expenditures now amount to over $200,000.* The contributions to fellowships, scholarships, and free tuition amount to $15,000 annually. The faculty numbers twenty-one professors and more than fifty instructors. In 1899 the College enrolled sixty-nine graduate students, 216 undergraduates, and 1,173 extension students, and provided instruction for thirty-eight students from other departments of the University, and 534 pupils in the Horace Mann School, a total of 2,042. Of the regular students, 128 have had College or University training, representing fiftyeight different institutions, and forty-nine were graduates of twenty-one normal schools. The enrolments of 1900 and 1901 showed a decided growth in all departments, and an increase of nearly 100 per cent. in the number of graduate students. Scarcely ten years have elapsed since Teachers College first resolved itself into a training school for teachers, and to its youth may be attributed most of its defects. It has, however, passed The report of the Treasurer for the fiscal year 1898-99 on a budget of $186,000, shows that approximately $115,000 were expended in salaries, nearly $15,000 in fellowships, scholarships and free tuition in College and Schools, and the remainder in administration, departmental appropriations, and for the maintenance of buildings, grounds and dormitories. The chief sources of income during the same period were as follows: School tuition fees, $62,272; College tuition fees, $33,547; dormitory, $21,337; gifts and income from investments, $78,768. Upwards of $400,000 were also received for buildings, grounds, and permanent endowment, a sum which during the first six months of the present year has been increased by about $200,000. The College grants annually five fellowships of the value of $650, twelve scholarships of the value of $150, four scholarships of the value of $75, and one scholarship of the value of $200. All fellowships and ten scholarships are assigned to graduate students; the others are awarded at the discretion of the faculty, subject to the conditions of the various gifts or endowments. One scholarship is open to men only, one to women only; all other fellowships and scholarships are open to men and women alike. Loans are also made to meritorious students from specia funds recently placed at the disposal of the College; no security is asked except a promissory note which bears 2 per cent. interest. The necessary expenses of attending the College vary from $300 to $500 a year, as follows: -Tuition fees, graduates, $150 ; undergraduates, $75; books and stationery, $15 to $30; room, board and laundry, $180 to $300. Teachers College offers to teachers of New York and vicinity the opportunity to pursue in local circles a systematic course of professional study, under the guidance of College instructors. Such courses are known as extension courses. They are always an integral part of some resident course, and are given in the same manner as to resident students. Each course consists normally of thirty sessions of one hour each, thus allowing a one-hour course to be given in one year and a two-hour course in two years. Students who matriculate in Teachers College, having satisfied the requirements for admission to some course of study, may count the extension courses towards any diploma for which the corresponding regular courses may be counted. Any responsible organisation of teachers may secure an extension course on condition of paying a minimum fee (to be determined in each case by the expense of giving the course), provided that no member of the class pays less than $10 for a course of thirty lessons. successfully through most of the ills of infancy, and is to-day in sound and vigorous health, thanks to the fostering care of devoted friends. The record already made is surely an earnest of substantial advancement in the future. JAMES E. RUSSELL, Dean of Teachers College. Columbia University, New York City. [This report, prepared by Dr. Russell in December, 1899, has been revised from later publications by Miss M. C. Matheson.] [The latest Announcement of Teachers College for 1902-1903, received since this report was revised, can be seen at the Board of Education Library, St. Stephen's House, Cannon Row, Whitehall, London, S.W.] t APPENDIX. In a recent report and the "College Announcement" for 1901, the Dean mentions one or two fresh developments affecting both the life of the students and the college work. Speaking of the students he says: "The student life of Teachers College has always been pure_and healthy, as might be inferred from the nature of its aim. Students have been encouraged to participate in various forms of charitable and religious work. The social gatherings at the College and in the houses of various professors have also served to stimulate a good college spirit. These features of our work I have considered of so much importance that I have recommended to the trustees the appointment of a Directress whose duty it shall be to advise and assist students as occasion may offer, and the lady who filled the office of registrar has been assigned to this position. She will keep lists of approved boarding houses, aid students in finding suitable homes, see that they are properly cared for in sickness and advise them in matters of a personal or social nature." "The Morningside Realty Company is now erecting a handsome fireproof Dormitory adjoining Teachers College at a cost of about $1,000,000. This building, when ready for occupancy in the Fall of 1901, will be one of the most complete college dormitories in this country, and will afford a good home under proper supervision for all women students of the University. Every room will be outside and entirely light. There will be a complete elevator system, laundry, baths, ample storage rooms, bicycle rooms, steam heat, hot water, and both public and private parlours and reception rooms. Besides the Dormitory proper there will be two end wings devoted to apartments of seven and eight rooms and bath which will be rented unfurnished to families. The main dining halls and restaurant will be on the top floor, but a quick-lunch will also be served on the first floor." "The professional life of the College is represented also in its students' clubs. A Graduate Club, a Glee Club, a Kindergarten Club and an Art Club are organised and serve for both professional and social purposes. These clubs, together with the general student body, have been federated through a central Council to promote the educational and social ends of the College, and to secure co-operation in various lines of interest, including student self-government. In the course of the college year various lectures and recitals, open without charge to students and their friends, are given under the general auspices of this Council, before the different student organisations and the student public." An Educational Museum has lately been added to the departments of the college. The beginning already made in securing valuable illustrative material shows that the museum can be made one of the most valuable adjuncts of the college equipment. There is now a fine collection of casts, photographs, and lantern-slides; also photographs, plans, and specifications of typical school buildings for the use of students in educational administration and school hygiene, material illustrative of early school apparatus for students in history of education, and the departments of domestic art and science have received acquisitions by way of textiles and food products. Materials of value in the history of education, the essential features of special devices in the heating, lighting, ventilation, sanitation and equipment of school buildings, and carefully selected objects that will fairly illustrate types or general ideas of service in school work are being added as quickly as possible. The museum, when extended along the lines ahead mapped out, may "easily be made a national, almost an international, clearing-house of concrete educational ideas.” "An argument for the extension of our work beyond the field of public school instruction is found in the demands made by other fields of educational effort.... Teachers College is now giving assistance to missionary work in India and South America, to orphan asylums and reformatories in New York, to negro education in the South, to the education of Indians 2 K 5602. in the West, to charitable work all over the country, and there are students in the College who are fitting themselves especially for the training of idiotic and feeble-minded children." "It remains for me to say, in conclusion, that while the needs of the College seem to be unlimited, the possibilities of our work are unbounded. There is to-day no institution similarly equipped and organized in all the world. We have the support of a great university and the confidence of the teaching profession. The influence which we are even now exerting extends in all directions, and includes within its scope all grades of public instruction from the kindergarten to the university, and practically every phase of education and philanthropic activity. Our efforts are not confined to any section of the country, nor are they restricted to any class or sect. As a national institution, therefore, we aim to serve a people that puts its trust in education as the surest guarantee of individual liberty and social righteousness." Special Students Special Students in Hospital Economics Students from other Faculties in the University: "NATURE-STUDY" IN THE UNITED STATES. Within the last few years a new spirit seems to have entered into American Elementary Education, and has found expression in the method of teaching practised in many public schools in the United States. This new theory of education is admittedly based upon the kindergarten system, and American nature-study may be regarded as a direct out-growth from this scholastic ideal. It is, however, a product of very recent times, so much so, that though educational words or terms have usually come in the wake of the facts and principles they represent, yet in nature-study we have a term expression which does not at present clearly indicate some generally recognised and accepted educational fact or principle, To define then what American nature-study is, or even to outline its scope, is not an easy matter, seeing that the subject is at present in a somewhat nebulous stage. We can, therefore, only attempt to indicate the various points of view, which the term "Nature-Study" covers in the modern and to some extent experimental methods of teaching, advocated and practised in the United States. or human" It must first be borne in mind that, as a subject, nature-study receives support generally from those who advocate-as true education the study of man's immediate surroundings and his general environment; also, the study of the world in which he is placed, and on which he depends. Nature-study is out of place in any system which limits education to the study of man's languages, history and literature. It is, however, a study where man is regarded as being only a part of a complex organism or organisation. Another factor which will be found to have had, and still to have, a great influence in determining both the tone and scope of nature-study in the United States, is the preponderance amongst American teachers of the feminine element. To such an extent are the common schools of the country taught by women, that in American educational literature the word Teacher is now usually regarded as being feminine in gender. Some forms of nature-study teaching appeal strongly feminine sentiments and moods; in fact, such forms have been evolved and introduced into the school by women, while the eading exponents of this sentimental nature-study are women, and much of its literature has been written by women. 5602. 2 L to |