New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-20
GIFT OF HORSE ESTATE.
BELATED REQUEST OF THE INVENTOR
TO THE NETWORK UNIVERSITY
THE CHANCELLOR'S RETURN.

Chancellor H NJ MacCracken Of the New
York University and his wife returned from d
European trip yesterday the steamer Co
lumbia- Chancellor MacCracken. while abroad
spent much time studying educational methods
and the political movements in England ana
France dealing with the relations of the schools
to the church. While In Berlin he inspected
the classical library purchased by the uniVer-
sity from the family of the late Professor
Hubner, forty years professor of Latin IN the
University of Berlin The library consists OF
nearly nine thousand volumes 1t will De
shipped TO this city in the course of a MONTH
and will be accompanied by oil painting OF
the late professor, painted for the university
by his Another son, professor of law In
Bonn University, Joined in making this gift
The university obtained the library par
ticularly favorable terms because of the de-
sire of Professor Hubners family to have 1t
maintained intact. It cost less than $4,000 and
the Neutrality-suspicious. Line has promised to
deliver it in New-York free of charge
DR.. and Mrs. MacCracken dined with Am
bassador White the Embassy. They met
Professor Gilman, who is in Switzerland on
business connected with his post the
head OF the Carnegie Institution at Wash
ington.
In Paris DR.. MacCracken met Dr. A. Liautard,
Dean of the Veterinary College, who gave up
his home in New-York three years ago that
he might live next his daughter in Paris Dr.
MacCracken said 1t is possible, If financial pro-
vision can be secured, that Dr.. Liautard may
be induced to return TO the school
Chancellor MacCracken announced a number
of changes IN and the plans of the various de-
partments and colleges comprising the uni
versity. The College OF Arts and the School of
Applied Science. he said, would begin to matriC-
ulate freshmen at University Heights on Mon
day. The only important change in the faculty
will be the retirement from active service of Dr.
Henry NJ. Baird, after more than forty years of
duty in the professorship Of Greek This pro-
censorship will be filled by DR.. William E.
Waters formerly professor OF Greek in the
University of Cincinnati more recently the
president of Wells College, at Aurora, N Y.
Two new departments are to be added to the
School of Pedagogy, one Of which Will under
take to present education taught in the
worlds great uteratures Its title probably will
be department Of the pedagogical theories OF
the great masters of literature" The other Will
he named the department of current educa-
ttonal problems and theories" This may con-
sist of five or six divisions each in charge OF d
lecturer or associate professor 1t Is Planned 10
inaugurate only two divisions this faH' hrst
among elementary schools, second among XIII
dergartens. c..,o
The School of Law will open on October l.
with an unchanged faculty, save that an addi-
ton has been made by the appointment Oh " VIZ
lam F. Walsh to associate proIessofship vi
property He is a graduate or W liIialilS Iol-
iege and of the University Law Schooi, anu mas
done good work as a teachei III I0 "
School Of Commerce. $1,000 -, 90
The school of Commerce, which opens on &c
toher has added an entire year 10 us coul se.
In connection with this change an option 10
given between two courses, one OF winch IN, siili no
sizes commerce and finance alu anu, inc ,toin the
countancy Either course VIII op'aiii WV
diploma of the school. III, ,,o+ +bie wear
under the direction of Dean Ashley OF tIe e.
School Professor Russell having ltalsHe W
lectureship by OF the oeili.hiiu inS
nractice Miss Isabella Mary Pettus leisiiil
the chief woman lecturer anu Will nav
sistant. .L onors IN October
I ~ Eirstaye and Twenty-slXth- ST; win NC
mora fully organized and equlppeu - -, ha,,a q
before The four laboratories WIN co. CO, etrd,-
director wholly devoted to tedchIis, 90 Tba
Each will have a stair OF a9s so,,ned in six
strictly medical chairs are now groupett ~ d.
nr,nri1ai departments. one Of these Inc ooioI
nartnoent of medicine. having eisn1
hairs for different classes of diseases
WIZ the chancellor visited tle utiI ,oi - .
oH3cn in washington Square he Iou l ortate Of
him a letter from the trustees % Of the tele-
can,,al y r Morse, the inventor VI 9mo+assor
1~a,,b witch has Just been settled or onI,,
sIapti' So thirty wears ago, and II Wds oy
,rban nr NacCracken opened liie 49, pro
fonrd - check for 81 900 that ne kue~ - 70 the
lessor Morse had bequeathed - 80. scholarship.
university for annual ileuS,' 60 t the summer
RI tool Gifts to the library lor li ~ 1iI,ars
me to "a So than So 900. Among the s,:H
ara yVil,iar F Havemeyer. MISS - eibiar
are Ml1 Ins Loeb and Professor E. IL SiIlie''