New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-15
CITY COLLEGE JUBILEE
OPENS ITS NEW. HOME.
Gan Scene at Presentation Cere-
monies on the Heights.

II was an ali day as well as a night session
that was needed yesterday for the College OF
the City OF New York 20 celebrate the opening
Of the S6.0OOO0o buildings St Nicholas
Terrace, the very top of Washington
Heights. The beautiful home given by the city
TO the college came a sort of birthday gift.
for yesterday the sixteth anniversary OF
the founding OF the institution. In the celebra-
ton there Joined the representatives OF eighty
five colleges and universities. we'll scores
of men famous in other walks of life. and four
thousand alumni, undergraduates and their
friends.
From the time the city and national hags
were unfurled TO the boom of cannon In tbs
morning until the band concert and illurnfna-
ton at night the plaza, as the paved campus.
or yard" is called. sewn with many COL
ors- In the morning the brilliant touches were
given by the many hued scholastic gowns At
night the gowns were gone. but the fireworks
came on deck. despite the light rain
Everything was ready for the great doings
Of the day when. long before 8 o'clock IN tho
morning police in dress uniform lined up at all
the entrances to the plaza Although the sun
was overcast by mist. IL soon burned away, and
the white and brown Of the halls were aglow.
With a. light, cool breeze. the day fitted the
casfon-
Already a foretaste OF this given In
structors and professors of the college. in Zap
ping garments. with big puHed sleeves
banded by purple gold or blue velvet and
with silk lined hoods TO match, hurried about
among the black robed students To give a
military addition to this. the 1th Regiment
Band in its gray and gold marched to the steps
at the head OF the plaza and took its position.
while the 1st Battery. under Captain ORy7n.
wheeled into place on the athletic field.
AT TOWNSEND HARRIS HALL
7-ovnsend Harris Hall and the police had keps
clear the approach from that building 20 tbs
pIsza In the centre Of which rose tbs big Tag
staff. The band struck mp The Royal Trurn-
meters, March" and there was a craninx of
necks and good natured conrsosion arno0e
,ba thousands OF spectators perched on tbs
.1edSes and stone stairs and other vantase points
the centre Of the plaza by the way. fs n,uch
below the level OF the broad walks about ths
buildings owing TO the uneven character OF ths
lodges on which the coflese was placed
Then the procession began to fIs out ot Town
.en1 Harris Hall brilliant well staged
opera Down the steps along the path again
down the stone stairs into the plaza and around
that to the climb at the western side TO another
stone tagged grade- This ascending and de-
scendins parade added to the picture, and a. tbs
sunlight shinrnered ths silk and glowed on
the velvets and furs that lined the elaborate
gowns it needed a herald OF the insignia Of uni
versiry ard college degrees to read the meaning
OF the apparel
There was the red of the divinity. the yellow
Of the science the blue of philosophy Thers
was the red gown with yellow lined hood that
denotes the doctor OF laws OF the University OF
London and the bright gray and red OF the Ok
ford doctorate. worn by none other than Marx
Twain And there should not be forgotten this
soft velvet cross between a Tam o Shanter and
a rnortarboard of the University OF Edinburgh
But the variety was endless and pleasing
In the first division OF the procession marched
the speakers and the trustees of the college
In this group was Ambassador Bryce arm in
arm with Mayor Mcclellan. both IN their aca-
den,ic robes the Ambassadors being plain
black although as a scholar he represented
Oxford Mark Twain. more conspicuous even
than in his famous flannel suit, was close 10
President Eliot OF Harvard.
Secretary Straus, who represented President
Roosevelt and brought his message Of fehcita-
tion. was also noticeable in the group oy the
sin,plIcity of his black. short-sleeved habit
Joseph H. Choate. although an LID. was In
cft,1sr,s clothes The procession. the last nf
which was composed of the los members OF the
senior class numbered fully seven hundred.
ord when thew had taken their places about the
s,,rten Plaza President John H. Finley intro
drced President MCGOWAN OF the Board OF AZ
dernen-
MR. MGOwAN'S PRESENTATION.
President MCGOWAN. in presenting TO the col
lsge the city's nag. declared that New Workers
owed allegiance to three hags-nrst. the na-
tons. then the commemorative and. hnslly.
the eity's. He then briefly told Of the evolution