New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-08
NEW DORMITORY FOR WOMEN.
TEACHERS COLLEGE GRADUATES CLASS
OF EIGHTY-TWO MEMBERS.

At the twelfth annual commencement yesterday
Of Teachers College. part of the university sys-
tenn of Columbia. It announced that a womens
dorrnitory to cost 100000, would be erected IN
Amsterdam-ave. in the course OF the year Dean
Russell Of the college said:
1t gives me special pleasure to announce that a
stock company, composed of friends of the college.
the Block Between one-hundred- twentieth and
e-hundred-and- twentyfrst SITS, on which will he
erected the coming year womens dorm1tory,
which will accommodate between 300 and 400 Wom-
sParme n This house will represent an invest
ment of approximately SlN0GN and is to a limited
degree a part OF the Columbia University system.
The commencement exercises held in the
Teachers College gymnasium, which was decorated
with flowers and banners At IL o'clock the eighty
two candidates for diplomas entered. followed by
the members of the faculty. Then came the trus-
tees and after them Spencer Trask chairman Of
the Board and President Low. After prayer by
the Rev. w c. Biting President Low made brief
address, He said in part:
In future the Teachers College graduates will
oeive their degrees from the university at the uni
versity commencement Teachers college, Is now
the oSer Eh THIS
is taken in order that the Teachers College diploma
may be of equal value with those conferred upon
lawyers and doctors by Columbia. Teachers Col
cf and will have a part in shaping the policy of
the university.
In conclusion President Low spoke IN memory of
the late Mrs. Peter NJ. Bryson. one Of the best
friends of the college. President Low then intro
duced the Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale, who
made the address Of the day. In the course Of his
address DR.. Hale said:
The commencement of life is always interesting.
You paddle your canoe now; this after
you take your last vacation, for on the great
OF life there is vacation. AS college
graduate of sixty-one years standing see what
you don't see l shall give you no advice but !
shall tell you something as TO the place IN me that
the best American education fits man for. There
are two classes In America,those who work and
those who labor. Those who labor are the drudges,
but their number is only II per cent of the active
population. The workers are SO per cent; they
spirit and mind control the body 1t is the toll
worn craftsman who leads modern life He is
much educated man and child of God as you
are. The first of life is the of COM
partnership. You work in the open air; you
must be all for each and each for all. Count Leo
Tolstol dd not begin really live till he.
successful by himself. He study with others,
sorrow with others and teach with others.
lives 10 splendid purpose of education, and
instruction. The great thing in life is education;
tionaries; our purpose is with education. You are
the educated sovereigns of America. You form
public opinion. before which municipal officers bow
humby. The voice Of the people is the voice of
God. It Is the pure in heart who see God. and
Character is the foundation of Gods city.
Dean James E. Russell of the college, In making
the announcements for the year. said:
The year closing has been Of the most
successful IN the history of the college In 1898
had no graduate students: to-day we have 1872
our rolls. We had then 70 regular undergraduate
Students to-day we have 2l5 Including special
students the enrolment of 1898 IA; the enrol
ment of 1900 is 40 We have received $3.50 900 in
the last year. and now We are 10 have our ten
story dormltory IN connection with the latter
pushing the work.
President Low conferred the diplomas and then
announced that the Colonial Danes of New-York
prize. of $50 and gold medal. offered for
Miss Esther Keagey, of Barnard College. DR. Bit
ting pronounced the benedction