Syracuse University - Onondagan Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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Syracuse of Tomorrow BY PROFESSOR HENRY A. PECK Hlf increasing sprinkle of gray hairs among our thinning locks reminds us of the fact that we are numbered among the Old Grads. It reminds us also that there Wasa Syracuse ofyesterday, with which we were familiar and ofwhose spirit We were partakers. Of this age the Hall of Languages-is the -type. Solid, substantial, after a period of forty years its walls show no cracks. Thousands of students have passed through its doors and up its narrow stairways to its plain, bare chapel. Today in distant lands and amid foreign sur- N HALL OF LANGUAGES roundings their thoughts turn thither. The returning graduate sees it with other eyes than those of the student of today. To him it speaks of Haven the scholar, of French the dig- nified and forceful, and of Sims Whose abounding love for humanity touchedithe souls of men. A Divine Providence has decreed that evolution should be the law of the universe. Insti- tutions and individuals that attempt to stand still must perish. Signs of the second age began to multiply in the last years of the administration of Chancellor Sims. The observatory and Crouse College, with its fine hall and organ, are his greatest monument. Realizing that his own work was drawing to a close he began to cast about for a successor. It Was due to his 9

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Boston Alumni ASS0Ciati0n QEOrmed Feb. 2I, 19055 Officers for 1908-1909 WILLIAM HARMAN VAN ALLEN, S-T-D P1 c'f1'tlc'11f . ' ' , . - ' M A. WOOD M.S. 75 I In-Prvmienr . - WILLIA ' ' , . v NS A.B. O4 Svnctzzry and Tl'FOIll7'61 . . . ARTHUR L E A , , Rome Alumni Association -QFOrmed June 30, 19055 officers-'fsf'1903-1909 JANE S. HIGHAM, A.M., '76 THOMAS G. NOOK, M.D., '83 f' P ',1 EDWARD B. TOPPING, A.B., '94 EMMA M. FOOT, CX-,75 FRANK W. KIRKLAND, B.Ar., '92 1,I't'.fflll'l1f . . - - Fir!! V1'I'v-Pre.f1'dent . Svuoml lice- resz ent . W .S n'r'vtz11' y . . . TI'c'l1Ill7't'I' . . . . Syracuse University Club of Oswego QEormed July 5, IQOSJ Officers for 1908-1909 ljrvsidmr . . . EUGENE H. JOY, ex-'85 l'iw-Presidmt EDWIN MIZEN, LLB., 'OI S4'1'n'lz1ry and TI'f0Illf87 .... JOSEPH B. RINGLAND, M.D., '02 New York State Teachers' Alumni Association CEOrmed Dec. 27, I8Q3D Officers for 1908-1909 ' Presiflenr . . . 'ROLAND S. KEYSER, Ph.D., '72 Secretary and Treasuref . . FRANK SMALLEY, Ph.D., '74 The Syracuse Alumni Association of Cleveland, Ohio 'CEOrmed Oct. 17, IQOSJ Officers for 1909-1910 Pnxvirlerzt . . EDWARD L. HARRIS, A.B., '73 S ff'ff'fJ' - CLIFFORD R. WALKER, Ph.B., 'O8 The Syracuse University Alumni Association of Washington, D Officers for 1909-1910 President , 1 A H GILES ,78 INCH-.P 'E ' ' ' ' 4 , S1 t 1 ndent . E. W. COLLINS, '82 :TTS 0 ' 7,1 U ' . C. T. ROBERTSON, 'O5 'c'H.S'lll' ff . L. R. WOODIIULL, '05 8

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A CAMPUS VIEW . - ' ' tl foresight that our present chancellor was first mentioned for the task of supervising the grow 1 of the university. From the lirst Chancellor Day saw the opportunity that the location of Syracuse afforded. He also saw more early than any other man at that time that the day of small things had passed away. The Syracuse of the future must have great buildings and large endowments. The institution must pass through the age of brick and mortar, so that eventually there should he the proper housing for the multitudes of young men and young women who should come to prepare themselves- for their lifetwork. We are now in the midst of this brick and mortar age. Our campus, disfigured by the building operations, is scarcely a thing of beauty. No fabric, While yet on the loom, is more than a prophecy. Under the skilful hand of the weaver the discordant materials at length take their proper place. The Syracuse of tomorrow' will be far different from the Syracuse of today. The most cheering feature with regard to its future, is the manner in which the city and sur- e rounding territory have adopted the institution. There is no town. and gown. The growth of the city and that of the uni- versity will be one. To the city, the expansion of the university is its greatest asset, while to the university, the increasing re- sources of the city give promise that its own increasing necessi- ties will be met. As the names of Crouse, Holden, Smith and LXDNINISTRATION B Lyman have been perpetuated 4 1 1 UILDING . . . on these hills, others in future IO