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MORRILL HALL.

{{c|{{sc|By Professor Harry B. Hutchins.}}

{{sc|The}} Cornell University but recently celebrated its twenty-first annual commencement. Though among the youngest institutions of learning in the country, it enjoys the distinction of being among the largest. The University Register for 1888-1889 contains a Faculty roll of ninety-four, exclusive of officers whose duties are wholly administrative or clerical, and student list numbering twelve hundred and twenty-nine. The marked increase in attendance, however, has taken place during the past four years. In that time the enrolment has more than doubled, and that, too, notwithstanding the fact of a considerable increase in the requirements for admission. The material equipment of the University is ample, and in many respects superior to that of any other in the country; and its location, on highlands overlooking the of the higher beautiful waters of Cayuga Lake, is unsurpassed. The visitor at Cornell is at once impressed with the fact that the little city of Ithaca is the home of a great university and of a living educational power. But the a title of Cornell to distinction does not rest upon the beauty of its surroundings or upon its substantial halls and laboratories, not even upon the numbers that daily crowd its lecture-rooms, but rather upon the catholic spirit in which the institution was conceived and took form, and upon the liberal and enlightened policy that has thus far characterized its management. {{nop}}