New-York tribune., 1905-01-16
WELL KNOWN MEN AT INSTALLATION.
Representatives of Many Universities to See
DR.. Atkinson Formally Take Office

representatives or many universities. colleges and
technical schools, including the presidents OF some
OF the institutions have accepted invitations the
installation of President Frederick ". Atkinson Of
the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute which will take
place in Plymouth Church next Friday evening
The visitors from the various educational insttu-
tions as well as the faculty and corporation Of the
Polytechnic. will academic caps and gowns.
They will march 10 the enlarged platform of the
church from the trustees' room in the rear.
The programme viii be follows
Installation march
Installation address by William H. Nichols. chair
Response by President Atkinson.
Address on behalf Of the faculty by Brainerd
Address on behalf Of sister institutions Of learn
ing by Henry S Prttchett. president Of the Massa-
cilusetts Institute OF Technology.
Address on behalf Of the alumni By Paul Dough
Address on behalf Of the municipality and the
people Of Brooklyn b Borough President Martin
Inaugural address by President Atkinson.
Prayer and benedictiOn by the Rev. J. p Forbes,
Of the Church Of the Saviour. Brooklyn.
It IS expected that the following institutions will
be represented:
MASSACHUSETTS, Institute Of Technology, by Pres
ident Pritehgtt; Stevens !psutQte, by President
BY ST Clair McKelway; Columbian University, by
President Needham Bates College. Maine. by Pres
Gunnison; Columbia University, by James Hume
dent Finley and Edward N. Shepard 4Adelphi Col
lSs, 10y [LtS41ett FSIioIe; CltgeIsley - % 5
lege Pennsylvania by President Johnston Wheaton
Buchtei College Ohio by President Church; johns
Hopkins University. by Professor harry FIedng
atlanta University, Georgia oy PresldeBt Bun
William Tah Keien and Edgar o silver; ST
Johns College. Annapolis, Nd, by PRESIDENT Zen;
Bowdoin College. Brunswick, Me. by James Nc
Keen; University Of North Carolina by Professor
!. X Graham: Augustana College, Illinois, by the
Rev G. Nelsenius; New-York University, by DR..
Thomas N. Ballet, and Isaac F Russell; Wesleyan
y,
@. Bergen: Department OF Education OF the City Of
New-York, by Clarence T. Meleney, associate city
superintendent: Ohio State University, by Dr. Ar
thur Bailey TOwnshendi CoTneI University Medical
University, OF Raleigh. n G. by President Meserye;
SIlh Oo-lsse -N0I I,r Ii
Georgia; Cornell University HillsdaIe College, Mich
sniyersitH' fndiana Yale Unyersty and Harvard
University. also viii send representa- ttves
Dr. Atkinson, fourth president of the Polytechnic.
assumed his duties in September. 1904 A native Of
Massachusetts,. he was graduated from the State
Normal School in 1882 and became principal OF the
High School at Upton In 1880 he graduated
from Harvard, receiving the degree OF Bachelor Of
Arts. The next year he filed the principalship Of
the Westleld High School Going abroad he made
both in the schools themselves, and at the uni
versities OF Berlin Halle and Lepsc, receiving the
degree OF Pm. D., ct Lepslc, and subsequently, con
tinuing study at Jena University. and at the Sor-
bonne Paris From 1894 10 1900 he principal Of
the High School ct Springfield. Mass, and in May,
1900 appointed General Superintendent OF Pub
lie Instruction in the Philippine Islands. AS first
Superintendent Of Public instruction. IL dsvolved
On him 10 establish system OF education for the
Philippines. TO Judge the needs Of q heterogeneous
population. The policy OF the United States
almost entirely his in both conception and execution.
Dr. Atkinson IL addition 20 his purely educational
work occupies place among writers on educational
and other topics through monographs education,
avffc eS Atlantic
view OF Reviews and other magazines. A volume
On the Philippines is now IN press.