Washington, the city and the seat of government . marked with extraordinarysuccess. During the month that the exhibition wasopen to the public, it was viewed by over sixtythousand persons. Twenty-six pictures were soldfor nearly fifty thousand dollars in the aggregate,thirteen of them being puichased for the perma-nent collection of the Gallery. Similar exhibitionsare to be held annually in the future and it is hopedthat the movement will do much to encourageAmerican art and perhaps prove to be the inceptionof a permanent American salon. One of the most cherished hopes of George Wash-ington in
Washington, the city and the seat of government . marked with extraordinarysuccess. During the month that the exhibition wasopen to the public, it was viewed by over sixtythousand persons. Twenty-six pictures were soldfor nearly fifty thousand dollars in the aggregate,thirteen of them being puichased for the perma-nent collection of the Gallery. Similar exhibitionsare to be held annually in the future and it is hopedthat the movement will do much to encourageAmerican art and perhaps prove to be the inceptionof a permanent American salon. One of the most cherished hopes of George Wash-ington in connection with the capital was that itshould become the seat of a great institution oflearning and in his last will and testament he urgedthe establishment of a university there. In 1821,a charter was granted by Act of Congress creating The Columbian College in the District of Colum-bia. In 1825, the Medical School was organized,and forty years later, the Law School. In 1866,William Wilson Corcoran gave the Medical School Corcoran Art Gallery. IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. 245 a building and in 1872, made an endowment forthe purpose of converting the college into a uni-versity. In the following year an Act of Congressauthorized the desired change. From time to timethere were organized a Scientific School, a DentalSchool, a School of Graduate Studies, and a De-partment of Jurisprudence and Diplomacy. In 1901, the George Washington Memorial As-sociation proposed that the name of the institutionshould be changed to that of The George Wash-ington University, and offered if that should bedone to erect a new building for graduate studyand scientific research at a cost of half a milliondollars. The change was made in the same afterwards Congress authorized the incor-poration of colleges under the University charter,since when there have been organized the Washing-ton College of Engineering, the National College ofPharmacy, the College of Political Sciences, andthe Division
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