New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-14
IMPROVEMENTS AT N. Y. u.
SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCE TO BE
HED-CoMPREHENsIvE
PLAN FOR GROUNDS.

The New-York University Committee School
of Applied Science, Of which William r. Hayemeyer
is chairman. at a meeting yesterday afternoon an
nounced that in the place OF the School Of Civil
Engineering, which has been In existence for thirty
five years. there would be established this year
School of Applied Science. with four distinc,
branches OF instruction. The four branches will
be civil engineering. mechanical engineering. chem
ical engineering and applied chemistry.
From various sources the prospective income
available for the work. independent Of tuition fees
has been increased BY gifts which will bring the
amount up to more than $4,000 a year.
Chancellor MacCracken said yesterday that one
great need OF the school was additional building
for mechanical engineering.
The committee has decided temporarily to con-
vert the Charles Butler Hall into laboratory for
the School OF Applied Science. until additional
buildings can be erected This hall is now used as
dormitory, but there is in Gould Hall
and the fraternity houses for two hundred students
the Butler Hall will not be needed for a dormitory
next year.
gift Of money has been made to New-york
University for the immediate carrying out Of
broad plan for the Improvement OF University
Heights The grounds occupied by the New-York
University College and the School Of Applied
Science comprises about twenty-three acres,
tending from sedgwick-ave. on the west to the new
Aqueduct-ave. completion This large
area is to be divided into four principal sections.
the final plan having been selected within the week
The part next to Sedgwickave. which is called
the Fountain Lawn because of the handsome gran
lite fountain which is its principal feature. is not to
be changed. The second division. the Great Quad
rangle, Is now planned to comprise inside the build
ings occupying its four sides an area measuring 400
by 800 feet. This Enclosure will be entered from
Sedgwck-ave. through the two granite archways,
and from Unlyersity-ave. by two carriageways
Joined In a single driveway after passing the Foun-
ders' monument. which Is TO stand on an oval
mound covering about two thousand square feet.
The east side of the Great Quadrangle affords
space for two quadrangular buildings measuring
each more than one hundred and nifty feet square
one Of which will be reserved for athletic and social
uses, the other probably for a museum OF science
For the present the proposed site of one Of these
buildings will be occupied by six tennis courts. the
site of the other by the temporary gymnasium and
Association Hall, which forms an L Of which each
wing measures about one hundred and fifty feet
Field
The third division Of the campus lying east Of the
ing more than three hundred feet in width and ar
away Of four hundred feet, The position given to
the Ohio Field five years ago was understood to be
temporary, and was chosen because available with
little labor and cost.
The fourth division of the campus is the College
Close extending from the carriage road east OF the
Ohio Field to Aqueduct-ave This is entered by a
carriage road which exactly centres on me middle
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The interior court OF the Great Quadrangle. the
Ohio Field and the College Close will be placed at
substantially the same grade. varying only TWO or
three feet The ground reserved for the quadrangu-
lar museum Of science and the quadranguar ath-
letc and social building will form a plateau six
or eight feet higher than the rest of the campus
Between these two pla teaus will be promenade
to be called the Mall. extending from the portico
Of the new library building to the north entrance
door of Gould Hall, distance Of one thousand and
twenty feet. This Mall will be nearly sixty feet in
breadth and will have both sides rows Of trees
extending the entire distance except where II
crosses the Ohio Field. The vista from the new
library will be impressive a walk for students
will be placed at each side of the Mall. 49,.
The work on the grounds will be completed this
year but in such way as not to interfere with any
of the college work.