The Schenectadian, portraying the advantages, attractions and opportunities of the electic city . heirfeet, little stretches of turf and an unpretend-ing brook running through it out into the littlexalley. lying like an amphitheatre with grandold elms oxerarching. How fine a combina-tion I I confess I like it better than the oldgarden at Xew College, I have seenthis garden at Xew College. Oxford, and it iscertainly lovely, but I prefer such an Ameri-can garden as the one at Union College. Under Dr. Richmond, president of Unionduring the jjast years, the college hasentered upon a
The Schenectadian, portraying the advantages, attractions and opportunities of the electic city . heirfeet, little stretches of turf and an unpretend-ing brook running through it out into the littlexalley. lying like an amphitheatre with grandold elms oxerarching. How fine a combina-tion I I confess I like it better than the oldgarden at Xew College, I have seenthis garden at Xew College. Oxford, and it iscertainly lovely, but I prefer such an Ameri-can garden as the one at Union College. Under Dr. Richmond, president of Unionduring the jjast years, the college hasentered upon a period of healthy present year has opened moi^e auspi-ciously, probably, than any previous year inits history. The freshman class numbersmore students than did the whole collegeeleven years ago. The enrollment of 475 stu-dents, as com])ared with ijt, in 1908, shows asignificant gain—and this in spite of higherrequirements for admission. Moreover, theregular income has increased in the pastdecade from 828,000 in 1904 to $132,000 in1914. ^^hile still maintaing the usual clas- 18. H,\id of C i/.v of Ucailh liKscfh If C IcwcnisinnifiMoiici iif tulAic W inillaiii H. liiKjiht-rr sical and scieiitihc courses in all tlicir thor-oughness, its electrical engineering course hasbecome an important feature of its department of electrical science offerscourses superior to any given in other insti-tutions. It now has graduate students rep-resenting Princeton, Cornell. Rochester. Le-high, Massachusetts Institute of Institute, the Inijierial College ofShanghai, China, the Royal University ofStockholm, the University of Madras, India,besides many Union graduates. Concerning the aims and accomplishmentof the college. Dr. Richmond, in the addresspreviously quoted, says: The big university, the post-graduateschool, the educational experimental station,are products of this age. They have theiruses, and uses most valuable, but they do niitand
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