for the general purposes of the University, whether as the principal of capital funds or as additions to annual income, are by far the most helpful and the most needed. The Alumni Fund, upon which so much admirable work is being spent, may readily become a chief reliance in this regard. Columbia University is profoundly grateful, as it may well be, for the measure of public confidence and support that has added to its funds during the past generation an amount probably unexampled in the whole history of higher education. The following statement records the gifts made in money alone since 1890 to the several corporations included in the University: 1890-1901 $5,459,902.82 Total. 2,320,273.34 $60,577,959.50 The following officers of the University have died since the publication of the last Annual Report: On November 28, 1923, J. Floyd Bowman, M.D., Instructor in Clinical Laryngology and Otology, in his forty-fifth year. On January 14, 1924, L. Emmett Holt, M.D., LL.D., Emeritus Professor of the Diseases of Children, in his sixty-ninth year. Deaths of Officers On January 23, 1924, Ralph E. Mayer, C.E., Professor of Engineering Drafting and Secretary of the Faculty of Applied Science, in his sixty-sixth year. On February 2, 1924, William Ferguson, M.D., Instructor in Clinical Laryngology and Otology. On March 7, 1924, Baron Serge A. Korff, LL.D., D.C.L., Professor of the History of Eastern Europe, in his forty-eighth year. On March 29, 1924, Pierre de Bacourt, B. en D., Assistant Professor of French, in his fifty-sixth year. On April 10, 1924, Theophile Mitchell Prudden, M.D., LL.D., Emeritus Professor of Pathology, in his seventy-fifth year. For record and for comparison with previous years, there follow the usual tabular statements as to the University site, teaching staff, student enrollment, and number of degrees conferred for the academic year 1923-1924. Tabular Statements |