New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-06
REUNION or COLCMBLA ALUMNI
ENTERTAINED WITH LECTURE by PROFESSOR
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ENTERTAINED WITH 4 LECTURE ny PROFESSOR
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Graduates of Columbia young venerable and
middle aged. entered with equally hearty z,si
into tho social reunion last evening
in the college Library Building.
The occasion the FIRST OF ssres which It Is de-
signed hold the college bring the graduates into
a closer acq Isntance with their college AM It's develop
ment. One Of the large loctare rooms
had been prepared for tho gucsts
and shortly before o'clock Professor Charles f. CHau
der who had consented to deliver
short address, was introduced to the
two hundred graduates who pres
emit HE subject was " PhotU-Mechanical Processes "
lie drew brief outline OF the processes which
have in for last seventy years for produc-
ing pictures directly by the aid of ngnt
"Curiousy enough" ssid Professor Chandler in tho
course OF his remarks MIR Woodbury.. the dooyerer
OF the first and also OF the latest process Of
reproduction, died "nly month or 50 ago IN England.
almost pauper, tnOngh the inventor OF two beautiful
methods. His carrier process nAs not gone out OF use
Tor large pictures they are sun greatly usrd Tor 10
Illustrations II was Ivy This gelatin process OF Wood
bury that Professor Henry Draper nrst obtained aud
ionish the word his prints of the
solar specra taken thrnuRh telescope by the aid Of
sun ITSELF without any "ut"Ius agency to assist
Some specimens OF co0red photographs ia various
tnts and shades were then shown and aiteGward
examples OF the Alhrrype process invented by Albert
of Munich suppose SAID The professor. " tnnt
ing many which have you all the way from IS to
500 apiece. Now. don't let disturb your peace of
reality nothing but Albertyncs worth perhaps
10 15 cents copy. They are Turned out
at the rate of two or tn hundred an hour and my
self usually tell AN etching from good Alberyp.
ArtOtyprs too are 80 similar, that nobody can make
difference between Them. though believe, the
patent says there Is "A difference. Artotypes can be
printed on silk or sittD, however and in way can
conveniently decorate the nsdes OF our hate, n we
wish. with the likeness ~ some prominent man or
favorite Presidential candidate. IndOtypes later
process There IL enterprslng travelling theatrical
company West, which has "A negative plate taken
every night by eectric light OF It's AUDIENCE.
This they send al to this city, and In few days
back linotype picture-whlch thSY present
10 each OF their new audiences al the next town Photo
eectrOtypes and International copyright enable
American illustrated papers To give us carly repro
duct Of all the pictures that appear in the European
papers"
AT the end of Professor Chambers remarks the Al
umni adjourned TO the Library TO examine the inter
erting collections stored there and to the Observatory.
where Professor Reos aud his assistants enter
tanned old graduates Of 1880 and 40 with
prcps through the equatorial telescope lately
given 10 the college AfeTward the visitors went to the
basement, where "A luncheon served. Among the
alumni prrsent were Professor Henry Dr-ler, J.w isr
per. George " Peil DR.. Reginald II. sayre Robert c.
Cornell Professor H. "a. Boy eten, DR. George l.. Pea
body, j. !. GOOd VIII, Henry L. Mills f. X. A. seigman.
James Russell While Gerard Bcekman and L. Henry