SYDNEY UNIVERSITY.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12476, 1 March 1909, Page 4

SYDNEY UNIVERSITY.

A FORTUNATE INSTITUTION. Says the "Dominion." Sydney Universife which; Celebrated T % S:agOj ¥ s n^ arl y 1200- students, 20 per cent of whom are eirls About ,£35,000 a : year is paid in^sat anes the statutory Government endowment- is £10,000 a year, and annual Parliament votes towards the cost of evening and-extension lectures ai i j-/ or .-■sciMitifio purposes furnish an additional £3500. . Most of the students .pay fees, but provision is' made tor scholarships, bursaries, and exemptidn from fees of students who show sufficient intellectual promise and who are unable to attend the University otherwise. The total invested funds are £548,000, of which £225,---000 was left to the University by Mr J. i±. Onallis, a wealthy merchant of bydney. This endowment enabled the University to establish several new chairs, and raise various lectureS W to professorships. Two amounf £ x- °x'£ 00 , !f on were gi^en'by Sir Peter Nicol Russell, to provide for courses in mechanical and electrical engineering and for scholarships in those, subjects. An amount of £30,00 c was .'given by Mr Thomas Fisheror the maintenance of the library which now contains 70,000 volumes' and is being increased by ah expenditure of £1200 a year. The Government .is erecting a new library building with book stacks for' 200,000 volumes. The building will also contair a, museum of Greek and Roman antiquities and other rooms, the estimated cost of; the structure beina about £67,000. 'The amount of £600 was bequeathed towards the salaries oi lecturers in geology and physical geo8* and was given by Sir \Vilham Macleay for the curatorship or the Macleay Museum of natural history objects in addition to the gift of a natural history collection promised by him. . The latest benefaction comes from Mr Hugh Dixon, who has recently purchased and presented to the University the Aldridge collection of mineral specimens formed at Broken Hill at a cost of £7000. In additiontp these generous gifts thousands of pounds have been given by privato benefactors for the foundation cf scholarships, bursaries, and prizes . The work of the University has been extended this year to include a chair of agriculture and a chair of veterinary science, and the Government of New South Wales is increasing the endowment by £500 to provide for theso new departments.