Norman, by Heins and La Farge; St. Boniface, English Gothic, by Henry
Vaughn; and St. Ansgarius, fourteenth-century Gothic, by Henry Vaughn.
St. Ambrose's is particularly light and graceful—the one Renaissance
feature of the cathedral. In St. Boniface's the glass is very fine, as is the
vaulting of St. Martin's, where stands a marble figure of Joan of Arc, by
Anna Hyatt Huntington.
The baptistery, designed by Cram and Ferguson, is octagonal in plan,
and is a masterly accomplishment in workmanship, detail, and symbolism.
The font itself, fifteen feet high is of Champville marble, and its panels
commemorate the life of John the Baptist.
Among the many gifts to the cathedral are the twelve-foot Menorah
lights in the sanctuary on either side of the high altar. They follow the
design of those that stood in Solomon's Temple and are the first of their
kind used in a Christian cathedral. A pair of teak and gold chests, in the
Chapel of St. Saviour, were presented by the King of Siam.
The cathedral serves the Protestant Episcopal diocese of New York
which has in its territory 280 parishes and missions, and whose bishop is
the Right Reverend William T. Manning.
Columbia University
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Sixty-nine buildings grouped on Morningside Heights constitute the
main body of Columbia University, one of the oldest, largest, and best-
known educational institutions in the country. Established "for the in-
struction and education of youth in the learned languages, and in the
liberal arts and sciences," Columbia has stretched the word "youth" to
include persons of all ages, and its curriculum to embrace almost every
field of learning. Each year some thirty thousand students come here to
study under a faculty of about three thousand; twelve thousand students
attend the summer session.
Columbia College, original nucleus of the university, is still a liberal
arts college, but around it have grown schools devoted to the study of
medicine, law, dentistry, optometry, engineering, business, architecture,
library service, journalism, political-science, and philosophy. Teachers Col-
lege, Barnard College, the College of Pharmacy, 115 West Sixty-eighth
Street, the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Columbia-Presbyterian
Medical Center, the New York Post-Graduate Medical

