increased until it reaches the total mentioned. These scholarships are to be awarded under regulations substantially identical with those adopted by Columbia College for the Brooklyn and President's scholarships, respectively, above mentioned. GRATITUDE OF THE TRUSTEES. The following resolution was then adopted: Resolved, That the trustees accept, with the deepest sense of gratitude, the offer conveyed I by President Low in his letter of May 6, 1895, subject to all the conditions therein expressed; and that the clerk of the board be instructed to convey to the president the thanks of the trustees for this most munificent and opportune gift, unprecedented in the scale of its generosity, and affording fresh evidence of the president's unbounded devotion to the interests of the college. A special committee was appointed to take proper action by way of manifesting to President Low the sincere appreciation by the trustees of his noble gift. This committee consisted of Bishop Potter, Dr. Dix, Dr. Chambers and Mr. Nash. Some time ago President Low, in speaking of the future requirements of the college in the way of new buildings, said that there were two Luett" and LUFFS... A good This business BRAND man on sale will only at all gueran- loading tee retail goods dealers. whichhe New knows shapes. -areright| Extra These heavy. collars & Very cuffe are WAUSEKA. stylish. guaran• See your teed. dealer. Our SOUVENIR OF FASHIONS Free. Write for one, examine at your leisure, then see your Outfitter. CLCETT, COON & CO., Makers, Troy, N. V. GIFTS TO COLUMBIA. Continued from frat page. CASHMERE BOUQUET The Best of ail Toilet Soaps. which would be constructed whenever the time should arrive, that the ground had been provided and the progress of P the work on the n new buildings had advanced sufficiently to render their erection suitable. He spoke always evidently with the assurance that he possessed satisfactory guarantee for the statement, but he has conscientiously and steadfastly withheld the names of those who would thus contribute to the strength of the institution. The allnouncement was made yesterday that William cos Schermerhorn, chairman of the board, would construct a building for the use of the natural science or any other department which the trustees might elect at a cost of $300,000. Mr. Pine, the clerk of the board, said: "These generous gifts are most important contributions to the enterprise of removing Columbia to its new site, and of installing the old college there in a way worthy of the great city of which it is an historic part. Coming from trustees of the college as they do these gifts afford convincing evidence that Columbia must have the generous help of New- if she is to move to her new home without being hampered in the meanwhile in her educational development. Besides these buildings thus provided for, there are needed immediately at least three other educational buildings, a dining -hail, a university theatre and a gymnasium. The estimated cost of these necessary structures is $1.500.000. Columbia eppeals to the generous people of New -York, who are proud of their city, for gifts of these buildings also, in the confidence that she can make good return both to the givers and to the whole population of the town." F. A. SCHERMERHORN'S GIFT. F. Augustus Schermerhorn, of the class of 1868, presented to the college the Townsend Library of National. State and Biographical War Records. In December, 1860, when the Civil War was impending. Thomas Townsend, of this city. conceived the plan of gathering the contemporaneous printed records events in national politics as far as they appeared in the newspaper and periodical press. and arranging them as a permanent record of the dally course of affairs. The undertaking, begun so opportunely, has been carried out more or less uninterruptedly during the e entire period since, and has involved the outlay of much time and expense on the part of its compiler The gift of this unique collection to Columbia College Library is an incident of no little fmportance to the institution and to the city The | work when entirely finished, will consist of about ninety large folio volumes of clippings and a- tracts of printed matter arranged chronologically and comprising substantially everything of interest printed in newspaper magazine form during the war, and a large proportion f hat w. ich has come out since 1865: and of a digest of about thirty Immense folio volumes of manuscript, arranged by topics, indexing the matter of the printed statements, with a reference to the volume and page for the full account In many this digest will make a reference to the cases, | original statement necessary. The entire work is a monument of industry and A storehouse of historical information, which in its fleld is absolutely unique. Serviceable as it shown Itself in the past, its usefulness will be has enhanced when entirely finished, and its greatly value and utility will be fully realized when the to write the real history of time shall have come the Civil War. The main work is contained in eighty -nine volumes, of larger size than ordinary bank ledger, of 600 pages each, or 53.400 pages in all, each page containing four columns of printed thus giving a grand total of 213.600 colmatter, Such is the bedrock of fact upon which umne. rests superstructure almost as gigantic. As first a the eighty -nine volumes were of but litprepared, tle practical value to the historical student | searching for information regarding any special connected with the war and its results. subject therefore necessary to prepare what Mr. it was Townsend calls his which comprised in thirty-one volumes of similar size. 1,300 pages each, or 40,300 pages in all. In this latter work every reference to any particular subject (General Grant, for instance) 19 collated. SO that. by means of an ordinary index, which refers the searcher to the encyclopaedia, every subject discussed in the 213.600 columns of the original work be looked up as readily as if it were one of the can Items in the table of contents of an ordinary school history. eighteen months of clerical labor will st.11 Some be required to make the encyclopedia complete, and Mr. Townsend has pledged himself that this shall be finished before January 1, 1897. In addition Mr. Schermerhorn has also appropriated 34.000, to be expended in the labor of indexing this library. AWARDED TO LORD RAYLEIGH. The will of the late Dr. F. A. P. Barnard contained a provision that "the trustees of Columbia College shall cause to be struck, with | suitable devices, a medal of gold, nine-tenths fine, of the bullion value of not legs than $200, to be styled 'The Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science.' and shall publicly announce that a copy of the same will be awarded, at the close of every quinquennial period, dating from the probate of this my last will and testament, to such person, whether a citizen of the United States or of any other country. A9 shall, within the five years next preceding, have made such discovery in physical or astronomical science, or such novel application of seience to purposes beneficial to the human race, in the judgment of the National Academy as, of Sciences of the United States, shall be esteemed most worthy of such honor." On the recommendation of the National Academy of Sciences the Barnard medal was granted to Lord Rayleigh, the discoverer of argon, 1 constituent of the atmosphere, whose investigation resulting in the discovery is considered one of the most important and Interesting. First. because it throws additional light upon the comof the atmosphere; second, because it position has involved the use of the most modern and scientific methods of investigation very cleverly selected and accurately applied to gases; th'rd, because it illustrates the importance of paying careful attention to most minute discrepancies scientific observation. Lord Raleigh's dis171 ig regarded as especially brilliant, 1.1.4 covery been selected by the National Academy Sciences to be the one most worthy of the Barnard medal for meritorious service to science. A TALK WITH PRESIDENT LOW. Shortly after the meeting of the trustees had adjourned, a Tribune reporter called upon President Low in his private office on the college grounds, and found him alone. Dr. Low accepted modestly some complimentary remarks in regard to his munificent gift to the Institution in which he has demonstrated so much interest, and when asked if he could not supplement what he had privately said in the board meeting by a short interview for the readers of The Tribune, he hesitated, but finally said: "Well, I thank you, but really I can say noththan that what I have done simply ining more dicates my sense of the importance of the value of Columbia, and the work it is doing for the city of New and the entire United States. It was especially pleasant to me to associate the of my father permanently with my work name here, where my own name 18 likely to be remembered, as I hope, for many years to come. The gift also gave me the opportunity, which I have long sought, to do something for my native city of Brooklyn, and the city which honored me twice by making me its Mayor. The trustees have established in connection with the gift twelve Brooklyn scholarships for boys in Columbia College, and they have agreed to maintain in Barnard College twelve university scholarThese scholarships are to be ships for girls. awarded by competition to boys and girls prepared for college in any school in Brooklyn, The winner of the whether pubile or private, scholarship is to be at liberty to assign the income to another competitor, and white making that assignment of the income, to continue to be herself as a Brooklyn scholar. known himself or I am under the impression that there will be a great deal of friendly rivalry between the public and private schools of Brooklyn in connection with these scholarships, and I hope that one l'esult from them will be to keep the all schools of Brooklyn on a high level of efficiency. Brooklyn is a unique city in this respect, among others, it has no lesa than three very large and that schools- the PolyPackard Collegiate Institute and highly excellent private technic, the the Adelphi Academy. "The regulations to be adopted concerning these scholarships will be prepared in consultawith the school authorities of so Brooklyn, tion think in hoping for the that I am justified best results. A certain number of graduate the name of my wife are scholarships to bear also to be maintained in Barnard College. "In this I have hoped to unite in a comway interest the two cities with which my mon father's life was 80 long identified. He was himself a native of Salem. Mass., and I recall institution established there to enthe that he able the boys of Salem to have the advantages of a college education. He removed to Brooklyn in 1829 and remained a citizen of that city until time of his death, in 1893. In 1833 he went the to China as a clerk in the employ of Russell & Co. In 1840 he returned to this country with the foundations of his fortune and entered into with which almost up to the he continued a favorite saying of identified time the handmaid of CivIt was his that continuing the interCommerce was illzation, and I am phrase which he Illustrated only pretation of that during his whole life.' APPOINTMENTS. reappointments were made yesThe following Henry F. Osborne, Da Costa, professor of biology: E. James Crocker, F. professor Kemp, professetrical geen- ology: F. gineering: Robert Peele, jr., adjunct professor of mining: William Hallock, adjunct profesof physics. These were the new appointsor ments: J. Egbert, adjunct professor of Latin; J. H. Hyslop, b professor of logic and ethics: W. I. Carpenter, professor of Germanic W. Jackson, professor of Indophilology: languages; S. Lee, adjunct demonA. V. Iranic F. strator in physiology, and F. Bancroft, lecturer in American history. A GREAT CITY UNIVERSITY. WHICH COLUMBIA TRUSTEES THE ENTERPRISE NOW HAVE ON FOOT. College to its new site The removal of Columbia not only in the history in 1897 will mark an epoch city of New-York. The of the college but of the stand on Riverside Heights, college, which will from the Battery to the overlooking the entire city that once stood on ColBronx, is the same college of the city, when the lege Place, in the heart 120TH Engineering Unn BOULEVARD Chemistry THE 3 Assembly 0 Hall Unassigned Unassigned 116TH GENERAL PLAN OF palisades at Chamber were the elty's northern boundary The college is the milestone which best marks the city's growth, and it should be the noblest monument. 1: has now become great university, as the city has developed into a great COMPARED TO THE ACROPOLIS (Copyright by The new site is the most beautiful which the city affords, and presents an opportunity for future development, physical and educational, which cannot be surpassed. It crowns New York the Acropolis dominates Athens. Close at hand are Riverside Park and Morningside Park, while tral Park lies at the foot the hill to the south. The Riverside Drive and the shaded Boulevard furnish dignified approaches to the site which 1s bounded on all sides by streets and avenues not less than a hundred feet in width. Sufficiently removed from the centre of traffic to create a scholastie atmosphere of its own. it has at command all the resources which only a great city can offer in its galleries, museums, librartes, hospitals and law courts. its industries and great engineering works, and its social and economic problems. That the trustee of the college fully realize these possibilities is shown by the thought and study which have been given to the subject, and by the plans and designs which have been ndopted, and which promise to give to the modern metropolis an architectural corona no less beautiful than that which perpetuates the glory of the old Greek city. The accompanying diagram, which is reproduced from "Harper's Weekly," shows the grounds and the arrangement of the buildings, The entire tract comprises about seventeen acres, and 19 nearly nine times the size of the present site and twice the size of Madison Square, The ground divides itself naturally into two levels, The southerly level or plateau comprises about ten acres and 14 the higher, varying in elevation from five to fifteen feet above the surrounding streets. For all probable needs of the present and the coming generation the southerly plateau seems to he amply sufficient: and for the present, at least, the northerly portion of the grounds will be left untouched, thus preserving the grove of oaks and chestnuts, the largest on Manhattan Island, which is one of the natural beautles of the site. THE GROUP OF BUILDINGS. The buildings are grouped upon the southerly plateau upon the theory of a city university which 19 open to all men of all minds. In the centre 19 the library, the commanding feature of the group. The main approach la from sixteenth-st., where the ground now rises abruptly, but is to be graded so that It will afford a gradual ascent. The entrance will be a spacious flight of steps and a court almost equal in size to the pres. ent alte. one of the buildings contiguous to the entrance may, it 19 hoped, be devoted ultimately to the use of the S School of Arts, or "the College," it should be called, as distingulshed from the university as whole. The design of the library, prepared by Messrs. McKim, Mead & White, In shown in the accompanying sketch. It 19 to be constructed of buff Indiana limestone, and the same stone, either alone or in combination with brick, will be used in the other buildings. They will necessarily be classic in style, but probably much less severe, and will doubtless vary in treatment In accordance with the taste of the several donors and the architects whom they employ, A general harmony of style will be preserved, but It 19 not expected that all the buildings will be the work of any one architect or firm. To the ent and weat of the library are, the chapel and assembly hall, the latter being intended place of meeting for student organizations, such as the literary societtes, the Glee Club and the Dramatte Club, and for public lectures, Near each of these butidings there will be an entrance from the adjoining avenue. It 1N possible that the Mapes memorial gate may be placed at ole of these entrances, To the northeast are the buildings assigned to the School of Arts temporarily and to the natural sciences. To the northwest are the buildinas devoted to engineering and archtecture and to chemistry. Immediately to the north and fronting the library la a building planned to include a university hall, n theatre and a gymnasium. Next to the library this will probably be most Important and conspicuous building on the grounds. Situated upon the line which marks the change of grade from the higher to the tower plateau, the northerly part of this building will have two stories more than the southerly part. which will make it possible to provide light and spacious dressing -rooms and bathrooms under the gymnasium, and to place the steam-heating and electric plant under the theatre, where it will be completely concealed. A MAGNIFICENT SITE. The site of the building standing " nearest to the Engineering Building, and which is marked "unassigned." 1s now occupied by a large and substantial edifice, which will be temporarily used as a dormitory for members of the faculty and for metropolis.
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