Syracuse University - Onondagan Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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Now let us consider briefly the material progress under the Day adminis- tration. By purchase three notable properties have been acquired: (1) Thirty- lour acres adjoining the original campus of fifty acres were purchased in 1901 of the Raynor estate, making an elegant site of eighty-four acres; (2) The pres- ent Law College building was the residence of the late John Grouse and was ac- quired in 1904. It is a fine property, located on Fayette park, conveniently near the new Court House and the law offices; (3) The Yates or Renwick castle grounds, now the Teachers college, was added in 1905. There are fourteen acres beautifully laid out and adjoining on the west the college campus. There are the castle, the lodge; there are drives, rustic bridges, and lawns. The col- lege is located in the castle. ' COLLEGE OF APPLIED SCIENCE It is a pretty large task to enumerate the buildings erected by Chancellor Day. It is doubtful if such activity has been equalled in the same time by any other college. We count fourteen buildings, most of them of large cost, two of them requiring each a princely fortune. (1) The College of Medicine comes first. It was erected in 1896 and is a commodious 4-story building. It is planned and constructed to meet in the approved maimer the requirements of medical education of the present day. (2) The University block, ten stories, the largest commercial building in the interior of the State. It is occupied by stores and offices and has an assembly hall of 400 seats. (3) The Esther Baker Steele Hall of Physics, Mrs. Steele being the princi- pal donor. This was the first building erected on the campus under this admin- istration. 18

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And his administration has many fruitful years yet to run if Providence wills. There is a great work yet to be done here, but the Chancellor and his faculties know what it is and how to do it, and, with aid of a sympathetic board of trustees and generous benefactors, it will be gradually yet rapidly accomplished. The endowment at the present time amounts to $2,086,351.80, the annual income from tuition (1906-7) is $179,616.48 and from all sources $662,074.50. The expenditures (1906-7) for salaries alone amount to considerably more than $200,000. The net resources of the university are $4,163,467.09. These figures are given to furnish the reader with a more definite idea of the financial status and transactions of the institution. In 1894, the year in which Chancellor Day began his administration, the income from tuition was but $19,968.95 and the entire income amounted to COLLEGE OF LAW $165,395.55, while the property complete totaled $1,780,825.54. Compare these figures with those given above and the reader will see at a glance the marvelous advance of the last thirteen years. The number of resident students in 1894 was 652, in 1906-7, 3,005. The greatest financial uplift in its history was the royal gift of $400,000 by John D. Archbold, president of the board of trustees, which, with the money raised to meet the wise condition, paid the debt and added to the endowment. The same gentleman has furnished the means for many of the recent develop- ments. Those who have made the smaller gifts have done it out of smaller means and deserve credit with donors of larger benefactions. The latter have made notable gifts. A few of these donors are: Bishop Peck, Eliphalet and Philo Rem- ington, Erastus F. Holden, John Lyman, James J. Belden, John and Edgar Grouse, Lyman C. Smith, Andrew Carnegie, Samuel W. Bowne, Francis H. Root and Mrs. Russell Sage.

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(4) Winchell hall, a thirty-room dormitory for women. It faces University place and is named for the first Chancellor, Dr. Alexander Winchell. (5) Haven hall, also in University place and named for the second Chan- cellor, is a larger dormitory for women. The rooms in both these buildings may be used singly or in suites. (6) The Lyman Cornelius Smith College of Applied Science. Mr. Smith is well known in Syracuse and his generous gifts to this college have been heralded all over the world. He is the founder of the typewriter industry of this city. (7) A Mechanical Laboratory is Mr. Smith ' s second building and was oc- cupied for the first time this fall. It adds greatly to the facilities of this college. (8) The Heating Plant supplying steam heat, to all the buildings on the grounds, including the dormitories.. TEACHERS COLLEGE (9) Sims hall, named for Chancellor Sims, is a dormitory for men, just oc- cupied, and will conveniently accommodate 200 men. (10) The General Library, the gift of Mr. Carnegie, with stack room for half a million volumes, with an ample reading room, a faculty room and seminar rooms for the different departments. (11) Bowne Hall of Chemistry, the donor being Samuel W. Bowne of New York. There are in it 100,000 square feet of working space. It is already partly occupied. (12) Lyman hall of Natural History, built with a legacy of $200,000, left by the late John Lyman, an imposing building fitly located at the eastern end of the campus front to balance the stately John Grouse Memorial college at the western end. It accommodates the departments of biology, of botany and of geology and mineralogy. 19