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ABSTRACT FROM THE JOURNAL OF A 
 MEETING OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS 
 OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE 
 OF NEW YORK 
 
 Held in the State Education Building, Albany, 
 May 22, 1913 
 
 The Board of Regents of the University of the 
 State of New York met in the Regents Chamber in 
 the Education Building, Albany, at 10 a. m., May 
 22, 1913, pursuant to a call duly sent to each Regent 
 as provided by law. 
 
 The meeting was called to order by Chancellor 
 McKelway. 
 
 The following Regents were present: Chancellor 
 St Clair McKelway, Vice Chancellor Pliny T. Sexton, 
 Regents Albert Vander Veer, Chester S. Lord, 
 William Nottingham, Francis M. Carpenter, Abram 
 I. Elkus, Adelbert Moot, Charles B. Alexander, John 
 Moore, and Andrew J. Shipman. Regent Littauer, 
 who is traveling in Europe, had been excused from 
 attendance. 
 
 IN MEMORY OF COMMISSIONER 
 ANDREW SLOAN DRAPER 
 
 Chancellor McKelway addressed the Board as follows : 
 My friends, this is the first meeting of our Board 
 since I called you to attend the funeral of Commis- 
 sioner Andrew S. Draper. You then joined with me 
 
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in a necessarily brief and informal statement of our 
 sense of loss and of our sympathy with his devoted 
 kindred, on our sorrowing way to his waiting grave. 
 
 Before we begin our sessions today I should, I think, 
 formally express our sense of sorrow (and as sincerely 
 as formally), that we have been called on to mourn 
 the death of a citizen, a friend, a colleague and a com- 
 rade whom we dearly loved and will deeply miss and 
 do profoundly mourn. In his life he did not seek, did 
 not like and was minded even to repel expressions of 
 regard for him. 
 
 The next duty to be done was his preferred subject. 
 That spirit, at once modest and practical, was what 
 bound him and us together with a strength no law 
 could prescribe and in a concord and loyalty which 
 wrought well for education and for the State. He con- 
 tributed to our usefulness. We sought to keep clear 
 and open the path for him. Never doubting he and 
 we labored to have this Department rise to what it was 
 created to be, to do, to exemplify and to incite for the 
 State and for the Republic. 
 
 He was the only Commissioner of Education New 
 York State has had. Yet the standard he could not 
 inherit but did set will be one not easy to equal and 
 difficult to excel. His were abilities which caused 
 every office to magnify under his hands and his were 
 the qualities which enlarged his public usefulness in 
 every public trust. He made every place he held a 
 greater place. Every place he held made him an abler 
 man for the ensuing larger duty. 
 
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Though he died when we felt we most needed him, 
 he had already done what he felt was most needed 
 should be done by him. Not that he left no uncom- 
 pleted tasks but that those which had been completed 
 plainly pointed and largely cleared the way for what 
 should still be done. He laid foundations. He opened 
 paths. He assured to us unification. He expedited 
 the completion of this building. Herein all our depart- 
 ments are housed and homed, and herein their co- 
 operating energies inspire and are inspired by educa- 
 tional forces everywhere. 
 
 I shall intrust to others of our Board the resolutions 
 or other forms of tribute which will comprise this De- 
 partment's tribute to our friend. What we shall say 
 should far exceed his restrained estimate of himself, but 
 it should still follow that measure of moderation in 
 which he always contended praise should be kept, to be 
 believed. It was his contention that eulogy should be 
 marked by accuracy so as not to be charged more 
 with a design of exploiting the praising man than ex- 
 pounding the man praised. That sincere and not 
 cynical estimate of his I leave with you, for we 
 respected his apothegm living and we would in nothing 
 offend his ascended spirit, not impossibly looking down 
 on us now from the opening and attentive skies. 
 
 Remarks by Vice Chancellor Sexton 
 Mr Chancellor: 
 
 It is not likely that any of us here, or of Commis- 
 sioner Draper's friends elsewhere, can think it needful 
 
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that much, if anything, should be added in our record 
 to the fine and justified affectionate tribute which you 
 have just paid to him. 
 
 I am moved to add, to what has been so well said, 
 hardly more than a single thought — if it may be an 
 added thought. 
 
 In contemplating his career, I have been much im- 
 pressed by the fact that therein it is strikingly attested 
 that there is, indeed, " a divinity which shapes our 
 ends." Such realization takes form in my thoughts in 
 the recurring phrase — The Lord was good to Com- 
 missioner Draper. And the conviction is absolute that 
 he was, happily for him and for multitudes of others, 
 from on high ordained for and ordained into his life 
 work. 
 
 Manifestly it was part of the divine plan that he 
 should take up the burden of life at a very early age, 
 and we find him when a mere lad of a dozen years 
 earning his own support and keeping himself in school 
 by his own physical labors; and ever afterward he 
 swam by his own unaided strength, with head high 
 above the waters, and carried many others on his 
 shoulders. 
 
 That experience of winning his own way, from the 
 alphabet, almost, through the elementary and high 
 schools, and landing himself on his feet as a law school 
 graduate, with the degree of LL.B., at the age of 
 twenty-three years, gave him, as no later-day theoriz- 
 ing could do, a sympathetic understanding of the diffi- 
 culties which beset the pathways of, and of the especial 
 
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needs of, vast numbers of longing, hopeful children, 
 like circumstanced, in every generation, and made him 
 wise and earnest in devising more favoring conditions 
 and in increasing suitable opportunities for their edu- 
 cational progress. 
 
 His few years in the practice of law, followed by a 
 brief experience as a judge, led him to a clearer com- 
 prehension and helped him to a juster evaluation of the 
 fundamental principles of legal science, and gave him 
 a balanced, judicial poise of mind not otherwise easily 
 obtained. 
 
 Running currently therewith he was having a period 
 of great activity in the field of practical party politics 
 — including a term as member of the Legislature. 
 Therein he thoroughly learned " the game " and came 
 to know equally well the men of his generation who 
 were masters thereof, and with their aid, and probably 
 without much perception, as yet, as to where it was 
 leading him, he became, in 1886, Superintendent of 
 Public Instruction in this State, and there began his 
 professional, technical education for his predestined 
 subsequent brilliant career as an educator and organizer 
 and administrator of public educational systems. 
 
 Six years there, and two years of successful con- 
 structive educational work in bringing order out of 
 chaos in the schools of Cleveland, followed by the ten 
 years of hard work as president of the University of 
 Illinois — giving that institution its real start in life — 
 finished his preparation for his last decade on earth as 
 the first Commissioner of Education of the State of 
 
New York, in which great service he abundantly 
 demonstrated that in being good to him the Lord had 
 intended, through him, greatly to bless the people of 
 this great State. 
 
 Under such guidance, his mind enlarged with his 
 varied experiences, his ambitions were purified and his 
 powers so developed that he was able to conceive and 
 bring into being in this State educational policies which 
 will give him enduring fame and make all succeeding 
 generations grateful to him and his Creator. 
 
 And the Lord's goodness did not fail him at the 
 end. He was permitted so to round out and com- 
 plete the work of his chosen, ordained career, that 
 when he was called home from earth he was as ready 
 for translation as man can ever be. 
 
 Yet we who had been permitted to be his intimates, 
 we who had learned to know him to an extent which 
 admiration can not express, we who had learned to 
 love him, find our hearts panged by his loss almost 
 beyond endurance or resignation. 
 
 Remarks by Regent Vander Veer 
 
 Mr Chancellor: 
 
 Doctor Draper presented a remarkable illustration of 
 reproductive growth. He inherited from his parents 
 all their strong characteristics, such as courage, a deter- 
 mination to meet all problems and responsibilities, and 
 to obtain a solution that brought him success all 
 through his life. His father passed through great 
 physical suffering and when it came to the son to 
 
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endure much along the same lines he exhibited the 
 same bravery, strength and will power that is not often 
 transmitted from one generation to another. His 
 growth was one of marked interest. As a boy he 
 observed carefully, was noted in his early days and 
 school life, particularly while at the Albany Academy, 
 for his investigations, and a line of reasoning that 
 enabled him to express himself with an intelligence in 
 his early speeches and in his early public life, that 
 attracted the attention of his seniors, producing much 
 enthusiasm in their associations with him. As an advo- 
 cate of temperance when but a young man, as a force- 
 ful campaign speaker, as a logical debater when in the 
 Legislature, and in his judicial positions later his mind 
 gave evidence of continuous development — a growth 
 that was pleasing and fascinating to observe. He left 
 behind him a record of doing an immense amount of 
 hard work and attained an eminence in his chosen field 
 of industry that is not often witnessed in the compe- 
 tition of the present day. 
 
 We shall miss him in our executive duties, we shall 
 miss him along the lines of initiative work, we shall 
 miss him when problems confront us that call for clear, 
 careful reasoning, and we shall ever bear him in mind 
 with respect and affection. 
 
 Remarks by Regent Lord 
 Mr Chancellor: 
 
 Men of merit, Mr Chancellor, impress us in various 
 ways. We may admire one man's ability to accom- 
 
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plish with ease and with perfection of result that which 
 he undertakes to do. We may admire another man 
 for his love of his work and for the enthusiasm with 
 which he engages in it — for an enthusiasm that is 
 inspiring to others as well as vitalizing to himself. And 
 in others we are attracted not alone by actual results 
 accomplished but also by the personality of the man, 
 his kindly nature, his courteous manner, his refinement 
 of speech and of conduct. And when we come to 
 find all these qualities reflected in one man — as to my 
 mind they were reflected in Commissioner Draper — 
 then indeed may we be proud of acquaintance or 
 comradeship or intimacy with him. 
 
 Rarely indeed does a man possess so many dis- 
 tinguishing qualities as did our friend; rarely indeed 
 does a man command so entirely the respect and the 
 admiration of his fellowmen. He was a leader of men, 
 sagacious, sane, convincing — dealing with the smaller 
 frictions of life with unusual tact and persuasiveness 
 and abundant geniality and bringing to those great 
 questions that filled his life a largeness of comprehen- 
 sion, a foresight almost infallible, and an ability for 
 accomplishing results that was akin to that of genius 
 and of statesmanship. 
 
 We mourn sincerely for Commissioner Draper, for 
 not only has every member of this Board lost a faithful 
 and loyal friend but the Board has lost a leader of 
 inestimable worth and ability on whom we had come 
 to depend and whom we shall miss yet the more and 
 
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more as the months roll by. In the reorganization of 
 the State's educational system he brought order out of 
 chaos, leaving his imprint on every detail. In the per- 
 fection of the new organization he was yet doing 
 marvelous work when death called him. He was able 
 and faithful in all things and those who knew him 
 must always be grateful for the privilege of companion- 
 ship with such a man. 
 
 Remarks by Regent Nottingham 
 
 Mr Chancellor: 
 
 The name of Andrew Sloan Draper will ever be 
 inseparably associated with the history and develop- 
 ment of the educational system of this State, since to a 
 marked extent it embodies his farseeing and statesman- 
 like purpose and policy, and presents in many respects 
 the results of the most notable work of his very active 
 and useful life. 
 
 As Superintendent of Public Instruction from 1886 
 to 1892, he had become somewhat acquainted with 
 the educational work of this State, which was at that 
 time, however, under a divided jurisdiction. He 
 steadily advanced in his chosen field of labor until he 
 was made president of the University of Illinois, in 
 which position he achieved great success and distinc- 
 tion. When Doctor Draper was recalled from the 
 presidency of the University of Illinois to the State of 
 New York, to take charge of its reorganized and 
 unified Education Department, he undertook a most 
 
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important and a most difficult task. However, he 
 soon proved himself fully equal to it. His broad 
 sympathy, judicial temperament, diplomatic skill and 
 keen faculty for discrimination between the essential 
 and the unimportant, soon availed to allay apprehen- 
 sion, remove causes of difference and bring about per- 
 fect harmony in the administration of the educational 
 forces of the State. He soon realized that this Depart- 
 ment, for the proper and effective accomplishment and 
 expansion of its work, required a separate building in 
 which it could be housed and where its various activi- 
 ties could be centered and properly organized. With 
 persistent zeal and rare skill and persuasiveness, he 
 presented the subject to the Governor and the Legis- 
 lature until the completion of this magnificent building, 
 consecrated to the cause of education, was an accom- 
 plished fact. It is a lasting monument not only to his 
 broad and advanced ideas concerning the importance 
 of education to the welfare of the people and the 
 State, but also a constant testimonial to his energy and 
 efficiency in accomplishing the wise and benevolent plan 
 upon which his purpose had been fixed. 
 
 As an executive officer of the Board of Regents and 
 an associate in the direction of the educational affairs 
 of the State, he soon inspired us with the highest 
 esteem and regard for his ability and character. 
 Although positive in his convictions and deliberate in 
 arriving at conclusions, he was nevertheless tolerant of 
 the opinions and considerate of the judgment of others. 
 
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In all our councils his uniform wisdom, generosity and 
 unselfishness were apparent. Through his attractive 
 qualities of mind and heart, the bonds of affection be- 
 tween Doctor Draper and the individual members of 
 this Board constantly grew and strengthened, and 
 words but feebly express the grief that each of us per- 
 sonally feels at his departure. 
 
 Remarks by Regent Carpenter 
 Mr Chancellor: 
 
 It had not been my good fortune to really know the 
 late Commissioner of Education until my election to 
 the Board of Regents, and at the time of the first meet- 
 ing of the Board I attended, our acquaintance had been 
 casual. 
 
 I can never forget the kind personal greeting of Com- 
 missioner Draper on that occasion and his clever intro- 
 duction of the new member. It at once dispelled the 
 timidity I felt in coming officially into the presence of 
 the Commissioner of Education and Board of Regents, 
 recognized as masters of the work in hand, of which 
 I had much to learn. 
 
 The Commissioner's death was a great shock to me, 
 for I had received a letter from him a short time before 
 expressing confidence in his recovery. 
 
 Commissioner Draper possessed executive ability of 
 the highest type, evidenced in the administration of the 
 educational activities of the State, which he brought 
 so nearly to perfection; and although he had suffered 
 
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a long illness, and his death seemed premature, he had 
 the felicity of seeing his great projects accomplished. 
 
 In his executive work, particularly noticeable was 
 the careful preparation of his papers submitted to the 
 Regents for consideration, which were so perfect that 
 the freest discussion and criticism seldom suggested any 
 considerable modification. He was a very positive 
 man with definite ideas, but never offensive. He was 
 a man of power and courage; he worked for results 
 and obtained them, and expected results from others 
 for whom he was responsible. 
 
 One of his greatest achievements was the Educa- 
 tion Building and his last public appearance was at its 
 dedication. Weak in body but strong in spirit, his 
 wonderful dedicatory address closed with masterly 
 effect amidst the delighted applause of a critical 
 audience. 
 
 I shall remember Doctor Draper for his unusual 
 intellectual ability, his ennobling qualities of heart and 
 mind, his sense of exact justice, his kindly disposition 
 and unselfish devotion to the work of perfecting the 
 school system of the State, earning and deserving the 
 title, " The Great Educator." 
 
 Doctor Draper's death is more than a loss; it is a 
 calamity. Few men have left behind more satisfactory 
 results of their life work. 
 
 Letter from Regent Philbin 
 
 The Chancellor read the following letter from 
 Regent Philbin: 
 
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SUPREME COURT 
 
 JUDGES CHAMBERS 
 
 COURT HOUSE. CHAMBERS STREET 
 
 NEW YORK 
 
 May 21, 1913 
 
 The Hon. St Clair McKelway, Chancellor of the Univer- 
 sity of the State of New York, Albany, N. Y. 
 
 My Dear Mr Chancellor: 
 
 My retirement from the Board of Regents will pre- 
 vent my expressing at the next meeting of the Beard 
 the very profound sentiment of sorrow that I feel at the 
 death of the late Commissioner of Education and the 
 revered and beloved executive of the Board of Regents, 
 the Hon. Andrew S. Draper. 
 
 It is needless to say that my intimate association with 
 him as a Regent, for many years, caused me to hold 
 him in earnest affection and respect, not only because 
 of his most attractive personal qualities, but also on 
 account of the high duty he rendered to the State on 
 behalf of its great educational interests. The place 
 which I occupied at the table of the Board for many 
 years, at the side of Doctor Draper, enabled me to 
 become intimately and thoroughly acquainted with his 
 exalted aims and endeavors. I can not conceive of 
 any one else being so admirably equipped in strong and 
 broad character and zealous, unceasing regard for the 
 welfare of the State. It would be impossible, under 
 these circumstances, to set forth in detail the innumer- 
 able instances in which his unusual tact and high 
 
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standard of integrity maintained a policy that always 
 secured the hearty indorsement and cooperation of 
 those associated with him. The work which he has 
 done in organizing the great educational system of the 
 State will last for all time and it would be impossible 
 for its usefulness to be impaired even if the adminis- 
 tration of the affairs of the University of the State of 
 New York were not confided to men of such high spirit 
 and unusual civic devotion as now compose the Board 
 of Regents. 
 
 My recent resignation, deeply painful as it was, be- 
 cause of the severing of relations which I had good 
 reason to cherish so highly and hold most dear, will 
 be less trying because of the fact that my period of 
 service practically terminated with his. It would have 
 been very hard for me to adapt myself to the new 
 conditions that will be made necessary by the adminis- 
 tration of his successor, even though I know that the 
 latter will be one whom the Board will select as being 
 worthy of the important trust confided to him. 
 
 I extend to my late colleagues my most earnest sym- 
 pathy in the loss they will suffer because of the absence 
 of Doctor Draper, and trust that they will continue to 
 be sustained in the splendid service that they are ren- 
 dering the State. 
 
 With most affectionate regard to you, Mr Chan- 
 cellor, and the other Regents, I am 
 Yours faithfully 
 
 EUGENE A. PHILBIN 
 
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Remarks by Regent Elkus 
 
 Mr Chancellor: 
 
 It is indeed with great regret that we speak of the 
 loss which not alone this Board but the Education 
 Department and the State of New York has had in the 
 death of Commissioner Draper. We who knew him 
 and associated with him admired him not only as a 
 man of exceedingly great ability but as a man whose 
 character was of the highest. Doctor Draper pos- 
 sessed characteristics which few men possess. He was 
 alike the student and the man of action. He possessed 
 the power of deep and careful study and research as 
 well as the great executive ability required for the 
 position he so ably filled. When we stop to consider 
 the manifold duties performed by him and the ad- 
 mirable way in which those duties were discharged, we 
 realize that we have indeed a task of moment before us 
 in finding a successor who will properly fill the place he 
 has left vacant. Commissioner Draper was a man of 
 great force; his aim and his work at all times was to 
 advance the cause of education in this State and 
 elsewhere. 
 
 Remarks by Regent Moot 
 
 Mr Chancellor: 
 
 The eloquent tributes paid to the memory of Com- 
 missioner Draper by yourself, the Vice Chancellor, and 
 my brother Regents, who knew him so well, seem to 
 me but just tributes to him. 
 
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Up to the time that I became a member of this 
 Board, I had scarcely more than met Commissioner 
 Draper, and my knowledge of him was substantially 
 confined to the high standing and reputation he had 
 attained on the basis of his work as an educator and 
 your able chief executive. When I became a member 
 of this Board, I was cordially met by him, and I at 
 once observed his tactfulness and power in the dis- 
 charge of his duties. From the first meeting to the last 
 attended by him, I was impressed with his intimate 
 knowledge of the multifarious affairs of this Department 
 and his strong grasp of the problems with which he 
 had to deal. Although it was plain from the first that 
 he was suffering from physical disabilities that would 
 have disabled most men for the discharge of official 
 duties, to the very end I could not see any lack of edge 
 or mental grasp on his part. I doubt if many people 
 ever before heard a man as sick as we all knew he was 
 deliver such a strong and comprehensive address as he 
 delivered at the dedication of this building last Octo- 
 ber. Nor was this the only evidence of his mental 
 power we witnessed, for at the last meeting attended by 
 him, if my memory serves me correctly, he summed up 
 the main considerations in behalf of two candidates for 
 an important position at our hands, with a judicial 
 poise, fairness, grasp, and look ahead into the future, 
 that so impressed all of us who heard it that it probably 
 proved the determining factor in our deliberations and 
 in our choice of that official. 
 
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And after that, when we visited him at his home, 
 and when his recommendations were read to us by 
 another, we still found the same sound judgment and 
 foresight in giving his advice. 
 
 He was a strong, sound, able, many-sided, far seeing 
 and efficient educator and executive officer, and we 
 shall be very fortunate indeed if we are able to find a 
 successor who, on the whole, will measure up to his 
 full stature of capacity. 
 
 Motion by Vice Chancellor Sexton: 
 
 Mr Chancellor, I move that a suitable biographical 
 sketch of our beloved deceased Commissioner of Edu- 
 cation, Andrew Sloan Draper, be prepared and, with 
 a page portrait of him, included in the journal of this 
 meeting of our Board, together with the tributes paid 
 to him on this occasion, and that copies of such record 
 be sent to his widow and children. 
 
 The foregoing motion was unanimously adopted by 
 a rising vote. 
 
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ANDREW SLOAN DRAPER 
 
 Andrew Sloan Draper, the son of Sylvester Bigelow 
 and Jane (Sloan) Draper, was born at Westford, 
 Otsego county, N. Y., June 21,1 848. On his father's 
 side he was descended in direct line from James Draper, 
 " The Puritan," who settled at Roxbury, Mass., in 
 1 646. Through Mary Pratt, his paternal great-grand- 
 mother, he was descended from Degory Priest, one of 
 the Mayflower Pilgrims. His mother was Scotch-Irish, 
 her parents, Samuel Sloan and Rachel MacMinn, com- 
 ing from near Belfast in Ireland in 1812. Two of his 
 great-grandfathers were officers, and one of them was 
 killed, in King Philip's War; and two others were 
 soldiers in the Revolution. He attended the Albany 
 public schools and graduated from the Albany Acad- 
 emy in 1866, and from the Albany Law School 
 (Union University) with the degree of LL.B. in 1871. 
 He taught in the Albany Academy and other institu- 
 tions 1866-70; was a member of the law firm of 
 Draper & Chester 1871-86; member of the Albany 
 Board of Education 1879-81 and 1890-92; member 
 of the Legislature in 1 88 1 ; member of the State Nor- 
 mal College Board 1882-86 and became chairman 
 thereof in 1 886 and again in 1 904 ; judge of the United 
 States Court of Alabama Claims 1884-86; State 
 Superintendent of Public Instruction 1 886-92 ; superin- 
 
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tendent of Cleveland, Ohio, public schools 1892-94; 
 president of the National Association of School Super- 
 intendents 1 889-9 1 ; president of the University of 
 Illinois 1894-1904; president of the North Central 
 Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools 1 903-4. 
 During Doctor Draper's presidency of the University 
 of Illinois the institution erected a dozen substantial 
 buildings, took on the organization of one of the very 
 great universities of America and advanced from 750 
 to 3900 students. Upon the unification of the two 
 State educational departments in New York in 1904, 
 a special provision was inserted in the statute to make 
 him eligible, and he was then recalled to his native 
 State and made the first Commissioner of Education 
 through election by the Legislature; his term expired 
 March 31, 1910, and he was reelected by the Regents 
 of the University for an indefinite term. His adminis- 
 tration as Commissioner of Education was signalized 
 by the complete unification and reorganization of the 
 State education activities; the organization of the sys- 
 tem of academic examinations, including the State 
 Examinations Board; the enactment of legislation lay- 
 ing the foundation for vocational schools as a part of 
 the public school system; the reorganization of courses 
 of study in the State Normal Schools and in the State 
 Normal College ; the enactment of more stringent laws 
 regulating admission to and practice in the various pro- 
 fessions; the enactment and successful operation of the 
 teachers retirement fund law; the enactment of legis- 
 lation transferring the office of State Historian to the 
 
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Education Department ; the inauguration of professional 
 supervision of rural schools through the substitution of 
 district superintendents for school commissioners; the 
 reorganization of courses of study in the public schools 
 so as to meet more clearly the needs of our present social 
 and commercial conditions; the enactment of the State 
 scholarship law; and the administration of the whole 
 scheme of public education upon better business princi- 
 ples and sounder pedagogical standards. The State 
 Education Building, one of the most beautiful and im- 
 posing buildings in the country, stands as an enduring 
 monument to his administration. 
 
 Doctor Draper was a member of the Chicago His- 
 torical Society, of the State Historical Societies of New 
 York, Illinois, and Wisconsin, of the St Louis Railway 
 Club, of the Aurania Club, Albany, and of the legal 
 fraternity of Phi Delta Phi. He was chairman of the 
 board of trustees of the First Presbyterian Church, a 
 director of the National Commercial Bank, and a gov- 
 ernor of the Dudley Observatory, Albany, N. Y. He 
 was chairman of the department of education of the 
 International Congresses at the St Louis Exposition in 
 1 904. In 1 902 he was appointed by President Roose- 
 velt a member of the United States Board of Indian 
 Commissioners, and was chairman of the board until 
 January 1913 when he resigned the office because of 
 ill health. He declined the position of assistant United 
 States attorney for the northern district of New York 
 in 1882, and the position of superintendent of schools 
 of the city of New York, to which he was elected 
 
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immediately after the formation of the greater city in 
 1898. 
 
 Doctor Draper wrote much, and spoke in every part 
 of the country, upon educational themes. He pub- 
 lished a book on the American-Spanish War, entitled 
 The Rescue of Cuba; was the editor of the Depart- 
 ment of Education in the Encyclopedia Americana, 
 and the editor in chief of a ten volume work entitled 
 Self Culture for Young People. He also published a 
 book entitled American Education, comprising some 
 of his more notable addresses, and he was the editor 
 of the volume on Lincoln in the " Gateway Series." 
 
 Doctor Draper received the honorary degree of 
 LL.D. from Colgate University in 1889, from Colum- 
 bia University in 1903, from the University of Illinois 
 upon the installation of his successor as president in 
 1905, and from Western Reserve University in 1910. 
 He received the silver medal of the Paris Exposition 
 in 1900 for his monograph on Educational Organiza- 
 tion and Administration in the United States, and at 
 the St Louis International Exposition in 1904 he was 
 awarded the gold medal and two commemorative 
 diplomas for his educational writings, and one of the 
 two grand prizes conferred for conspicuous services to 
 education. 
 
 On the 8th of May 1 872, Doctor Draper was mar- 
 ried at the South Congregational Church, New Britain, 
 Conn., to Miss Abbie Louise Lyon, of that city. Mrs 
 Draper, like her husband, is descended from the earliest 
 New England stock. She is a true granddaughter of 
 
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 pendence. Their children are Charlotte Leland, mar- 
 ried May 8, 1907, to Arthur A. Brown, who is with 
 the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Com- 
 pany; and Edwin Lyon, a surgeon in practice at 
 Albany, married October 14, 1908, to Miss Mary 
 Frances Headen, of Shelbyville, 111. 
 
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