New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-15
EW-YORK ALUMNI DINE.
CHANCELLOR MACCRACKEN TALKS
ABOUT THE UNIVERSITIES FUTURE.

The annual dinner of the Alumni Association Of
New York University given last evening at
Sherrys. President John c. Stevenson presided
Chancellor Henry Nj. MacCracken. of New-York
University; DIR. John p. Nun. William H. Wheelock
DR.. E. G.. Janeway Dean Ashley of the New York
Law School; Horace Demng. James NJ. McCreery
T. d. Kennison, Frank Russak, Dr. G. S. Schenck
DR.. Charles S. Benedict, Professor D. G. Herring,
Arthur NJ King and Colonel A B. De Frece chair
man Of the Dinner Committee. made speeches. In
his address Chancellor MacCracken spoke in part
as follows:
Universities, from business point of view is a
IS necessaIy sgbec LOT eoiese presidents ana
:. There are nineteen universities according to the
Edufiaon which G may rank as 10000 uni
stiles that have yearly income from endowment
OF that amount or over OF these nineteen eleven
are State universities endowed from the public
treasury E y and serving the eleven Sreat States Of
east to Kansas and Nebraska on the west includ-
ing California. Only eight of the nineteen are
three in the Middle States and three in the South
and West OF these eight seven reach 100000 of
100000
A CANDIDATE FOR TWENTIETH PLACE.
New-York University is a candidate for the TWEEN
tieth place. She has about $4,000 "a year from
dOwment-only three fourths of the amount needed
twenty several reasons exist Why she should be
p pro TO the twentieth place as viewed from
! the nineteen in the amount of money invested in
port as large capital in grounds. buildings and
apparatus actually employed for educational pur
above membranes. Including Washington Square,
have over s2OO0OO Of clear capital devoted to plant
alone Only five of the nineteen great universities
report larger amount. Fourteen universities all
OF them better endowed have less expensive out
our Snd GTtnt INCLUDES Of eGurse the new IL
rank as the foremost university library edifce
and powerful argument in favor of promoting New
York University to the vacant twentieth place
In the number of men whom she has educated
she holds also the sixth place Only five universe,
ties besides her report as many ten thousand
graduates, She has fifteen thousand upon her rolls
thousand received their educatio as well as their
degrees from New-York University.
SOME UNCERTAINTIES OF THE FUTURE.
In the matter of age all the eleven State universi
ties referred to are younger than New-York
younger leaving ony our that % ode4 From 9G
the standpoint of venerableness therefore New
with its hundred -s Sisters
All me actual work that we are doing which is after
the nineteen. We rank ahead of than
eahg % TWea G sRa s
In the enrolment Of students largely owing to the
eleven State universities For this and other rea
elsewhere Nevertheless tber gre seG es t5a
nineteen universitis, all of them richer than we in
our New-York University ''11''' ina"
op 0r TIN the s 9naty OF our education offer tonight
ashley, IN law, and Baird in arts, as the three
Older, with three younger deans emulating the
thoroughness and untiring zeal of their superiors
in age.
Many uncertainties attend the warfare which
education to-day is waging upon materialism and
ignorance The future unihcation of schools in the
State OF New-YOrk is uncertain Whether the
Fast or the Mississippi Valley, which since the
drainage canal was opened includes Chicago or
the Pacific Coast in the year 2,OOO A. D. shall have
the greatest university is entirely uncertain. When
the salaries Of New-York teachers will be paid to
every entire satisfaction is an uncertain
quantity. 1t is also very uncertain what is going
to happen to the traditional American college
crowded by the high schooI from beneath and the
university from above But point has no un-
certainty. The twentieth century will be in
America century of unparalleled university de-
Velopment 1t will witness a score and possibly
two score of universities that will achieve place
beside the greatest schools of Europe
Will trust New-York men and New-York women
to decide what shall be the place and the mission
in the coming century OF our New-York University.
Professor Isaac Franklin Russell responded to
the toast 1.-The College Mans View of Life"