BARNARD COLLEGE, the undergradu ate college for women of Columbia University. In 1889 a group of men and women who wished to provide for women in New York city a col lege education fully equal to that offered to men succeeded in obtaining the sanction of the tnistees of Columbia for the establishment of an affiliated women's college. A charter was granted by the State of New York, and prom ises of subscriptions for the support of the college during the first four years of its exist ence were secured. Because President Fred erick A. P. Barnard of Columbia College had for many years been an ardent advocate of the admission of women to Columbia, the founders of the new college gave it his name. V1/4(ith seven instructors selected from the teach ing staff of Columbia and with 2b students, Barnard opened in the fall of 1889. In 1900, when the original informal arrangement for instruction had been outgrown, an agreement was made between the trustees of Columbia College and of Barnard College by which Bar nard was incorporated in the educational systezn of the university. By the provisions of this agreernent, the president of Columbia is ex officio president of Barnard. Barnard profess ors are appointed by the university on the nominatiott of the dean of Barnard with the approval of the president and trustees; in ex change for instruction given by them at C.o lumbia, Columbia instructors give courses at Barnard. The graduates of Barnard receive their degrees from Columbia. The University library is open to women on the same terms as to men. Various opportunities in the pro fessional and post-graduate schools of the uni versity have also been opened to Barnard stu dents. On the other hand, Barnard has its separate corporate and financial organization; it retains its own internal administration, con ducted by the dean and the provost, who are appointed by the president with the ap proval of the trustees of Barnard. Two liberal
courses o f undergraduate instruction are offered, each of four years' duration—a lit erary course leading to the degree of bachelor of arts and a scientific course leading to the degree of bachelor of science. A general two year course not leading to a Barnard degree is arranged to give the cultural basis for work in certain professional schools of the university. The college is situated on Broadway between 116th and 120th streets, west of Columbia. Mil bank quadrangle, the section extending from 116th to 119th street, was given in 1903 by Mrs. A. A. Anderson. The buildings include Mil bank, Fiske and Brinckerhoff halls, the gifts of Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. Josiah T. Fiske and Mrs. Van Wyck Brinckerhoff, respectively, which contain the administrative offices, lecture-rooms and laboratories; Brooks Hall, the hall of resi dence; and a new Students Hall, given by Jacob H. Schiff, which contains the gymnasium, swim ming-pool, reading-room, lunch-room, etc. On the Quadrangle are tennis courts and a prac tice field for basketball and athletics. Barnard owned in 1916 equipment, buildings and grounds of an estimated value of over $2,000,000 and held productive funds providing a net income of $60,000. Barnard has about 700 students, a staff of over 80 professors and other officers of instruction, and shares in the services of 23 others who come from Columbia to give courses.