is a showy edifice of white marble, in the
English collegiate style of architecture, and is situated on the east
side of Washington Square, between Waverley and East Washington Places,
fronting on University Place. It has a frontage of 200 feet and a depth
of 100 feet. The principal entrance is by the central door. From this a
flight of marble steps leads to the main floor. Besides the rooms used
for the various purposes of the University, there is a handsome chapel,
and a hall containing a valuable library. Many of the rooms of the
building are occupied by physicians, artists, and various societies, and
as chambers by single men.

[Picture: UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK.]

Columbia College, occupying the block bounded by Madison and Fourth
avenues, and Forty-ninth and Fiftieth streets, is the oldest institution
of learning in the State, and ranks among the leading institutions of the
country. It was founded by George II., in 1754, under the title of
King's College. The college was originally located in the lower part of
the city, but, in 1849, the trustees purchased the present buildings,
which were formerly used by the State Institution for Deaf Mutes.
Attached to the college is a school of mines, in which full instruction
is given in all the branches required to make a perfect scientific as
well as a practical mining engineer. Large and extensive laboratories
are attached to the school. There is also a law school, which forms a
portion of the college, and which is located in Lafayette Place, opposite
the Astor Library. The College of Physicians and Surgeons, at the corner
of Twenty-third street and Fourth avenue, constitutes the medical school
of Columbia College. The college is very wealthy, and its property is
valued at several millions of dollars.

[Picture: COLUMBIA COLLEGE.]

The other colleges are, the College of St. Francis Xavier, in West
Fifteenth street, the Union Theological Seminary, conducted by the
Presbyterian Church, the College of Pharmacy, the New York Medical
College for Women, the New York College of Veterinary Surgeons, the
General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, the
Rutgers Female College, the New York Homoeopathic College, several other
medical colleges, and several business colleges.

There are about 325 private and sectarian schools and academies in New
York, with an average annual attendance of about 15,000 or 20,000