MADISON UNIVERSITY, at Hamilton, Madison co., N. Y .; a. Baptist institution, was founded as a seminary in 1820; reorganized into an academy, college, and theo logical seminary in 1832, and chartered under its present name in 1846. It has an endowment of $430,000 (mostly raised since 1864), an annual income of $38,234, and uupro ductive property' amounting to $150,000. It has a library, of 11,000 volumes, a fine museum, a cabinet of minerals, and a laboratory and apparatus. The site, elevated about 60 ft. above the waters of the Chenango and the plain below, having pure springs of water iu the rear, and in front the village of Hamilton, presents a landscape of great loveliness. and for the student, ahome of health and beauty. Besides a president's house, professors' houses, gymnasium, and university boarding hall, there are three edifices of stone,•used strictly for college purposes. The hall of alumni and friends, 107X73 ft.,
has ten lecture rooms, a library, a college chapel, and a large audience room, 107x 73 ft., for college commencements. West college, 100X60 ft., and East college, 100 X56 ft., are mainly occupied by students' rooms and dormitories; but East college has two halls for literary societies and two academical drill-rooms. West college has, also, an auditorium, a museum of foreign curiosities, a museum of natural history, and a set of rooms for chemistry, geology, and physics. The university awards $500 a year as prizes, and pays of itself $4,500 annually to students on scholarships, and over $5,000 more, through the education society, for the benefit of the needy. Number of instructors in 1880, 22; students in college, 88--in theological seminary, 38. E. Dodge, D.D., LL.D., president.