New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-24
PART III.
NETWORK UNIVERSITY.

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first agtated in 1929. The committee appointed
at public meeting held at that time secured
long roll OF subscribers. and the institution
was chartered April Is, 1881.
| The founders thus enlisted were composed In
almost equal parts of public-spirited business
men and Of members Of the liberal professions.
Their plan from the beginning included nearly
all the professOrships that are comprised to-day
In the faculties Of the six schools Of New-York
| University Even the School Of Pedagogy was
anticipated in a proposed professorship Of THE
| Philosophy Of Education and the instruction OF
Teachers" The Graduate School was planned
under the name THE First General Division
while the Undergraduate College was known a.
the Second Division. The Schools Of Law and
| Medicine and Applied Science were all contem-
| plated by the first statutes adopted In 1881.
| These plans were far in advance of any demand
| then existing in America. and were not sup.
| ported by sufficient endowment for their COM
pfete accomplishment. 1t reserved for the
last quarter of the nineteenth century instead
| Of the second quarter to develop them in full
| measure.
The University now existing comprises
under the Council which is by charter the
corporation three faculties, and six schools, OF
which four under the Faculty Of Arts and
Science. while the Faculties of Law and Medi-
cine have each one school,
The following epochs in the history of the Uni
versity are noted.
ENCE.
Octob r. 1S32-Opening of college work. close o
ly followed by the erection QS3Z-'35) of the
university building.
1S35-Invention. in the University Of the Re.
cordng Telegraph:
"Your Phomathean Hail. the room I occupied
that room in the University was the births
place Of the recording telegraph Extract
from address Of Professor Morse at the alumni
meeting of 1853.
1S30-Invention. in the University, of the APP
plication of photography to the representation
Of the human countenance.
1861 66-Founding Of the General Endow.
ment. in chief part by Loring Andrews
INSTRUMENTATION Of Graduate School.
1S0O-Proposal of an uptown site.
INSTRUMENTATION Of the School Of Pedagogy
1S90-Appointment of the woman's Advisory
Committee
1S92-Purchase Of University Heights.
1S94-Removal to University Heights of the
University College.
1S95-Gift of the Library Building and Of .
Gould Hail.
UNDER THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE.
1S41-Opening Of the college on Broadway. op
posite Bond-st.
1S51-Removal to Fourteenth-st., near Irving
Place.
1S53-Procurement by the faculty OF the law
legalizing dissection in New-York State.
1S69-Removal (after the burning Of the old
edifice, In 1866 and temporary stay in the
New-York Hospital).
1ST9-Erection OF the present college building.
1SS7-Buldng Of the Loomis Laboratory
1S92-Adopton Of the Three Years Course
1S0G--Adopton Of Four Years Course.
1S97-Unversity direct control inaugurated.
UNDER THE FACULTY OF LAW.
1S35-PIan Of the Hon. b. F. Butler for the
school adopted.
INSTRUMENTATION OF the department Of
law.
1SG3-Founding Of the Law Library by John
Taylor Johnston.
1S95-Opening OF the new halls at Washington
Square, and the establishment Of morning.
afternoon and evening structon.
The following are those who have been sue
cessively In the places noted since the founding
of the University:
Presidents of the Council-The Hon. Albert
Gallatin. the Hon. Morgan Lewis. the Hon.
James Tallmadge, Earoher oPrihe' ~ ~
Charles Butler IL. D.; John c. Green. LII d.;
John Taylor Johnston. and William Allen But
Ter, LII. d.
Chancellors OF the University-James Mat
thews y. D.; the Hon. The dore Frenghuysen.
IL. D.: Isaac Ferris d. D.. LII d.; Howard
Crosby d. d.. LII. d.: John Hall. d. d.. LII D..
and Henry Mitchell MacCracken. d d.. LII d.
The following roll of eminent professors (none
now occupying chairs are included. and al
most none now are living) will prove OF interest.