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MU Nfl 7 hitnrial HE colleg year of 1908 l909 opened up with bright prospects for Old Union The entering class was the largest in the history of the college Union spirit was stronger than ever before D to this spirit 1n less than two hours approximately nine thousand fund Our progress has not all been spiritual 'Xxflth the Hrst signs of spring work was started on the construction of the new engineering building It is expected that this building will be completed by October l l909 I , , , ' VIPQ' . . dollars was subscribed by the student body for the new gymnaslum , , . The most important event of the yearwas the election of our new president, Dr. Charles Alexander Richmond. Under his able guidance, we feel confident that Old Union will continue to prosper and will become one of the best known universities in the country.
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DEDICATION 6 6 6 t The Class of Nineteen Hundred Ten . . 4 . dedicates this, its book to . . . . lgrnf. lgnnmrh Gbphgkv, A. in grateful recognition of his loyal interest in our Alma Mater, and in loving appreciation of those personal qualities that have endeared himi to usall .... . ...... i a- V9 P- -7,
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T1-IE GARNET, 1910 9 A Mlimpav intn 1Hnin11'a limit Eg Samurai 11151. Glnuvrt, 'III 'M 'p EARLY one hundred and fourteen years ago there was founded in ' 1 the old Dutch city of Schenectady, known as H The Gateway of the Mohawk, the' first college ever founded in America on a f X fb non-sectarian yet Christian basis. ln keeping with this funda- mental idea in the founding of the college the name H Union was given to her, signifying that all who should gather here, of what- 1 urxnyw ever sect or creed, should be one in the broad principles of Christian unity. A Forlsixteen years after the stormy days of the Revolution A and even while the strife for independence was still in progress, the citizens of the Mohawk Valley had been untiring in their earnest efforts to have a college founded there, until in 1795 their toil was crowned with success. Schenectady and Albany were rival claimants for the location of the prospective college. Albany was larger and had better facilities, but the deci- sion was Hnally in favor of Schenectady, partly because her citizens were more enthusiastic supporters of the plan for a new college, and partly because of the influence of General Philip Schuyler, who, although himself a resident of Albany, yet saw clearly that her sister city would be likely to prove a more favorable location. The first home ofgUnion College was one little building that stood at the corner of Union and Ferry streets. Rev. Joseph Sweetman, D. D., the vale- dictorian of the class of three that was the first class graduated from Union, has told of the event of the transformation when this old building became the home of the college. l-le writes, H I-lad you been there, you would have witnessed a joyful night, when the old academy was metamorphosed into Union College. Bells were rung. On all sides there were demonstrations of joy. The whole city rejoiced at the glad tidings that there was to be an institution of higher learning in her midst. Small, indeed, were the beginnings of the college. One instructor seems to have comprised the entire faculty. The students during the first year were only nineteen in number.
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