COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY INSTALLATION OF DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER AS THIRTEENTH PRESIDENT OCTOBER 12, I948 Order of Procession THE DELEGATES, THE UNIVERSITY COUNCIL, AND THE TRUSTEES WILL PROCEED TO THE PLATFORM FROM NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER LIBRARY. THE FACULTY PROCESSION WILL ENTER SOUTH COURT FROM THE EAST AND FROM THE WEST. The Columbia Daily Spectator, the official newspaper of the students of Columbia College, will present complimentary copies of its Special Edition to all guests after the exercises. Q ORDER OF EXERCISES i The National Anthem II Invocation THE REVEREND LOUIS WITHERBEE PITT, D.D., S.T.D. Visiting Chaplain of the University III Addresses ROBERT AUSTIN MILCH Chairman of the Student Board THOMSON COOK McGOWAN Chairman of the University Student Council FRANK WILLIAM CHAMBERS, A.B., LL.B. President of the Alumni Federation ROBERT LIVINGSTON SCHUYLER, Ph.D. Gouverneur Morris Professor of History IV Presentation of Charter and Keys FREDERICK COYKENDALL, LL.D. Chairman of the Trustees Inaugural Address DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER, LL.D. VI Stand, Columbia ! The audience is requested to rise and join in the song Mother, stayed on rock eternal, Crowned and set upon a height, Glorified by Light supernal— In thy radiance we see light. Torch, thy children's lamps to kindle, Beacon-star, to cheer and guide, Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater- Through the storms of Time abide ! II Mighty patriots, warriors, sages, Thou hast borne, a shining band; Teach thy sons in future ages Still to love their native land. Throned upon the hill where heroes Fought for Liberty, and died, Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater— Through the storms of Time abide ! in Honor, love, and veneration Crown f orevermore thy brow ! Many a grateful generation Hail thee as we hail thee now ! Till the lordly Hudson seaward Cease to roll his heaving tide, Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater- Through the storms of Time abide ! GILBERT OAKLEY WARD, 02 VII Benediction Recessional AVERT > DURST • LIST OF DELEGATES THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK William John Wallin, Chancellor OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVES FROM FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES 1088 University of Bologna Cesare Barbieri 1249 University of Oxford Sir Oliver Shewell Franks British Ambassador 1253 Universite de Paris Professor Daniel Mornet 1 284 University of Cambridge Professor Basil Willey 1 3 2 1 University of Florence Josef Vincent Lombardo 1386 Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat HUBERTUS STRUGHOLD 1425 University of Louvain Leon G. Rucquoi, Trustee 1432 Universite de Caen Andre Morize 1 44 1 Universite de Bordeaux John Boardman Whitton 1 45 1 University of Glasgow William Thomson 1453 University of Istanbul Professor Omer Celal Sarc 1496 University of Aberdeen Robert Morrison MacIver 1538 Universidad de Santo Domingo Julio Vega Batlle, Rector 1 55 1 Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Rafael de la Colina Charge d' Affaires of Mexico 1575 Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden William Ernest Hocking 1583 University of Edinburgh Robert Morrison MacIver 1 6 1 1 University of Santo Tomas Professor Mauro Mendez 1634 University of Utrecht Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck 181 1 University of Oslo WlLHELM VON MuNTHE AF MORGENSTIERNE Norwegian Ambassador 1 8 1 6 Universite de Gand Professor Frits P. Malschaert 1 82 1 McGill University F. Cyril James, Principal 1827 University of Toronto Sidney Smith, President 1834 Universite libre de Bruxelles Charles Frerichs President of Council 1837 National and Capodistrian Uni- versity of Athens George N. Papanicolaou 1 840 Universidad de la Republica (Montevideo) Pedro Larghero Ibarz 1 843 Queen's University Foster Kennedy 1850 University of Sydney Charles R. B. Blackburn 1870 University of New Zealand Honorable Sir David Smith Chancellor 1887 University of Allahabad W. B. Hayes 1889 Yenching University William Hung 1 898 National Peking University Ta-You Wu 1904 University of Leeds Guy Chapman 191 8 University of Cape Town Professor Isaac Schapera 1 9 1 9 American University at Cairo John Stothoff Badeau President 1934 Teheran University Hussein Ala Iranian Ambassador 1934 Universidade de Sao Paulo Ruy Bloem OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVES FROM UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES IN THE UNITED STATES 1636 Harvard University James Bryant Con ant President 1 693 College of William and Mary Robert De Blois Calkins 1 70 1 Yale University Charles Seymour, President 1 740 University of Pennsylvania Harold Stassen, President 1 746 Princeton University Harold Willis Dodds President 1764 Brown University Henry Merritt Wriston President 1766 Rutgers University Robert Clarkson Clothier President 1769 Dartmouth College John Sloan Dickey, President 1770 College of Charleston George Daniel Grice President 1773 Dickinson College William Wilcox Edel President 1776 Hampden-Sydney College Edgar Graham Gammon President 1780 Washington and Jefferson College James H. Case, Jr., President 1782 Washington College Gilbert Wilcox Mead President 1784 University of the State of New York, State Education Department Algo Donmyer Henderson 1 787 Franklin and Marshall College Theodore August Distler President 1787 University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Rufus Henry Fitzgerald 1789 Georgetown University Lawrence C. Gorman, SJ. President 1789 University of North Carolina Frank Porter Graham President 1 79 1 University of Vermont and State Agricultural College John Schoff Millis, President 1793 Williams College James Phinney Baxter, III President 1 794 Bowdoin College Kenneth C. M. Sills, President 1 795 Union College Carter Davidson, President 1 798 University of Louisville John W. Taylor, President 1 800 Middlebury College Samuel S. Stratton, President 1 80 1 University of Georgia Harmon White Caldwell President 1 801 University of South Carolina Norman Murray Smith President 1802 United States Military Academy Maxwell Davenport Taylor Major General, Superintendent 1 804 Ohio University John Calhoun Baker President 1807 Moravian College and Theological Seminary Raymond Samuel Haupert President 1 807 University of Maryland Harry Clifton Byrd, President 1 808 Mount St. Mary's College John Lawrence Sheridan President 1 809 Miami University Ernest Herman Hahne President 1 809 Saint Joseph's College Julia Hynes Christie 1 8 1 2 Hamilton College Thomas Brown Rudd President 181 3 Colby College Julius Seel ye Bixler President 1 8 1 5 Allegheny College Louis Paul Benezet, President 1 8 1 7 General Theological Seminary Dean Lawrence Rose 1 8 1 7 University of Michigan Alexander Grant Ruthven President 1 8 1 8 Saint Louis University Calvert Alexander, S.J. 1 819 Centre College of Kentucky Walter Alexander Groves President 1 8 1 9 Colgate University Everett Case, President 1 8 1 9 Norwich University Homer Levi Dodge, President 1 8 1 9 University of Cincinnati Raymond Walters, President 1 8 1 9 University of Virginia Colgate W. Darden, Jr. President 1820 Indiana University Herman B. Wells, President 1 82 1 Amherst College Charles Woolsey Cole President 1 82 1 George Washington University Cloyd Heck Marvin, President 1822 Hobart and William Smith Colleges Alan Willard Brown President 1823 Trinity College George Keith Funston President 1824 Kenyon College Gordon Keith Chalmers President 1824 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Livingston W. Houston President 1826 Furman University John Laney Plyler, President 1826 Lafayette College Ralph Cooper Hutchison President 1826 Western Reserve University Winfred George Leutner President 1829 Illinois College Frederick Chauncey Tanner 1830 Randolph-Macon College John Knox 1 8 3 1 Denison University Kenneth Irving Brown President 1 83 1 New York University Harry Woodburn Chase Chancellor 1 83 1 University of Alabama Knox Ide 1832 Gettsyburg College Henry W. A. Hanson President 1832 University of Richmond George Matthews Modlin President 1832 Wabash College James L. Clifford 1833 Haverf ord College Gilbert Fowler White President 1833 Kalamazoo College Donald Ray Belcher 1833 Oberlin College William Edwards Stevenson President 1833 University of Delaware W illiam S. Carlson, President 1834 Tulane University of Louisiana Rufus Carrollton Harris President 1834 Wheaton College John Kirkland Clark Trustee 1835 Albion College LeRoy Elwood Kimball 1835 Marietta College Dean W. Bay Irvine 1836 Alfred University M. Ellis Drake Acting President 1836 Emory University Goodrich Cook White President 1837 Davidson College John Rood Cunningham President 1837 DePauw University Clyde Everett Wildman President 1837 Knox College Frank Morrill Lay, Trustee 1837 Mount Holyoke College Roswell Gray Ham, President 1837 Muskingum College Robert N. Montgomery President 1838 Duke University Dean Paul Magnus Gross 1839 Boston University Daniel L. Marsh, President 1839 Loras College Edward J. Heffron 1839 Virginia Military Institute Richard Jaquelin Marshall Major General, Superintendent 1 840 Bethany College Dean Forrest H. Kirkpatrick 1 840 Saint iMary-of-the-Woods College Catherine H. Kacmarynski 1 84 1 For dham University Robert Ignatius Gannon, S. J. President 1 842 Mary Baldwin College Frank Bell Lewis, President 1842 Hollins College Bessie Carter Randolph President 1 842 Ohio Wesleyan University Herbert John Burgstahler Chancellor 1 842 The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina W. G. Thompson 1 842 University of Notre Dame Louis M. Kelley, C.S.C. 1842 Villanova College Francis Xavier N. McGuire President 1843 College of the Holy Cross John A. O'Brien, S.J. President 1 845 United States Naval Academy Timothy Francis Wellings Captain, U.S.N. 1 845 Wittenberg College Rees Edgar Tulloss, President 1 846 Beloit College Carey Croneis, President 1 846 Bucknell University Herbert Lincoln Spencer President 1 846 Carroll College Nelson Vance Russell President 1846 MacMurray College for Women Clarence Paul McClelland President 1846 Manhattanville College Professor Robert B. Morrissey 1 846 Mount Union College William H. McMaster, Jr. 1 846 University of Buffalo Samuel Paul Capen Chancellor 1 847 City College of New York Harry Noble Wright President 1 847 College of Mount Saint Vincent Sister Catherine Marie, Dean 1 847 Earlham College Edward G. Wilson 1 847 Otterbein College J. Gordon Howard, President 1 847 Rockf ord College Mary Ashby Cheek, President 1 847 State University of Iowa Virgil Melvin Hancher President 1 848 Geneva College Dean Allen C. Morrill 1 848 Grinnell College Murray DeWitt Welch Trustee 1848 Muhlenberg College Levering Tyson, President 1848 Southwestern at Memphis Charles Edward Diehl President 1 848 University of Mississippi Lamar Hardy 1 849 William Jewell College John B. Breckenridge 1850 Butler University Maurice O'Rear Ross President 1850 Capital University Earl Papke 1850 Heidelberg College William Terry Wickham President 1 850 Hiram College Paul Henry Fall, President 1850 Illinois Wesley an University Nate L. Crabtree 1850 University of Rochester Donald Wood Gilbert Provost 1850 University of Utah Albert Ray Olpin, President 1 85 1 Coe College Byron Sharpe Hollinshead President 1 85 1 Hope College Irwin Jacob Lubbers President 1 85 1 Milwaukee-Downer College Lucia Russell Briggs President 1 85 1 Northwestern University Franklyn Bliss Snyder President 1 85 1 Ripon College Clark George Kuebler President 1 85 1 Saint Joseph's College James A. V. Buckley, S.J. Dean 1 85 1 University of Minnesota Malcolm Macdonald Willey Vice President 1 85 1 Westminster College William Webster Hall, Jr. President 1852 Loyola College Francis Xavier Talbot, S.J. President 1852 Tufts College Leonard Carmichael President 1853 Antioch College Edward E. Booher 1853 Beaver College Raymon M. Kistler, President 1 85 3 Cornell College Russell D. Cole, President 1853 Manhattan College Bona venture Thomas, F.S.C. President 1853 Monmouth College James Harper Grier President 1853 Washington University Arthur Holly Compton Chancellor 1853 University of Florida Joseph Hillis Miller President 1 854 Hamline University Charles Nelson Pace President Emeritus 1854 Lincoln University Horace Mann Bond, President 1 854 Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn Harry Stanley Rogers President 1855 Elmira College William S. A. Pott, President 1855 Michigan State College John Alfred Hannah President 1856 Albright College Harry Victor Masters President 1856 Lake Erie College Helen Dalton Bragdon President 1856 Niagara University Francis Louis Meade, CM. President 1856 Saint Lawrence University Eugene Garrett Bewkes President 1856 Seton Hall College William F. Furlong Vice President 1857 Lake Forest College Ernest Amos Johnson President 1858 Iowa State College Charles Edwin Friley President 1858 Susquehanna University George M. B. Smith, President 1858 University of the South Niles Trammell, Trustee 1859 Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Edwin Sharp Burdell Director 1859 Louisiana State University Troy Houston Lieut. General, Comptroller 1 859 Saint Bonaventure College Vincent E. Devine, O.F.M. Dean 1859 Whitman College Winslow Samuel Anderson President i860 Aug ustana College Conrad J. I. Bergendoff President i860 Bard College Edward C. Fuller, President 1 860 Simpson College Edwin Edgar Voigt, President 1860 Wheaton College J. Laurence Kulp 1 86 1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Karl Taylor Coivipton President 1 8 6 1 University of Washington Raymond Bernard Allen President 1 86 1 Vassar College Sarah Gibson Blanding President 1863 Boston College William L. Keleher, SJ. President 1863 Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science Milton Stover Eisenhower President 1863 La Salle College G. Paul, F.S.C. President 1 863 University of Massachusetts Bernard H. Smith 1 864 Bates College Charles Franklin Phillips President 1864 Swarthmore College John William Nason President 1 864 University of Denver Chancellor James F. Price 1865 Atlanta University Rufus Early Clement President 1865 Cornell University Edmund Ezra Day, President 1865 Fisk University Charles Spurgeon Johnson President 1865 Lehigh University Martin Dewey Whitaker President 1865 University of Kansas Virgil A. Hower 1 865 University of Kentucky L. Duncan Stokes 1 865 University of Maine Arthur Andrew Hauck President 1 865 Worcester Polytechnic Institute Wat Tyler Cluverius President 1866 Carleton College Laurence McKinley Gould President 1 866 College of Wooster Howard Lowry, President 1 866 Lebanon Valley College Clyde Alvin Lynch, President 1866 Thiel College William F. Zimmerman President 1 866 University of New Hampshire Arthur S. Adams, President 1 867 Cedar Crest College Dale Hendry Moore President 1 867 Drew University Fred Garrigus Holloway President 1867 Howard University MORDECAI WYATT JOHNSON President 1 867 Morgan State College Martin D. Jenkins, President 1867 Talladega College Adam Daniel Beittel President 1 867 University of Illinois George Dinsmore Stoddard President 1867 West Virginia University Irvin Stewart, President 1868 University of California Joseph Perkins Chamberlain 1868 Wayne University David Dodds Henry, President 1868 Wells College Richard Leighton Greene President 1868 Western Maryland College Lowell Skinner Ensor President 1869 Pennsylvania College for Women Paul Russell Anderson President 1869 Purdue University Frederick Lawson Hovde President 1 869 University of Nebraska Richard C. Patterson, Jr. 1869 Ursinus College Norman Egbert McClure President 1869 Wilson College Dean Margaret C. Disert 1869 Woodstock College Joseph C. Glose, S. J. 1870 Hunter College of the City of New York George Nauman Shuster President 1870 Ohio State University William A. Dougherty 1870 Saint John's University John A. Flynn, CM. President 1 870 Stevens Institute of Technology Harvey Nathaniel Davis President 1870 Syracuse University William Pearson Tolley Chancellor 1870 Wellesley College Mildred McAfee Horton President 1 87 1 Chestnut Hill College Alice M. Corcoran 1 87 1 Smith College Herbert Davis, President 1 87 1 University of Akron Hezzleton E. Simmons President 1 87 1 University of Arkansas Frederick Lee Liebolt, M.D. 1872 Saint Peter's College Vincent J. Hart, S. J., President 1872 University of Oregon John M. MacGregor 1872 University of Toledo Wilbur Wallace White President 1872 Vanderbilt University George A. Sloan, Trustee 1872 Virginia Polytechnic Institute Milton K. Cumming, Jr. 1873 College of Notre Dame of Maryland Mrs. Thomas J. Dobbins, Jr. 1874 Colorado College William Hanson Gill President 1874 Colorado School of Mines Ben Hutchinson Parker President 1874 Rose Polytechnic Institute Donald Bishop Prentice 1874 Saint Olaf College Dean Harold S. Carlson 1 874 University of Nevada Tom P. Walker 1875 Park College M. M. Millsap, Trustee 1876 Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas Henry Reese, III 1876 Grove City College Weir Carlyle Ketler President 1876 Johns Hopkins University Isaiah Bowman, President 1876 Juniata College Calvert N. Ellis, President 1876 University of Colorado Robert Lawrence Stearns President 1878 Duquesne University Francis P. Smith, C.S.Sp. President 1879 University of Southern California Fred Dow Fagg, Jr., President 1 880 Case Institute of Technology T. Keith Glennan, President 1880 Marquette University Charles G. Wilber 1 88 1 Drake University Henry Gadd Harmon President 1 88 1 Newark College of Engineering Allan Reginald Cullimore President 1 88 1 University of Connecticut Albert Nels Jorgensen President 1 88 1 Yankton College Harrison F. Durand 1882 University of South Dakota Herbert S. Houston 1883 Houghton College Marvin W. Goldberg 1883 Jamestown College Howard James Bell, Jr. President 1883 University of North Dakota John M. Hancock 1883 Wagner College Walter Consuelo Langsam President 1884 Mississippi State College for Women Burney Lynch Parkinson President 1884 Temple University Robert Livingston Johnson President 1885 Bryn Mawr College Katharine Elizabeth McBride President 1885 Georgia Institute of Technology Blake Ragsdale Van Leer President 1885 Goucher College Otto F. Kraushaar, President 1885 Macalester College Charles Joseph Turck President 1885 Stanford University Alvin Christian Eurich Acting President 1885 University of Arizona Robert Logan Nugent Vice President 1886 Jewish Theological Seminary of America Simon Greenberg Acting President 1886 University of Chattanooga David Alexander Lockmiller President 1887 Catholic University of America Patrick J. McCormick, Rector 1887 Clark University Howard Bonar Jefferson President 1887 Occidental College Arthur Gardiner Coons President 1887 Pomona College Professor John H. Gleason 1888 College of Puget Sound Edgar N. Eisenhower 1888 University of Scranton J. Eugene Gallery, S.J. President 1888 Utah State Agricultural College Dean Daryl Chase 1889 Agnes Scott College Mrs. John McKnight 1889 University of Idaho Leland L. Chapman 1890 Keuka College Katherine Gillette Blyley President 1 890 Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College Henry Garland Bennett President 1890 State College of Washington Edward R. Murrow 1 890 University of Oklahoma George Lynn Cross, President 1 89 1 Drexel Institute of Technology James Creese, President 1 89 1 Meredith College Carlyle Campbell, President 1 89 1 University of Chicago Robert Maynard Hutchins Chancellor 1 89 1 Woman's College of the University of North Carolina Walter Clinton Jackson Chancellor 1892 Illinois Institute of Technology Professor J. Henry Rushton 1892 Millsaps College Wharton Green 1 892 Rhode Island State College Carl Raymond Woodward President 1893 American University Paul F. Douglass, President 1893 Hood College Andrew G. Truxal, President 1 893 Montana State College Henry E. Gardiner 1 893 Montana State University Russell Denison Niles 1893 Randolph-Macon Woman's College Theodore Henley Jack President 1893 Upsala College Professor M. A. Nordgaard 1894 University of Tulsa Clyde E. Blocker 1896 Adelphi College Paul Dawson Eddy, President 1 896 Bradley University David B. Owen, President 1896 Yeshiva University Samuel Belkin, President 1 897 Trinity College (Washington, D. C.) Ellen A. Ganey 1 899 College of Saint Elizabeth Sister Marie Jose Byrne President 1 899 Simmons College Bancroft Beatley, President 1900 Carnegie Institute of Technology Robert Ernest Doherty President 1 90 1 Rosary College Anne Lawless 1 90 1 Sweet Briar College Martha B. Lucas, President 1 90 1 Texas State College for Women Louis Herman Hubbard President 1903 James Millikin University George P. Byrne 1904 College of New Rochelle Francis William Walsh President 1905 Juilliard School of Music William Schuman, President 1907 University of Hawaii Professor Ben Norris 1908 Oklahoma College for Women Mrs. Jed Johnson 1 909 University of Redlands DWAYNE ORTON 1 9 1 1 Connecticut College Rosemary Park, President 191 1 Reed College Joseph Dorfman 191 1 Skidmore College Henry Thomas Moore President 191 1 Southern Methodist University Umphrey Lee, President 191 2 Polytechnic Institute (P.R.) Ronald C. Bauer 912 Rice Institute William V. Houston President 915 Seton Hill College William G. Ryan, President 915 Marvwood College John Rzilly 916 Saint Joseph's College for Women William T. Dillon, President 918 New Jersey College for Women Dean Margaret T. Corwin 920 Immaculata College Vincent Leo Burns, President 922 Rosemont College Robert Sullivan, O.S.A. Chaplain 923 Good Counsel College Sister Mary Dolores President 926 Scripps College Frederick Hard, President 926 Sarah Lawrence College Harold Taylor. President 929 University of Kansas Citv Henry Goddard Leach 1930 Brooklyn College Harry David Gideonse President 1930 Institute for Advanced Studv Professor Edward M. Earle 193 1 Notre Dame College of Staten Island Professor Virginta M. Staudt 1932 Bennington College Frederick Burkhardt President 1935 Dunbarton College of Holy Cross Mrs. Richard A. Di Lore to 1935 Hofstra College John Cranford Adams President 1937 Saint Bernardine of Siena College Mark Kennedy, President 193- Queens College Margaret Kiely Acting President 1946 New York State University Oliver C. Carmichael DELEGATES FROM THE SOCIETIES 1743 American Philosophical Society Luther Pfahler Eisenhart 1776 Phi Beta Kappa Frank Aydelotte, Senator 1847 American Medical Association Louis Hopewell Bauer, Trustee 1 848 American Association for the Advancement of Science Edmund Ware Sixxott, President 1852 American Geographical Society Robert McAllister Lloyd, Treasurer 1852 American Society of Civil Engineers Malcolm Pirxie 1863 National Academy of Sciences Alfred Newton Richards, President 1 87 1 American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Augustus Braun Kixzel, Director 1876 American Chemical Society Marstox Taylor Bogert 1 876 American Library Association Paul North Rice 1880 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Harold Vinton Coes 1 882 American Association of University Women Althea Kratz Hottel, President 1884 American Historical Association Kenneth Scott Latourette, President 1884 American Institute of Electrical Engineers Johx L. Callahan 1 885 American Economic Association Joseph H. Willits 1886 Society of the Sigma Xi George Alfred Baitsell 1888 American Mathematical Society Johx Robert Klixe, Secretary 1 888 Geological Society of America William Otis Hotchkiss, Treasurer 1889 American Academy of Political and Social Science Erxest Mixor Pattersox, President 1 892 American Psychological Association Walter Richard Miles 1 898 National Institute of Arts and Letters Douglas Moore, President 1 899 American Physical Society Karl Kelchner D arrow, Secretary 1 904 American Academy of Arts and Letters Paul Manship, President 1906 Botanical Society of America Henry Allan Gleason, President 1 906 New York Association for the Blind Philip Skinner Platt, Executive Director 1908 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Albert Broadus Newman, President 191 1 American Scandinavian Foundation Lithgow Osborne, President 191 2 Institute of Radio Engineers Alfred Norton Goldsmith 1 9 1 5 American Association of University Professors Ralph Ebner Himstead, General Secretary 1 9 1 5 Association of American Colleges Kenneth Irving Brown, President 1 9 1 5 Mathematical Association of America Roger Arthur Johnson 191 8 American Council on Education George Frederick Zook, President 192 1 American Council of Learned Societies William Clyde De Vane, Chairman 192 3 Social Science Research Council Albert T. Poffenberger 1 93 1 American Institute of Physics Henry Askew Barton, Director 1932 Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences S. Paul Johnston, Director THE PRESIDENTS OF COLUMBIA UNDER THE ROYAL CHARTER 1 754-1 763 SAMUEL JOHNSON 1 763-1 775 MYLES COOPER 1 77 1 -1 772 CHARLES INGLIS, Acting 1 7 7 5 - 1 7 8 1 BENJAMIN MOORE, Acting UNDER THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK 1 784-1 787 The College was administered by the professors in rotation UNDER THE CHARTER FROM THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK I 787-I 801 WILLIAM SAMUEL JOHNSON 1 80 1 -I 80 1 CHARLES HENRY WHARTON l801-l8ll BENJAMIN MOORE I 8 I I - 1 8 2 9 WILLIAM HARRIS I 829-I 842 WILLIAM ALEXANDER DUER I 842-I 849 NATHANIEL FISH MOORE I 849-I 864 CHARLES KING 1 864-I 889 FREDERICK AUGUSTUS PORTER BARNARD I 89O-1 90 1 SETH LOW 1 902-1 945 NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER 1 945-1 948 FRANK DIEHL FACKENTHAL, Acting CHRONOLOGY 1 754 Charter of King's College, October 3 1 1755 Grant of a portion of King's Farm as a site for the College by "The Rector and Inhabitants of the City of New York in Communion of the Church of England" 1756 Corner-stone of first college building laid by the Governor of the Province 1767 Faculty of Medicine founded in King's College. Medical instruction transferred 181 3 to College of Physicians and Surgeons (1807) which in i860 became the Medical School of Columbia College; separate cor- porate existence terminated 1891 1770 Grant of land from the City of New York as an addition to the college site 1776 College building requisitioned first by the Committee of Safety and then by the British Army for use as a military hospital 1777 Instruction suspended 1784 Establishment by the State Legislature of Columbia College under the Regents of the University of the State of New York 1787 New charter of Columbia College from the Legislature restoring to it the corporate rights and property of King's College 1 8 10 Revised charter from the Legislature 1 8 1 4 Grant of the Elgin Botanic Garden (now Rockefeller Center) to Colum- bia College by the State of New York 1849 Affiliation of Bellevue Hospital (1763) with College of Physicians and Surgeons 1857 Purchase of the 49th Street site from the Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, and removal of the College to that location 1858 School of Law established (Professorship in Law established 1793; abol- ished 1799) 1 864 School of Mines established; divided into Schools of Mines, Engineering, Chemistry, and Architecture, under Faculty of Applied Science, 1896; School of Engineering, 1929 1 880 Faculty of Political Science established 1 890 Faculty of Philosophy established 1 89 1 Union Theological Seminary (1836) completed an agreement of coop- eration with Columbia College 1 891 University Council established 1892 Faculty of Pure Science established 1 892 Purchase of Morningside Heights site from New York Hospital 1896 School of Architecture established (beginning as a department of the School of Mines in 1 881, it was made an independent school in 1902) 1896 The Trustees authorized the use of the name Columbia University (cor- porate name changed by court order, 191 2) 1 897 University moved to Morningside Heights 1898 Teachers College (1889) included in the educational system of the Uni- versity 1900 Barnard College (1889) included in the educational system of the University 1900 Summer Session established 1904 College of Pharmacy (1829) included in the educational system of the University 1904 Extension Teaching established; University Extension, 1920; School of General Studies, 1947 1 9 10 Courses in Optometry established 1 9 1 2 School of Journalism established ( Graduate School of Journalism, 1935) 191 3 Institute of Arts and Sciences established 1 9 1 6 School of Business established 191 7 School of Dentistry established. Merged 1923 with New York College of Dental and Oral Surgery (1905) to form School of Dental and Oral Surgery; merged with Faculty of Medicine, 1945 192 1 DeLamar Institute of Public Health established; renamed School of Public Health, 1945 1926 School of Library Service established as successor to New York State Library School ( 1 889) and Library School ( 191 1 ) of New York Public Library. (School of Library Economy of Columbia College, 1 887-1 889) 1926 School of Tropical Medicine (1924) of the University of Puerto Rico affiliated with Columbia University 1928 Opening of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center by alliance (1921) with Presbyterian Hospital (1868). Now includes Babies Hospital, Van- derbilt Clinic, Sloane Hospital, Neurological Institute, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Hospital, Washington Heights District Health and Teaching Center, and Francis Delafield Hospital 1937 School of Nursing (1892) of the Presbyterian Hospital became the De- partment of Nursing of the Faculty of Medicine 1940 New York School of Social Work (1898) included in the educational system of the University 1946 School of International Affairs established 1946 Russian Institute established 1946 Yale-Columbia Southern Station (astronomical observatory) established in cooperation with Yale University at the University of the Witwaters- rand, Johannesburg, South Africa 1948 School of Dramatic Arts and School of Painting and Sculpture estab- lished 1948 East Asian Institute and Institute of European Studies established