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FOUR PARTS.
' INDUSTRIAL
EDITION.
PART IT
EDUCATIONAL
HISTORIC SEATS OF LEARNING WHICH-
HAVE DEVELOPED WITH THE
GROWTH OF THE ME- ’I
TRoPOLIs..
IDVANTAGES OFFERED THE STUDENTS OF LOCAL
INSTITUTIONS—LIFE IN A BIG CITY ALMOST
AN EDUCATION ITSELF—THE LEADING
COLLEGES AND SEMINARIES. .
No feature of a great centre of population is
wider-reaching in its influence than the edu-
cational advantages which it has to offer. The
better the mental training of the children of
any city or nation, the better fitted are the in-
dividuals for carrying on the practical prob-'
lems of every~day existence. Knowledge is the
power before which the ignorance and super-
stition of the world must pe1ish and disappear.
Education, whether of the lowest class or
the highest, has ever had and alWays will have
an uplifting influence in the community where
it has been propagated. A striking example
of the weakness or strength of a nation has
been b1ought out in the late war with Spain.
On the one hand was arrayed a country Where
education had been withheld from the great
mass of the population, and where the mind
of the people had been rendered sluggish and
inactive through profound ignorance. OnIthe
other hand there stood ~a great Republic, which
from its birth had freely offered the best edufi
cation that could be obtained and which, as a
result, was able to command the services of
uncounted millions possessing sturdy mentali-
ty and intellectual strength. It was a weak
nation against a mighty one and it is small
wonder that the conflict ended so abruptly and
with such glory and credit to the latter.
As it is with nations, so it is with States and
cities. Where is found the highest standard
of education there will be found the greatest
amount of financial, commercial, religious and
social prosperity and success: in..which‘ re-
gard New—York'City has ever been .a leader."
As the foremost city of the United States and
the special .pride of the boasted Empire State,
than which no State in the Union gives more
care or takes more pains with the education
of its youth, this city has held from the ear-
liest years institutions whose name and fame
have gone abroad through the Nation; As the
city has Igrowrr and developed, so have its
schools, colleges and seminarics. Columbia
College, from humble birth, met with a
success which placed it among the first rank
of the United States. It has repeatedly out-
grown its accommodations, until, by the aid of
rich endowments and wise business manage-
ment, it has become Columbia University, oc-
cupying a magnificent site on Morningside
‘Heights, with splendid buildings, and an equip-
ment, from an educational standpoint,- which
is second to none. What has been said of Co-
lumbia is equally true of that fine old seat of
learning, the University of the City of New;
York. Its loyal sons are scattered throughout
the length and breadth of the land, and are
among the stanch citizens of every communi-
t'y in which they dwell. From its historic site,
in the heart of the metropolis, it has moved
to newer and more commodious quarters at
University Heights, where every facility is af-
forded for the pursuit of learning. With such
leaders, not to mention the Packer Collegiate
Institute, the Normal College. St. John’s Col-
lege, Manhattan College, St. Francis Xavier’s,
St. Francis's College, of Brooklyn; the General
Theological Seminary, Union Theological Sem-
inary, Packard’s Business College and Pratt
Institute, New—York City has reason to feel.
satisfied with the provision made for the edu-
cation oi.‘ her children.
Where could be found a better spot to'ac—
quire learning than in this greatest of all
American cities?
art, literature, science, religion, music, com-
merce, finance and politics is to be found with-
in the boundaries of the second city in size on
the face of the globe. When the routine of
the classroom is over there are hundredsof
interesting subjects to be investigated and
studied in the light of recreation; The student
for the ministry finds here big congregations
and pulpit orators of widespread fame. In the
slums of the city he is brought in contact with
poverty and crime, and his-knowledge of his
work is broadened and made liberal. The doc-
tors in embryo find at their disposal hospitals
'without end, and suffering of every kind and
description. The practical training is the best
teacher they could possibly have. The student
' of law finds himself in a community where the
legal talent is of the highest standard, and the
examples set for him spur him on to high aims
and. a more noble ambition. Those who are
simply preparing for business feel the in-
fluence of the tremendous commerce 'which is
daily going on around them. They absorb the
vital principles of success. In the great bank-
ing institutions, commisSion houses, importing
firms and manufacturing plants they are given
I» keener insight into business methods and
ADVANTAGES.
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THE MANHATTAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY BUILDING.
No.66Broadway.
The handsome new building of the Manhattan Life Insurance Company is easily one of
the stunning architectural features of the city of New- York. .Standing at No.66 Broadway, it
has its location in the very heart of the financial section of the city.
Famous Wall- st., the‘
Stock, Consolidated, Produce, Cotton and Coffee exchanges, the Sub— Treasury, Custom- -House
and Clearing—House are all within a few steIs from its portals.
was completed, it was the tallest office structure in the city, 1ising 384 feet into the air from
the level of Broadway. Handsome and imposlrg in its solidity and massiveness, it represents
the highest type of the’modern “sky- ”scraper "
i the building are at once beautiful and originii
Be: des a basement and sub-cellar, there are six-
were constructed regardless of expense.
The finish and arrangement of the interior of
The offices, floors, stairs and other features
teen floors, Which offer the room for the 8,000 1 r 9,000 persons who find each day occupation
beneath its roof. The weight of the building
43,000,000, pounds.
tons. All told,
The weight of human beir gs,
the total is 00,000,000 pou1 ds.
are built on the bed rock, a pile foundation béing out of the question.
s estimated at 21,600 tons, or a little more than.
furniture. etc... is _placed at' dbdut 7,000
The foundations for this enormous weight
The pneumatic process
was employed in this work, and it enabled the builders to reach rock without in any way Idis-‘
turbing the. material except in a volume equal to that of the caisson. Thirty- three private}
houses could have been constructed with the lricks used in this building.
another, these bricks would make a single co umn more than s1x hundred miles high. A'I”
If piledI upon one,
building such as this is a veritable microcosm, a little world by its: :,lf and everything that
science and money could obtain has been utili: ed for the comfort, convenience and safety or
patrons and tenants.
the city.
systems.v Music here has its most noted in-
terpreters, .while painting, sculpture, architect-
ure and all other arts and sciences offer op-
portunities to be seized upon with an eager
grasp. ,
In the special field of * learning should be
mentioned such institutions as the New-York
Homoeopathic College and HOspital, the New-
York College of MusicpEc-lectic Medical Col-
lege, .Webb’s Academy and Home for Ship-
builders, Woman’s Medical College, New-York
Institute for the Blind’ New- York Training
School for Deaconesses, New- York Law School,
New- York Conservatory of Music and the New-
York Institute for "the Deaf and Dumb. From
The structure is indeed a. credit to the company and an ornament to
a recital of this list a better idea is conveyed
of the comprehensiveness of the instruction to.
. The. educational
be had. And theseare not all.
could be
institutions of New-York City'
counted in the hundreds, and the students by
, 'They comefrom every
part of the .United States. .To the student who
lives in this city the opportunity for
educating himself or herself has almost no lim-
itations.
multitudinous halls of learning are men‘and
the tens of thousands.
women trained by long experience and patient
years of study and preparation for the Work'
they have undertaken. and the instruction from.
such teachers becomes of double .value.
. plete accomplishment
In 1894, when the building.
“ .Gallatin, the Hon. MorganIILewis,
The instructors gathered within these.
NEW YORK U VI VERSI ['1’
The establishment of a university in New-
York on a liberal and extensive foundation was
first agitated in 1829. The committee appointed
.at a public meeting held at that time secured
a long roil_ ofx subscribers, and the institution
was chartered April 18,1831.
The founders thus. enlisted were composed in
almost equal parts. of: public- Spirited business
men and of members of the liberal professions.
Their plan from the beginning included nearly
all the 111' ofessorships that are- comprised to-day
- inthe faculties -of.the six schools of New-York
. University: Even the School of Pedagogy was
anticipated in :a proposed professorship of “The
Philosophy of :Educationand the Instruction of
Teachers." The Graduate School was planned
under the name_“'1‘he First. General Division,"
while the Undergraduate College was known as
the Second Division. The Schools of Law and
Medicine and-'Applied Science were all contemr
plated :by the first‘statutes adopted in 1831.
These plans were ‘far in advance'of any demand
then. existi‘ng‘in‘ America, and were not sup-
ported‘by Sufficient endowment for their (10111--
It was reserved for the
last quarter of the nineteenth century instead
of the second quarter to develop them in full
meaSure.
’ The University as now existing comprises
under the Council, which is by- charter the
corporation, three faculties, and six schools, of
which four are under the Faculty of Arts and
Science, while the Faculties of Law and. Medl-
cinc have each one school. ' '
- The following‘ep'ochs in’ the history of the Uni-
versity are noted.
UNDER THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCI~
ENCE.
October, 1832—Ope11ing of college Work, close-
ly followed by the erection (183.4-’35) of the
university building.
1835—Invention, in the University, of the Re-
cording Telegraph:
. “Your' Philomathean Hall, the room I occupied
—that :room in the .-Univers-ity was the birth-
place of the recording telegraph."-—-—(Extract
from address of Professor MorSe at the alumni
meeting of 1853.
1839—Invention, in the University, of the 11p-
plication of photography to the representation
of the human countenance.
I 1864—’ (SB—Founding of the General Endcw~
ment, in chief part by Loring Andrews.
1886—Organization of Graduate School.
1890—Proposal of an uptown site. I ,
1890—Organization of the School of Pedagogy.
1890—Appointment of the Woman’ 5 Advisory
Committee.
1892—Purchase Cf University Heights. _ _
1894—Removal to University Heights of the
University College.
1895—Gift of the Library Building and of
Gould Hall.
UNDER THE FACULTY OF 'MEDICINE.
ISM—Opening of the college on Broadway, op<
‘posite Bend st.
1851~Removal to Fourteenth- st., near Irving
Place.
1853—Procurement by the faculty of the law
legalizing dissection in New— York State. .
1869—Removal (after the burning of the old
edifice, in 1866, and a temporary stay in the
New-York Hospital).
1879—Erection of the present college building.
1887—Building of the L‘oomis Laboratory.
1892—Adoption of the Three Years’ Course.
'1896—Adoption of Four Years’ Course.
1897—:University direct control inaugurated.
UNDER THE FACULTY OF LA\V.
1835—P-lan of the Hon. B. F. Butler for the
school adopted:
BESS—Reorganization of the department or
law.
1863—F0unding of the Law L1b1ary by John
Taylor Johnston.
1895—Opening oi the new halls at Washington
Square,' and the. establishment of morning,
afternoon and evening .' struction.
The. following are those who have been suc-
cessively in the places noted since the founding
of the University.
Presidents of. the Council—The Hon. Albert
the .Hon.
James Tallmadge, Gardner Spring, D. D.:
Charles Butler, LL. D.; John C. Green LL. D.:
John Taylor Johnston, and William Allen But-
ler, LL. D.
'Chancellors of‘the UniversityTJames Mat-
thews, D. D.; the Hon. The .dore Frelinghuysen,
LL. D. Isaac Ferris, D. D. LL. D, Howard
Crosby, D. D, LL. D.; John Hall, D. D. LL D.,
and Henry Mitchell MacCracken, D D., LL. D.
TheIIfoliowing roll of eminent professors (none
now occupying chairs are included, and al-
most none now are living) will prove of interest.
All titles a1e omitted.
Faculty of Arts and Science—Samuel F. “B.
Morse, Henry P. Tappan, John Torrey, Lewis
C. Beck, Charles P. McIlvaine, Caleb S. Henry,
Henry Vethake, Charles W. Hackley, William
A. Norton, John W. Draper, Thomas H. Gal-
laudet, Edward Robinson, Charles D. Cleve-
land, George Bush, Lorenzo L. Da Pon‘ e, Court-
landt Van" Rensselaer. Elias Loomis. George J.
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