New-York tribune., 1900-09-23
A CITY WITHIN A CITY.
CHANGES on MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS
DUE TO THE PLACING THERE OF
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.

columbia University is building up about itself
city within city The inner community is not
bounded by such material confines as Is the CiV
NJ Peking on the contrary. IT defes exact limita-
tion The reason for such vagueness In It's
boundaries IS to be In the fact that the new
city is city of letters and of thought It's raoi'
ating centre. as IT were, is the lone OF the UNI
versity library. Its inhabitants are the teacheIS
and students of the school. and that part OF inns
citys residents whose thoughts and sympathies are
closely allied with the work of such an nstttu-
ton.
This university population. as 1t may be termed
was at first loosely scattered among the streets
and avenues of the great upper West Side. some
stiu live "a far south as Seventy -second-st., and
others to the north as far Morris and wash
ington Heights. Each year, however mas loui'u
this class Of people gathering closer 10 the IVY ciau
cliffs of Morningside Heights. Professors VINO
owned houses the old site OF the uhlVelsitE'
in Madison-ave. and Forty-ninth-st.' nave oeeh
selling this property and finding new homes nearer
their cassroOms. comparison or the auuIesSeS
of the universitys officers for the year 1885, Whe"
the university opened at its ne" ste, anu lol
the present year shows large emigration from
downtown streets to the upper West Side, dis
trict which may he bounded roughly by Ninety
second-st. on the south, Central Park west on the
east and extending north TO the Harlem hNer
In 1897 sixty-two professors and other members OF
the faculty lived within this territory In 1900 10
This great Increase IS all the more striking be-
cause of the fact that many professors and stu
dents have withheld from moving 10 Morningslde
Heights because of the College OF Physicians and
Surgeons in Fifty-nnth-st with which they are
connected.
People of wealth who desire college education
for their children also moving into TINS upper
section of the city Builders Of high class apart
ment houses have been quick to see the oppor-
t,nitv and are building splendid structures In
Riverside Drive. upper Broadway Morningslde-
ave and other streets in this neighborhood
The growth of fraternities at Columbia mas re-
suited in the building Of attractive chapter houses
The Delta Psi fraternity has erected such house
IN Rirarside Drive and the Psi Upsilon fraternity
ig bniIding similar home in One-hundred-and-
ffteenth-st. - san
oted coIeges-Barnard at One-hundred and -tWen-
tieth-st and Broadway. directly opposite the UNI
versty and the Teachers College. in one -hunnreu-
and tWenteth-st.. half way between bToduMdy anu
Arsterdam-ave In addition to these institutions
are many of a private character, when nave peeh
established in more or less close proximity 10 'he
university. as preparatory schools.
When il is remembered that the university mas
reached only one-half the size originally proposed
and that there are ten budings 10 De eIecIeu pe S
fore the original plans are carried out It may oe
seen that it's sphere of influence as an educauoha
centre bound to increase greatly in the years 10
come. -, A. ~.
development of this part OF the clty VIII oe lne
Cathedral of ST. John the Divine which Is San Amos @
| Great arch has been Joined. and flying buttresses
| s,lpDorted on a mass Of wooden falseWork are now
the completion of this great structure looking down
| upon the city Of brick and stone to The eastward
no can say that in this part OF 6ne o. Gy b
! ligious nature as we'll the intellect.
Il is possible. and in the minds or many exceed
! ingIv proba Bile, that the region bordering upon
| N0rnngsde Heights will become another Cam
| bridge a city of classic and scientific thought,
within the greater city of commerce and of finance