New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-03
| M'CRACKEN HITS OUT.
DENOUNCES BRISBANE.
Takes Exception to His Remarks on
"T'Yrdnny IN america"

The annual reunion and dinner of the lecturers
! OF the department of free lectures of the Board
| Of Education. held the Hotel Astor last night.
was enlivened by incident not on the pro-
| gramme. Among the speakers Arthur Bris-
! bane, and Chancellor MacCracken of New York
| University. The latter. in many words. de-
| nounced the former for utterance of his com
| pairing the tyranny of a with what the for
mer styled a worse tyranny in America,-that Of
| the almighty dollar
| On the plea that he had audience of two mill
ions Of persons awaiting impatiently to hear him.
Mr. Brisbane permitted to speak early. He
was not present TO hear Chancellor MacCracken.
who came later
Among other things, Mr. Brisbane. whose re-
marks made up of comments points in
! the speech Of DIR. Henry NJ. Leipziger supervisor
| OF lectures, said:
/ Il wish this country could compare more favor
ably than It does with the countries from wllch
our immigration comes. These immigrants leave
/ Russia. with its lawlessness and its Car, and
! they come here 10 country in which there IS a
more dangerous lawessness-the lawlessness of the
dollar. You have great opportunity-the oppor-
tunity tell the immigrant the actual truth about
/ this country-that dollar here is lawless, as
! powerful as cynical the Car in Russia"
In the course of his remarks. Chancellor Mac
Cracker said: Il should feel recreant to my duty
! If | did not tonight denounce the speaker who
says this state, whose people could elect Gov
ernor Hughes. was tyrannized over than
Russia, that Roosevelt is d greater tyrant than
the Gar
/ The reunion was the largest which the lecturers
have ever held. Nearly three hundred persons at
tended the dinner which began soon after ! O'Clock
/ DR. Henry NJ. Ieipziger. introduced by the toast
/ master. the Rev. Dr. John Bancroft DeVlns' told
/ something of what had been accomplished IN the
nineteenth of the lectures, which closed on
Tuesday. He said in part:
In the lecture season that has just closed more
/ than five hundred men and women nae .t."us. s
hfty-five hundred lectures, uttered their messages
! ton in a hundred and sixty different places
throughout the city to an audience ina IedCme9
! thousand. Despite the cruel winter. which tried
/ not only mems souls but all transit facilities,
! there were found hundreds who responded to tho
! yearning call for the higher life, who trudged
such i.ii' many regard 1 these lecture halls
There many here, lecturers as well as school
ness of the scheme. Almost every topic which
aid the injured and philosophy practical science
in the scheme, that it can be truly said that in
formation upon almost every su6}eGt can a D
The immigrant just landed on the hosptabie
shore OF New York can on the very evening of his
his own tongue he wiz be given the first lessons IN
II is largely to eultmrize the mass that is the
the work who eagerly and readily respond TO every
/ call, setting fine example of public service.
be your s Mo@iu AND what Service can be com
parable to the service in this most wGnderfni OF
/ 1t Is your task to aid in thai great educational
! problem of taking men and women Of another en-
/ vironmert and another heredity and welding them
! into that type that is called American.
! 1t is a hope OF mine that with the increasing ia
cilities fo- university education in this city the
public lecture may lead TO university priv
! leges. Men and after attending these
! lectures in a sef-sacrifcng way for number OF
years surely deserve recognition from the col
legate university that their success entities them
to as reward for their labors and TO attest their
great stimulus and bring the university for the
people touch with the people and accessible to
| the people. The long reproach against medieval
| ism in which education shall be for the limited
| few will forever thus be removed.
| Among the other speakers We're John Greene
| vice-president of the Board of Education; George
! A. Vandenhoff. chairman Of the committee on lect~
urea and libraies; Edward Iau;eT5ach, Professor
| Charles p. Fagnani OF Union Theological Semi
nary: Miss Jennie Pomerene, president of the Col
| lege Womens Club. Leslie w Sprague and the
Rev. DR.. william Carter. OF the Madison Avenue
! Reformed Church. Misa Mary Louise Thomas and
Miss KAY ". Spencer sang, and A Emerson Palm
| er secretary of the Board Of Education, read a
!