The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-30
TO EXPAND
.HASBROUCKS'
Mr.. Stimets Has Jersey
City's Great School
Incorporated.
ADVISORY BOARD APPOINTED
First Meeting Held Last
Evening and Plans
Discussed.

| Institute, has taken two steps in order 10
advance and broaden its educational in
f1uence.
First, he has had the institute incorpor-
| ated under the laws of the State with
himself, Mr.. Victor Baier and Mr.. John
H. Fry as the original stockholders.
Second, he has erected in connection
with the Institute an Advisory Board OF
| thirty members, who are to exercise SUI
pervision over the methods and work OF
the Institute, and through suggestions
and guidance to aid Mr.. Stimets in keep
ing the Institute abreast with other
schools of its kind and to extend the scope
of it's work
The first meeting of the Advisory Board
was held in the Institute last night, with
nearly all members present, those who
could not be there sending cordial letters
promising cooperation in the new
scheme. Judge Gilbert Collins was elect
| ed permanent chairman and Mr.. Warren
| Dixon permanent secretary.
The other members of the Board are
| Messrs Leon Albeit, Charles E. Annett,
| Hon. J. D. Bedle, Mr.. David A. Bishop,
| the Rev Cornelius Brett, D. D.; Mr..
Joel w. Brown, Mr.. George Carragan,
DR.. Burdeete p Craig. Mr. Joseph A.
Dear, Mr.. J. ]. Detwiller, Mr.. Charles
Elkn, Mr.. Myron j. Furst, Mr.. John B.
/ Grevatt, Mr. j. Warren Hardenbergh,
the Rev. Charles Herr, D. D.: Mr.. ]. E.
Hulshizer, Jr., Mr.. Robert M. Jarvis, Mr..
James Luby, Mr.. Flavel MCGEE, Mr..
Samuel G. Negus, Mr.. Henry 3. Niese,
Mr.. George F. Perkins, the Rev John L.
scudder, the Rev. E. L. Stoddard, Pm. D.;
/ Mr.. John J. Voorhees,, DR.. George Will
| kinson Mr. Edward F. c. Young.
| NE Stimets opened the meeting. He
| thanked the members of the Board tor
| accepting the invitation to serve and
| stated the objects which he wished to
| obtain He said the members OF the
Board were not asked to act as figure
heads, but that he hoped they would con-
stantly visit the school and by observation
of its actual workings find material for
recommendations and suggestions which
he would always be prepared and glad
to receive.
Incidentallv Mr. Stimetr said that nell
ther he nor the Institute We're in any way
opposed to the public schools or in con-
f1ict with them On the contrary, he
was extremely friendly to the public
schools but regarded Hasbrouck Insti-
tute as occupying a field entirely distinct
from theirs, and one capable, in large
and growing city like this, of almost in
definite expansion, and it was with a view
to this prospect of expansion that he had
taken the steps of Incorporation and the
Advisory Board
His object, he said, was to illuminate
the idea of personality or individuality
from the school and to place it more in a
position such as Stevens Preparatory
School. Through Incorporation of the In
stitute Mr.. Stimets provided for the per-
petuation of the school regardless of his
own or any other individual life, and in
doing this he also put the school in
position to be benefited by any endow-
ment that might be made by residents of
the city.
In response to Mr. Stimets, number of
the gentlemen present made remarks.
some embodying more or less practical
suggestions.
Mr.. Joseph A. Dear was in favor of es-
tablishing certain number of scholar
ships. Mr.. Myron Furst expressed sur
prise that no association of the Alumni
had ever been formed and after some
discussion moved that committee con-
Advisory Board be appointed to arrange
for such an association, and Messrs. j.
Warren Hardenbergh, ]. E. Hulshizer
and DR.. George Wilkinson were accord
ingly appointed.
Mr.. James Luby, commenting on Mr.
Stimets' remarks, said that, so far from
being antagonistic, Hasbrouck Institute
might well be regarded as essential to the
public schools, as in matters of educa-
ton as well as in industrial affairs the
ppublic had to rely on private thought
and private enterprise for experiment and
progress. The responsibility for the trial
of new ideas, he said, is SO great 1t is
not reasonable to expect that government
officials dealing with SO tickle a master
as the public would take the risk of test
ing them.
Private agencies, the speaker said, were
responsible only to individual conscience
and had always been in all times the
sources of progress. HasbrOuck Institute,
he thought, seemed to set the pace of edu-
cational life in this city and that it
highly honored the public school to say
din what it did it must keep near the
leader. On this account Hasbrouck In
stitute had claim to the public school
favor stronger than eve.
Mr. John j. Voorhees, believed that one
feature of Hasbrouck Institute was quite
insufficiently understood--the fact that
it prepared pupils for the universities and
colleges, and that graduates are fitted
TO take the examination to any Of the
higher institutes in the country, while
the greater number of the colleges adj
nitted them without further examination.
Mr.. Voorhees, further said he had heard
to New York and Newark schools because