New York City sometimes forgets that Cornell is by no means the only other great university in the State. If Syracuse, from which Chancellor Day resigns this week after twenty-seven years, were planted in the West or South, it would be regarded as one of the chief sectional monuments to learning. Chancellors Winchell, Haven and Reid left it a college; under Dr. Day it has become a true university. The number of students exceeded 4,000 when we entered the war, and is fast approaching 5,000. After Dr. Day took office there were successively organized colleges of law, applied science, pedagogy, agriculture, and a graduate school. A library school and schools of oratory, nursing, home economics, and business have sprung up. The Chancellor is credited with obtaining gifts of more than $10,000,000, and those who visit the beautiful campus overlooking Onondaka Lake see evidences of private generosity on every hand. Syracuse is proud of the university, and it repays Syracuse by extension courses.

Syracuse University has its rivals. Most people who speak of Union College think of the old literary centre made famous under Eliphalet Nott. But there has been a Union University since the law and medical schools in Albany joined it in 1873; and the college proper has become famous all ever the country for its engineering courses. Making use of the shops and laboratories of Schenectady, it promises to become one of the best technical centres in the world. Rochester University, after fifty years of slow progress, has begun to leap forward amazingly. Since 1918 George Eastman has given it $4,500,000 to build and endow what should be one of the first schools of music anywhere. Last year the university obtained $4,000,000 from Mr. Eastman, $5,000,000 from the General Education Board, and $1,500,000 from another source for a school of medicine, surgery and dentistry--$10,500,000 in all. It has just raised $1,000,000 for general endowment. Rochester also is a true university and should soon be counting students in thousands.

These three institutions--Syracuse, Union, Rochester--would alone make the scholastic reputation of many a populous State. We can add to them the names of other institutions of less scope but sturdy strength. Colgate University has enjoyed the support through three generations of the family in whose honor its name was changed from Madison University. St. Lawrence University and Alfred University receive State appropriations, in support of schools of agriculture and ceramics. Both, like Colgate, might without much injustice be called by the title that Hobart, Wells and Hamilton are content to bear the title "college." But they are as strong as many universities that in other parts of the country enjoy greater reputation, and they doubtless cherish hopes of becoming universities of the first rank. N. Y. Evening Post.