Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-28
college"
DEAD, NONE BUT
FOUNDERS MOURN
Columbian University of New
Jersey Died Before 1t
Was Organized.

The Columbian University OF New
Jersey is deceased. defunct and dead
/. has departed this life.
No one is invited to attend the
funeral. Kindly omit flowers and Tor
get all about II.
ITS dead, dead. dead!" said Mrs.
Mint, the wife of Victor Mintz. IF rs
Elm street, who was one Of tue moving
spirits of the proposed Columbian Uni
versity of New Jersey and the Faculty
OF American Dentistry. That's oil
there is to it," she added.
Mr.. Mintz himself was away from
home when an Evening STAR reporter
called today.
When the Columbian University was
incorporated in the first week of Feb
ruary, Mr.. Mintz. who said he was the
resident agent" asserted that the IN
~stitution would be located here. prob
ably in November. and that several
doctors of medicine and dental surgery
three of whom he mentioned by name,
would constitute the nucleus of the
teaching staff. The Faculty of .Amer:-
can Dentistry, part of the name Of the
incorporated institution. was not 20 be
q faculty at all, the pedagogically IN
clined Newark jeweler explained. It
was to be The name of a proposed pub
LEGATION.
When he was pressed for details as
TO low money to finance the univeratty
was TO be raised Mr.. Mintz said he be-
1ieved Armand Spenser, the secretary,
had all hat In charge.
Armand Spenser is French and Ital-
lar Interpreter In the Eighth District
Municipal Court in Harlem. 1t is alb
solutely certain that the Columbian
University Is dead. and he wishes it
had died before IL was born.
"How's the university getting ~aIong?"
he was asked.
He became an animated picture of
voluble indignation.
".Ah. do not ask me-" hi said. II
have nothing TO do with that business:
absolutely nothing. 1t is dead. dead.
dead. And yet everybody is saying to
INC. You are an incorporation of n bum
university"
Spenser was asked II that charge was
not q fact.
"Of a university. yes; but Of "a bum
University, decidedly no. How can it be
d bum university when it is not even
started? Listen: They, the three of
them. Mintz and his b%oarder. Henault,
n Frolich. sent application to the Sec
rotary of state of New Jersey for in
corporation as the Columbian Univer-
sity and Faculty of American Den
tistry. The application comes back
with the command that there must be
Ave signers. not three. ] and my
-ythar Jacques, who is now suffering
from two blows In the eyes by a black
jack and d hold-up man. we were
friends of these three, and to be friend
ly--that is alive signed as incorpora-
tors. All, positively all. my connection
With the university is that. signed.
mo, | am not secretary; there Is no
secreta. y, no president, no nothing, but
1--WE trustees, of which I am one. No,
there is no money. positively not.
ITO sell bonds, that is impossible
under the Jersey law, believe me We
are selling no bonds, no stocks. Nor
are we going to sell diplomas. How
could we sell diplomas when we have
no university"
Spenser became considerably agitated
when he was pressed to tell why in
corporation a sought IL organization
and profits. even intellectual profits,
did not follow the granting of a
charter
".Ask mel | say ] know nothing.
Yes. something-the university was to
be endowed. Yes, that was it. Tou
see. Alexander Henault thought he
was going to receive a large legacy
and with that he would endow the
university. He got the legacy all
right, but it is all mortgaged and has
DEBTS han ing all owe il, and there
was. consequently, no money for en-
downing the university. So now the
thing is dead. and unless IL is started
in two years the charter viii be re-
voked.'
Before he went back into the court
room Spenser said that he was going
to write TO the New Jersey secretary
Of state or somebody and tell him 10
scratch his name off that list of in
rorporators. Everybody talking about
a bum unive -sity: he'd heard enough