The government of the university is divided between a board of 24 trustees, of which the President is a member, havMg charge of the financial affairs of the institution; the Uni versity Council, composed of the President, the Dean, and a delegate from each school or college, to whose care are confided the educational in terests of the university, subject to the reserved power of control of the truste-es and the several faculties in charge of the respective schools. The total valuation of the university prol.oerty end endowments is about $20,000,000. The re ceipts of the university in 1901 were $830,108.56. and the expenses $844,329.85. The dihrary num bers about 315.000 volumes, including the Avery Arehiteetural Library and the famous Phenix collection, but exclusive of unbound pamphlets. A number of societies make it the depository of their rare collections of books. In 1597 Co lumbia University removed to its new buildings on Mo•ningside Heights. The principal build ings, grouped around the library, the gift of ex President Low, are the Ilavemeyer, Payer wee ther, and Seherme•liorn halls, and the Engi neering Building and Earl Ball. The gymna sium is part of the building of the Alumni Memorial hall. Barnard College and Teachers College occupy buildings of their own outside of the campus. Earl Hall represents the religious interests of the university.
Columbia University is intimately connected with many of the educational institutions of New York. Lectures are delivered by Columbia professors at the American of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and at Cooper Union. Students of botany are per mitted to pursue lines of research at the New York Botanical Garden. where courses in special Mvestigation are conducted by Columbia Uni versity professors. The university offers free
tuition to students in the several theological seminaries in New York and its vicinity, and these institutions reciprocate the privilege. The university also offers 26 fellowships, ranging from $500 to $1300 a year, and 34 graduate scholarships of the value of $150 each. The total number of students attending the university is 3632. Under the auspices of the Columbia Uni versity Press, established in 1893, are published a large number of works, monographs, and serial studies, written by professors and post •gra dna te students, and exhibiting the results of original research in various of the university depart ments. There are also published the Political Science Quarterly, and the Columbia Unirersity Quarterly, formerly the Co/umbin. Bulletin. The presidents of the university have been: Sam uel Johnson. D.D. (1754-113) Myles Cooper, S.T.D., LL.D. (1703-70) ; William S. Johnson, LL.D. (1787-1800) ; Charles It Wharton, S.T.D.
( 18011 ; William Harris, S.T.D. (1811-29) ; William A. Duer, LL.D. (1820-42) ; Nathaniel F. Moore, LL.D. (1842-49) ; Charles King, L.L.D. (1849-64) ; Frederick A. P. Barnard, S.T.D., LL.D. (1864-89) ; Seth Low, LL.D. (1890-1902) ; Nicholas Murray Butler, Ph.D., LL.D. (1902—).
Consult: George II. Moore, The Origin and Early History of Columbia College (New York, 1890) ; John B. Pine. Charter, _tets, and Official Documents of Columbia College (New York, 1805) : Brander Matthews. meriean Urn i ver sit ics (New York, 1895) ; N. F. Moore, An His torical Sketch of Columbia College: •J. Howard Van Amringe. Universities and their Sons (Boston, MS) Circular of Information No. 3, 1900, Bureau of Education (Washington, D. C., 1900).