Review of reviews and world's work . )e a tax for the benefit of highereducation, and especially for the enlargement of pro-fessors salaries. It might not be extravagant to pre-dict that one of the results of President Haq)erssplendid audacity in the use of Mr. Rockefellersmillions will, ^^^thin five years, be an average increase in the fixed income of the professors in all our col-leges and universities of not less than twenty-five percent.; and this will really mean a vast endowment oforiginal research, with such a flowering out of brill-iant American scholarship as will astonish the
Review of reviews and world's work . )e a tax for the benefit of highereducation, and especially for the enlargement of pro-fessors salaries. It might not be extravagant to pre-dict that one of the results of President Haq)erssplendid audacity in the use of Mr. Rockefellersmillions will, ^^^thin five years, be an average increase in the fixed income of the professors in all our col-leges and universities of not less than twenty-five percent.; and this will really mean a vast endowment oforiginal research, with such a flowering out of brill-iant American scholarship as will astonish the CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS, Presidential Changes at Cornell. Among the very recent events andchanges in the University world, theone most commented upon has been theresignation of President Charles Kendall Adams, ofCornell University. Dr. Adams succeeded PresidentAndrew D. White some seven or eight years ago, andin this time he lias added the reputation of an educa-tional organizer and administrator of the highestability to his pre\aous well-earned fame as one of ourgreatest historical scholars. So much attention hasbeen fixed upon the new university developmentsfurther West than the State of New York, that itmay surprise some of our readers to know that duringthese few years of President Adamss administrationthe number of students at Cornell has increased from578 to 1,573, the teaching corps from 53 to 122, andthe number of post-graduate students from 31 to White, who had no taste for details, had 536 THE REyiEiV OF REJ/lEiVS.
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