Union College - Garnet Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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l i PO'I l'liR I. ., Q . N, i oratory, and Bailey Hall built for instruction in the languages and history. The college grew to over eight hundred students and the erection of a new Electrical Engineering building was provided for and begunL Courses in Chemistry, Physics, Art and Music were introduced. Dr. Richmond retired in 1928 and has only recently completed a series of world travels. Union College together with its graduate department, Albany Medical Col- lege Ql838j, Albany Law School Ql85lj, the Pharmacy School, and Dudley Observatory are now under the direction of Dr. Frank Parker Day who is president of Union College and chancellor of Union University. An inter- locking board of trustees of the college and governors of the University main- tains unity in the departments. Dr. Day's presidency has been a particularly difiicult one in view of the economic pressure of the times. Dr. Day holds three degrees, M.A., LL.D., and D.Litt, I-Ie is a Rhodes Scholar and graduate of Mount Allison University and Oxford University. In 1914 he recruited and commanded the 185th Cana- dian Infantry, Cape Breton Highlanders. He served in France with the l6lst Royal Scots and commanded the 25th Canadian Infantry. I-Ie was promoted on the held to Lieutenant Colonel and was made President of the Khaki College for the Canadian Forces While in France. f -' 21 3 Ei 1 . lf .P 5 ' 'Ti fijziis ,-f '1 Tis, '15, ' ,g N i W'5:,:giQfgf-:tx aria?-'?'faf'e:s5a?QS1f.wzi I Ai-5543191 2 v-.frfqff ri 12153:-Q1Efqf.4e.ff:g5.71ja.5nff:-iqinxggso 4 . f?'i fI'4,z::1Es , fi-'fly' ,',-FLa2:,2.1!5 'e' 'ri -ri- : I f. Kali' 4:1-'lv.S:,.,-5 v'.-:wr Q-ff-gb:-r'.1,3-viip-wf?'1?T?ig :rzew:+e',G.i-'fy-if :!1,:'-1' i iff'-f:'.53f- fri 1455- Mfi,fg1:.- fn . 'f 'jiiklfif 1 5i5q?:gi55-fffffi if ' - Q ni- .14-,vpfefvr q5!5,.f..v.-Q5 ..'n.p.f. .-A ww- 1-was ja, ff? ttlff ' ,.,,gff1 ,P-4 4'-Q52 lylLfi3i?f4?Li!:5 Ji if f 2LfL4'QE31-. '4 e,f '-.qi 5- 5: 412:03 ggi QQ l13'?2'2a EFL .lh':s1f'e f3 A f'1f. ?55fe'Wt'11fa13 'ff'3-raffiiffi'Puff: -Zr2 .f2 'Fil' may :re ye, 5 'mf'fifi'IQg. I fgmie, 1- -i is W -. I ' I - 1-ft i 'E,,:g:13.'cf lf'-reg-rf -, r , ,w vt i fir . V Q 5 gizig srz. 1 -rffe.i'it2.g mipgiui , i + .mv ,V 35 ., 3 , .Ar ra: N 'i -- ,: llllllllm ll A , Mm All nhlltrtgattllf-1 gi ,P i eg-lg ,Q 'P +l-:ii-v--'f 'C'--:fi-wlfiiifig' I LD ta fig-a ffiifin mfs - fsfft'-erii Eff- '23 -rf if-1-F: :L ' f . T535 - I, . . .i- ., d -3 .. ,fx H 1 'Ti-.Q 55151.16-1 ,a.j f?'T?f1 gig 1'-TE OLD BLUE GATE 24

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of 1860 and 1861 were among the largest in the history of the college. Through nearly a quarter of a century the south had sent more students to Union college than to any other, and the classes of those years were made up of represent- atives from nearly every southern state. Thus when the break came that divided the union of states the college also was to be divided. When the shells began to fall on Sumter the last band of Southern students left to join the ranks of the Confederate Army. Scores of northern students forsook their books to take up the musket against those who had been not only fellow-members of Philomathean or some campus society but fraternity brothers as well. The Union Campus became a drill ground. The gallant young Professor Piessner, recruited a company on College Hill and led them in person to the front where he fell on the bloody field of Chancellorsville, with a colonel's stars on his shoulders. In 1866 Dr. Nott passed away at the age of ninety-three years. He was succeeded by Dr. Hickok. Two years later, in 1868, Dr. Hickok resigned. Following a brief interregnum, the Rev. Dr. Eliphalet Nott Potter, grand- son of President Nott, was elected to the presidency. Dr. Potter had the distinction of becoming the hrst Chancellor of Union University. The crea- tion of graduate departments at Schenectady was not practical in those early days of 1795. But when the need for such institutions formed expression, schools of law, medicine and astronomy which had already been founded in Albany, only twelve miles distant, were incorporated with Union College to form Union University in 1873. In 1881 the Board of Governors of the Univer- sity founded the Albany College of Pharmacy. When Dr. Potter retired, in 1884, the Hon. Judson S. Landon became president ad interim until the election, in May, 1888 of Harrison E. VVebster, LL.D. In 1894, President VVebster was forced to resign due to ill health and the trustees elected Andrew V. V. Ray- mond. When Dr. Raymond became President of Union, the college was at the lowest ebb in its history. The enthusiasm., oratorical ability, and the remarkable personal influence which Dr. Raymond pdssessed were in no small part factors in again placing the college on the up grade. The number of students doubled, the teaching force was increased, scholarship was elevated and an endowment of about half a million created. Silliman Hall was acquired during his administration and electrical engineering courses introduced. Dr. Raymond resigned in 1908 after the death of his wife. Dr. Charles Alexander Richmond succeeded Dr. Raymond in 1909. His presidency, which lasted for twenty years, coincided with the boom years of the country. A four million dollar endowment was built up and in addition an active building program was successfully completed. During these twenty years the new gymnasium was finished, Buterheld memorial erected as a chemistry lab- Al li EN :gf LSE. v '53, , . 1 H . Y, 1. i7 ' itil: ' ' 4 23 A V: ,, Q V .t . 'eff '--Y

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DR. FRANK PARKER DAY. President of Union College and Chancellor of U niou University 25