Syracuse University - Onondagan Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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■QE ONONDAGAN SI The Law College was founded in 1895. James B. Brooks, an ex-soldier of the Civil War and practicing attorney of Syracuse, was made the first dean. The first session of the college was held in the Bastable Block. After a short time the college was moved to the University Block and this remained the home of the Law College until, in 1904, the trustees pur- chased the home of the late John Crouse, situated at the corner of East Fayette and South State Streets, which is now the site of the Law College. Many famous men have been graduated from this school, men who have won prominence as worthy members of the Bar and Justices of the Supreme Court. The present registration of the college is two hundred and five, which is all that the college can conveniently take care of. There is a fund of $225,000 given by the Towbridge Estate towards the erection of a new school which will accomodate the increasing numbers of the college. The college also has a fine library presented by the Honorable Louis Marshall of New York City and called The William C. Ruger Law Library in honor of that late Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of New York State. Twenty-seven

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' jQE ONONDAGAN SI ( allege of Applied i rintrc The College of Applied Science was started in the basement of Steele Hall in the year 1898, with nine students and two professors as a nucleus. Professor P. C. Nugent was in charge of the work-in civil engineering and Professor William P. Graham had charge of the work in electrical engineering. The first class to be graduated by Syracuse University, receiving an engineering degree, was in 1900. On June 12, 1900, Chancellor Day announced that Mr. Lyman C. Smith had promised a building for the College of Applied Science and on November 1, of that year, ground was broken for the building, which was occupied for the first time in January 1902. Charles L. Griffin was appointed Acting Dean on Sep- tember 26, 1902, and was succeeded by William Kent as Dean in 1903. He resigned in 1908. Professor George H. Shepard succeeded to the Deanship which he held for three years, Pro- fessor William P. Graham becoming Dean in 1911. The expansion of the college has been steady and from its original nine students has grown to three hundred and thirty-one, who are enrolled in the various departments of Civil, Mechan- ical, Electrical, and Chemical Engineering. Twenty-nine