Identifier: millersnewyorkas00durs (find matches)
Title: Miller's New York as it is, or, Stranger's guide-book to the cities of New York, Brooklyn and adjacent places : comprising notices of every object of interest to strangers ; including public buildings, churches, hotels, places of amusement, literary institutions, etc
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913- former owner. NNC
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Publisher: New York : J. Miller
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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nd the annual income from the rentedparts is from $25,000 to $30,000. The whole is underthe control of a Board of Directors for the benefit of thepublic; the course of lectures, the library, and thereading-rooms being all free. In the munificence bothof the gift and the endowment, the Cooper Institutestands as a monument to its noble-hearted foundermore enduring than the pyramids. The School of De-sign for women has rooms in this building. THE COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, In Twenty-third street, corner of Lexington Avenue,was established in 1848, by the Board of Education ofthe city of New York, in pursuance of an act passedMay 7, 1847, for the purpose of providing higher educa-tion for such pupils of the Common Schools as maywish to avail themselves thereof. The college is underthe general superintendence of the Board of Educa-tion; but it is specially under the supervision of anExecutive Committee, for its care, government, andmanagement, appointed by the Board. All its expenses
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LITERAKY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS. 57 for instruction, apparatus, library, cabinet collections,books, and stationery, are paid out of the public treasury. The cost of the ground was $37,810, the edifice,$75,000, and the interior furniture, apparatus, &c,$26,867. The building measures 125 feet by 80, andwill accommodate 1000 pupils. The students are admitted in annual classes, and thefull course of study embraces five years. The Board of Education is authorized by law to con-fer the usual collegiate degrees on the recommendationof the faculty. Graduates may become Resident Graduates, andcontinue their studies at option. The Academical stud-ies during Term time, continue daily (except Saturdayand Sunday) from a quarter before 9 oclock a. m. to 3oclock P. M. MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION Occupy the Clinton Hall building in Astor Place, Eighthstreet. This noble establishment comprises a fine li-brary, reading-room, and lecture-room, also cabinets ofminerals, &e. Its literary c

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