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...annual report of President Barnard on the condition of Columbia College has just been published. The part referring to the graduate department is of special interest to Harvard, as Columbia, in this branch, is the only American college which can at present compete with our own University. Columbia is now considering the advisibility of raising the whole scheme of education to a higher plane, to give more attention to the advanced students than to those in the other departments...
Professor Barnard says that the work of the graduate department could be made of enough magnitude to give occupation to all professors now engaged in all departments of the college. The undergraduate department could easily be abolished and attention given exclusively to the graduate deparment, too little attention to which is paid in this country. On the other hand, such has been the excessive multiplicity of undergraduate colleges in this country in recent years, that, to quote Professor Barnard, "The business of these colleges is greatly overdone, and it would certainly be a material benefit to the educational interests...
Thus Prof. Barnard proves that his college could be more profitably emplyed by confining itself to the field of superior education. The tendency has been of late to impress upon the directors of Columbia as well as those of Harvard, the importance of providing for the wants of a superior class of students, of those who have finished elsewhere their college career, and who wish to pursue their studies in a higher place. Columbia is especially favored in regard to location, for such an undertaking, situated as it is, in the heart of a great city. Professor Barnard looks forward...
President Barnard of Columbia College has seen fit in his last annual report to state his views on a subject which is now exciting much interest throughout the college world, namely, college athletics. President Barnard recognizes the fact that much can be said on each side of the question, but his conclusion is based on arguments not altogether satisfactory. The substance of that part of the report dealing with the athletic question is as follows...
...Barnard has tendered his resignation as president of Columbia College...