New-York tribune., 1897-08-05
ADVANTAGES OF SUMNER SCHOOLS
INTERESTING ADDRESS OF CHANCELLOR
MACCRACKEN BEFORE THE TEACHERS

INTERESTING ADDRESS OF CHANCELLOR
MACCRACKEN BEFORE THE TEACHERS.
The teachers of the summer schools held meet
ing yesterday University Heights, and were ad-
dressed by Chancellor MacCracken. who came from
his summer home for that purpose. He said. in
part:
one of the striking educational features of this
instruction in the summer time by leading uni
wholly f" @Fo Of eW
and conferences at some attraGtiye rural resort
some Of which were carried on in college towns
number of universities officially announGing sum
amount of work attempted is that youthful giant.
mer term of three months equal in importance to
ii tempts professor to teach all summer by offer
ing him vacation of three solid months in spring.
More than one thousand students we're In actual
attendance in the summer term of 1895. which will
ent summer Chicago does her summer work on
!h large scale ThiCh sss & adopted four years
herself felt in every quarter More than two hun
more Of their professors OF instructors attending
Chicago University in the summer Of 1896 .,u
M have SUMNER work 1
~ Harvard and Clark in Massachusetts and New
every case the work begins about july and ends
about the middle Of August; excep, at Clark
exclusively. to single branch of study. These
four schools together have only about one tnou-
sand students Of whom two-hrds belong TO Har-
ward
Granting that summer teaching is to he done by
universities. 1t Is forced upon my mind mat a
oS o o'hSa Sa of G"T honG mpt
work? University Heights represents to-day m
cluding the library. N.500cQ invested in grounds
buildings and apparatus VIII II not be waste to
withhold this from use one.fourth or every year?
A university gathers faculty OF specialists
Ought their requlremsnts not TO he sven ] tnf ne
New-York University are that she Is IN the mle'rop
oils whose name she bears. yet she has ru,a sur
roundings upon the breeze-swept University
house system. which even now could furnish rooms
10 more than two hundred guests. Besides. the
spirit Of New-York University fayors whatever
new paths of effort will best serve the generation
II New-York University to-day had one-half the
endowments Of Chicago University we should imi-
tate Chicago University in setting up summer
to allow Chicago to take away her University Ter
ritorv than her business territory. Yet to-day
the Gulf States and the South Atlantic states. to
say nothing OF the Middle and Western states
than to New-York Ncw-Ycrl5 builds more occan
Yachts summer palaces and repairs more dIapl-
dated foreign castles than Chicago put a., am & nUt
ING eduCa tionally the United states Of America
I thank most cordially the faculty or the New
York University Summer School OF l%1 They
future When This library and museum and other
projected buildings shall be hniShed the H.. at at
fractions of our school will be sr6aty n
creased. hut 1t will denend upon the endoWm1nos % o
fessorships whether University Heights shdl 'ake
rank with Harvard and chicago as one OF IN, ..e
three great educatona! capitals in summer time
for the United States , ,,..
A reception for DR.. MacCracken was given last last
night al the Hall of Ianguages and ne met the
pupils and teachers OF the school.