Annual Report of Columbia University, New York. — This interesting
Report of the needs and work of the University of New York gives an instructive account of Transatlantic ideals in academical matters,—ideals which we might well imitate here. The University is not badly off, according to our notions. It has, together with Barnard College and the Teachers' College, an income of about £280,000, its endowments, not reckoning the value of sites and buildings, amounting to X2,746,289. But its officers are not by any means satisfied. The teachers are ill paid. " Of 106 Professors and Adjunct Professors only 49 received salaries of X800 and more." (How many receive as much at Oxford ?) And the material appliances are inadequate. The University asks for X2,000,000 more, to begin with. We sin- cerely trust that Columbia may get this sum, and more, for the splendid work, not merely for education, but for sound learning, which it is doing under the guidance of its President, Dr. Murray Butler, gives it the strongest claim on the people of the State of New York. And unless we are mistaken, it will get it, for Dr. Murray Butler has a great and growing hold on American public life, and outside his own State and city he is regarded as one of America's captains of education. His is not only a singularly magnetic and charming personality, but he is a born leader of men. While he has a wonderful business side to his head, he is always what his and our grandfathers would have termed " the scholar and the gentleman."
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