LD 3896 1895 Copy 1 ©ct@bei» 19, 1S95. QPENTNQ-D aY fl»Df|ESSES. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK CITY. ©ct©b@p 19, 1 Opentnq-D Addresses. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY' NEW YORK CITY. LDsm fjr I. lt]trodiiQtovy StatQtqQtjt In the early part of October, 1895, an invitation was addressed to several thousands of the citizens of New York and vicinity, including Professors and Instructors in Col- leges and Schools, Officers and Trustees of Libraries, Museums and similar Foundations, and others who were thought to be specially interested in higher education; also to the Presidents of all the Universities and Colleges in the United States, to the President of the United States, and to the Governor and other chief officers of the State of New York, including the University Regents, after the form given upon the following page. The card upon which this invitation was engraved contained carefully prepared representations of the prin- cipal buildings at University Heights. At the upper left hand corner was the Hall of Languages ; at the upper right hand corner was the Havemeyer Laboratory of Chemistry ; in the centre of the card was placed the front elevation of the new Library Building. The date for the ceremonies named upon the card, as will be observed by those familiar with the history of the New York University, was in the same week with the Sixty-fifth Anniversary of the Election of Members of the First Council, October 15, 1830, by the subscribers to the " Fund for the Establishment of a University in the City of New York on a Liberal and Extensive Scale," and within one day of the Sixty-fifth Anniversary of the Assembling of the " Literary and Scientific Convention " in this city, October 20, 1830, composed of gentlemen who, in the words of Chancellor Upson, " were really the creators of the University." The incorporation of the University was one-half year later, April 19, 1831. 4 ^ S ^H 1 > J J| i V^' r* n ^ i * Illy ! s 1 V IS * t^ * ^ 1& i^ I .1 M si 1 Accompanying the above was a card of invitation to the New University Building erected within the preceding year upon the time-honored site at Washington Square : Also the following card was sent to the members of the Council, to the members of the several Faculties, and to those^Guests who were invited to seats upon the platform : In response to this invitation a company numbering several thousands gathered upon the University College 6 Campus at University Heights on Saturday, October 19th, under a clear, warm sky. The guests devoted the early afternoon to a view of the grounds. The " Daily Tribune " said : " University Heights, in the glory of autumn loveli- ness, appeared to the thousands who walked over the grounds yesterday as one of the most charming and beau- tiful places within the city limits. The magnificence of the view from the campus, looking over Washington Heights and the Hudson River to the Palisades, called forth almost countless exclamations of delight. The crowds, arriving by special trains soon after noon, were composed in good part of persons who were not familiar with the scene, and to them the splendor of the landscape was a revelation." Many of the visitors found time to inspect the Hall of Languages, the Havemeyer Laboratory of Chemistry, the Charles Butler Hall and the Gymnasium, which were all to be formally opened. The three temporary buildings, namely, the Laboratory of Physics and Engineering, the Laboratory of Biology and Geology, and the Association Hall and Reading-Room, were also visited by many. The Band of the Twelfth Regiment played spirited music while the procession was in process of forming near the Founders' Memorial. The following was the order of procession : Twelfth Regiment Band. The President of the Council and the Chancellor of the University. The Vice-President of the Council and the Ex-Chancellor. The Secretary and the Treasurer of the Council. The Other Members of the Council. The Speakers of the day. The Faculty of Arts and Science. The Faculty of Law. The Faculty of Medicine. The Faculty of Union Theological Seminary. Presidents and Professors of Sister Universities and Colleges. Members of the State and City Governments. Principals of Academies and Preparatory Schools. Invited Guests : including Clergy of the city and vicinity, Graduates of Sister Universities and Colleges, Officers and Trustees of Libraries, Schools, and similar Foundations. The Ohio Society. The Alumni of Arts and Science, of Law, and of Medicine, in the order of their classes. The Students of the University School of Law. The Students of the University School of Medicine. The Students of the University School of Pedagogy. The Students of the University Graduate School. The Students of the University College and the University School of Engineering. The procession formed in reverse order upon " The Founders' Road," and countermarched to the place of the exercises, upon the west slope of the Ohio Field. Several hundred chairs upon the platform accommo- dated the greater part of the invited guests who took part in the procession, and also the members of the Woman's Advisory Committee of the University. Three connected tents proved too narrow for the assembled audience. Decorations of a simple but effective character marked the tent and platform. The site of the Library Building was outlined by two or three scores of flag-staffs bearing flags of all nations, while at the east front a triple arch was raised covered with American flags. The programme of the day as given in the appendix of this pamphlet was followed, excepting that the Governor of the State participated in the exercises of the day only by an inspection of the Halls of Law and Pedagogy in the new building at Washington Square. Also the Commis- sioner of Education of the United States, Dr. William T. Harris, was prevented at the last moment, by official duties, from leaving Washington City. His letter of regret is given below. The venerable Dr. Talbot W. Chambers be- ing detained by illness, the benediction was pronounced by the Rev. Dr. George Alexander. A most happy circumstance of the day was the pres- idency over the entire exercises of Mr. Charles Butler, LL. D., who had taken part in the dedication of the first University Building at Washington Square in 1835, and became a member of the Council in 1836, recording thus nearly sixty years of service for the University. He was president of the Council from 1849 to 1857, when he re- signed to go abroad, and again became president in 1886, serving continuously since that time in this office. 9 IL CoilirQtiilatioifS of Sister UrjiVgrsities ar|d Colleges- From among the many letters sent by the heads of Universities and Colleges a number were read, being those that were more than formal notes of acceptance or regret. The letters which were read are here given. The following letter (a holograph) was received from the President of the United States : Gray Gables, Buzzard's Bay, Mass. Sept. 17, 1895. Chancellor Henrv Mitchell MacCracken, New York City. My Dear Sir : I am sorry that I must ask you to allow me to decline the invitation with which you honored me a long time ago, to attend the opening of the new buildings of the Univer- sity of the City of New York. When I return to Washington in October I shall find much important public duty claiming my time and atten- tion, and if I keep my engagement to attend the Atlanta Exposition on the 23d of October, that is, I fear, all I ought to do in that line. Yours very truly, GROVER CLEVELAND. IO — — President's Room, Columbia College. New York, Oct. 14, 1895. My Dear Chancellor MacCracken : I have sent a formal acceptance of the invitation for Saturday next to Dr. Butler, but I cannot let this opportu- nity pass without congratulating you personally on the very handsome progress you have made with the work which you have in hand. I am looking forward with much interest to seeing your new site and the buildings upon it. Hoping that everything will pass off according to your wish, on Saturday, I am, Yours sincerely, SETH LOW. (President Low honored the opening by his presence.) President's Office, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, Sept. 30, 1895. My Dear Chancellor MacCracken : I have delayed reply to your kind invitation, to see if I could not arrange to accept it. Of course you appreciate the difficulty of getting away in the opening days of the year. But I think I should have tried to come to you had it not happened that a meeting of our Board of Re- gents has been called for a date so near to the 19th that I find it impracticable to get away. I am very sorry, for I am much interested in your new enterprise, and the facts that you mention, of Dr. Tappan's connection with your University and of your drawing so generously on our young men, add to the interest I should otherwise have. But I regret to say that I shall have to ask you to excuse me. Yours very truly, JOHN R. ANGELL. 1 1 University of Pennsylvania, Office of The Provost. Philadelphia. Mr. Charles C. Harrison regrets that a previous engage- ment obliges him to decline the invitation of the Council of the University of the City of New York for Saturday afternoon, October 19. The University of Pennsylvania sends its congratula- tions to the University of the City of New York upon this occasion, so interesting in its history. President's Rooms, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. October 16, 1895. My Dear Dr. MacCracken : I have just received your kind invitation to be present at the opening of the buildings at University Heights, and regret that I shall not be able to accept it. Permit me, however, to congratulate the University of the City of New York on this auspicious event, and to express the hope that the growth which has recently been made may be contin- ued and consolidated in the future, as I feel confident it will be under vour wise administration. Very truly yours, J. G. SCHURMAN. Yale University. New Haven, October 19, 1895. My Dear Chancellor MacCracken : I trust that your opening ceremonies to-day will be exceedingly pleasant, and beg you to accept my thanks for your invitation, and my expression of regret that I am prevented from being present on the occasion which is of so much interest. Assuring you of my very high regard, I am, Truly yours, TIMOTHY DWIGHT. 12 University of Chicago, President's Office. Chicago, October, 1895. Chancellor Henry M. MacCracken, University of the City of New York, N. Y. My Dear Sir : I regret very much indeed to be absent from the formal opening of the buildings of the University of the City of New York, but engagements of a character which I cannot break absolutely prevent my acceptance. I wish you every success and thank you for the courtesy you have shown me. I remain, Yours very truly, WILLIAM R. HARPER. University of Wooster. Wooster, Ohio, October 17, 1895. Chancellor Henry M. MacCracken, University of the City of New York, New York, N. Y. Dear Sir and Brother : I beg to present congratulations, with regrets, for the occasion of the 19th. May all the hopes enkindled by the new location and the improved facilities be fully realized : " And, cast in some diviner mold, May the new cycle shame the old." Recognizing how fully your patient, wise and constant effort has contributed to and deserved the joy of this great day, I am, Yours sincerely, SYLVESTER F. SCOVEL. i 3 Syracuse University. Syracuse, N. Y., October 18, 1895. Chancellor Henry MacCracken, University Heights, N. Y. My Dear Chancellor : I wish to acknowledge your very kind invitation to the opening of the buildings at University Heights, and to assure you of my regret that I shall be denied the privilege which you offer me. I have watched the progress of the great University on its new site with much interest. I both hope and predict for it a remarkable future. Very truly yours, JAMES R. DAY, Chancellor. Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., President's Room. October 17, 1895. Charles Butler, Esq., President of Council, University of the City of New York. Sir: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of an invitation to attend the formal opening of the buildings of the Univers- ity of the City of New York on October 19, 1895. Please accept my thanks for this invitation, which I would gladly accept were it not for a pressure of work incident to the opening of our college year. I rejoice with you in the addition of new things and good things to the University. Yours very truly, J. H. SMART, President. The Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C. Bishop Keane returns thanks to the Council of the University of the City of New York for their courteous invitation to the solemnities of to-morrow, and regrets that it will not be in his power to be present on so interest- ing an occasion. 14 President's Office, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa. October 17, 1895. Dear Dr. MacCracken : I am so very sorry that an important business engage- ment on Saturday prevents my being present at the open- ing of your new buildings and at the reception you give afterwards. Later in the year I hope that you will give me permis- sion to visit your buildings, which I am most anxious to see. Will you present my sincere regrets to your Committee of Arrangements ? Believe me, with kind regards, Sincerely yours, M. CAREY THOMAS. Manhattan College, On-the-Hudson. New York, October 16, 1895. Henry M. MacCracken, D. D., Chancellor, University of the City of New York. Dear Sir : I acknowledge with thanks the receipt of an invitation to inspect the University Building in Waverley Place, and of an invitation to attend the ceremonies of the breaking of ground for two buildings at University Heights. I shall be glad to attend the afternoon exercises, if my duties will permit. If not, one of our good Brothers will represent me at the grounds. Let me take this occasion to extend to you as head of the University my best wishes. And may the ceremonies of Saturday usher in a new period of increased activity and even nobler efforts in the cause of education. Very sincerely yours, Brother CHRYSOSTOM. 15 St. Stephen's College, Annandale, N. Y. October 21, 1895. My Dear Mr. Chancellor : I am obliged to you for the honor of an invitation to the opening of your University. I am sorry that it was not in my power to participate in the festivities of the occa- sion, but I was absent from home. Allow me to offer you my congratulations, and to express the hope that the University of the City of New York may have a new start in life. Believe me to be, Very truly yours, R. B. FAIRBAIRN. The Rev. H. M. MacCracken, D. D., LL. D. Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, N. J. October 17, 1895. Rev. Henry M. MacCracken, LL. D., Chancellor. My Dear Sir : Allow me to thank you most cordially for your kind invitation to the formal opening of your buildings at Uni- versity Heights. Mrs. Buttz and myself greatly desire to be present, but engagements beyond our control prevent our doing so. Accept heartiest congratulations on the fine success of the University of the City of New York under your admin- istration. The future of the University is assured and is full of promise. Very truly yours, HENRY A. BUTTZ. i6 Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. October 17, 1895. Henry M. MacCracken, LL. D., D. D., Chancellor University of the City of New York. Dear Sir : I have received the polite invitation of the Committee for the opening of the new buildings at University Heights, October 19, and regret that I cannot be present. The occasion promises to be one of great importance in the development of the University, and all the friends of liberal learning will rejoice in the prosperity of which these new buildings and grounds are one indication. With great respect, Your obedient servant, CECIL F. P. BANCROFT, Principal. The following telegrams were received : Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. October, 1895. Chancellor MacCracken, University Heights : I regret that it is impossible for me to accept your invitation for the nineteenth. CHARLES W. ELIOT. Princeton University, New Jersey. October 19, 1895. Chancellor MacCracken : Away from home when your invitation came. Just returned. Very sorry cannot attend exercises to-day. Hearty congratulations. FRANCIS L. PATTON. 17 IIL Addresses I. Prayer by Dr. John Hall. The Rev. Dr. John Hall opened the exercises with prayer, saying : " We desire to thank thee, Almighty God, for the usefulness which thou hast given to this institution in connection with which we are gathered here together. Give that wisdom, we pray thee, which cometh from above to the work and management of this University. May those in authority have comfort, and peace, and encourag- ing success in the work thou hast committed to them. Bless the students who are under tuition ; give them fidel- ity, diligence and earnestness, and prepare them for con- spicuous usefulness in the years to come. Let thy blessing rest upon those by whose generosity this institution has been enlarged and increased. Watch over its interests in all times to come, and make it the centre of encouraging and stimulating influence upon the multitudes of this city. Amen." II. Presentation of Keys by Mr. David Banks. Mr. David Banks, the Chairman of the Building Com- mittee, then formally presented to the President, on behalf of the Corporation, the keys of the new buildings. In doing so he said : " Mr. President : " I congratulate you on being able to be present and to preside at these opening ceremonies upon University Heights. " As Chairman of the Building Committee I have the 18 honor to present you the keys of the Charles Butler Hall, the Hall of Languages, and the Gymnasium, knowing that they are placed in good hands, and that you will take the same interest in the University in the future as you have done in the past. " I regret that Mr. Havemeyer is not here to present the keys of the Havemeyer Hall of Chemistry, which he has builded for the University, and at his request I now present you the keys of the Hall of Chemistry." Mr. Charles Butler, in accepting the keys, said : " I thank you, as Chairman of the Building Committee, and others who have participated with you in the work, for the splendid results you have accomplished, and for the ability and energy you have continuously displayed." III. Address of Charles Butler, LL. D., President of the University Council. Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends of the University, and Citizens of New York : The event which we celebrate to-day, and which has brought this large assemblage together, is one of the deep- est interest. It devolves upon me to express the feelings and views of the Council. It is natural that our thoughts should revert to the origin and early history of the Univer- sity of the City of New York. As the only survivor of that period connected with it, I will very briefly state that the first movement toward its foundation occurred in 1830, by an association of private citizens of New York — gentlemen of high standing — who represented various business inter- ests of the city, as well as men of different professional and religious afhliations or connections. Among those conspicuous at that date I will speak only of Albert Gallatin, who had filled the office of Treas- 19 urer of the United States under President Jefferson, a man distinguished both as statesman and scholar. It was he who drew up the constitution of the University, which was incorporated in 1831. The population of the city of New York at that time was about 217,000. To-day it is about 2,000,000 in the city proper, and if the plan of the so-called " Greater New York " be consummated it should be estimated at about 3,400,000, or by the end of this century at not less than 4,000,000. Albert Gallatin became the first president and Morgan Lewis, Governor of this State, the first vice-president of this university, and the Rev. James M. Matthews, whose memory should ever be cherished with profound reverence, the first chancellor. The Council of thirty-two members, to which I was elected in 1836, was still composed largely of its original members and founders, with whom I became personally associated on the occasion of their first meeting in the council-room of the new building in Washington Square. As my thoughts turn from those early days to this new epoch in the University's history, I feel profoundly grateful that my life has been spared to see the work begun with so much faith and courage, sometimes, in peri- ods of adversity, sustained chiefly by the devotion of the self-sacrificing faculty, now so firmly established as to stand an enduring monument to those who laid its foundations and to those who have built upon them. To you, citizens of New York, who wish to contribute to all that helps her true greatness, and more especially to you, alumni, who have reason to feel proud of your alma mater, to-day to you I appeal most earnestly to rouse your- selves as you never have before, and see to it, by your inter- est and contributions, that the great stream of usefulness which comes from these walls shall flow with an ever- broadening and increasing current. 20 For the Council, I must express the warmest apprecia- tion on their part of the invaluable services of our Chancel- lor in contributing by his untiring energy to the success which crowns this day, and also to the members of the faculties for their cooperation, which has sustained him. In conclusion, I congratulate the Chancellor, the facul- ties, the Council, the alumni and friends of the university r and the citizens of New York, on this auspicious occasion. IV. Address by Chancellor Anson Judd Upson, D. D., LL. D., L. H. D., on behalf of the Regents of the University of the State of New York. Mr. President, and Ladies and Gentlemen : Personally I have no right to address this distinguished assembly. Only my official position could justify the cour- teous invitation of your committee, permitting me to appear before you as a representative of the Regents of the Uni- versity. The venerable institution which celebrates here to-day a significant event in its history is a member of the so- called University of this State which the Regents super- vise. Our New York State University is made by law to include all higher institutions of education in this State, of every name and kind. Over the primary schools, the common schools so-called, so numerous and important, the Superintendent of Public Instruction presides. But no institution of higher education in the State of New York can have a legal corporate existence without becoming a member of the State University, entitled to the many priv- ileges granted alike to all its five hundred and twenty-two teaching institutions. Your corporation was created by the Legislature of New York in 1831, and was thus made a member of the 21 State University, and subject to the visitation of the Re- gents, being the fifth literary college so recognized — Columbia, Union, Hamilton and Hobart being your four predecessors. If I am not mistaken, the Regents have been called only twice to take part officially and helpfully in deciding any important question in your affairs. The financial dis- asters of 1837 caused pecuniary embarrassment in the con- duct of your institution. Complaints were made to the Legislature, which wisely referred the examination of your affairs to the Regents. But the most and the worst which they could report was that you had made a great mistake in trying to accomplish too much with too little ! The severest charge they could bring against you was that "no doubt your embarrassments had arisen from the continued negligence of the Council in not appointing a qualified bookkeeper"! But the report closed with the satisfactory statement that "these embarrassments are not chargeable upon any individual member of the Council or other officer of the University." Again, in 1883, the Regents, at your request, amended your charter in five important particu- lars. But, if we have done but little for you, you have done much for us. The annual reports which you have trans- mitted to our board have been full, suggestive and useful. In the University convocation held in the capitol at Albany, where annually for thirty-three years the teachers of this State, with representatives from other States and foreign countries and the friends of education, have assembled in largely increasing numbers, your Chancellors and Profes- sors have contributed very greatly to the interest and profit of the occasion by instructive and sometimes elaborate papers, by taking part frequently in our discussions, and by delivering influential addresses. We have welcomed recently to membership in our board the distinguished Professor of Surgery in your University Medical College. 22 Mr. President, a member of your University Council has well described this celebration as commemorating " a significant event " in your history. The event here com- memorated is truly significant : important, full of meaning. This celebration in its significance is both historical and prophetic. You have selected a most appropriate date, significantly reminding us of the 20th of October, 1830, sixty-five years ago, when the convention of gentlemen assembled who were really the creators of the Univer- sity. You will pardon me when I say that during all these sixty-five years of your history you have been too modest. You have not permitted the public to know enough of what you were doing. Certainly you cannot be charged with calling public attention too often and too persistently to your good work. For sixty years, passers-by have gazed at the old gray stone structure on Washington Square. They have heard it called " the University Building," but that name meant nothing to most of them. Most per- sons not engaged in scholastic pursuits would have been surprised to learn that a college lived within its turretted walls. Many may have known that here was the centre of a real University, with its departments of art and science and law in the University building and of medicine in another part of the city ; but the general public has not been impressed as it should have been with the important fact that your venerable building was the centre of a great school, employing from time to time more than one hun- dred teachers, and graduating from its three departments annually nearly one thousand students. I ask no pardon for repeating the criticism — permit me thus to combine praise with censure : if in private you have counted your treasures you have not displayed to the great public your jewels as you might have done, and as for the encourage- ment of your graduates and yourselves and the educational public you had a right to do. On this state occasion it is 23 eminently appropriate that your crown jewels should be displayed. On this high day in your history we would not be in- vidious, yet let us pay deserved honor to such names among your beneficent founders as Albert Gallatin, George Gris- wold, John Cleve Green, Julius Hallgarten, Augustus Schell, Loring Andrews, and John Taylor Johnston. And let us not confine our remembrances to the dead ; but be- cause he is yet with us let us pay all the more honor to that clartun et venerabile nomen, Charles Butler ; series in ccelum redeas. What an illustrious list of Chancellors your history re- cords, every one of whom I have seen, or both seen and heard : James McFarlane Matthews, preeminently your founder, a teacher and preacher for fifty years, laborious, indefatigable, self-sacrificing ; Theodore Frelinghuysen, the patriotic and benevolent citizen, " the Christian statesman ;" Isaac Ferris, the wise and courtly and scholarly gentleman ; Howard Crosby, emphatically your own alumnus, professor and chancellor, as brilliant in scholarship as he was devoted in religion — all these, not to mention the names of the liv- ing chancellors, will be remembered deservedly with hon- or as long as your history lives. And they should be hon- ored here and now. And so also should be remembered here your faithful teachers, many of whom have given the best years of their lives to this University. Sometimes, on occasions like this, founders and benefactors overshadow teachers. Without them both our colleges could not live. The earliest years — and may I not say the best fourteen years ? — of the life of George Bush, the Old Testament commentator, the noted oriental scholar, were given to your service. Few institu- tions have had a more laborious drill-master in mathe- matics for thirty-nine years than Richard Harrison Bull. Caleb S. Henry, the American historian of philosophy, served you for fourteen years. I well remember the pro- 24 fessor who taught your classes for the longest time, teach- ing Latin here for fifty-three years, Ebenezer A. Johnson ; industrious, accurate, a most useful instructor in a funda- mental subject of study. The illustrious inventor of the electric telegraph is known the world over as Professor Morse, bearing thus a title which he might not have borne had he not received it from your institution as one of your teachers for forty years. You had in your faculty one who has been called by a competent authority the most noted Hebraist of modern times, Isaac Nordheimer, who shortened his life by trying to transplant German habits of study into this intense American atmosphere. Henry Philip Tappan, one of your professors for six years, was one of our most useful educational organizers, and as a metaphysician had such acknowledged philosophical ability that he could un- dertake without disgracing himself to controvert the meta- physical doctrines of Jonathan Edwards ! John Torrey, your eminent botanist, was a teacher of Asa Gray ; and in the judgment of many he was Asa Gray's equal, if not his superior, as an industrious and acute observer and a discriminating botanical classifier. And permit me also to say that, in my judgment, this country has never produced four more remarkable teachers than your four professors : John William Draper, Tayler Lewis, Elias Loomis, and Benjamin Nicholas Martin. Dra- per was a thorough instructor, an original inventor, a vol- uminous writer, as pure in his style of writing as he was rich in his scientific knowledge. Tayler Lewis was our American Christian Plato. Elias Loomis, the physicist, was industri- ous, exact, exhaustive, a vigilant observer, a writer of text- books accepted on both sides of the sea. Benjamin Nicholas Martin was one of your professors for thirty-one years. His learning was so varied and profound, his thinking was so high, that he could make Tayler Lewis his most congenial friend. Among American philosophers, the friendship of Lewis and Martin was like that of Socrates and Plato. Pro- 25 fessor Martin seldom spoke in public or wrote for the press when he did not make some profound thought as clear as light and as fascinating as the creations of a vivid fancy. I would honor the institution to which my dear friend gave the best years of his life. If the University had enrolled among its professors only these four — Draper, Lewis, Loomis and Martin — it would have wherewith to glory most abundantly. But when you add to these the illustrious names which in the past have honored the catalogue of your medical college and of your law school : such as that bold and original surgeon, the most intrepid operator of his age, Valentine Mott ; and such another as the leading founder, perhaps — and certainly the most energetic supporter — of your medical college, Martyn Paine ; and such a one also as Gunning S. Bedford, in his special department of medicine most skilful and beneficent ; and such another as Alfred C. Post, as earnest and faithful and intelligent in his Christian life as he was ingenious and skilful and successful in surgery ; and such another still as perhaps the most zealous friend the University has ever had, Alfred Loomis — recalling only the names of such as these in medicine — and also that of the first organizer of your Law Department, the intelligent, scholarly, pure-minded and ingenuous Attorney - General Butler ; not forgetting my dear friend and former pupil John Norton Pomeroy, your former Professor of Law, a most acute as well as broad-minded critic, philosophical and learned far beyond his years ; recalling only the names of such as these, your benefactors and teachers, not to mention the innumerable throng of your graduates who have led useful and sometimes honored lives ; recalling only these, who will venture to charge you with a wild extravagance of statement, or with a childish expression of a too boastful spirit, if, on this historic occasion, you glorify the Univer- sity ! Every intelligent student of your history, no matter how indifferent or prejudiced he may have been heretofore, 26 will rise from its perusal with an assured conviction that we' can hardly exalt too highly the educational merit of the men who have rendered here such self-sacrificing service* We are not likely to estimate extravagantly the educational record that has here been made. And this record has been made — let us never forget it— this record has been made principally by teachers and by teaching. These unselfish men, who have con- tributed thus far so much to the reputation and useful- ness of this university, have been mostly men of scholarship and research indeed, but they have made themselves scholars and acquired knowledge not only for the sake of the scholarship itself, not only for the sake of the knowledge itself alone, but to make that knowledge and that culture useful to their pupils. First and last and best of all they have been teachers, if not teachers only. Evidently they have been zealous disciples of the late Cardinal Newman, who has been described as " the typical Oxford man of the century," and who believed and af- firmed that universities are intended not so much for the advancement of knowledge in general as for the cultivation of the mind and character of their graduates. These persevering teachers of yours for sixty years, whose memory we honor together to-day, evidently agreed with one of the most influential teachers of this state and one of our noblest men — I mean President Martin Brewer Anderson, of the University of Rochester- — when he said, " I have no time to make books ; I only teach." By which he meant, " I cannot give myself principally to research and to the increase of knowledge ; but I do give myself " — and that great soul did preeminently give himself — " to the cultivation of the mind and to the formation of the char- acter of my scholars." These, your teachers for sixty years, have written many books, they have made many additions to general knowledge ; but this writing of books and these inventions and discoveries have been incidental to 27 their life work. Their books have contributed to their own usefulness as teachers, and their discoveries and inventions have been made in the course of their work as instructors. As St. Paul wrote to the Corinthians they could say to their graduates : " Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men." And let me say also another thing. The Regents of the University have not been unobservant of your history. They have honored perhaps more than you know, and they still pay deserved honor to, the authorities of this University, and to the instructors here employed, for your tenacity, for your persistence, for your unfailing courage. In these respects yours has been a most encouraging example. Like other similar institutions, you have had your trials. Sometimes your income has not been sufficient to meet your expenses. Sometimes sufficient subscrip- tions have not been made, or, after they have been made, they have not been paid. Increasing debts have brought with them increasing dissatisfaction. Professors have resigned, greatly to the regret of the authorities and friends of the University. Unreasonable educational ex- pectations have not been realized. Friends and patrons have been disappointed. Ambitious scholars have been sometimes dissatisfied. To a great many foolish people, large numbers are the decisive criterion of prosperity ; these large numbers have not always been enrolled here. In 1866 the Medical College building on fourteenth street was burned. For many years, the University Building at Washington Square has seemed to many of your wisest friends quite as much of a constant burden as a continual blessing. But notwithstanding all these discouraging circum- stances and others like them the authorities of this Uni- versity have never given up the ship. They could not willingly let this institution become extinct. They have 28 believed, as John Milton wrote about his books, that " aftertimes " would not willingly let this University die. They have reverently and trustfully believed that God has invested too much in the history of this centre of edu- cational influence and power to let it die. And so they have continually kept your canvas slanting toward the sun. The fidelity of your Board of Trust to its pecuniary obliga- tion is exemplified in the remarkable fact, attested by the most competent authority, that your board has not only preserved intact every dollar given throughout sixty years for the permanent endowment, general or special, of the University, but has increased the sum by prudent invest- ments. And now God is rewarding this fidelity, this faith, this courage. Permit the Regents of the University of the State to unite most heartily in the congratulations of the hour. We rejoice with you not only in the achievements of the past, but in the assurances of the future. To-day begins a new era in your history. I make no apology for the personality of my remarks : it is due to your present Chan- cellor to say that under his energetic and persevering leader- ship the University has been developed as never before. His faithful councillors have zealously supported his earnest efforts. The eminent ex-chancellor, whom on this occasion we gratefully welcome, has given his powerful influence. And now, as we look around us here on these Heights and see these evidences of the remarkable development of the University during the past five years, we can all unite in congratulating your leader, Chancellor Mac Cracken. Your development has been remarkable indeed. Your three departments of instruction have been increased to seven. To the colleges of arts, and medicine, and law, you have added a post-graduate seminary, a school of engineering, a school of chemistry, and a school of ped- agogy ; and through your alliance with the Union Theologi- cal Seminary your students need not be graduated without 2 9 a knowledge of theology. You have uplifted educational light-houses, not only to illuminate the city, but here, on this elevated plateau, to enlighten this whole island. I have named the remarkable growth of the past five years a " development," and I have used the word with a purpose. It has been emphatically a development. It seems, verily, as if this remarkable expansion had been foreseen and provided for by the founders. In that notable conference held in this city in October, 1830, a plan was drawn for organization upon the widest Uni- versity pattern. The founders defined their purpose in these significant words : " We would organize an institution of education to complete the studies commenced in the colleges and to diffuse knowledge." In these few words is described an ideal university. It has been well said that " this ecumenical council, in 1830, gave impulse to the organization of the New York University upon an ecumeni- cal plan." And your authorities have been wise ; they have been true to nature when they have been true to this original, fundamental idea, when they have devel- oped the University upon its original lines. For nothing can be more evident than the controlling tendency in hu- man life and character to perpetuate primal ideas and origi- nal characteristics, even to the exclusion of later influences and apparently more powerful tendencies. Philadelphia will be a Quaker city forever. Albany will be always a Dutch metropolis. Boston will never lose the characteristics of a New England town. The growth of this University has been thus preeminently natural — a wise development which assures permanency. And permit me to congratulate you that in this devel- opment of post-graduate courses you have not destroyed the college. You have not thrown down, contemptuously, the ladder that has raised you up. You have not imitated the supercilious example of the learned philosopher who loftily cast contempt upon the patient old dame who 3Q taught him. the alphabet, as one entitled to no respect what- ever, because, forsooth, her teaching was altogether ele- mentary ! You have not destroyed ; you have fulfilled. You have brought the college out into this large place, out of cloistered darkness into the light and growth of this ex- alted position. And though the University building has vanished, the Founders' Memorial which has been placed on these heights, built out of the materials of the venerable building, built out of the buttresses of the old gray stone Gothic structure, will forever perpetuate its hallowed memories. You do not destroy the college ; you revive it here on these heights. You put new life into it. You preserve and increase the esprit de corps of the whole Uni- versity through the enthusiasm of the youngest depart- ment of your great institution. The youthful spirit which makes an institution like this a fountain of youth, so attractive not only to the young but to all of us, and more attractive the older we grow — this fountain of youth will still be here where all may drink of it and gain new life. The college will not hinder the enlargement of the Uni- versity. It will not interfere with the pursuit of post- graduate studies. It will rather lead up to them, mak- ing advanced studies almost indispensable, almost inevi- table. The reconstruction of the ancient mansion of this estate into " The Charles Butler Dormitory " is no step backward. For myself, as a college officer for many years, I believe in the dormitory method of collegiate living. In my judgment it is an invaluable method of education. Young men gathered together in a college building gain what Bishop Huntington has so well described in a fine phrase: they gain "unconscious tuition." They educate each other through the attrition of discussion and per- sonal conflict, by agreements and disagreements with each other, by mutual resistance and concession, through rival- ries and ambitions and friendships sometimes life-long. 3i Believe me, there is nothing like such dormitory training to humble self-conceit and to encourage modest merit. I have been told that recently, in a neighboring State, a boys' school has been organized for rich men's sons only. The number of scholars is to be limited to seven. The boys are to be protected carefully from all contact with the vulgar and the poor ! God help the little snobs who will be graduated from such a school ! In a college dormi- tory the rich and the poor, the high and the low meet together and their meeting is a mutual benefit. Such a community, so gathered together, is indeed a pure de- mocracy. Let me congratulate the University on this prospective revival of the dormitory system. Your stu- dents will thus gain a collegiate residence for some years — a collegiate residence so invaluable in education, and so difficult to maintain in city life. I believe, most sincerely, in college secret societies, so called. I believe that the Greek letter fraternities are invaluable in the good influence exerted upon their mem- bers by each other, in the unselfish ambitions they en- courage, and in the ennobling friendships formed therein which last for ever. Some of the noblest members of my own fraternity are graduates of the University of the City of New York. My conviction is deliberate, founded upon considerable experience, that these societies largely pro- mote a loyal and enthusiastic interest in the college or university where they exist ; and that in collegiate gov- ernment and in university affairs they can be used legiti- mately to promote good order and manly ambition and earnest work. If I were in a university faculty I should be the last to vote for their exclusion. I should rather be the first to urge their introduction. But while I believe all this, and more, I seriously fear that the building of chapter houses, now so common in all our colleges, may increase those exclusive tendencies which are one of the evils of these societies. I fear that 32 these chapter houses may dwarf and narrow the life and character of our young - men, which would be enriched and broadened in the freer and larger associations of the dormitory. In the evident progress of the University it is gratify- ing to notice also the increasing number of recitations and examinations required in connection with the lectures de- livered. We believe that more and more valuable work will be done in your laboratories to increase exact knowl- edge. And not only this, but I believe that laboratory work will have the same beneficial effect upon students here which President Hill of the University of Rochester has observed in the laboratories of that institution, and which he has so impressively described in the following words : " It is easy to note an increasing intellectual seri- ousness among students who receive their scientific train- ing in the laboratory. And this intellectual seriousness when applied to the great sphere of conduct becomes a moral seriousness, whose fruits are good order and an hab- itual recognition of the presence and authority of law as inherent in the nature of things." The school of pedagogy will give most important higher training to prospective teachers. With you, the Regents have no fear of women in our higher schools. There is no real danger that the women will drive out the men, or that the men will drive out the women. Some of us do not yet quite believe absolutely in collegiate co-edu- cation. Yet, as your Chancellor has well said, " Who would refuse the admission of women to special graduate courses when they ask for it?" The progress of your " Graduate Seminary " is most encouraging for its systematic character and for the num- ber of courses offered. Ohio, methinks, has remembered your Chancellor, her distinguished son, in the gift of " The Ohio Field." In the athletic contests of your young men, in all the days to come, a vigorous, audible watchword will 33 be wanted. Why should not the name " Ohio " hereafter ring out upon the air ? And what a crown of glory is soon to be placed upon all this combination of educational facilities by an unknown benefactor in the erection of a spacious and splendid struc- ture where may be deposited a great library, worthy of a great university, and so essential to its great work ! In all these congratulations, Mr. President, your sister colleges unite. And no colleges are more cordial in their congratulations than those of this commonwealth and of this metropolis. We are all united together in one " Uni- versity of the State of New York." The prosperity of one is shared by all. This great city needs more than one great university. It needs and can support abundantly more than one such university to-day. Columbia, never so prosperous as now : Columbia, with her throngs of students, and her learned professors, and her indefatigable and accom- plished and munificent President : Columbia, the oldest college in the state, soon to be named, as she is already in reality, a university : I believe that Columbia, through her authorities, would agree with me when I say that, with all her facilities, she cannot alone supply even the present higher educational needs of this populous city. But the time will come when this whole island will be required for busi- ness purposes ; the time will come when a score of bridges and many tunnels will connect this island with, the opposite shores ; the time will come when the island and the shores will be crowded with millions of people ; then this, one of the largest cities in the world will surely need and can sus- tain more than one great seat of learning and education ! Do not accuse me of painting too fanciful a picture of the future vastness of this city within less than a century. The growth of the past one hundred years — and one hun- dred years is not a very long period in history — the growth of this city within the past one hundred years confirms my prophecy. 3 34 In view of this natural and inevitable growth of this great metropolis I believe that the organic union of these two great institutions of learning would be an educational calamity ! It would be unhistorical ; it would be impracti- cal ; it would be undesirable ; it would be impossible ! Horace Bushnell would have named the attempt to enforce such an organic union " a crime against nature." The property rights, the history, the constituency, the spirit of the two institutions forbid it. The city and the State of New York will be all the richer for the perpetuation of these two. Each will provoke the other to zeal and good works. Like most proverbs, the maxim " Union is strength " is not always true. Many times division is strength. The division of labor is a characteristic of mod- ern civilization distinguishing it from barbarism. Let then the friends and benefactors of the University of the City of New York have no fear that they are wasting their zeal and their treasures in building up this beneficent institution. Let the merchant princes of New York make it their own. Send not your benefactions away from your home. " He that careth not for his own is worse than an infidel." Give to temporary objects and your gifts will be expended and forgotten. Give to an established institution and your gifts will be preserved and invested and remem- bered because of their continuous usefulness. In 1733 Bishop Berkeley, the "Minute Philosopher," founded a scholarship in Yale College ; and for one hun- dred and sixty-two years the income of that Berkeleian schol- arship has been regularly awarded. And the list of those who have received the income includes the names of some of the most distinguished graduates of Yale. " How far that little candle throws his beams !" So, identify your name with an established institution like this, and your memory will be honored, and your benefactions will be a continuous blessing, so long as the institution shall live. Please accept, Mr. President, my thanks for your cour- 35 teous patience in listening to my words. And permit me to renew to yourself and your honored colleagues, and to the instructors and benefactors of the University of the City of New York, the cordial congratulations of the Board of Regents, with expressions of our most sincere good will. V. Address by the Mayor of the City of New York, Wm. L. Strong, declaring the formal Opening of the Ohio Field for Athletics. [This Address is given from the report in the newspaper press.] Mr. President : When Chancellor MacCracken called upon me and asked me to come out here to-day to make a few remarks and dedicate the Ohio Field, I pleaded with him to allow me to substitute in my stead some member of the Ohio Society who was better acquainted with every branch of learning than I. But when I made this request to the chancellor he said, " No, no ! You must come yourself ; you are the Mayor of New York city, and what you lack in eloquence (laughter) and good words, you will make up in the dignity of your position." (Renewed laughter.) I can see around me many friends, every one of whom, if they would speak the truth, would say I ought never to get on my feet before such a distinguished audience. (Laughter.) But here I am, and it is my duty to dedicate the Ohio Field. When the chancellor first opened the subject to me, and asked my influence to get the Ohio Society to take some substantial interest in the University, he spoke with such eloquence and such a flow of language about the future beauty of the New York University that I thought he must surely have gone a little insane. (Laughter.) " There is a good man gone wrong," I said, " and the New 36 York University will soon want another chancellor." (Re- newed laughter.) But he soon came again, and asked me frankly what line of interest the Ohio Society would take in the building of the new home of the University. "You know," he said to me, " I must have the Ohio Society connected with the new building in some way, because I am its chancellor, and I am determined to have your society's name in it some way or other." I suggested to him buildings for several purposes, but none of these suited him, and he went away. A few days later he called upon me again, and exclaimed, " I 've got it. You can give a running field, and call it the Ohio Field." Well, ladies and gentlemen, there is no class of peo- ple in this Union that run so well as Ohio boys. (Laugh- ter.) Every boy belonging to the city of New York ought to learn how to run ; so I promised to do what I could for the University with the society. I may say at once that the idea of the chancellor captivated the members of the society, and from the first moment the matter was placed before them there was no trouble in getting the boys to work in aiding the scheme. (Laughter.) When I mentioned to the boys the other night that I was coming out here to help in the dedication festival, they asked me, ''What are you going to do? What are you going to say?" I replied to them, " I wont say much, but I will offer to run a race around the path." (Laughter.) One of the most distinguished of our members was then kind enough to remark, "Well, it wont be necessary for the University to send us invitations if you are going to run a race. We '11 all be there." (Laughter.) But, seriously, it has always given me a feeling of great pride and gratification to know that the society has helped in some degree toward the establishment of the Ohio Athletic Field. It is a little too hot for me to run a race on your new 37 path to-day, but as I have lately gained some sort of a reputation as an umpire I shall expect the students to rely upon my judgment in some of their sports in future. (Ap- plause.) I shall feel disappointed if they do n't ask me to come out here some day and umpire for them, particularly in the high-jump contest. In the position I occupy just now in the city of New York high jumping is one of the greatest feats on the programme. (Loud laughter.) And when one of the boys now at this college comes to occupy the position I now hold he will doubtless find that higher jumping will then be required more than now. (Laughter.) The Mayor then extended his congratulations to the Council and the faculty for the progress that had been made in the building of the new University, and, turning to Chancellor MacCracken, said, " I hope the University will so increase and prosper that before you and I shall pass away we shall see built on these heights one of the grandest of all institutions of learning." (Applause.) VI. Congratulatory Address on behalf of the Uni- versities and Colleges of the Middle States and Maryland, by President David J. Hill, LL. D., of the University of Rochester. Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Council : It was an act of generous courtesy on the part of your committee to include the colleges of the Middle States and Maryland among those to be represented at this double festival of past achievement and future promise. A com- mon interest binds the colleges together, and, although but loosely associated in outward organization, they are closely united in aim and purpose. The good of one is certain, through the tonic influence of example and inspiration, to promote the prosperity of all. Some of our colleges seem exhausted with the terrific strain of holding things as they 38 are and preventing their own expansion, but this one shows its vitality by outgrowing its original conception and enter- ing upon a new course of development. It becomes a new institution without ceasing to be an old one ; for that is a true development in which nothing excellent is lost at a higher which has been once possessed at a lower stage. True progress, whether of men or of institutions, reveals in the present all the gathered energies of the past, but raised to a higher potential. It is, therefore, an occasion of rejoicing and congratulation throughout this great sister- hood of colleges, and far beyond their borders, that you gather here to-day to open new halls of learning and to lay the corner-stone of a splendid library, another seal of con- tinued faith in the nobility and perpetuity of liberal studies. It is a notable and instructive incident that, in this me- tropolis, the brightest star in a great constellation of cities, where every human enterprise and activity that marks the advance of civilization is commanding the largest energies and resources of men, the ripe wisdom of your generous benefactor should choose to honor the youth of this city, and those who will be attracted to it, with a gift so magnifi- cent. The highest individual event in the life of man is the discovery of truth, and the highest social event is its communication. It is, therefore, a great moment in history when men come together to celebrate such an occasion as this. The foundation whose corner-stone is laid to-day rests upon a deeper one than human art can build, for it is sustained by the more than granite basis of ideas wrought in an imperishable substance by centuries of human expe- rience. Sir William Hamilton was right when he said, " There is nothing great on earth but man, and there is nothing great in man but mind." Upon that foundation this workshop of the intellect will repose. In the work of education, mind, with all its divine he- redity, is but the raw material ; for what the sculptor is to the block of marble the teacher is to the human soul. The 39 library to be erected here will be resonant with the teaching of those master spirits that rule us from their urns, a teacher of teachers through all coming time. If, as Carlyle said, the voice of ten silent centuries spoke in Dante, much more will the voices of the past break the silence of these alcoves. When the Romans, to honor all the gods at once, raised to the blue sky the great dome of the Pantheon, it was the idea of divinity in its completeness that sought in that firm- ament of marble a symbol of the boundless heavens. All the books that will be gathered here will have their sepa- rate use and value, yet each will represent but a fragment of the vast realm of knowledge ; but the founder of this library is building for learning a pantheon of the humani- ties where truth may shine through a whole firmament of unrisen stars till they lead in the morning of the perfect day. More than any other institutions, perhaps, the colleges of our country embody and express the high ideals of hu- man life. Deriving their resources from the noblest motives of public benefaction, they consciously recognize their obli- gation to elevate morality while they diffuse knowledge. They stand upon the highway of communication between the past and the future, charged with the high duty of transmitting undiminished the ripest experience of the race to those who will lead in its further development. Universities and colleges have about them the character of permanence that belongs to the intellect and the conscience, for they preserve and bestow that which gives dignity to science and meaning to history. The walled city, the ba- ronial castle, and the palace of royalty are only the tempo- rary military tents of an encamping army upon the battle- field of civilization, the centres of an interest already past in the great human march and struggle ; but the colleges, the universities, and the libraries are the abiding habitations of the human mind, the treasuries of the world's true wealth, the halls of victory where hang the proud banners of man's 40 triumph over nature, and in whose archives are deposited the charters of his liberty and the treaties of a federated world. In speaking thus of organized learning I do not forget that the better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself. Wherever the truth finds him, and what- ever the psychological atmosphere he breathes, in the ivy- clad quadrangles of Oxford or amid the sheepfolds among the lonely hills, it becomes his own only through his act of appropriation. But social progress seems to consist in the creation of the focal-points of opportunity. Thirty thousand students gathered from every corner of Europe to listen to the teachings of Abelard. Such a phenomenon indicates the veneration with which even a darkened age regards conspicuous learning, but also a condition of intellectual helplessness that will, perhaps, never be possible again in the history of the world. And yet it still remains true, that he who would learn the best that is known on any subject must go where the knowledge he seeks pervades the whole spirit of the place and is invested with the charm of a great teacher's superior mastery. Lowell once said of the cloisters of Oxford, that the very stones in their pave- ments seemed happier for being there. There is no period so fertile in greatness as that of discipleship to worthy mas- ters, and no greater misfortune than being torn from them to feed with immaturity the greedy Moloch of professional and commercial competition. If the duty of man is the demand of the hour, a deeper, longer, fuller draught from the fountains of knowledge is not a luxury but a consecra- tion, not a private indulgence but the recognition of a pub- lic need. The first necessity of progress is the complete appropriation of what is excellent in the past. The divine tuition that has reared humanity from infancy to maturity must be repeated in reduced outline in every generation, until the splendor of a complete manhood is enriched and made fruitful by a perfect scholarship. 4i It is fitting that a time of political purification in this city should be an epoch also of transplanting and enlarging its schools of learning, for these activities are but different phases of one and the same movement — a movement born of the conviction that truth and justice are the pillars of municipal dignity. A shallow smartness ridicules the scholar in business and politics, and perhaps rightly if scholarship is merely technical and if personal gain is the chief motive of private and civic virtue ; but if success means the fruitful and profitable mastery of the moment, through a deep comprehension of its human significance, the educated man is the one who is demanded in every sphere of practical life. It has been said that one man is as good as another until a real man is needed. That which gives the real man his superiority is a character and ability matured by a deeper acquaintance with principles that lie beneath the surface. The lowest form of practice cannot be safely disunited from the highest truth of theory, and in the moment of emergency we demand for the protection of our property, our lives and our liberties the best service of a deeply disciplined intelligence. Who, then, can estimate the debt of the present and the future to those choice spirits who have given their lives or their fortunes to render possible this development of mind and character ? There is not a college in our State, not to mention others throughout the nation, which is not greatly indebted to this city for the means of its existence. And now you turn to kindle anew the fires of knowledge upon your own hearthstone, to render worthy of your re- sources as a city your great schools of learning. It is a work worthy of your deepest interest and most munificent bounty. The summits of your civilization are not the stately palisades, nor your sky-towering buildings, nor your proud Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World. They are to be found rather in the actual sources of enlightenment ; not in its outward symbols and monuments, but in the 42 schools and libraries and publication rooms of your city, which give stability to the liberty of knowledge by diffus- ing a true knowledge of liberty. And when we remember how these heights of opportunity have risen from the un- broken wilderness by the industry of hands that have wrought less for themselves than for the future, we seem to see written over all this splendid inheritance of liberty and knowledge, " Where much is given much will be required." VII. Congratulatory Address on behalf of the Univer- sities and Colleges of New England, by President Merrill E. Gates, LL. D., L. H. D., of Amherst College. Mr. President: On such a day as this, in such a scene, when a hostess with so fair a past thus serenely takes possession of so beautiful a home and looks smilingly out upon a future so full of fairest promise, we who are your guests feel the wish to bring you gifts, that you may know our friendly sympathy with you in your joy. If it is true that the noblest gift which friend can give to friend is a loving thought and the challenging expectation of the noblest deeds from that friend, we who speak for your sister col- leges bring to you rich gifts to-day. Our highest wish for you is also our confident belief, that the University of the City of New York will from the very first take victorious possession of its material equipment and natural surround- ings ; that the soul and spirit of the true University from the first may animate and give significance and eloquence and power to this beautiful environment of which to-day you are put fully in possession. And your past, which is secure in its ample wealth of 43 honorable usefulness, gives us entire confidence that the promise of the present will become accomplished fact as you live out your future on these calm Morningside Heights, above the roar and turmoil of the great city. What is the essential fact which gives to these cere- monies their deep significance, their supreme interest ? It is not the perfect loveliness of this autumnal day, though it shines with a richness of color and a tender part- ing grace that make the October of our dear home-land a yearly benediction in our life, like the serene presence in our homes of those who are full of the rich fruitage of happy years and wear upon their faces the splendor of the light from the larger life before us. Gracious as is this October day, it is fleeting. It is not the charm of this beautiful landscape. This same beauty blesses hundreds of homes and streets in this beauteous suburb of our growing metropolis. It is not the architecture of these stately buildings, noble and impressive though they are. Much less is it their cost. Acres of buildings, costing millions of dollars, rise about you in the city, and no one feels that the occu- pation of those costly edifices should be celebrated by im- posing ceremonies. Where intensest life in its highest forms takes hold on material things and uses them for its own highest ends, there matter and material forms acquire their supreme interest for man. The interest of this day centres in the fact that to-day these beautiful surroundings, these grounds and buildings, are taken possession of by life in its highest forms, by the eager spirit of youth and the intense ear- nestness of the intellectual life in pursuit of the highest knowledge, under the discipline of the highest ideals. In the aims, the ideals and the work of the University the essentially highest life of man is fostered and devel- oped. Where thought and study and the love of letters in the 44 past have touched material things there centers for men an intensity of interest. All life is interesting. For the biologist, for the true lover of life who knows the feeling, " And I am one with all the kinsmen things That e'er my Father fathered," even the scar on the rock, which shows where the lowest form of clinging life once laid hold for the support of its lowly-organized existence, is a sacred sign. All life is marvellous and interesting. Human life is especially sa- cred. In Literature, and in those studies that provide the subject-matter and perpetuate the spirit of Science, Phi- losophy, Religion and Literature, the essential life of man is fostered and developed. Where the "masters of those who know" — where the divinely gifted artists in Literature who have also been seers gifted with that vision without which the " people perish " — where the great names of Literature have asso- ciated themselves with a particular landscape, with an especial environment, how keen is the interest which attaches to such a place for all succeeding ages ! We who have seen and felt something of the wonder- ful power of the Hellenic spirit in the Literature and Art of Greece know well that we are for ever indebted to the poets and orators of that marvellous people for a flashing insight into the relations of beauty and truth to human life. How indissolubly Plato's thoughts and Plato's living ideas blend in memory with the finest aspirations and the noblest hours of the college course. If the highest func- tion of the poet is " the application of noble ideas to life," then poet, philosopher and artist, teacher, statesman and philanthropist find inspiration in those lofty ranges of thought applied to social life which led Emerson to say, '• All the Europe of to-day is to be found in the mind and writings of Plato." What a charm there is about the opening scene of 45 each of these Dialogues of Plato ! What Attic love of light and stir and beauteous form and newsy gossip and clever friends ! " Yesterday evening I returned from the army at Potidaea, and having been a good while away I thought I would go back to my old haunts. So I went to the Palaestra of Ta ureas," and there Socrates is saluted on all sides by old friends, and after giving an account of his escape he asks about matters at home : " about philosophy and about the young men, who are the promising ones ?" And so we are introduced to Charmides and the charming dialogue concerning self-control that bears his name. " I was going from the Academy straight to the Ly- ceum, intending to take the outer walk, which is close under the wall. When I came to the postern gate of the city, close by the fountain of Panops, I fell in with a com- pany of young men who were standing there ;" and Soc- rates turns aside with them to their new clnb building, and leads them into the talk about friendship which is known as the " Lysis." " Who was that person, Socrates, with whom you were talking yesterday at the Lyceum ? There was such a crowd around you that I could n't get within hearing ; but I caught sight of him over their heads, and I made out that he was a stranger." The stranger was Euthyde- mus ; and Socrates relates to Crito, the interlocutor, the substance of their dialogue. And, most charming of all, the opening scene of the Phaedrus, where Socrates and his companion walk out through the city suburbs along the banks of the Ilissus : " Turn this way ; let us go to the Ilissus and sit down in some quiet spot," says Socrates. " I am fortunate," Phae- drus rejoins, " in not having my sandals ; and as you never have any, Socrates, I think that we may go along the brook and cool our feet in the water ; this is the easiest way, and at mid-day and in the summer is far from un- 46 pleasant." " Lead on ; and look out for a place where we can sit down," says" Socrates. " Do you see that tallest plane-tree in the distance ?" asks Phaedrus. "Yes." "There are shade and gentle breezes and grass on which we may either sit or lie down." On a morning in May, after a breakfast of coffee, bread with fresh butter made from goat's milk, and honey of Hymettus, I started to walk up the half-dry bed of the classic stream of the Ilissus. In the summer weather only little mossy streamlets of water were to be seen, which made petty channels for themselves here and there through the coarse gravel of the river-bed which is washed in win- ter by a hurrying torrent. Knots of women in picturesque costume were kneeling beside little pools of water, con- verting the Fountain of Callirhoe into a convenience for accomplishing the family washing. I walked on between overhanging banks up the channel of the stream. On either side were gardens, a wealth of wild roses ; the deep matchless red of the pomegranate in blossom, the grape- vines green and fresh and fragrant ; poppies and daisies ; and beside the stream towering clusters of tall rushes ; white-breasted, black-plumed, glossy-winged swallows filled the air with gleaming flight and cheery twittering ; plane- trees, poplars, willows, fig-trees, olives, pomegranates, cacti and cypresses bordered the bank ; and Mount Lycabettus towered sharp above me, close on the left. The Lyceum, where Socrates loved to walk and talk, and where Aris- totle and his followers walked as they laid the foundation of the Peripatetic school, was just before me. As I walked on up the channel, the volume of water in the bed of the Ilissus was perceptibly increased by a little tributary that made its way in from the base of Mount Lycabettus on the right bank of the stream. Suddenly it occurred to me that this was the course Socrates and his friend had taken in the opening scene of the Phaedrus. I had in my pocket a volume of Plato (as you always do at Athens, if 47 you are wise), and opening it I read again that charming introduction of which I just now gave you Jowett's trans- lation. It seemed to me that I must be at the very spot which Plato describes, and stepping out from the channel of the Ilissus and into that of the little tributary that flowed down to meet me, and following it for a hundred paces, I came to a lovely bank of grass beside the stream beneath a cluster of trees. " There were shade and gentle breezes and grass on which one might sit or lie down ;" and as I stretched myself upon the grass and drew down an overhanging branch of the tree above my head, what was my delight to find that the tallest tree above that bank of grass, now as in Plato's time, was " a plane-tree over- shadowing a little spring " — the very place where Plato must have sat when he sketched the opening scene of the Phaedrus, in which he leads Socrates barefoot up the Ilissus to that grassy bank on which I was reclining. As we have listened to the eloquent and discriminat- ing historical address which has reminded us afresh how far-reaching is the influence of the scholarly lives which have been trained at this University and at this University have employed their matured powers in inspiring and training others, we feel a deep joy in the thought that to this University in its new and ampler equipment and sur- roundings is to be continued, and in still larger measure, the divinely-given power to become the Mother of Men. As you leave the old home for the new, we see reverential arms outstretched and sheltering hands — hands lifted in prayer — guarding the sacred fire as you carry it from the old hearthstone to the new. To give life and light is the mission of the higher institution of learning. Life and Light are themes which no environment can belittle. They lend dignity to the most commonplace surroundings. They are of divine and perennial interest and give the crowning touch of grace and power to an environment as beautiful as is this. To give more light, to awaken an intenser 4 8 life, to fit men not so much to transact more business as to give more intelligent guidance to the transaction of all business ! Above the stir of the city life yet within sound of its many voices of appeal ; removed from the personal stress which attends the close daily vision of the over-crowded tenement house, yet within call of the divinely compassionate spirit of the University Settlement ; through your professional schools retaining close touch with the courts and hospitals of the city yet securing for the young men who pursue the earlier liberalizing course of study ideal surroundings for the library, lecture-rooms and laboratories — you seem to your friends to be in an ideal position for university work. To make men see is the aim of the college and the university, not to fit men to get ! " Where there is no vision the people perish." " Does a college education pay ?" asks some grasping business man. We answer, Our business is to make the young men see that giving is better than getting ; that to ray out light and life is better than to draw in and hoard and hold gains that in their getting ruin others. The unseen, the eternal — which is the true — wherever college or university has its home touches the seen, the temporal, the fleeting, and dignifies it, giving it worth and beauty. As the light of the Eternal, who is the Father of all Life, falls upon our globe, enveloped as it is in the gar- ments of soil and vegetation and animal life and teeming human life with which it has closely clad itself in the unfolding of His plan, every trace of animal life is sacred because it speaks of the touch of Him who is the Author of physical life ; every hearthstone is sacred because the germs of the noblest social life are there in the love and self-sacrifice of the home ; every altar and church is sacred because it witnesses to the flame of aspiration, the hunger to meet with God. Every school-house, however small 49 and cramped in its surroundings, is a sacred spot for what it holds of possible inspiration and uplift, and in our own land for the fair flame of our country's flag, as it floats above it, leading us to hope that each school is a focus, a true fireside nursery of love of country ; and, most of all, where spacious and noble halls arise for the conduct of the higher liberalizing education, where young men are taught to see — are dowered with the vision which looks before and after, and with insight given from above sends the men who receive it to do the most strenuous, steadfast and high- hearted service for their time and their race — there the unseen impinges upon the seen, the eternal dignifies the temporal ! Men who give for such ends lend themselves and their substance to the highest uses, and by their gifts and their work are crowned with immortal fame. We are glad to feel that the touch of the Zeit-Geist is felt by our college-bred men. The charge is sometimes made that education at colleges and universities in the East (and it is sometimes said with especial emphasis that the training of New England colleges and of t the oldest Massachusetts University) results in indifference to the demands of the present. As far as it is proper for me, bringing greetings from colleges in New England, to refer to the oldest University of New England and of our country, what more emphatic refutation could be given to this charge of indifference than the work now doing in your city by one of the young alumni of Harvard ? If His Honor, the Mayor of New York, to whose words we have just listened, were asked to give voice to the judgment of this city upon the work and the character of the very efficient head of its Police Commission, I fancy that neither he nor the popular voice of New York would select the figure and the name of Theodore Roosevelt to represent political " indifference !" And so far as it is proper for me to refer to the college which I have the honor of especially representing, let me say, since young men of New York 4 5o are always with us in New England during the years of college education, that we ask you to judge the spirit of Amherst, in respect to feeling the debt the college and the university owe to the life of the present, by the spirit and the utterances of those sons of Amherst whose lives and words are so well known to the citzens of these cities that cluster about the mouth of the Hudson — men whom New Yorkers love to honor: Henry Ward Beecher, Roswell Dwight Hitchcock, Richard Salter Storrs, and Charles Henry Parkhurst ; not to mention the galaxy of brilliant scholars and teachers, sons of Amherst, who give prestige and honor to that School of Political Science which crowns the work of your sister university, Columbia. The colleges and universities of New England do not forget their obligations to the present ; and to our chal- lenge to the University of New York to vie with us by giving the touch of living power to the young men who are educated here, we know that you will answer nobly. For the student-life in these beautiful surroundings is to be lived, not in the darkness of negation, not under the deadly chill of avowed agnosticism. This institution was founded under Christian auspices and is held in loyalty to Jesus Christ, who is the incarnation of the Spirit of Life and Liberty. The formative years of college life will be passed here under the life-giving power of that Light ; under the direction of older students, men of science and men of letters, who are reverent children of the Light that illumines the life of our race wherever the Sun of Right- eousness has shone with life-giving power. Here is to be developed in young men that intensity and energy of high living which is possible only where men believe and receive the promise, " Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free/' Here the highest studies are to be pursued with the most perfect freedom, but under the intense life-bestowing power which radiates like heat and light from the accepted belief that a personal God is 5i at the centre of being, and that His plan is evolving be- fore our eyes ; that His will, written in the ordered forms of the material world, in the proportioned and balanced sequences of nature, alone makes possible Natural Science ; and in the belief that the Fatherly imprint of His own image upon us, his children, alone makes possible the science of thought ; while the growing recognition by all nations of Jesus Christ as the full measure of manhood, and the Divine Saviour of men from themselves and from the woes they have worked upon themselves, is the one hope of a Science of Society for the whole world, as it is the supreme power in that renewal of life for men and women, one by one, through which the better order must come in to bless the nations. It is these positive and beneficent beliefs which have made possible the world of science and of just goverment as we see it to-day. It is the glorious mission of our colleges and uni- versities to make young men see truth, and hope, where they have believed lies, and feared ; to send men forth to their life-work, radiant, joyous, strong for service ; to give to the young men of each generation Education for Power ! To the University of New York, on this beautiful bank of the Hudson, above the teeming cities at the Hudson's mouth, I bring friendly greeting, best wishes and highest hopes, from her sister colleges and universi- ties in New England. VIII. Address of William Allen Butler, LL. D.. on behalf of All the Alumni. Mr. President: The regretted absence of United States Commissioner Harris gives an opportunity for a word of congratulation on the part of the Alumni. 52 In the discharge of the grateful duty assigned me, representing as I do all the living lawyers, doctors, clergy- men and other graduates who have received their several degrees from our common alma mater, I feel that I stand on a veritable " fusion " platform, and am also upheld by an unassailable " harmony." The brief but comprehensive message to the Univer- sity in which all the alumni unite at this auspicious mo- ment is one expressive of their satisfaction and conveying their congratulations in view of what has been wrought out and is made manifest to-day as the result of the appli- cation to its affairs of sound common-sense, wise business methods, sagacious conservatism and a courageous enthu- siasm. Under the direction of the Council, by the special efforts of its more active members and its most active Pres- ident, and by the invincible pluck and perseverance of Chancellor MacCracken, the University has been brought to a stage in its history and a point in its progress where its position and its prospects are worthy of the imperial city whose name it bears. In the midst of the activities and competitions of this great commercial and metropolitan centre, with its cosmo- politan population and its ever-increasing sources of wealth and influence, there is ample room and verge enough for institutions of learning established on separate foundations and maintaining distinctive organizations, not in conflict or opposition, but moving on lines converging towards one common centre of the highest education and civilization. The University, under its broad and liberal charter, in a spirit of generous emulation has taken a new departure and enters to-day on a new epoch of its existence. On Washington Square the old building has disap- peared and, as if by the waving of an enchanter's wand, a new structure has risen in its place. In the realm of archi- tecture, as in so many other departments of modern activ- ity, old things have passed away and all things have become 53 new. When the first University building was erected, in the period of misapplied Gothic, the architects not only did not build better than they knew, but builded a great deal worse than they ought to have known how. The vast advance since that time in everything relating to the needs of education as well as of business, in the principles and methods of architecture, made necessary the replacing of the old building by the new, where everything is adapted to the wants of the University so far as its work is to be carried on there. Certainly, by placing the schools of Law and Pedagogy on the tenth floor, the instruction in those branches has been raised to a higher plane than has ever before been attained, and in every particular the best means have been adapted to the ends in view. The completed structure stands .as an index finger pointing to the path of progress. Here, at University Heights, the Department of Arts and Science finds itself in an ideal home. Nothing can be better adapted to the wants and wishes of an institution of learning and its Faculties than neighborhood to the chief city of the State and Nation, coupled with a seclusion as remote from its whirl and bustle as were the groves of the Academy, where Plato taught, from the gates of Athens. The buildings, present and prospective, will furnish every facility for the uses to which they are devoted. Our campus is not an extorted concession to athletics, but a wise provision for physical training, and will give ample room for games as varied and exciting as those which Achilles instituted for the Greeks before the walls of Troy. Mayor Strong has already vindicated the fitness of its designation as the " Ohio Field." He has improved on the statesmanship which hails from New York while representing Ohio, by hailing from Ohio and representing New York. The Harlem, which at the foot of these Heights winds its way from one great river to another, has not yet the classic associations of the Cam or the Isis, 54 but who shall limit its future possibilities, flowing, as it will, in propinquity to two great institutions of learning on either side of its banks ? The motto of the University, engraved on its seal and printed on to-day's programme, is " Perstando et Praestando Utilitati." A distinguished alumnus of a sister college lately called my attention to the fact that the grammatical accuracy of this motto was questioned. Deeming discretion the better part of valor on my part in respect to such a challenge, I referred the subject to the Dean of our Faculty of Arts and Science, Rev. Dr. Baird, who is with us to-day, and whom, on behalf of the Alumni and, I am sure, with the concur- rence of all his associate professors, I take leave in this presence to congratulate on the recent completion of his great work, the " History of the Huguenots ;" a work to which, without trenching on the duties of his Chair, he has given thirty years of labor, and which will make his name illustrious in the annals of literature. He will now have leisure to defend the Latinity of our motto, the free transla- tion of which may meanwhile be given in plain English : " For utility by perseverance and preeminence " — the high- est usefulness by means of the most thorough and far- reaching efforts. This is the aim and object of the Univer- sity in the sphere of the higher and highest education, the crown of all civic, municipal and national strength and vir- tue. If, as Von Moltke said in the German Reichstag, it was the Prussian schoolmaster who won the victory at Sa- dowa, we may hope, under the inspiration and impulse of free American ideas and untrammelled Christian truth, to share in new and more enduring conquests on these broad fields of human endeavor where " peace hath her victories no less renowned than war." - 55 IX. Announcement by the Chancellor of the University, Henry Mitchell MacCracken, D. D., LL. D. Mr. President, Fellow-Members of the Council and of the Faculties, and Fellow-Citizens: University Heights, which we christen to-day, is almost five years old. The Vice-Chancellor's report of November, 1890, declared that our work for undergraduates might cer- tainly be enlarged and improved if grounds of some extent within easy distance of the chief residence quarter of our city were placed at our command ; that in a short time University College, with attractive grounds in a residence quarter, would fulfil more nearly the American ideal of a college than a college in a business locality ever could. This suggestion, which involved also the proposal for a great building at Washington Square, was well received by the Council, especially by the newer members and by the President, Mr. Charles Butler. A small committee was organized, consisting of George Munro, David Banks and William F. Havemeyer, besides the president and vice- chancellor, ex-officio. All of these gentlemen are still active except Mr. Munro, who was obliged to retire through the death of a brother placing upon him multiplied responsi- bility.* In May, 1891, they had contracted for this noble piece of ground, as the most commanding site for a University within the limits of our great metropolis. After the pur- chase of the ground the committee was increased by the addition of Dr. Alfred L. Loomis and Charles T. Barney, the former, alas ! ending his services all too soon. He was foremost in that ungrateful work of soliciting gifts, secur- ing the larger part of the moneys for the building of yon * Mr. Munro has since accepted the unanimous invitation of the University Council at the Annual Meeting, November, 1895, to resume his place in the Cor- poration. LtffC. .56 Hall of Languages. In Alfred Loomis' death there fell a prince and great man in our Israel. The first pledge that was made to University Heights, and the largest gift until the present year, was the Laboratory of Chemistry by Mr, Havemeyer. More recent members of the committee are Oliver H. Payne, Charles R. Flint and Dr. John P. Munn. Not less essential than the work for the establish- ment of University Heights was that performed by our Building Committee at Washington Square. The highest interests of the University as well as its ancient motto require us to hold strongly our possession there while we establish ourselves here. The building of the massive pile on that venerable ground, giving us spacious halls of law and pedagogy while at the same time fruitful of income, is mainly due to Augustus D. Juilliard and William S. Opdyke, with their associates upon the Building Com- mittee. The labors of that committee have, I think, been no less arduous than those of the uptown committee. Thus much of the past. The promise of the future we owe largely to the interest in the University Heights move- ment awakened in the mind of a friend of the University not present to-day, and to the equal interest of another friend of the University whom I see before me. I trust that some day I may be permitted to announce these names, as well as that of the munificent friend of our Med- ical College. A seal is upon my lips to-day. As the spokesman of the faculties of the six University schools I feel that we as teachers are, after all, ultimately the persons in trust for the entire investment which our friends are making in the New York University. I point you to the promise that is made by more than sixty years of patient, enthusiastic and self-denying labor by our profes- sors ; no words of mine can utter a promise so large or sure. This is a day of formal opening. But it is also the day of real opening of a great and effectual door of useful- ness to the strong men of New York. Through this open door we look out westward over the continent. Not two months since some of the wealth that flows into New York was put into my hands, in all more than $60,000, for the founding- of scholarships especially for students from a distance, a certain number of the students to come from west of the Mississippi. Within thirty days forty candi- dates from west of the Mississippi had made application. To-day five students selected by competition, three for the Undergraduate College and two for the School of Peda- gogy, are either here or upon their way from Missouri, Arkansas and Texas, to study at the New York University. Thus this foundation is not for New York city alone. Were Manhattan Island only in question I should count to-day almost superfluous ; but New York is the platform from which to speak to America and to almost one hundred mil- lions of souls. This platform is large enough to permit a dozen denominations to speak from this metropolitan cen- tre without clashing one with the others, scores of jour- nals to speak simultaneously every day and almost every hour. The platform is large enough also, we think, to let New York University have a wide front -place upon it from which to utter what she has to say. The special gift of this occasion is by a citizen whose name is withheld, but who has studied our situation care- fully and has decided that our next need is a dormitory. The Committee, having a hint of this, decorated the part of our grounds which had been designated on our map for the first dormitory ; but the giver believes that a hall for students should have a spacious lawn and be a little way from the site of the recitation rooms and the laboratories where the students work all day. In accord with this view a written pledge has been given me promising the gift of an addition to our campus on the east side of Andrews Avenue, and of a dormitory hall for at least seventy-five students. This hall will thus be near the sites of several fraternity houses and will front toward the athletic field, 58 the lawn tennis courts, the gymnasium and the Founders Memorial. By request of the founder of the library, the Chancellor will proceed to break ground for that edifice. It promises to be a memorial worthy every way of its giver, its posi- tion, its purpose and its architect. I recite the words which I shall repeat upon breaking the sod : " We begin this library to the glory of God, trusting that, as to-day we have marked its site by flags of all nations, so they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it ; and that the prophet's further word shall also be true, that ' there shall enter into it nothing that defileth or worketh abomina- tion ;' and may the blessing of Almighty God, the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost, rest upon this work." Chancellor MacCracken then led the way to the arch on the site of the Library building and performed the ceremony of breaking the ground for the building, turning up some earth with a gilded spade. The ceremonies were ended by the Rev. Dr. George Alexander, who pronounced the benediction. Appendix L "University Heights." Extract from the Annual Catalogue ot the University. In November of 1890 a movement was inaugurated to enlarge the work of the University by the securing of a new site for the University College, the School of Engi- neering, and the Graduate Seminary (in part). On July 1, 1 89 1, a site was secured, extending from Sedgwick Avenue to Aqueduct Avenue, immediately south of the new Uni- versity Avenue (placed on map of the city at the request of the University), which avenue is also called East 181st Street. The single tract included in the College Campus comprises over twenty-two acres. In addition to this is the boathouse site on the water front. Further, the University has purchased several adjoin- ing parcels in order to restrict the neighborhood against nuisances, and to secure sites for Fraternity Houses, pro- fessors' residences and the like. The general verdict of the public who visit University Heights places it second to no other University situation in the world. The following are the names of the subscribers for the new grounds and buildings here, who may be fairly designated " Founders of University Heights." Since a portion of the purchase price remains to be paid, it is expected to add other names to this roll. The individual amounts credited range from $100 upward. The benefac- tors marked (*) have died. Founders of University Heights. '5 1 Jay Gould, (*) Miss Helen Miller Gould, John Hall, D. D. William F. Havemeyer, Austin Abbott, LL. D. , George Alexander, D. D. William L. Andrews, J. D. Archbold, W. W. Atterbury, D. D. , Joseph S. Auerbach, A. M., '75 C. N. Hoagland, M. D. G. H. Houghton, D. D. '52 C. P. Huntington, John H. Inman, Samuel Inslee, (*) Frederic Baker, A. M. , Mrs. Frederic Baker, David Banks, Charles T. Barney, W. H. Beadleston, M. S.,(*)'62 John B. Ireland, A. M. Edward C. Bodman, Benjamin W. Bond, A. M., Robert Bonner, James Boyd, Charles B. Brush, Sc. D. , E. M. Bulkley, Charles Butler, LL. D. , Wm. Allen Butler, LL. D. Hugh N. Camp, (*) John Claflin, R. R. Crosby, A. M., (*) R. G. Dun, J. P. Duncan, S. B. Duryea, A. M., (*) Isaac S. Isaacs, A. M. '62 W. B. Isham, D. B. Ivison, '82 '67 D. Willis James, Morris K. Jesup, A. D. Juilliard, 43 34 '66 Charles R. Flint, A. A. Freeman, D. D., 42 7 4i '65 John S. Kennedy, "A. B. K.", J. W. C. Leveridge, Ed. H. Litchfield, A. M., Solomon Loeb, Morris Loeb, Ph. D., Alfred L. Loomis, M. D. , (*) •67 David H. MacAlpin, 43 Henry M. MacCracken, LL. D. J. M'Creery, F. W. Geissenhaimer, A. M.,'41 Robert Maclay, Wm. K. Gillett, A. M., '80 John MacVey, D. D., '60 6i H. W. T. Mali, '64 Fraxcis F. Marbury, (*) Elbert B. Monroe, (*) '53 Mrs. Elbert B. Monroe, J. Pierpoxt Morgan, John H. Moss, A. M., '48 John P. Munn, M. D., George Munro, William H. Nichols, A. M.,'70 H. D. Xoyes. M. D., '51 William S. Opdyke, A. M., '56 Louis Ottmann, Francis A. Palmer, Oliyer H. Payne, John E. Parsons, A. M., '48 Israel C. Pierson, Ph. D. , '6^ W. M. Polk, M. D., George B. Post, A. M. , '58 Robert Schell, Jacob H. Schiff, Hermann Schwab, Max Henry Seligman, '75 Elliott F. Shepard, (*) Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard, Lemuel Skidmore, A. M. , '61 William L. Skidmore, Samuel Sloan, John Sloane, Charles H. Snow, C. E. , '86 Joseph Stickxey, James Stokes, A. M., '63 Thomas Stokes, Ph. B. , '65 William L. Strong, William R. Syme, A. M. , '62 James Talcott, Wm. M. Taylor, D. D.,(*) Roderick Terry, D. D. , Charles L. Tiffany, John Reid, D. D., JohnM. Reid, D. D., W. J. Roome, Frank Russak, Jacob Russak, Samuel S. Sands, (*) F. L. Satterlee, M. D. '70 Henry Van Schaick, A. M., 43 '39 Jenkins Van Schaick, '75 Mrs. Mary B. Wheeler, '81 Wm. A. Wheelock, A. M., '43 Staxford White, A. M., '46 G. G. Williams. '65 Henry S. Wilsox. 62 "THE COLLEGE CLOSE." This Map of " The College Close," which forms the eastern side of University Heights, shows the position of the Residence Hall, the gift of which was announced october 19, 1895. ^3 yNEW YORK V/1IVER5ITY RESIDENCE HALL V^IVERSITY HEIGHTS. This first Residence Hall will be builded after the above design (Messrs. McKim, Mead & White, Architects), in time for the open- ing of the sixty fifth college year, September, 1896. The Hall is designed for 112 students and contains in its four stories, 48 studies, each with an open fireplace ; 64 bedrooms accommodating 112 bed- steads ; eight bathrooms ; 128 clothes-closets; besides halls, stair- ways and special entries to the studies. In the basement (which is largely above ground upon the east side) will be a Music Room, two Bicycle Rooms, two College Periodical Rooms, and other attractive appointments. - 6 4 The University Building upon Washington Square. The picture fronting this page presents a view of the new University Building at Washington Square as seen from the north side of the Square. The basements with the seven stories are leased for twenty-five years to the American Book Company, who also furnish heating, lighting and elevator service to the upper floors. All of the four upper floors, namely, the 8th, 9th, 10th and nth, it is hoped, may finally be utilized for University and educational work. Our immediate needs require the entire 10th story, except the Administrative Offices, for the School of Law, including the in- struction in law for non-matriculants, especially women of property or busi- ness, carried on under the auspices of the Legal Education Society. The Law School alone enrolls at this time between five hundred and six hundred students, while the classes of non-matriculants will add about one hundred more. The Chancellor's Office, which is also the Council Room, is upon the southwest corner of the 10th story, immediately over the place which this office occupied for more than sixty years in the old building. The entire 9th story could be at once utilized, if the University finances permitted, for the work of the School of Pedagogy and the Graduate School. A large proportion of the graduate courses in philosophy and comparative religion, history and political science, Oriental languages and the like, are given at Washington Square for the convenience of graduate students who, many of them, are members of theological schools or teachers in New York or Brooklyn or the neighboring cities of New Jersey. When better facilities of rapid transit are provided all this graduate work may possibly be removed to University Heights. 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