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