New-York tribune., 1919-10-11
Two Thousand Members of
New Organization Plan to
Take Burden From Shoul-
ders of Colgate Family
Centennial Is Celebrated
President Bryan Sounds a
Warming Against the Inn
poverishment of Teachers
Special Correspondence

Special CORES ponGence
HAMILTON, n. Y, Oct. 10.-Col-
gate University ceased tonight to be
a financial ward of the Colgate family,
when two thousand alumni, at the cen
tenial celebration of the founding of
Colgate University, voted to incorpor-
ate legally the alumni body of the
school. This action, taken with the
knowledge and consent of the Colgate
family, who have been interested in
the school for nearly a century, simply
means, as j. c. Colgate said tonight,
that hereafter the Colgate family will
contribute to the support OF the uni
versity as a pleasure and not as
matter OF family duty. The respon-
sibility for the financial welfare of the
university will be left entirely with
the alumni.
in Colgate when it was the Hamilton
Theological Seminary in 1923. In
1890 his son, j. B. Colgate, left the
school S1,Oo0,o00. It's name was
then changed to Colgate University.
Others who have contributed to the
support of Co gate are J. c. Colgate,
n banker of New York City; Austin
Colgate, former United States Senator
from New Jersey; Sidney NJ. Colgate,
president of the board OF trustees of
Colgate; the late Richard NJ. Colgate
and Miss Mary Colgate.
First $4,000 Subscribed
The new alumni corporation tonight
subscribed about $4,000 toward the
support of the university in the COM
ing year
4 note of warning against the i'm
poverishment of the American profess
sor end the consequent lowering of the
standards of university teaching was
sounded to-day by President Elmer
Burritt Bryan in the welcoming ad-
dress
The detractions from careers of
scholarship are much stronger and
more numerous to-day than ever be-
fore" said President Bryan. "Unless
decided change is effected by the time
children now in the kindergarten reach
the high school they will be obliged, in
most cases. to sit at the feet of teach
ers of inferior birth and breeding. This
alone will mean the undoing of So
ciety."
The centennial ceremonies started to-
day with an airplane crash. A Colgate
alumnus, in a Curtiss NC-4, piloted by
Major NJ. K. Brewster, of Syracuse,
brought a message from Syracuse
alumni to President Bryan. After per-
forming stunts over the college campus
the plane attempted to land on soggy
field 1t crashed on its nose and
smashed its propeller, but neither pas
senger suffered injury.
The site of the Colgate University.
an ,-i,yir +oroct ,rb;cr r. cd jcat cd
in 1884 to higher education, was re-
dedicated to-day by the Rev. Wp. II. S:
Hascall. grandson of the founder Of
Colgate. Sidney NJ. Colgate, of Orange,
n. j., presided at the exercises. With
the town of Hamilton virtually over
crowded by the hundreds of returning
alumni, the university has erected
tents on the campus to serve as dining
halls and dormtores. 1t is estimated
that 90 per cent of the 5000 alumni
and former students Of Colgate have
returned, owing to tha use during the
summer of a modern advertising. cam
paisn. George ". Cobb, '94, % New
York City. general manager of the
American Can Company, presided at
alumni exercises held during the after
noon in the university chapel. VIM.
Henry Crawshaw, 'e7. dean of the uni
verslty, read the centennial ode; Pro-
fessor William Mangan Lawrence, 20,
made the historical address, and the
Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick of the
Union Theological Seminary, made the
memorial address.
The Centennial Dinner
The centennial dinner was held in
the evening. followed by reception by
President and Mrs. Bryan. Tomorrow
morning formal centennial exercises
will be held. The address Of the day
Viii be made by John Huston Finley,
New ork State Commissioner of Edu-
cation. Honorary degrees will be con-
ierred upon distinguished guests.
IN he afternoon, Brown and Colgate
VIII battle on the local gridiron. An
exhibition b. aTiators and an alumni
dance val conclude the days pro-
gramme.' The centennial will end Sun
day with an address in the university
chapel by the Rev. Daniel Hunt Claire,
Ihe following directors for the corpo-
fation for the coming year were elect
ed: New York City-Georee ". CobD.
trnest IL. "hitney, vice president of
the Gibbs Press; Howard G. Stokes,
service manager Of the Prizma Corpo-
ration; Raymond 4. Brooks, president
oi the K. +. Brooks Company; Wayne
A. Root, 233 Broadway; Allen B.
stearns. copy manager Of the New
fork Telephone Company; Carlton O.
Miller, New York Y. NJ. c. A.. and
James G. McOwan, 10 Wall Street.
Utner directors chosen were Frank NJ
Williams, state engineer, and Profes-
sors John a. Lahey, Harold O. Whit
nall and Ellery C.. Huntington, jr.. Of
Colgate University.