New-York tribune., 1902-05-04
ON UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS
WHERE MANY COLLEGE STU
DENTS HAVE WORK
AND FROLIC.
SENIORS TO GIVE VAUDEVILLE ENTER
TAINMENT-GROWTH AND SCOPE
OF NEW-YORK UNIVERSITY.

The Dramatic Club Of the senior class of New
York University Will make its annual effort to
divert its friends this week. The club is COM
paratively institution, but Cne that has ex-
erienced such since its establishment that
It is probably destined live long. The idea was
adopted first by the class Of '0. which had
considerable debt to pay off and decided TO get the
money by giving show. When the Dramatic Club
was formed by 'Hopp" Hadley and his associates
they decided that. instead of producing Carmen
or -'oinafore" they would form minstrel troupe.
which would be better adapted to their diversity
Of talents and would allow more originality The
result was performance which served to crowd
the large gymnasium, where the affair took place.
The present senior class organized its dramatic
club earlier in the season, and the members de-
voted more time in preparing for the show than
did their predecessors The officers are William
Peck Banning, president; George D. Hadley. vice
president; D. V 4. Bogert treasurer, ana X NJ
Bewlby, secretary.
The performance, which is to be held in the col
lege gymnasium Thursday, May S. is TO be
vaudeville show somewhat unique lines fol-
lowed by a farce. There will be plenty Of music,
both classical and comic, the latter predomnating
while the whole entertainment is to abound in Wit
and humor.
There will be an "oversure" by the orchestra,
and after the prologue by BILLY" Banning the
variety stunts Will follow each other in quick sue
cesson.
'.he three twirling, triple tripping triplets from
Tipperary"-W. C. Belcher. c. de Zafra and L. St
C. Eunson, the champion college gymnasts-wllI
do an acrobatic turn in novel costumes and fol-
lowing them will come music and songs and a
rnonologue The programme viii end with the one
act farce SERIOUS Situations in Burleigh's Room,
a college play, the scene being a students room
The cast Is as follows:
sssye BHF5egn HpSson s churnj p = Banning aiming
Prof. Shreedy Cooxing master).-.W s. Wilding
.tJack'' Randolph. NJ simpson
Kiss Hudson R. Miller
The farce has been revised somewhat, and the
aines have been gagged" to make 1t Of special in
terest to the students. It is said that pink tights
are to figure more or less prominently IN the cast
but IT is also understood thai the programme must
be Endorsed by Professor Gillette chairman OF the
faculty committee organization.
Dancing will follow the performance. but will be
limited 10 those who procure floor tickets at least
swenty-four hours before the show, in accordance
with new faculty rule to restrict the dancing at
public entertainments.
II fair proportion Of the university's students
attend the show, without reckoning any
of its hosts Of friends outside. the efforts OF the
Dramatic Club ought to result in a financial sue
cess, at any rate
a unique position among universities has been
maintained for eight years by New-York Univer-
eity, apparently with marked success. 1t involves
the apportonment OF the nine schools TO three
localities thus making triangle. The under
graduate schools are at University Heights, which
Is the apex. Three professional schools
sogy. and commerce. accounts and finance; also
two non-professonal schools. the graduate school
and the summer school, each doing its laboratory
work at the heights The Medical College is at
rrwenty-sixth-st- and First-ave.. where a portion
OF the Veterinary School is also located and where
ST is proposed TO arrange the final plant of this
school.
Certain advantages are secured for the under
graduate schools by their separate location
Freshmen and sophomores have interests col
lei entirely distinct from those of students
OF law or medicine. They their athletic field
lawn tennis courts. Greek letter society chapter
houses. dormtories boating facilities and college
traditions and customs, which they and OBJ
serve relgiously, such class precedence and the
twilight songs the broad library steps They
and ali these al University Heights. Nevertheless
when they TO be seniors, if they find il ad-
visable they may, with permission of the faculty,
combine with this fourth year the in any one
Of the university professional schools in any of
the local schools of theology. Nowhere else in the
United States has a university been organized on
this plan. Its adaptation the metropolis is a
Distinguishing feature. When the rapid transit
tunnel shall have been finished according to plan
IL will have station University Heights and
reduce the time the downtown schools TO
about One-half Although the schools are separate
IN place. they make a single organism, working in
This new departure "a The university organization
daoisres tbsf n VS. ,roosyibe t c,1i,- = epo1 ~
American college d downtown location in New
York City. lie proposed subs 1ripJion the
lions Of the corporation secure such d suDscrIp-
ton. the OF $zO0v0J was obtained in the yeafs
lSsl and lbsz and me hrst payment made on about
thirty acres extending from the Harlem River
eastward at last one -aundred-a;d- -eighty- first
and Long Island Sound the east Buildings
year the college and engineering school were re-
moved to this site from Washington Square. About
s. $1,000 has been expended upon buildings since
then. while the grounds have been laid out with a