TEACHERS COLLEGE. An institution in New York City for the training of teachers and school administrators, founded in 1888, and made a part of the educational system of Columbia University (q.v.) in 1898, taking academic rank with the schools of law, medicine, and applied science. The college is represented in the Colum bia University Council by its dean and an elected representative of the faculty, but maintains its separate corporate organization, with a board of trustees who assume the entire financial respon sibility for its maintenance. The departments of instruction are history and philosophy of education, educational administration, educa tional psychology, elementary and secondary edu cation, English, French, and German, Greek and Latin, history, biology, geography, physics and chemistry, mathematics, kindergarten, fine arts, domestic art, domestic science, manual training, music and voice training, and physical educa tion. No department undertakes work for which
adequate provision is made in other faculties of the university. The college maintains two schools of observation and practice: the Horace Mann School, with kindergarten, elementary and high school departments, and the Speyer School, con sisting of a kindergarten, an elementary school, and special classes in sewing, cooking, and man ual training. The large demand for university extension work in 1902-03, when 45 courses were given, led to the establishment of an extension department, beginning in September, 1903. The buildings, five in number. were valued in 1903 at $2,000.000, when the endowment was $190.000, and the gross income $230,000. The total regis tration was 3018, including 729 collegiate stu dents, 1093 in the Teachers College schools, and 1196 extension students. The Bryson Library contains 22,000 volumes.