New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-12
COLLEGES NOT TO UNITE.
IND OF THE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN COL
UMBIA AND THE CITY UNIVERSITY

COMMITTEES DECIDE THAT THERE IS NJ DE
SIRE FOR FEDERATION At PGEsENT-wHAr
CHANCELLOR MAcCEhCHEN sAls -
All talk Of consolidation for the present oe'"ee"
the University OF the City Of New-York and Column
b,a College was ended yesterday. Wheh inc iep
O, the Correspondence Committee was re"u a.
snac,al meeting OF the council Of the former insu
tuition TIE committee which consists OF 'ii'in
g. Opdyke, William Allen Butler. Ebert d. Hioi'o'
and Chancellor MacCracken, presented " ic''e''
dated November 90 a copy Of which YVES sent "
President Seth Low chairman OF the 'oi4i''"'
College committee conference Inc ie''er says
in part: 49,. o.,s.s
an utter want of a mutual desire 10 unite III any
plan Of federation, that We have not been aoie !"
bring ourselves to frame the details even OF such
n federation as seemed 10 us possible. The scheme
at best would be a dlfiicu one. and favorapie con-
dons for its discussion seem 10 DE ,bas con- n.
present If at any TIM, m .hy t nanny TO have
the correspondence upon this subject rene~sc. ,o,
meanwhile we feel that the corresi ondehce n's
made each CORPORATION better aware OF the nina OF
the other We prefer hearty WISHES loi WV
- anon some accounts this separation OF Work
IS to he regretted. stii there must pe ISL m 'bo
Greater NewYork, numbering nors imam comncil
million souls within an hours roc 81 0uF fcuitics
not only in undergraduate work, but In the pro pro.
fess9na schS0s snd IN M bourh s Win d differing
methods and with the zeal which friendly rivalry
enrenSers ire letter was approved by the coun-
eli and the committee was discharged 80
Chancellor MacCracken said that ne had slEhMeu
toca part Of the Columbia committee that ne was
ready to work for federation Of the two universe,
ties upon basis by which the City University wQnli
resign all her power give degrees or eXain.na-
tions for degrees to Columbia thus becoming
merely teaching body, consisting Of half a dozen
faculties 1t would then not be called any longer
the University of the City Of New York but Simply
the University Colleges" To bring this about
Columbia would have TO agree to thFse condltions;;
First to change its name 20 the University OF
New-York; second to from Trinity Corpor-
alton a release of TIE condition Imposed upon
Columbia by which the president must pe OF tle
Episcopalian denomination and by which also other
denominatona features rest upon her: third, Column
bin TO secure an increase Of the Cniversitys en-
dowment. But each OF these cohui'lohs HIS "eeH
pronounced inadmissiDe. ,, -.
The Chancellor said mat he personally would not
set so much store upon the name under when q
federation might take place. or any matter OF
money as he would the matter of the freedom
of great university from any denominatonai
trammels When 1t had become plain that tins
was regarded as impractcable on the side of the
best friends of Columbia he had been ready to sus
pend the negotiations. He was not sure that the
University committee would have gone SO far as
he was ready to 60 in federation based on the
surrender of the degree-giving power by the Uni
yersity :.