Colgate University - Salmagundi Yearbook (Hamilton, NY)

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r, ULTURE FACTO YP V l s, 1, t, , 2 .. - . ii ' ,- - ' Q71-? .. f S' -L 13' .LE' ,+ 'y', K Qg3,Fl'.'.f'f ? EIqji.- 1t!h1il , ffaef:3J.l?'ffl :IEEE ez: it 1 i f- Q if.. eg-f.. Q -- 4 . 1.5 4 T' f gfs iififa lift . 71 , , f' -f -. 1 'f- F. Q ' f If I i i li lbii W i 1 f i 1. ir as .f A f IWNMI i- . , . ld REVIEW OF COLLEGE YEAR O record briefly a year so rich in events as the one just past, must necessarily deal with the more important incidents. Some, perhaps, may feel that they have worked faithfully for their Alma Mater, and their deeds have not been duly recorded. All have not won laurels on the athletic fields, or taken prizes in oration contests. Some have occupied the front seat in chapel, or have bowed their heads during prayer. If some faithful worker has not received due recognition, he must remember that the fault lies not with the Sal. He will perhaps find solace for his wounded spirits in the latter part of this book. We regret the loss of Professor Spencer from the department of history, which chair he has held since 1895. He has accepted a position in the history department at Princeton University. We welcome most gladly Professor Adna Wood Risley who succeeds Professor Spencer in the department of history. Professor Risley is an alumnus of Colgate, from the college class of '94, he is very popular with students, and besides being a competent instructor has a gen- uine interest and sympathy for everything that pertains to the welfare of Colgate. On account of the absence of Doctor Read, the juniors have been obliged to wait until their senior year for the work in his department. Dr. Read has been abroad on leave of absence, but is expected to resume his work in the fall of 1906. The faculty has made some new regulations, which have caused some com- ment, however, we think it is a change for the better. The principal one which limits the number of hours of required work to fifteen for the upper classmen years, calls for more thorough and persistent effort on the part of the students, and will make a higher standard of work. The new Science Hall is at last' a reality, and we have watched with inter- est its building, from the breaking of the grolnd, to the finished condition in

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T111-1 S.-XI.MAGl'Nlil 23 museum floor, adjacent to the geologieal work rooms, and the biological display will be made largely in the gallery, .where the exhibition materials will also be convenient for teaching. Arrangements are now in progress for equipping with the needed furniture and apparatus. The patrons and alumni who have made this noble building possible, may well share the satisfaction which is felt by the departments whose work will be so much strengthened and broadened by the new facilities. It will mean much to the instructors to step from the antique quarters occupied for many years, into a modern building, spacious, well heated, and equipped with gas, water, electric light and power and litted with adequate apparatus. It will now also be possible to organize a museum eollcetion which will con- tribute much to good teaching, and will be one of the attractive features to those who visit the University campus. A. 1'. is.

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COLGATE UNIVERSITY 25 which we now see it. It satisfiesa long felt need of the university, and is a great addition to the college campus. N Evidence is seen on all sides that the college is growing. The large enter- ing classes of the last two years have given a new inspiration to the life of the university. At a recent meeting of the trustees, it was decided to make a thorough renovation of West College and thus iit it up as a modern dormitory just as soon as the proper funds could be raised. Already the west end of the building has been repaired so as to furnish proper quarters for the department of physics until the new Science Hall is finished, and it is expected that the work of refitting the entire building will soon be commenced. The Seminary has recently received gifts amounting to SB600,000. These gifts provide for a new chair of pastoral theology and also for some needed im- provements in Eaton Hall. Dr. Edward Judson of New York is at the head of the new department and under the present arrangement opportunity is given to the senior class to study with Dr. Judson in New York during the winter term, thus coming into touch with the large city churches and studying their methods on the field. This new gift is of benefit to the college as well as to the seminary inasmuch as it provides for more lecturers for the university. Under this provision Colgate has enjoyed this year the presence of Hugh Black, the eminent preacher of Edinburgh. During the winter term, Dr. Clarke has been compelled to be absent on ac- count of ill health. He has been spending the winter in the South where he is working upon a new book soon to be published. He reports improvement in his health and hopes to be in his classroom this spring. A recent gift of Andrew Carnegie, supplemented by other gifts, provides for the college a sum of 340,000 to be used in extending the chemical laboratory. For a long time the present equipment has been insufiicient to meet the growing needs of the departments of science, but the enlarged laboratory together with the new science building will provide for these. No small factor in placing Colgate in the front rank of the colleges of New York State and of the eastern states in general has been the work of the ath- letic teams. Colgate teams have met teams from many other colleges. They have won many victories and even when they have not won their work has shown a high degree of excellence. Their defeats as well as their victories have added to the fame of Colgate. The university is entering upon a broader, larger lifeg and all the evidences point to a glorious future for the New Colgate.