Handbook of Information as to the Various Schools & Courses of Instruction (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885. Excerpt: ... was provided that the Fellowships should be conferred annually by the Trustees on the written recommendation of the Faculty. In 1873 two prizes in Rhetoric and English Composition, of $100 and $50 respectively, were established, to be competed for, by written theses at the end of the senior year. These prizes were discontinued in 1880. In 1877 Mr. John Jones Schermerhorn, an alumnus of the college of the Classof 1825, bequeathed $5,000to the college for the purpose of free scholarships, and on this foundation the Trustees established five free scholarships, named the "Schermerhorn Scholarships," nomination to which is vested in the nearest male relative of the late Mr. Schermerhorn, in each generation, during his lifetime. In the same year, Mr. John Winthrop Chanler, an alumnus of the college of the class of 1847, bequeathed $1,000 to the college, the income of which was to be given annually to the member of the Senior Class who should be the author of the best Essay in English prose on the History of Civil Government in America, or some other historical subject assigned by the Faculty. This bequest became available to the college in 1879, and the first prize under it was awarded at Commencement 1880. In 1874, a new building for the School of Mines was erected at a cost of $150,000, and fitted up with every convenience for the purposes of the school. In 1879, a new building, with a frontage of two hundred feet on Madison Avenue and a depth of about sixty feet, was completed for the School of Arts at a cost of over $200,000. In June, 1880, the Trustees provided for the establishment of a School of Political Science, the purpose of which is to give a complete general view of all the subjects both of internal and external public polity from the threefold sta...