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8 CORNELL UNIVERSITY REGISTER
GOVERNMENT AND ORGANIZATION
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
The government of Cornell University is vested in a Board of
Trustees. The board is composed of fifteen persons coopted, ten
persons elected by the alumni of the University, and five persons
appointed by the Governor of New York, these thirty persons for
terms of five years; the President of the University, the Governor
and the Lieutenant Governor of New York, the Speaker of the
Assembly, the Commissioner of Education, the Commissioner of
Agriculture, the president of the State Agricultural Society, and the
librarian of the Cornell Library in the City of Ithaca, each of these
eight persons ex officio; the eldest male descendant of Ezra Cornell
for the term of his natural life, and a representative of the State
Grange elected annually. Subject to the charter of the University
and the laws of the State, the Board of Trustees has supreme control
over the University, every college and department thereof, its prop
erty, its conduct, and the persons engaged in its service.
COLLEGES AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS
Cornell University comprises the following colleges and depart
ments :
The Graduate School, established in 1909, having formerly
been designated the Graduate Department of the University. The
faculty of the school consists of the President of the University, who
is ex officio the presiding officer; the deans of the several faculties
of the University, the director of the Agricultural Experiment
Stations, and those professors, assistant professors and instructors
who are actively engaged in supervising the work of graduate students
as members of the special committees in charge of major and minor
subjects.
The College of Arts and Sciences, established in 1896, having
formerly been designated the Academic Department of the Univer
sity. The college comprises the President White School of History
and Political Science, the Sage School of Philosophy, a school of edu
cation, and departments of the classics, the Semitic languages and
literatures, the English language and literature, the Romance lan
guages and literatures, the Germanic languages and literatures, public
speaking, music, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, and
zoology.
The College of Law, founded by the Board of Trustees in 1887.
The College of Engineering, including some departments that
were established when the University was opened, and now comprising
the School of Civil Engineering, the Sibley School of Mechanical
Engineering, and the School of Electrical Engineering.
The College of Architecture, established as a department
in 187 1, and raised to the status of a college in 1896. It offers pro
fessional courses in architecture, in landscape architecture, and in the
fine arts.