New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-28
Tur COMMENCEMENT SEASON

THE COMMENCEMENT SEAoON
npvr.T OF THE POTTER PARTY AT UNION
aur .NrI-porTER ALUMNI ELECT TRosihh D. =
,,pcr MAJoRITY-THE FINANCIAL VoNDi,O-
OF THE coLLEGE-sENTIMENr A@oN"
GRADUATES.
TRY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIpuNE'l
lima o7-The announcement MADE
Co The newspapers that the differences between '"0
.t,or, and members OF the faculty OF onion
Cnroro would be formally brought 10 inc
notice of the Alumni at their annual meeting ecu
hing IN Schenectady to-day, when the meeuhg was N'
an unusually large number OF graduates m
,noso present were Judges Earle ana IAN
forth Henry K Piersou. Chancellor OF inc UnNo
L., ~ covernor Hoffman Howard Potter, Adu'ahC
eneral townsend Professor Henry Coppee' OF Lenisn
Ir,verslty David Murray. Secretary OF tho Boar" VI
xeseuts Speaker Patterson, OF Troy, Asse"o'' ~
Iparler of Albany. Colonel David Z. hopihso", -
1,lm,ra. and ex-Assemblyman Rhodes o, ~
rrhe meeting Of the Alumni Association was neiu " ~
,,ot JuAre Earle president of the assOclat'oh' pro
,aA The time was spent until noon ~
,ransaeting routine business. Among INC ue -,
NJ the year are william Tracy ana oi"IAs , yuo
NewYork Judge W. W. Campbell oi o"ia'
srhomas Allen of ST. Louis, ana LOUIS " 80. IL
ocheser They were the subject of appropriate euio
Al noon when according to me m aeCt trustee
,saocisfon the time had arrived TO e,eo' ~es held
,h coiIege chapel which the meeting was Son ne
was crowded with Alumni Dr. "a DP Potiers
administration. was placed III III nomnins Camp,
In tho choice OF the Potter men,, VA, Was
rnsoned ny Hugh Mcclellan OF Troy Harvey hns'
~ Troy an cxtrIstee, seconded the nomination % NJ
TeaiSeTsonhaugh and Henry r. Rierson tnat vi liz M.
SamptL Judge Danforth also secOnuou nl, nraac"ded
3b ind SO much as referred he existing unpeash
ness in tine college but be TOOK occasion 80, ,Tsee who
had shown himself IN the Puon np PHI Ills re-.
9r Feaiherstonhaugh were heartily appaudea py tn
Potter faction The Dani1ns onea for one hour.
The result an oyerw helmmg oeiv Wboie MN.
her of votes cast 1876 For George FeaheIstonhausn'
l27; for Douglas Campbell. oS. =, rocres. the Board
of trustees were also in session The most lmPor w
business that before them was tne PotIer
Sscased ON the first ballot Howard Potter had elga'
votes John I. Hoffman eight and haiisSn receyrd
one Votes ana was This another victory iEr
the Potter party as Howard toter Inv w soard
- Directly after the alumni 81, nad r e,eGuea
Or , aeath EasrG Of trustees whom they had
elected in previous years. David C. ROBINSON Ino1 mas
Aiumni meeting. Mr.. Robinson, VINO i acteu
a spokesman, stated that had the ns nngR
& .,ump trnstees to present statement at this meet
Sng showing the receipts aud expenditures Glus .no
mast fen Wears on account OF various college lhlus
Inc alumni trustees had discharged the duty iMlposea
upon them, ana had been ao 10 lnsPT az coae
f al ' "a 1rn"red am exhibt which they would submit
10 tue alumni, but their associate trustees uesdu AT
,nnre ti,ne 10 examine before 1t was preseh'cu
some debate il was agreed to adjourn the altlui neI
Ing mill p. the undersl andng Delns t ta mr."
report would then be presented. 1Ie A ~. aDnrs Inn
ceeded to Memorial Hall and partooK Oh inc annu" ~
Der. -. - .ho ,oto professor Isaac
w Jackson Of the college, made by Launi In SiiX
wa ur, ID 10 college by the Kappa Apd oOel'S
Orlando Meade of Albany, made lhe pftsel ~
nnd Ex-Governor Holman replied III PENAL =. naTks 70
lege. taking occasion III the course u us ,ocH the
make a ferveut plea for harmony, Az a SoOA tHo
alumni a. ain and the report above reerIvu W US
mo the mast ten yerrs the excess OF eNpehultur
over receipts has amounted 10 sSIo49 90. ~ ' fnt
10 ths, IN case ,ho oe comnittee tbiuk they
fairly may be- as Of income, is tuftBef
Expenditures receipts OF @9t9SI % or IA III ne
wo1,s tue college LAS run behind AT the rae VI
EI5Ot0 year Tor The past Ten years. Doha'iohs
Tor permanent investments during l1o on IN
years have amounted 10 9ZZl,o9o; uoIalo1S 10 Gnns
ISL OF donations for general purposes Sli1OZo'
Following the presentation OF the report Oh which
Abe above nellres constitute the e4iVue P bed by
long de0aie, IN when IL was ,i no' ~ the
fhe friends President that large portion %
expenditures IN question were cal5eH .! o and
Point improvements; were incurred III pay M va bTid
sssesnets building houses laying Out stiects ~
dng docks e.c The debate ended by the 9uopiSnI -
the folio resolution offered by Dohg.aS5 10 the
Resolred the report just presented ue o
BOard OF trustees, TO be sHpleleHtoI oy 80 tne caac-
Ing present financial condition oil lhe same IN
lei and property ana the increase o. inc s
ihe melting then adjourned THIS report OF
the Board of Trustees, Ia the aDsen1dd
q; specfc directions, VIII not De presenteu
until The next meeting OF tile alumni IN Juue' 1888
The wish aud expectation is general tonight ta before
that there may DC end OF the present dhcltles
Fx-oyrnor Hoffman said This AFTERNOON tna Lac was fO
she fullest investigation OF the matters III dispute 10 the
end thai justice might hc done TO All concerned AZ I1'
nfteInOon meeting OF the Board OF trustees Cd4les
Mott resigned ana Howard Potter was elected III hi
place me alumni elected Judge DanIorth president U
their association Tor the ensuing year.