New York University - Violet Yearbook (New York, NY)

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with the Hall of Languages, the Havemeyer ..... .... Laboratory, the Gould Library, a gymna- sium, and the Charles Butler dormitory- the old Mali mansion. Among the earliest i members of the faculty were Charles L. Bris- tol in Biology, Marshall Stewart Brown in History, Pomeroy J. Ladue in Mathematics, - H x. 3 Lawrence A. McLouth in German, Thomas ,Q W. Edmondson in Mathematics, and Francis - 2 Hovey Stoddard and Archibald L. Bouton , 1 in English. f--- Ali ' -fi?-Siam The dean of the college until 1906 was F, ' Q Professor Henry M. Baird of the Greek de- f ELL W. ...... .. partment. Upon Professor Baird's death, Dr. MacCracken himself assumed the position, and continued in the same capacity until his retirement in 1910. Professor Stoddard held the deanship for a brief four years, whereupon the position devolved upon Professor Bouton. Dean Bouton was faced with many serious and almost insoluble problems, but due to his skillful administration they soon resolved themselves, and today, after twenty years, Dean Bouton is the senior dean,,of the University. ' Since the advent of the present dean, a great number of changes have taken place. The student body has increased from three hundred and seventy- eight to over one thousand, the faculty has more than quadrupled, and, far from least, entrance examinations have been if introduced. Dean Bouton has amply proved the wisdom of the University Council of 191-4. A It was during Dean Bouton's adminis- ii: tration that the World War took place, and Q, ' , the Heights was not devoid of military ' preparations. A branch of the Students' . X, l Army Training Corps was organized on the Il campus, upsetting established courses, shak- 'lf'-'ixi ing research experts out of their solitude, and, by way of leaving footprints on the -1-J sands of time, providing a foundation for the v M' i compulsory course in military science which

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A History of the College of Arts and Pure Science N 1890, Vice-chancellor MacCracken first felt that the marked advance of business into the neighborhood of the University might be detrimental to the proper expansion of the University at Wasliington'Square. Almost immediately, steps were taken to procure a site some distance away, in some easily accessible neighborhood, and the following year the University Council agreed to purchase eighteen acres of the Mali estate on Fordham Heights, now University Heights, for three hundred and eight thousand dollars. It is interesting to note that the first plan had been to purchase property a short distance uptown, probably around Forty-second Street, but Vice-Chancellor MacCracken was attracted to the Mali estate, at that time for sale, as he was one day crossing the Harlem River. Thus the present site of the Heights colleges is due perhaps as much to accident as to design. After almost interminable delays, largely due to financial arrangements, the uptown branch was finally opened for the fall term of 1894, equipped

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.NW .J is given by the Reserve Oihcers' Training 3 Corps. ,.. 'nf' ' wi . . . ' RWE One building had been erected in 1915, F- . the Hall of Philosophy. It was the gift of 113- , v Mrs. john Stewart Kennedy in memory of her father, Cornelius Baker, who had been ' ' ' '- -. a member of the University Council from 5? in i ' P 1832 to 1838. Since 1915, three new build- ? U m lllh ings have been acquired. In 1924, the 2,3 - former residence of Chancellor MacCracken f AEE was obtained by the University, and is now , , ,j,jg....-.,.,e,..-- -- . U I n 'E known as Graduate Hall. Two years later, '- .... - .. --A' rw the Chemistry Laboratory was erected through the generosity of William H. Nichols of the class of 1870. The latest addition to the Heights campus was made last year on the retirement of Elmer Ellsworth Brown from the Chancel- lorship of the University, when the Heights Colleges acquired his former E.C. residence, which will be utilized as an English hall. Although the Hall of Fame is not, strictly speaking, a unit of the Heights colleges, yet its world wide renown merits its inclusion among the views at the Heights. It was in 1899 that Miss Helen Miller Gould, who also gave the college 5-XX its library and its dormitory, presented 6 -I N ,X the Heights with the Hall of Fame for great Americans. It is interesting to .El note that the Hall was erected for two 3761 1 purposes. It was designed not only to I commemorate the leaders of American in progress, but also, and this was more 7' HH U iv, 3 5 ,IF . immediately utilitarian, to conceal the gs: . H ii' lln min 'eu 1 I .? I Ldllllllllllllllllftl rather unattractive western facade of selected in 1900 and five more are being added at each five year interval :Q '- the Gould Library. Fifty names were dred and fifty names 'will be listed. A until the year 2000, when one hun- .iv 42 -1- 1 ' Only persons dead at least twenty-five