New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-10
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
ITS ANNUAL CoNvoCAT1oY AT ALBANY.
REPORTS FROM TILE COLLEGES SHOW UNUSUAL
PROSPERITY CURTIS'S
ADDRESS.

Albany, July 9-TEc twenty -elrhth annual cohVo
cation Of the University Of the state OF NeW orN was
opened at II O'Clock today in the senate Chamber
by Chancellor George william Curtis. The report OF
the executive committee read hy President j. NJ
Taylor Of Va>,ar College, chairman. The morning
session was devoted to paper on The Teaching oi
History in Academies and Colleges read by Professor
Lucy NJ salmon. of Vas,ar College. About seventy
five members OF the cOnvocation are present.
The afternoon session devoted almost entirely
10 brief oral reports Of colleges PRESIDENT Low VI
Columbia. spoke Of the condition Of the institution
Of which he is the head and told of It's gradual ucVeI-
opmcnt from a colleg, to a university. The reports
from al the colleges shoH them to be IN cond'uoh
Of unprecedented prosI Gritty. The report oil tNo col
mittee on neurology presented by Dr. a. u. Wat
hins. assistant secretary Oi the university
The chancellor. address was in part as follows
Tho highest tribute to the Board Of Regents IS the
party vote vet a. the door Of their council chamber
party vansheS and politics disappear. p'Iy n o ,%t
the Roard OF Regents of the university j t'o D's
important official body In tll> state clc, u! ~,
strictly party vote which in It's acon Is v m,i.IH
that for that reason it, action Is less ec'eh' or '
nnf notwithstanding the dignity Of rs origin, tho
character OF It's regents and the constantly incic''ln!
Importance OF H. service, the university ild' l'ms
been and still l., .ineuary unknown 10 INC Erv''
multitude Of our fellow citizens.
When the last gun Of the Revolution was fred TIC
tough Old Governor OF New York. George clinton Who
lruI fired a many ~ them. saw that me MOO
system Of education IN the state wa- PROSTATE Ih'To
was no public school system. The plNai" NcH"pl'
laugui-hcd. and the only college, blehicd hy name
evil augry III" of Liberty. had been 'f-''t
during the war. The Governor Immediately nFf''i
the Legislature 70 consider practically the WNVal di
announcement Of schools. The Legislature promptly
r., bonded and I'm the first session after the war m
regent, Of the university Wcr' incorporated a. IN"
governing body Of Kings College. which was to lf
revived under the name OF Columbia, ana ~ .SIA
other colleges On" regents mgEt ch"Ne {" '-th'"h
Three wears later. in l7-7 the Legislature authorized
q revision of the Jaw. IN" act created the university
substantially a. II no" exists
have heard II aid that liberal education d(r'S h"t
promote success in lifr. y chimney sweep might >y
80. Without education De- could gain me chiHI'y
top poor little blackamoor! hrandi-h his hi'ish ana
sing nis II escape from SCOT u sunshine. hut
the ideal the worth ~ th" remark
mat ii may De attained without liberal cdu'ail"n
II the accumulation ~ money lie the staidhU We
niu-t admit that a man might make a fortune H.
hundred different WAYS without education. ! n
dnubio,ilv Ezra Cornell ard Matthew \aN,ar dd not
60 10 college and they succeeded IN He But tlcsr
success. what wa, 10 Where do you SEC II now
surely not m their nchcS but In the respect that
tcudcrly chcri>e- their memory, because knowing rs
mc.tiWahlc valu" they gave b. other the opportunity
81 education Which had been denied - them L" ~
make their lofty spirit thc spirit OF ~" university
Remembering that the great ministry OF rducat0r j.
not 10 make the body NOR" comfortable. but the soul
happicr may The university in all - departments
and activities cherish and promote education not for
it, lower uses. hut for IL higher Influences.