NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY. A co educational institution at Evanston-Chicago, Ill., in affiliation with the Methodist Episcopal Church, founded ill 1851. It comprises a college of liberal arts, and schools of law, medicine, pharmacy, dentistry. and music and oratory. The college of liberal arts and the school of music are at Evanston, the professional schools in Chi cago. Students are admitted on certificate front accredited schools or on examination in three groups of studies. The courses in the college lead to the bachelor's and master's degrees in arts. philosophy, science, and letters, and to the de gree of doctor• of philosophy. The college course is largely elective after the second year, and pro vision is made for advanced credits by which the time required for subsequent professional studies may he shortened. Advanced courses in certain departments are offered to graduate students, hut this work is not organized into It distinct graduate school. Two schools of pre
paratory instruetion are maintained by the uni versity. the Academy, in Evanston, and the Grand Prairie Seminary at I )nu•ga. The Oar rett Biblical Institute, under Nethodist Epis copal control, forms the theological department of the university, and maintains close relations with the Norwegian-Danish Theological School and the Swedish Theological Seminary, Loth at Evanston, in 1903 the university had 305 in structors and 361)1 students. of whom 709 at tended the college. The college eanqms covers about 45 acres. on the shores of Lake Miehigan, with well-equipped buildings, including the Dearborn Observatory and the Library building. the latter containing the general and Greenleaf libraries. with about 52.000 volumes and 33,0110 pamphlets. The endowment in 1902 was 000, t he income S465.000, and the total value of property under the control of the colleges, $0,70 1.250,