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...director, and gives as encouraging an outlook as could be expected. The object of the school is to furnish an opportunity to study Classical Literature, Art, and Antiquities in Athens, under suitable guidance, to graduates of American colleges and to other qualified students; to prosecute and to aid original research in these subjects; and to cooperate with the Archaeological Institute of America, so far as it may be able, in conducting the exploration and excavation of classic sites...
...this age of special research the college laboratory is an indispensable agent in the work of personal investigation to which modern students are devoted. This work of investigation is expensive, and it is only the richly endowed colleges that can afford to fit out proper laboratories. At such a rich college, then, as Columbia one expects to find laboratories in which some of the scientific investigation of the day is being carried on. Not even here can such good results be obtained as in Germany where investigators like Dr. Koch receive liberal subsidies from the government...
...light are resorted to. The book funds of the library, moreover, are becoming quite inadequate to meet the increasing demands made upon them. The library is forced to lay out each year about $5,000 for the purchase of that periodical literature which is the first necessity of special research. This expense, which cannot well be diminished, if the University is to fulfill one of its main functions by promoting special investigation, prevents the purchase of as much of the more lasting literature of books as is necessary to keep the library effective. This, says Mr. Winser, is "the main...
...Veterinary School and Hospital have enjoyed their most prosperous year. They need new instructors, and, from the University point of view, it is desirable that the school should be a place of research as well as of instruction. For this an endowment of $100,000 is needed...
...Chemical and Physical Laboratories are active. An effort was made by Mr. Francis Blake to secure a fund of $100,000 to endow research in the Physical Laboratory. The disturbance of commercial credit in the autumn of 1890 arrested...