lege charters in Illinois. All property is exempted from taxes forever. The other two fortunate colleges are Lincoln, at Lincoln, Ill., and Northwestern at Evanston. With interesting exercises and in the presence of many invited guests, the new buildings of the New York State College of Agriculture were formally dedicated and opened on April 27th. Governor Hughes, in behalf of the state, handed over the buildings to Cornell University and the address of acceptance was delivered by President Schurman. * * * The campaign inaugurated by Hon. Marvin Campbell, of South Bend, Ind., to add $10,000 per year for five years to the current expense fund of the DePauw University has been brought to a successful issue. This will allow the administration to arrange for an increase of faculty to take care of the greatly increased student body. Two new lectureships will be established this year at DePauw University. The Mendenhall Foundation, created by the late M. H. Mendenhall, D. D., of Union City, Ind., provides a fund of $12,000 to $15,000 for lectures on the Bible. The Beamer lectureship, founded by the late Mrs. K. D. Beamer, of Kokomo, Ind., provides for a fund of $3,000 for a lectureship on Christian missions. The lecturers for both these courses will be announced at the beginning of the next college year. By the will of the late Milton S. Durham, of Terre Haute, Ind., an alumnus of DePauw University, the University receives about $35,000 for general endowment. This makes a total of approximately $150,000 that has been added to the general endowment fund of the University within the past year. For next year the English work at DePauw is to be enlarged. Rhetoric and English composition will be made into a new department. Professor N. Waring Barnes, K. B. and A. M. of Columbia University, and now assistant in English at the Ohio Wesleyan University, will be the first occupant of the chair. He comes highly recommended as a gentleman and as a professor. Full financial arrangements have been made for the new $50,000 library at DePauw. By this time the architect has been selected and soon the contract will be let. It is proposed to house the general library and the departmental libraries in the new structure. The building is the gift of Mr. Cernegie; the $50,000, which endows the library, was given by the alumni and friends of the university. The coming June marks the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the university, and it is hoped that it may be celebrated in a becoming manner. the March seventh number of Leslie's Weekly Mr. Guy Morrison Walker, in an article on "Where Our Prominent Men Come From," based on "Who's Who," states that DePauw University heads the list of colleges whose graduates are found in that book. This of course is in proportion to the total number of alumni. * * * In The settlement of the estate of the late William B. Ross of the class of 1852, who left almost the whole of his property to Yale University library, shows that the library will probably receive about $360,000, instead of the $250,000 mentioned in the president's report of 1904. This will probably leave about $110,000 for the support of the new library addition, the cost of which will be about $250,000. It is likely to be opened at the beginning of the next college year. While adding greatly to the general library facilities, it will also result in larger working expenses, and the total revenue from library funds is now only about $22,000 a year. * * * Buford College for Young Ladies, Nashville, Tenn., is to be enlarged by the erection of a two-story brick building, which will increase the capacity of the school about 150 per cent. The growth of the school and the large number of applicants for admission who cannot now be accommodated necessitate the erection of the new building. An ornate two-story brick building, with stone foundation and slate or tin roof, will be erected. The proposed building will cost in the neighborhood of $16,000. It will be modern in every respect and conform to the newest and most practical school ideas. It will be steam. heated, equipped with water and electric lights, and thoroughly sanitary. It will increase the accommodations of the school to 125 boarding pupils, in addition to the faculty. The present accommodations are for but sixty, including the faculty. The new building will contain dormitories on the upper floor and the lower floor will be given up to class rooms, music rooms and a large chapel. The old building will be converted into dormitories. The new building will be probably within thirty or forty feet of the old one, and will probably be connected with it by a closed passway. It will be ready for occupancy by Sept. 1. Buford College was established at the present location five years ago as an experiment, being leased by Mrs. Buford for one year. At the expiration of the first season the lease was renewed for five years, and has yet one year to run. The lease has been renewed for ten years from the expiration of the current term. Buford College campus contains about sixty acres, much of it beautiful woodland. The school conducts its own dairy and vegetable garden, and educationally it has achieved much deserved fame. The Gilman School, Cambridge, Mass., was opened twenty-one years ago by Mr. Arthur Gilman, who laid the foundation of what is now Radcliffe College. When the school outgrew its earlier quarters, Mr. Gilman planned and built the schoolhouse now in use. He also erected, near by, its residence for pupils, called Margaret Winthrop Hall. In the desire to perpetuate an excellent school, from which impaired health has compelled its founder to retire, some of the friends of Mr. Gilman have joined in incorporating, under the name of The Gilman School, what he had originally called The Cambridge School for Girls. The Gilman School is now incorporated as a permanent institution for the judicious education not only of girls who intend to pursue a subsequent college course, but of all girls who wish to become intelligent women and to acquire the culture essential to the well-bred person. It aims to teach girls habits of self-control which have stood the test of experience; to develop right character and to meet the needs of their physical life. Instruction is given in small classes. No single course of study is prescribed for all alike, but that course is planned for each pupil which she personally seems to require. Instruction in special topics is provided at the discretion of the head mistress. There are no regular examinations, except in the college-preparatory courses, but such tests and reviews are given in all studies as thorough training requires. The school is organized into four departments, adapted for pupils of all ages. 4. 1. The primary, for little girls. 2. The intermediate, for girls between the ages of eight and twelve. 3. The academic, for older girls who do not contemplate a subsequent college course. The college preparatory, for girls who intend to go to college. The Gilman School has for many years prepared students for the several colleges for girls, and will continue to do so. But it has long been considered a preparatory school for Radcliffe College, and it is intended to strengthen and emphasize that connection. Andrew Carnegie has made a gift of $6,000,000 to the people of Pittsburg. Of this amount $4,000,000 in 5 per cent first mortgage bonds of the United States Steel Corporation is added to the present $4,000,000 endowment fund of Carnegie Institute. One million dollars in cash is given to the Carnegie Technical School for the erection of new buildings and an additional $1,000,000 in 5 per cent bonds is set aside as an endowment fund for the new buildings when they are completed. Mr. Carnegie's gifts make a princely total of $25,000,000 which he has given to the people of Pittsburg. He strongly disapproves of the directors of the art galleries purchasing paintings by old masters, saying they should patronize the artists of the present day. It is the expressed wish of the iron master that the principal schools take precedence over all other institutions. A pension fund for the employes of all departments of the Carnegie Institute, the Carnegie Library and the Technical schools is provided by Mr. Carnegie. * * According to the Yale Alumni Weekly, the property of the university in New Haven which is exempted from taxation is appraised at $9,431,150, an increase of $255,000 over the appraised tax exemptions of last year, though this increase does not necessarily represent actual additional values subtracted from the New Haven grand list. Of the total exemptions about $1,370,000 belongs to the Sheffield Scientific School. The old campus, as land, is valued at $1,033,400, and the buildings on this campus at $2,483,500. The appraisals are high on many of the buildings as compared to actual cost. The valuations are placed, and as they are exemptions there has been no occasion to appeal for their reduction. MODERN BAYARD TAYLOR TRAVEL IN EUROPE Ever since the days of Roger Ascham and Sir Thomas More, Englishmen have considered the "grand tour" of the Continent the necessary finishing touch of a complete education. So their Clive Newcomes, their Gwendolin Harleths see Berlin, Paris and Rome as a matter of course. Americans, too, are mostly desirous of seeing the wonders of the older civilization, but on account of the greater expense and the wholesome American idea that a young man's first duty is to make himself useful and earn a position for himself in the great social and industrial organism of this country, the grand tour is generally put off until the years of mature manhood. How ever, there are numberless young Americans that feel that a tour of this kind would be of the utmost advantage to them in every way. That their ideas of art, architecture, European history and administration can be but crude, without having seen the Louvre, the English cathedrals, the "stones of Venice," the admirable workings of municipal government of Berlin. They also know that in order to understand our exceedingly complex national life, we ought to be somewhat familiar with the countries from which our heterogenous population has come. The tour will be almost as great an aid to the young American as a college course, he knows, but in many cases he fears the expense. Concerning this element there has been too much misapprehension. It is thought that only the wealthy can enjoy and afford a trip to Europe. But the truth is that a tour of the leading countries of Europe can be made with great comfort and endless enjoyment for less than one-half the expense of a tour of equal duration in this country, and that it is just the wealthy that do very often not enjoy the tour half as much as the ardent young student who travels in Bayard Taylor fashion. Who can imagine a more fascinating life than that portrayed in Bayard Taylor's Views Afoot, the most celebrated book of travel, or Lee Merriweather's Europe on Seventy Cents a Day. Free as a bird, the young student travels from place to place. Daily new wonders of artistic or natural beauty crowd about him, sweet memories of noble lives meet him everywhere, the hills and castles are eloquent with the deeds of former generations. New light breaks upon him. What he has only dimly surmised becomes a reality, the history of his dear home, and native land is illuminated by what he sees. He travels slowly enough to let his memory gain a firm hold on the things he sees daily, and thus he accumulates a priceless treasure for all his life. He can now carry the great and beautiful of the world with him on his daily walks. Compare this traveler with the only too common persons whose purpose is to "do" Europe, to be able to say they have been there. Endowed with more cash than brains, and finer sensibilities, they rush from capital to capital, if possible on the night express, hire a cab, drive from gallery to gallery, checking off the pictures they see in their catalogue, sometimes one seeing, the other checking off to save time, thence a furious drive to all the churches, palaces, tombs, parks, manufacturies of potteries, theatres and places of historic interest, religiously following the route laid down in Bædeker's guide book, and returning home with a collection of miscellaneous, undigested, half formed impressions, their head a witch's caldron, boiling with a murky mass of deformities. Still these persons, having at least independence of movement, are in a more desirable condition than the poor individuals who doom themselves to travel in "personally conducted parties," to be hauled like logs from city to city, from "sight" to "sight," suppressing all individual longings and desires, bound to the inexorable will of the "personal conductor." These parties often "do" Paris in one or two days. Sitting in the room of the Venus de Milo in the Louvre one day, the writer saw two of these unfortunate parties conducted past this master work of human genius "like dumb, driven cattle." The conductor of the band paused about a minute before the statue, saying: "The celebrated Venus de Milo, found on the Island of Milo by a poor peasant. Statue cost $5,000." Then an unoffending old Yankee remarked modestly: "Was her arms always off?" But no heed was paid to his pertinent question, on went the party, glancing right and left on the wonders of art there stored, out to their carryall to drive to Pere Lachaise. What enterprising and young American would choose such a mode of travel when he can have the opportunity to see what appeals to him, to study what specially interests him, to become acquainted with the life of the people, to collect lasting and distinct impressions, at a trifling expense, being all the time his own master. The so-called "grand tour" can be taken for $250.00 from New York, by a person who is satisfied with good, substantial fare, and modest but clean hotels. This sum includes all expenditures for steamer and railroad fare, hotels, admissions to galleries, concerts and operas, for a trip of three months. We will say the traveler, being patriotic, takes the American line to Southampton, spends two weeks in England, seeing Salisbury Cathedral, Oxford, Stratford, Warwick, Kenilworth, Windsor, Stoke Pogis, with Gray's Country Church yard, Hampton Court and London. Takes steamer up the Rhine_to Frankfort, thence a round trip to Berlin, Dresden, and Thuringia. Heidelberg, the gem of Germany, Strassburg, with its noble cathedral, and the dreamy and romantic Black Forest are then visited, and a two weeks' tramp taken among the wonders. of glaciers and mountains in western Switzerland. Then a three weeks' tour in sweet, beautiful Italy, visiting especially Venice, the splendid "Queen of the Adriatic," Florence, the mother of modern art, and Rome; the traveler finishing his tour by seeing Paris. A trip like this is entirely within the limits of the above sum, and the traveler need $250 00 To remain within this figure the following simple rules ought to be observed: Avoid the hotels patronized exclusively by tourists; in these the rates are unusually high and no opportunity is given to see the life of the people among whom you are traveling. Commercial hotels, with reasonable charges, are found everywhere; the larger cities have private hotels, callen Pensions, where good board and lodging may be procured at very reasonable rates; and the village inns in Europe are uniformly clean and moderate in charges. The hotel charges need not exceed $1.50 per day, and will often be lower if proper care is taken in the selection of hotels. A knowledge of the language of the country in which you are traveling is of the greatest aid in reducing the expenses and enabling the traveler to study the life of the people. This knowledge need not be extensive, only enough to express the most ordinary wants, and carry on a simple conversation. Europeans will usually charge double prices when obliged to speak a foreign language, and they appreciate and encourage the efforts of foreigners to master their vernacular. In railroad traveling third class is sufficiently comfortable in England and Germany, and in other countries second class should be taken. If the tourist takes circular trips, returning to the place of his departure, he may always procure circular tickets at greatly duced rates, for instance, the cost of the fare for the whole Italian trip is less than twenty dollars. re Baggage is a most expensive luxury in European travel; it makes the tourist dependent on the voracious horde of cabmen, baggage-carriers and commissionaires, swarming in all the larger cities. It should, therefore, be reduced to the narrowest possible limits. One large piece may be sent ahead from city to city, the tourist meeting it about once a week to replenish therefrom the smaller store he carries with him. The latter ought not be more than can be carried by the tourist himself for moderate distances if necessary. Bayard Taylor's knapsack is the best method of all, especially in mountain tours. Do not use guides or commissionaires; they are mostly ignorant, and information obtained from them is untrustworthy. Many travelers are so pitiably helpless that they do not venture to walk a few blocks without a guide, to whose senseless drivel they listen with pious credulity. But to the independent and adventuresome tourist these guides are an utter abomination; he prefers to get his information from a standard guidebook like Bædeker or Hare, and relying on his own resources, soon develops the ability of finding his way better without, than with a commissionaire. Good guide-books like the above. named are indispensable; they give city maps, historical notes, a list of the sights and hotels, in fact, all that is of help and interest to a traveler. By familiarizing himself with them before beginning his tour, the traveler will soon feel at home in the cities and countries visited. Much time and expense is saved by mapping out the whole tour before it is begun, the ability to modify such plan always remaining. The police of European cities will always protect the tourist from overcharge by common carriers, and a threatened appeal to an officer brings the unreasonable cabman or gondolier to terms like a charm. Tariffs are everywhere fixed by the municipalities, and these ought to be strictly adhered to by travelers who do not wish to be despised as green and inexperienced. To the traveler who will in some way conform to the modes of life of the particular country he is visiting, who will respect his hosts and not exhibit the supercilious disdain for which Britishers are noted, a tour in Europe will afford endless and unexpected pleasure and instruction; a tour taken in this manner is within the means and possibilities of any young man of enterprise and love of adventure. |