City College of New York - Microcosm Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Officers of Instruction, Government, Etc. ARRANGED in ORDER of SENIORITY The PRESIDENT. PROFESSORS and ASSISTANT PROFESSORS constitute the Faculty 7

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UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK College of the City of New York Richard H. Adams, John T. Burke, Vernon M. Davis, Horace E. Dresser, Edward F. Farrell, John Griffen, M.D., Joseph J. Little, BOARD OF TRUSTEES Joseph J. Kittell, George Livingston, Henry W. Maxwell, Tiiaddeus Moriarty, Miles M. O’Brien, Waldo H. Richardson, M.D., Charles E. Robertson, F. DkHass Simonson, Morris E. Sterne, J. Edward Swanstrom, John R. Thompson, George M. Van Hoesen. Alexander S. Webb, Ex-officio. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR THE CARE. GOVERNMENT. AND MANAGEMENT OF THE COLLECE Mr. Dresser, Mr. O’Brien, Mr. Davis, Chairman, Mr. Burke, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Moriarty, Mr. Thompson, President Webb, Ex-ojfficio. 6

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Gen. Alexander Stewart Webb, LL.D., President T is not often that Nature so blends the soldier, literatus, and academician as she has done in the person of President Webb, to the formation of a gifted and many-sided man. General Webb comes of an old New York family; he is a son of General James Watson Webb, and was born in this city in 1835. He completed his private school education at West Point, where he was graduated in 1855. For the next two years lie saw active military service in the Florida campaign and on the Minnesota frontier. In 1857 he became Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the Military Academy, a position which he held until the outbreak of the Civil War. General Webb’s career in the War of the Rebellion was a brilliant and enviable one, but we have space to mention only a few of the principal engagements in which he distinguished him- self. In the summer of ’62 he served in the Army of the Potomac, and was made Brigadier- General in July, 1863. At Gettysburg his brigade (the Second, Second Division, Second Corps) was conspicuous in the repulse of Pickett’s charge, and General Webb, though wounded, bore himself in such an admirable and daring manner that General Meade bestowed on him a medal for distinguished personal gallantry,” and stated, in his letter accompanying it, that his conduct was not surpassed by that of any general on the field.” For his behavior at Gettysburg, he was brevetted Major in the Regular Army. It is by his part in this battle that General Webb is most widely remembered, but in the Rapidan campaign (notably at Bristow Station), the battles of the Wilderness, and at Spottsyl- vania Court House his work was equally as brilliant. In the last conflict he was severely wounded, and, for his meritorious bearing was brevetted Colonel (U. S. Army). In the engage- ments before Petersburg, General Webb was Chief-of-StafT of the Army of the Potomac, and was in turn brevetted Brigadier and Major-General. Since the war he has published several monograms on different campaigns, chief of which is an account of McClellan's operations on the Peninsular. His works are all characterized by their just and able criticism and each is authoritative on its respective topic. In 1869 the Presidency of the College of the City of New York was offered to General Webb. During the time of his administration, he has labored earnestly and conscientiously in the interests of our Alma Mater, and, if any one man may be said to have raised the standard of scholarship of our institution to the high position which it now holds, it is he to whom the honor is due. Long and faithfully has General Webb served our Alma Mater, and his name is dear to every one of her sons. Long may he still be permitted to serve her. 8