New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-26
TT IS NOW A COLLEGE.
CHARTER GRANTED To- ADELPHI BY
THE REGENTS.
snoApEN'D SCOPE OF BRooxLYNs FAMOUS
.rApEMY-wHAT DR. LEvERMoRE SAYS

.c.DEMy-wIIAT DR. I.EvERMORE SAYS
OF THE INSTITUTIONS FUTURE
The regents of the University of New-York
"a granted a college charter 70 the Adelphl
,..5emy. Of Brooklyn, with power to conduct
y, an academic department under the present
.sms OF Adelphi Academy. The resolutions ask
100 the Board of Regents to grant the amend
AN, 10 the charter providing for the college
rrsa WAS passed by the Board Of Trustees OF
~. academy on June is. The resolutions con-
o,nsd A statement of the fact that Adelphi
academy has the requisite property quaihcation
=, $500 900, and excellent standing as an
.sncational institution. The State Board unani-
nously granted the request.
The degrees issued by Adelphi will bear the
.saIs of both the university and college, and Will
~ signed by the chancellor and secretary OF the
university. as we'll as by the officers OF ohe col
lege.
WHAT THE CHARTER MEANS
In Speaking Of the future of the academy Dr.
Charles H. Levermore yesterday said
TIL. academy will remain intact in its curriculum.
except that the students of the last Two years nay
os' tSsv may remain take the regular academic
Sn,rse and get academy diploma our cAarter
sgs degrees our curriculum has been approved
i, includes the regular foui-year college course i IN
ild Tees prac,ical chemistry general business
course physics mathematics. electrical techniques'
snail Of course add to our rv te aSl fT pT
ssssor Of English literature take the place OF
Professor r. f. Wentworth. who went 10 NaSsar
GSege Ssen ' fSp s sSme sD in Philadelphia
raged in university extension work lis is an a. Is
iwen;yeght wears OF age mas spent one 49, eai
and for year and half associate professor o,
English literature at the University OF ermHn' al
Sad sTelgy HlEfa 70 on 1ss Of
his health. which vas considerably impaired ou'
Students With us will have the option OF course
also in civil engineering. The literary course VIII
stress on languages literature and studies mat are
especially useful for those VINO mteno 20 e,'i H.
~ eSfe;phi viii maintain its normal cour un-
ss59jnT 10 be Rindergartners and this branch
vii be- OF course. president and full college fac
u,y. We will have eight iIlI professors, Win Hrn
fessors and instructors 10 the number Of aOoI; twe-
u ready 10 10 college WORK We shall this fai vel
the present ask for senior class unless ne de
nand comes Juniors Who enter IN the iaIl VII.
FROM THE BOTTOM TO THE TOP.
The classical Will be the usual college one,
Greek Latin, mathematics. history. English French
and German. with sYec!a! reiation to pIepara sS
four walls something unusual. Beginning with the
kindergarten and ending with the college. Win one
management and one pohcy, mere l. one mar
ously arranged curric alum, no bitches. and boy or
girl can through without stopping Even IN me
there is class of little seven OF eight years Of
sse that have a vocabulary OF 800 words In German.
and they can read write and speak them We have
found this idea especially serviceabe. and children
Of twelve fourteen become sufficiently proficient
in French and German to enter college.
We are so situated from our two years OF coiege
hope to secure degree by two years more OF study
this applying TO graduates OF academies Of equal
OF more than a million inhabitants has not, until
this morning. when the Adeph! got its charter con
tanned school which could give TO graduate In the
de- zee oJnsn any Kind Of degree The only mac
Barnard College, which Is in time an hour and a half
away. Adephl does not fear comparison in any way.
THE COLLEGE AND ITS OFFICERS.
The Adelphi Academy incorporated In
1869 by twenty-one public-sprited men, receiv
ing over $4,000 In contributions from private
citizens during the first two years Of its exist
ence. The buildings are at Lafayette-ave. and
St. James Place In 1886 the late Charles Pratt
as president of the Board OF Trustees. gave the
academy 100000. the cost Of the new building
which was erected In the of the old one. A
FIRE on December IS 1889. slightly damaged the
academy. Charles NJ. Pratt elected presi
dent of the Board Of Trustees after the death Of
the senior Pratt. Last winter Timothy L.
Charles NJ. Pratt as president Of the Board, and
Is devoting a grea deal OF energy 10 the task
Of making the Adelphi Academy a solid and
growing institution. Commissioner Woodruff,
Professor Levermore and several other teachers
Of the faculty attended meeting In Albany on
Wednesday when the academy was made col
lege
Timothy L. Woodruff's career IL so well known
to Tribune readers as to need only brief men
ton He was born in New-Haven, Conn., on
August 4 1888. the OF John Woodruff, who
represented a Connecticut district in Congress
from 1850 10 1856. Mr.. Woodruff studied at
Phillips Exeter Academy and was graduated
at Yale in 1870 receiving the degree OF Master
Of Arts ten years later He appointed Park
Commissioner by Mayor Wurster In 1876
DR. Charles ". LevernOre II the son or Con-
gregational minister OF Connecticut. he entered
the class OF 70 at Yale, and after graduation
taught at Clifford, Conn, being pr1nclpal or the
institute there for four years. In 1888 he en-
tered the graduates department at johns hop
hns University, taking three years course
and securing the degree Of Doctor or Philosophy
He was later an instructor in history in the Uni
yersity Of California, and professor in the
Massac husetts Institute Of Technology in Bos-
ton where he was teaching when asked TO take
charge Of the Adelphi in 1893.
The present Board Of Trustees Of the Adelphi
. composed of within NJ. lngraham. Charles
W. Homer Hayden w. Wheeler Robert D.
Benedict. Enos N Taft. Charles o. Gates. the
Rev Dr. John HumpstOne, John A. Taylor,
Charles II. LevermOre, Jerome r.. Morse, Will
lam s Tuttle Mrs +. c. Truslow Mrs. ]. w.
Hollenbeck John " Beach. the Rev. DR.. A. j. f.
Behrends. Augustus Van WICK. Dr. H. Taylor
Emery Timothy L. Woodruff, Charles A. Moore,
William Berri Charles w Seamans. John c.
Kelley and r. Alfred Vernon.
EX-CAPTATN WORTH IS A PATROLuAN.