New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-20
MEMORIAL TO THE MAYOR,
ASKED TO AID COLUMBIA COLLEGE.
AN ELOQUENT APPEAL FROM THE rREIDEN'
OF THE ALUMNI.

| AN ELOQUENT APPEAL FROM THE PRESIDENT
| OF THE ALUMNI.
The following memorial was presented to Mayor
| Grant yesterday:
On behalf Of the alumni and other friends OF Colum-
bia College in the city Of New York have the honor
residents aud taxpaye, of this city. respectfully re
qucsting your Honor and the Board of street opening
posed site of the college lying between ehundred-
and sixteenth and one hundred and twentieth sts Am
| sterdam ave. and the boulevard. ,
Since the opening Of Onchundrcd and nineteenth St
Vas projected few year. ago, the %Loe situation on
removed In any event, and II the property 'lon pe
taken BY Columbia as Your memSrhe'I i, rnn be
Preserved intact there seems to be every rea.o ~
the project should be abandoned In the iners, Of
ADJACENT propet holders no less than lor inc "s"'
1t Is imperative that the college shall remove from
It's present location at the earliest practicable noinch
The site at Forty ninth and fifcth stS Madison ana
Fourth aves which was intended TO be btt "ai ,
Iolary one has become wholly inadequate, 70 say
nothing Of the great and increasing dNture"hSe
due to It's proximity to the terminus oil one oi ,ho
Tie ste at One o. ndr, snG u xtccntist and Am
seluatave wa, chosen after careful ana oAH,unu
Le lae permanent abiding place 81 prsu amd tbn
OF learning such as TINS city ought 10 p,'s ~, ,u c M,
mnnity With u9animt "a" rarely witnessed but its
availability depends very largely. II not altogether
lie incrseccd by streets it, value for the pIrpo>" Of
the college will be seriously impaired that Us plr
II the college should be- prevented from obtaining thl'
site, il would seem as IT, t. AVOID d'in"ga,i2 IN,
driven from the community in which II vas born. II,
which II has lived and laborcd for nearly century and
half and with which II has always been closely ana
honorahly Identified, ana 10 the good OF when u has
con st1nty contributed.
such an issue could but be regarded ms public, no
less than an academic calamity. The extended in
tcrc,t and comment which the proposed removal has
the project is everywhere regarded one which
most dccpy concerns the ci,y itself. said dis
tingshcd citizen Of NrwNork. With reference Ia this
very matter We desire 81 add 10 the glory OF TINS
city. IT. growth in wealth 1, m1tcr Of pride 10
If New York will never rest upon ~ growth In wealth
There must De something supcrldlcd 10 make il a
n cultivated and refining influence In the higher "iuca
ton in the arts and science. In philosophy, In that
universal learning which makes citizens 81 the
world. To take away from this CITY what think has
leen the chief element OF il, progress In everything
proud. to take II away from this city would, II my
mind. be crime II would be to say nat hat nc n,
citizens the idea Of the greater eory which belong.
10 hnowlcdcc TO honor. 10 the civlllzing arts OF
yonr mcm'riali,ts arc graduates Of Columbia Col
lcge IN H. valious departments. graduates Of other
moved by love Of their alma mater: and oil Of them
nctuaod by that civic pride which at once the
and th4r plea t. Your Honor is that you viii exert
your commanding influence f" aid them In setting
plateau which was early cons~cratci by Tho blood
of revolutionary mnrtvrs 10 the - dyi llcrty
f"it ~ Columbia College to N" service ~ those
truths. with mt knowledge and rcv"r"nc" for which
10 people can become or remain grcni. nnr nv IRE"
government endure. = II. VAN AMRlNGE.
President of the Association Of the Alumni Of
Columbia College
The memorial had appended 70 II 1900 signatures
many Of which have been publ .hcd I'm thc," columns
from time 10 time. some Of those secur>d most
recc tly arc
Cornelius Vanderbilt. Y VI. Ovphari. John lIigclow
10 Grand T.. Cannon. ". H. Tillnchn-t. the Key.
Henry Motfct. TIE Il; pr. u. y. Iurrcl. william IL
Grace. samuel Tho-rc &. i. Mckim, Robert iior'
William Scinway. Arson lhrlpe stoke. llr. !. Ml'h
al Pr1ddcn. Chauuocy VI. pcp"w, sidney I1li N,
Robert Harris. Charles :. Farhlh. Herman oclrth~.
Daniel Talmagc. Robert GOcct. Hugh y. camp li'nrN
+. spauldine. C. &. Hraman William IL. appleton
Henry T.. Rowland Morris X. Jc,up \. X. Mar
Doimugll. Walter Danro7rh +. Hopkinsou smith
stanford white James ". Alexander Richard :. ~,
Kenyon Cox. oliver Hartman. Colonel p X lam.
George Blagdcn. jacob I.ulpert; X C.; N@dlins,r'
Henry Parish. william Pous, Fmnllin Bartlett.
f. Winchester Donald. Dr. r. =. Dennis q. ". rp"ir.
r. spencer Aldnch Edwin could. Alfred T.. Marlins.
II " NcWilams. william ". AWouN. George Wad
dngton. Dr. Ecbcr Guernsey, Alisicr Greene.
Iludlcv Murray Hoffman. Charles \. Peabody,
Chester Gri,w old. Jam'- !. I-cne'n. william NOR.
WUinm ~chau> Thomas Rutior. Nchpla, Fish. Charles
" DAYTON. Thomas Hastings Or. Charles u. Scudicr.
r. g. Guntler. Dr. Nir'd Never Robert Janfay,
w;ld jackson. \. :. Gallun. o. /olikoncr. Henry
Day r. VI. Galway, Francis o. French. Judge Charlie
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