The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-03
STUDENT GAVE COLLEGE HALL
n. s. PIERREPONT, 4 COLUMBIA
SENIOR, THE DONOR.

Ground for the New $500 900 Building
Broken Yesterday. and work WIN he
begun At Onoe-Glyer wen Known o.
an Athleto-Now in Varsity Grow.
The giver Of the 10000 college hall 10
Columbia was Rutherfurd stuyvesant
Perrepont, Pierrepont, who comes up
for his degree Of bachelor OF arts with
the class Of 'O5 In june feared lest per-
sons about the university might think
that he was trying to work the institution
for a degree as his most intimate friend
put it, and for that reason requested that
the university leave his name out Of the
original announcement Of the gift.
When his name became known as donor.
Pierrtpout left college in his automobile
and headed for the boathouse at. Fort
George for bis usual practise with the
university crew. Those who saw him said
that he didn't seem 20 want 20 talk about the
gift and very much resented is having
become public.
Pierrppont is a good athlete and wears
the varsity &c for rowing. He il mem
Der Of the Pierrepont family Of Brooklyn,
and his home IL at PIG Columbia Heights.
During the college year he lives at st.
Anthony's Hall, 10th street and Riverside
Drive, the chapter houss Of the Colum bia
branch Of the Delta Psi fraternity. lie
has a brother, Seth Low Pierrepont who
Is a member Of the present sophomore
GLASS.
Pierrepont's activities began when he
entered college in the fall Of 1901 He
PLAYED on his class football eleven and
l. 4 - ~ .. II h
keepsie. He was a member Of the freshman
eight which beat the Yale freshmen on Lake
Whitney, the only time that Columbia has
done this. He was substitute for the
varsity eight in his sophomore year. Last
spring at Poughkeepsie he rowed In the
varsity four, strohng It into second place
At present he Is rowing bow oar In the first
varsity eight
There was an informal dedication Of the
site OF Hamilton Hall, the new college hall
Yesterday At noon the students Of the
college department and a number OF law
school men assembled in Havemeyer Hall,
at a mass meeting. DR.. Nicholas Murray
Butler made a speech saying
THE first day Of May, 1905 will mark an
epoch In the history Of the college which
We love. On that day the trustees received
a pledge, the munidcsnce Of which, the
wisdom and its generosity are increased
by it's anonymity. After nearly fifty years
Of waiting the trustees are enabled TO adopt
plans for the erection Of hall for Columbia
College. We are In hurry for that building
and this very afternoon, the contract for
excavation having already been let, the
dean Of the college will turn the first spade
full Of earth.
yet there is no great success without It's
limitations. l have thought OF one thing
valued, inspiring and influential, which we
are going to lose, and that is the imposing
speech that Dean Van Amringe has been
making all these years to help W. get a
college hall
The allusion to the persistent efforts made
by the dean for years to get the trustees TO
provide for his department created a laugh
that was drowned in cheers when Dean Van
Amringe arose to speak. He began TO talk
OF the good that the college had done the
university and proceeded bravely enough
until. with a voice ohoked with his over
wrought feelings, he said: i thank God
that ! have been spared 10 see this thing in
my time This brought forth another
burst OF cheers.
Marcellus Hartley Dodge, 90 college,
the donor Of Hartley Hall, the first domi-
tory building; Duncan II, Browne, 'OS COL
lege. president Of the senior class and ChGl-
mers Wood Jr, 'O5 college, president Of
Kings Crown, the largest Undergraduate
society, also spoke. Then the students
went over to South Field where Dean Van
Amringe. with an ordinary laborer's shovel,
! turned up bit Of the earth dedicating the
! hall TO the name Of Alexander Hamilton.
The students sang the doxology and later
| "Sans-Souci,' the college song.