The Removal of 
 
 2mm —_Union College. 
 
Tht REMOVAL OF UNION COLLEGE, 
 
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 The Plan is Not a New One. 
 
 NOTABLE EXAMPLES OF SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN 
 MOVED. 
 
 An allusion to the origin of the idea will first be in place. 
 When Union College was established, it was essentially an Albany- 
 Schenectady institution. Albany gave $9,000 of the $12,000 endow- 
 ment fund that was raised to establish the institution, and a long 
 contest ensued as to which city should be its seat, Schenectady finally 
 winning because it was thought its seclusion was more conducive 
 to scholastic life. The city line of Albany, then and for years later, 
 extended to Schenectady. Irom that day till this Albanians have 
 felt that Union was their college ; and of its 5,000 alumni fully 1,500 
 have either entered Union from Albany or settled here after their 
 graduation therefrom, constituting thus the great supply of the bar, 
 the pulpit, the press, and the medical profession of this city. 
 
 In 1871, all the colleges of the country, big and little, were feeling 
 the effects of the Civil war, and of the commercial spirit that followed 
 it. At that time when the Albany Medical college and Albany Law 
 School were being affiliated with Union as Union University, the 
 idea was broached of uniting Union and Rutgers colleges here at 
 Albany. There was a reason for this. Both these institutions were 
 early favored by the Dutch Reformed clergy and their people gen- 
 erally. Union, however, had never been a church college, while 
 Rutgers to some extent had, and had consequently been the bene- 
 ficiary of certain church funds or endowments. It was found im- 
 possible to unite the colleges without Rutgers losing some of these 
 endowments, and the scheme was therefore abandoned. 
 
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 Recently, with the election of an Albanian as president of Union, 
 and the reawakened interest of Albanians in the institution, the sub- 
 ject has been revived and with more spirit than ever. It has, as has 
 been said, for more than a year past been the subject of much thought 
 and quiet conference on the part of many of our leading citizens, and 
 some of our legal lights have given much of their time to the legal 
 aspect of the matter. It will doubtless surprise those who have 
 laughed at the supposed folly of such a proposition, to learn that 
 with a few notable exceptions, nearly every eastern or middle State 
 college, that is‘of any substantial age, has been removed at some time 
 in its existence from its original site, and always with advantage and 
 profit to the institution. ‘The most important cases, similar to what 
 is proposed, are here given: 
 
 The citizens of Syracuse in 1871 assembled in mass meeting 
 and decided that if the feeble Genesee College at Lima, scme 
 eighty miles away, would move to that city it would be given an 
 extensive plot of ground and six hundred thousand dollars in cash by 
 the city, and many of the wealthier citizens promised that they 
 would make substantial individual benefactions. The offer was 
 accepted; but partly becanse no scholarships were granted to the 
 city wherewith to create an interest in the institution among the 
 youth thereof, partly because it was sectarian, but principally because 
 it had no university departments, its early progress was slow. With 
 the recent establishment of its professional schools however a rapid 
 growth began in all its branches, and to-day Syracuse University 
 numbers between seven and eight hundred students. 
 
 In 18838 the city of Cleveland, Ohio, made a substantially similar 
 offer to the Western Reserve college, then located at Hudson, Ohio, 
 twenty-five miles away, if it would move to Cleveland and amalga- 
 mate with the Cleveland Law and Medical schools as the Western 
 Reserve University. This was done, and, in addition, Amasa Stone 
 gave $450,000 in cash and $150,000 in buildings, conditioned on the 
 art department being called Adelbert College in memory of his de- 
 ceasedson. Asaresult the Western Reserve University ranks to-day 
 with Chicago, Michigan and Wisconsin universities as one of the 
 four foremost western institutions. 
 
 A similar movement is now going on whereby the venerable Mid- 
 dlebury college, at Middlebury, Vt., is to be removed and united 
 with the law and medical schools of the University of Vermont, at 
 Burlington in that State. This will, it is believed, give the former 
 great ton renewed life, and to the University of Vermont a pres- 
 tige that it has hitherto lacked. 
 
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 Some of the other colleges that have been moved are given below : 
 
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 COLLEGE. Original Site. Present Location. 
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 LTE a Opn aa ae eyes Ld TARDE IES : New Haven, Conn. 
 EPETCOVON 05.1.2 ha ce aletielts cto Elizabethtown, N.J....| Princeton, N. J. 
 So eae ee Warren, Ka been ks 2 4 Providence, R. I. 
 Dartmouth ....... Bron tra a ah Lebanon, Conn’..<.% 2... Hanover, N. H. 
 BOS PRIPRIACIID Sere oy pee ess vides New York (49th street)..| Manhattanville. 
 University of Pennsylvania...| Philadelphia........... West Philadelphia. 
 University of New York...... | New York (12th street)..| Washington Heights. 
 Western Reserve (Adelbert)...; Hudson, O............. Cleveland, O. 
 Syracuse University. ....... Toran: IN Ye a raae ate Syracuse, N. Y. 
 BRS MOU 1) Ses od.) nie So ccm Kk he Worthington, O ....... Gambier, O. 
 
 The reason has, in nearly every instance, been to unite the college 
 and university departments together, by bringing the college from a 
 rural vicinity to some large city. 
 
 It may be interesting to note a few things further in relation to 
 the above table. Even now Columbia and the University of the 
 City of New York are being moved as it is proposed to move 
 Union. The change the University of the City of New York 
 is now making is almost identical in distance from its present 
 site that Union College is from Albany—about seventeen miles. 
 Columbia and Yale have both moved twice. Yale, years ago, from 
 Millbrook to Saybrook, Connecticut, thence to New Haven. Colum- 
 bia, fifty years ago, from lower New York to 49th Street, and now 
 from 49th Street to 120th Street. Cornell too, though not given in 
 the table, is practically a rehabilitation of the People’s college at 
 Havana in this State, the land grant of which it took, which grant 
 was largely helpful in bringing about its present magnificent en- 
 dowment. 
 
 From these facts it will be seen that the proposal to move Union 
 College to Albany is not only not ridiculous or fanciful, but is simply 
 following the natural order of things as it has obtained in this 
 country, not only in the early but in the latter part of this century. 
 
 It has been said that what Albany needs is a few industrial plants 
 rather than an educational one. With the proposition to bring 
 manufactures to Albany, those favoring the removal of Union 
 College certainly can have no quarrel, and they assuredly will be 
 found as zealous and energetic in embracing any tangible opportunity 
 of that kind that presents itself, as any other citizens of Albany. 
 
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 An edueational plant, however, should not be undervalued. 
 Theoretically and practically its value is inestimable; and a city 
 dominated by the influences that a strong university located here 
 would exert, would not be long finding out what this city needs, 
 and intelligent enough to secure it. But the main point is that at 
 present we are bringing here neither one thing nor the other. It 
 would seem that if an opportunity is presented of bringing here 
 Union College, and if by its location here, unified with its university 
 departments, there would accrue to the city not only the moral and 
 intellectual advantages naturally flowing from such an institution, 
 but also, as will be shown, a decided financial benefit to the city, all 
 hands should join in bringing this desired result about; and that 
 those who prefer to see industrial accretions to our municipality 
 should either bestir themselves and do something in that way, or fall 
 in line with those who are trying to benefit the city in another 
 direction. 
 
 SER 
 The Advantages Albany Would Derive. 
 
 OVER THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS WOULD BE ADDED EVERY 
 YEAR TO THE MONEY IN CIRCULATION IN THIS OITY. 
 
 One hundred and thirty years ago a correspondence was carried 
 on between the authorities of Dartmouth College and the munici- 
 pality of Albany relative to locating Dartmouth here. But Albany 
 did not make satisfactory overtures and Dartmouth went elsewhere 
 to the loss of both the college and the city. 
 
 In 1851 the Legislature of this State chartered the University of 
 Albany, giving it power to absorb the Albany Medical College if 
 agreeable to the latter, and to establish other necessary departments. 
 The incorporation was never completed, but this fact shows how 
 early the advantages of Albany as a site for a university and the 
 need for one here were recognized. To-day in the burean of 
 education at Washington, there is a map whereon, by means of 
 different colored discs, are shown the locations of the universi- 
 ties, colleges, high schools and academies of the United States. — 
 Another set of discs indicate where there is a strong need for any 
 
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 of these. Prominent on the north Atlantic slope is a wafer telling 
 of the want of a university at Albany. Thus generally has the fact of 
 Albany’s advantage and need in this regard:been recognized by educa- 
 tors. They know well that to-day, except Cornel! at Ithaca, there is at 
 present no strong university within the territory bounded by Harvard 
 at Boston, Brown at Providence, Yale at New Haven, Columbia and 
 New York at New York, Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, Adelbert at 
 Cleveland, Toronto at Toronto, and McGill at Montreal. Ina word, 
 between Boston and Cleveland, Philadelphia and Toronto and Mon- 
 treal and New York, a vast territory lies open for a good university 
 located here. or Cornell, magnificent in its endowment and 
 superb in its work, is handicapped by its location. It can never for 
 example, establish a medical school worthy of its:other departments. 
 It has a preparatory course corresponding with the first years of 
 medical work, but like the Russian bear looking for a sea coast, it 
 has vainly sought a connection with the Buffalo and Long Island 
 City Medical Colleges and Bellevue Hospital, that it might claim to 
 have a medical department. 
 
 But though this opportunity is Albany’s to-day it may not long re- 
 main so. buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, with the ambition of grow- 
 ing and progressive cities, are bidding for what, bv natural location, 
 force of circumstances and scholastic reputation, belongs to Albany ; 
 and unless we bestir ourselves the opportunity may slip from us. 
 Once let any of these institutions, certainly Syracuse, acquire a repu- 
 tation for first class facilities and like work, and our opportunity is 
 lessened and our law and medical schools here must necessarily 
 suffer. Buffalo and Syracuse have but recently appreciated the ad- 
 vantages of united work such as is proposed for Union University. 
 Syracuse, as is Rochester University to-day, has long been retarded 
 by being, nominally at least, sectarian; but now Syracuse city is in- 
 terested, a new medical college is building, a law school has been 
 established, and centrally located as it is, it will, if it does good work, 
 ere long attract students in large numbers from hereabouts. Buffalo, 
 too, having long had separate medical, law and dental schools, has 
 recently added a school of pedagogy and united all as the University 
 of Buffalo. It has as yet no collegiate department, wisely apprecia- 
 ting that a college cannot. be as readily built up as a professional 
 school. Given a good location, the means for obtaining first-class 
 buildings and the same kind of men, and the students who attend 
 such institutions as these being old enough to know what they want, 
 will go to the professional school that is most convenient. 
 
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 As to a college, however, its growth must necessarily be slower, as 
 sentiment and reputation have much to do with a lad’s choice there- 
 of. The one weakness of the University of Pennsylvania has been 
 that its college department post-dated its professional schools, and 
 there has not been so prevalent that spirit of loyalty that is found at 
 Harvard and Yale. What, then, would not Buffalo give had it a 
 Union College but seventeen miles away? If money could get it 
 there, Buffalo would surely have it. This fact also should be 
 noted: that, owing to the lack of mutual interest between Union’s 
 college and professional schools, every year of the graduates of 
 Pic intending to study medicine but few come here. A few 
 -more go to the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, 
 and most of them to the University of Pennsylvania. Many of its 
 law students, too, go to Columbia or Harvard lawschools. A united 
 Union University at Albany would, through sentiment if nothing 
 else, hold most of these men here for their professional studies. | 
 
 So much of Albany’s adaptability for a university. Jt seems odd 
 to have to give reasons for its desirability. Who could, in a news- 
 paper article, if at all, detail the manifold influences of such an 
 institution on every interest and every phase of this city’s life? 
 What has Harvard been to and done for Boston, Columbia for New 
 York, Pennsylvania fur Philadelphia? Has not the very name of 
 Chicago a better odor before the world since that wonderful example 
 of American nineteenth century power of organization — the 
 Chicago University — sprung Minerva-like into the front rank of 
 American universities? 
 
 It must be conceded at least, that with a university here, many a 
 child who, from lack of stimulus or knowledge of how much there is 
 beyond in education, now fails to complete the high school or 
 academic course, would then certainly do so.. Many. an Albany lad 
 then wou!d obtain a college educatior who now dares not dream of 
 it. Yes, and girls too; for, with Radcliffe college at Harvard, 
 Barnard at Columbia, Sage at Cornell, Evelyn at Princeton, and 
 Crause at Syracuse, and the co-educational departments at Chicago, 
 Michigan, Brown and Wisconsin universities, no university to-day 
 is thoroughly equipped that does not provide for the higher educa- 
 tion of women. A thought here. The women’s colleges — Vassar, 
 Wellesley, Smith, Bryn Mawr and Holyoke —are in such demand 
 that registration must be made a year ahead to secure admission. 
 The af to co-educational institutions is equally great. A first- 
 class women’s college, as a part of Union University — say the 
 
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 adoption of the Female Academy as the nucleus of such — ina city 
 of Albany’s known culture and refinement, would be a financial 
 success from the start. 
 
 But now let us look at the financial benefits to accrue from this 
 scheme The most feasible and generally approved proposition in 
 connection with this plan, is for the city to erect buildings for 
 Union University, and to lease it for a nominal sum, the land to 
 the east of the almshouse road, that on the west now partially 
 occupied by the Dudley Observatory and the Bender laboratory 
 to be reserved for new buildings for our Medical college and Law 
 school. In return, the university is to grant a number of scholar- 
 ships to this city. 
 
 The first financial benefit to the city would be the employment 
 given in the work of demolishing the old buildings now standing, 
 the grading of the grounds, and the erection of the new edifices, 
 which would be an absolute necessity before the college could take 
 
 up its work here at all. The next good accomplished would be the 
 
 strengthening not only of all West End values, but all real estate 
 values throughout the city. This would certainly follow the taking 
 off the market and the improvement of so large and centrally 
 located a tract of land. Besides strengthening all city property 
 values it would, through the taking up so largely of the West End 
 
 property by the university clzentele, cause a demand for homes for the 
 
 middle classes in directions in which real estate has been stagnant for 
 years; 2. é., the north and northwest andsouth ends. The college pro- 
 
 fessors and attaches, as said, must have houses, and largely 11 the 
 
 neighborhood of the proposed institution. Many—most of them— 
 would want homes of their own, which would additionally enhance 
 values and increase the building to be done. 
 
 But the main profit would be in the money spent here by the 
 university body—professors, attaches and students. It has been 
 
 questioned whether this would be extensive enough to induce 
 
 Albany for this reason to favor the plan. It is a matter of simple 
 arithmetic to substantiate it. Union College would bring here to- 
 day thirty-two officials at an average salary of $1500 and about 300 
 students whose spendings, exclusive of tuition, average about $350 
 apiece. It isa matter of experience that the very least that a man 
 can get through on is $250 a year. This would bring $150,000 to 
 be spent in Albany annually. There are about 525 students in 
 Union University to-day of whom about 225 are in the professional 
 schools in this city. It is not to be questioned that the very first 
 
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 year a united university opened its doors in Albany, that the attend- 
 ance would run up to 700, and that it would take but a year or two 
 to reach the thousand mark. If it did not, it would be the excep- 
 tion to the rule that has obtained in every American city university 
 within the last twenty-five years, as will be shown by statistics given 
 in the next article. ; : 
 
 But two illustrations must suffice here. Take Brown University 
 of Providence, R. I. It has but a small endowment. President 
 Andrews, in an address at the Union College centennial exercises, said 
 that the score of its financial resources, as compared with its needs, 
 was “the saine as most American colleges—0 to 0—and Providence 
 ahead.” ‘This man took hold of that institution four years ago, and 
 found there about 300 students scattered through the different 
 departments. He recognized at once that one of its drawbacks 
 was the lack of unity and mutual interest between its integral parts. 
 He overcame this by in every way making prominent and working 
 out the university idea, and to-day it is said of Brown, with its. 
 attendance of nearly 900, a gain of 200 per cent, that it has more 
 students than means to care for them. This, too, with no such 
 territory to draw from as Union would have at Albany, and situated, 
 as Brown is, half way between Harvard and Yale, and surrounded 
 by all of the New England colleges. This is an example of a poorly 
 endowed university. Now for a rich and well-endowed institu- 
 tion. In ’85 Cornell bad 500 students; to-day it has 2,100 students, 
 a gain of 300 per cent. Whereas the increase which it is claimed 
 would result to Union University is but a hundred per cent, certainly 
 a modest estimate. Though experience has shown that the means 
 for an adequate teaching force does not follow apace with the increase 
 of students, it is sate to say that including the increase in both the 
 college and university departments, the number of instructors that 
 Union College would bring here would also be doubled ina similarly 
 short time. | 
 
 On the whole, therefore, a few years would see an organization 
 here whose annual contribution to the money circulating in Albany 
 would be over $300,000. And when there is added to this the 
 money that is spent by visiting alumni and relatives of students at 
 commencement time, and at the various comings and goings of peo- 
 ple interested in the university itself, its fraternity gatherings, prize 
 debates, students’ hops, intercollegiate contests, etc., the sum can 
 certainly be put down at about $350,000, or overa third of a million. 
 And this is a very cautious estimate. 
 
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 Is this castle building? The only uncertain factor in the problem 
 is the question of ing university’s growth when once established 
 here, and as said before, it will prove an exception to the rule if the 
 small rate of gain predicated does not result. The other factors, 
 the average professorial salary and average student expense, are 
 known, and the product of the multiplication simply depends upon 
 the number of professors and students that may be gathered here. 
 
 Further, the income of Union’s endowment, consisting of $1,000,- 
 000 worth of city lots in Long Island city, valuable property in 
 Boston, Mass., and Plattsburgh, N. Y., and elsewhere, will also be 
 expended here to the profit and advantage of this city. 
 
 In considering the sentimental reasons for this plan, there has not 
 been included the pleasure to be derived by parents at having an insti- 
 tution at their doors where their sons and daughters can obtain the 
 highest culture, yet remain under home niente and be enabled to 
 prime by their presence and affection a reward for the favorable 
 opportunities their parents are giving them to prepare for their life 
 work. Nor in the material reasons has there been included the saving 
 to our citizens and to our city of the moneys spent elsewhere by the 
 many who annually leave here for college. For unquestionably 
 home pride alone would keep at least two-thirds of these here. Nor 
 has an appeal been made to the gratitude that Albany should feel to 
 the college that has done so much for the uplifting and nourishing 
 of its civic life through the hundreds of leaders of thought and ac- 
 tion that Union has given it during the last century. What money 
 value can be placed upon the work and influence in our midst of 
 those offspring of Union College—the Yates, Lansings, Pruyns, 
 Parkers, Reynolds, Peckhams, Tremains, Harris, Huns, Cornings, 
 Kings, Townsends, Hands, Streets, Walworths, Jenkins, Whipples, 
 Becks, Lawsons, and the many others of equal and lesser note and 
 similar calibre? What monetary consideration can compare with 
 the presence here of an institution capable of such work, and breath- 
 ing into its sons the spirit that fired these men? Onght not the 
 question to be, not ‘ what Albany has to gain by it,” but rather 
 “what has Union college tu gain by it and why she should favor it 2’ 
 
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 II. 
 
 The Plan Proposed. 
 Wuo Wit Serrite [r— Wuart tHe Prosprects ARE. | 
 
 The details of the plan to move Union here are in the bill given 
 in the accompanying pamphlet. 
 
 The grant of buildings contemplated must, of course, be a sub- 
 stantial one. In giving the college land, we give only what it 
 has already in greater extent and of greater natural beauty where 
 it is, and ask it at the same time to give up buildings, old but 
 useful, and trust to luck to get better ones here. The endow- 
 ment ‘or grant must, therefore, be large enough to be in the nature 
 of a bonus for the risk incurred and a recompense for the bene- 
 fits the college’s coming would undoubtedly bring to this city. 
 If the municipality gave to the High school its site and about 
 $225,000, surely it cannot be expected that an institution of 
 Union’s standing will come here for any similar consideration. 
 The influence of our High school as an educational force in our 
 community is doubtless more directly widespread than that of 
 the proposed university would be, but it is a question whether 
 the university would not be indirectly as potent in the same 
 line; and as for the financial return dollar for dollar, from the 
 respective gifts, there is no comparison. ‘The university would 
 put one hundred dollars in circulation in the city where the High 
 school now puts one, to say nothing of the money that would be 
 spent in erecting the many new university buildings, ete. The 
 interest on an endowment of $250,000 would just about pay the col- 
 lege for the tuition of the city students winning the scholarships 
 (nineteen wards, with one student each, at $100 a year for four 
 years, equals $7,600 ; whereas, the interest on $250,000, at three per 
 cent, would be but $7,500). Such a sum would practically be no 
 grant at all, merely paying the tuition of those students. 
 
 New York city has not been chary in this matter, having during 
 the last three years given in land and money to the University of 
 the City of New York, the College of the City of New York and 
 Columbia College, all told, some several million dollars. It is true 
 that New York is a wealthy, prosperous city, but it is in no way. 
 dependent upon these institutions for either its present or pro- 
 spective wealth and prosperity, and they are in proportion no way 
 
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 near the benefit to New York financially that the proposed institu- 
 tion would be to Albany. We ought therefore to be willing to do 
 likewise, at least according to our relative size and wealth. 
 
 If Schenectady is unable to make as profitable an offer as 
 Albany, the assertion is confidently ventured that in consideration 
 of the innumerable advantages to be gained thereby, the proposition 
 for the removal of the college department to Albany would meet 
 with a favorable reception at the hands of the trustees. 
 
 This fact, too, should ever be borne in mind that Union is a col- 
 lege with an established name, with a history and an alumni that 
 are enough to inspire to action and emulation the most sluggish of 
 youthful minds. Many of the new city universities that are as it is 
 doing very well both in work and in student numbers, would give 
 much to have a record such as Union’s as a magnet wherewith to draw 
 the youth of our land within their folds. A record that includes, as it 
 does, William H. Seward, Chester A. Arthur, the Bayards, Austin 
 Blair, Alexander HH. Rice, Warner Miller and Daniel Lamont in 
 statecraft, politics and administrative government; Daniel Butter- 
 field, John F. Hartranft, Philip Sidney Post and Robert Toombs in 
 military life; John Howard Payne, Alfred B. Street and Fitzhugh 
 Ludlow, in song ; Joel T. Headley and Duncan Campbell, in history ; 
 Mansfield Walworth, John Bigelow and Robert T. 8. Lowell, in litera- 
 ture; Alfred Loomis, Frank Hamilton, Thomas Hun and Norman L. 
 Snow, in medicine; William Cassidy, Charles Emory Smith and 
 William H: McElroy, in journalism; John C. Spencer, Nicholas 
 Hill and John K. Porter, at the bar; Squire Whipple, Roy Stone 
 aud Alton Mann, in engineering, and all the rest of that bright 
 galaxy in all professions and all pursuits that made New York State 
 what it is to-day, and contributed so much to the development of the 
 great middle west. 
 
 In advocating this change it is not claimed that a Harvard or a 
 Yale can be made of Union university here at Albany, but rather 
 such an institution as Brown; a university where young men of 
 moderate means can get all the advantages, culture and true polish 
 that are to be had at Yale or Harvard, without the expense and style 
 that are seemingly a large feature of those institutions. 
 
 Albanians ought, therefore, to weleome Union College with open 
 arms; a college that at a time when such a proposition was fairly start- 
 ling, was founded on the principle that while all men entering its walls 
 must have a religion and live up to it, yet all creeds and all denomi- 
 nations are welcome to its doors; a college having for its motto: 
 
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 “Tn essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, 
 charity,” that has always continued to be truly catholic and truly 
 progressive. The first college established under the then newly- 
 ratified American Constitution, its name was happily chosen —a 
 union of all creeds in a union of free and sovereign, States—a name 
 that would happily fit the proposed amalgamation, and a name with- 
 out the retention of which, of course, no Union man will give a 
 moment’s heed to the proposed plan. 
 ‘* That the thrill of its past, 
 
 Through all timé may last 
 
 In the onward sweep of knowledge, 
 
 In the search for truth, 
 
 And the love of youth, 
 
 Is our prayer for Union College.” 
 —TRUvUAX, '%6. 
 
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 THE COMMITTEE OF FIFTY-ONE 
 
 Appointed in response to the action of the citizens’ mass meeting of January 25th 
 to devise and carry out legislation looking to the bringing to Albany of Union 
 college :} 
 
 Chairman — Albert Van-” 
 
 SLUG 2) ee I a Ha-Officio, Physician and Acting Dean, Albany Medical 
 
 College. 
 
 William Barnes, Jr.... Peay: and Editor Albany Evening Journal. 
 
 W. W. Battershall..... Rector St. Peter’s (P. E.) Church. 
 
 Anthony N. Brady...... Capitalist. 
 
 PRG WIE WIOSS. 65 Siaie laevis aig Director Dudley Observatory. 
 
 Frederick W. Cameron. Lawyer. 
 
 John R, Carnell ....... President Albany County Bank. 
 
 Pe ACUre EE EIS. Gas eens! sesh Jae Physician and Professor, Albany Medical College. 
 
 Melvil Dewey.......... Secretary State Board of Regents. 
 
 Edward A. Durant, Jr.. Grain Commission Merchant. 
 
 William E. Drislane ... Wholesale Provision Merchant. 
 
 William Easton.......: Lumber Merchant. 
 
 John HW. Farrell....5... Proprietor and Editor Times-Union. 
 
 J. Newton Fiero....... Lawyer and Dean Albany Law School. 
 
 ROOT INBEYAT. oln sie. ohas0's Pastor St. Luke’s (M. E.) Church. 
 
 (eC PTADKMNG 23 oh 5s Teacher. 
 
 Clifford D. Gregory .... Lawyer and County Judge. 
 
 George E. Gorham..... Physician. 
 
 Orra i, Flaw. 36 we Lumber Merchant. 
 
 D. Cady Herrick....... Lawyer and Judge Appellate Division, Supreme Court, 
 
 William H. Keeler..... Hotel Proprietor. 
 
 eorce To Kelly... seicc.; Lawyer and Assemblyman, 
 
 J. Townsend Lansing .. Capitalist and Real Estate. 
 
 James B. Lyon ........ Publisher and Printer. 
 
 (henias. Ly nchis sc. a) 3 Contractor. 
 
 Joseph H. Mangan..... Rector St. Joseph’s (R. C.) Church. 
 
 John EK. McElroy ..... Vice-President Albany Insurance Co, 
 
 Willis G. McDonald.... Physician and Professor, Albany Medical College, 
 John T. McDonough ... Lawyer. 
 
 John G. Myers......... Dry Goods Merchant. 
 
 Andrew E. Mather..... Wholesale Grocer. 
 
 Myer Nusbaum. ...... Lawyer and State Senator, 
 
 William J. Nellis...... Physician 
 
 Thomas 8. O’Brien..... Teacher 
 
 PGI ALINOL 0's. . sees ss Secretary of State (New York). 
 
 Amasa J. Parker....... Lawyer and President Albany Law School. 
 hoOperto, PTuyn.... ... President Commercial Bank. 
 
 OS Uenobinson’........ Principal Albany High School. 
 
 Myron H. Rooker...... Proprietor and Editor Press and Knickerboker. 
 Simon W. Rosendale... Lawyer and ex-Attorney-General, New York State. 
 Wilhame. Rudd... .. Lawyer and ex-Corporation Counsel, Albany city. 
 James M. Ruso ....... Publisher and Printer. 
 
 Robert G. Scherer ..... Lawyer and Assemblyman, 
 
 William Sawyer...... Real Estate. 
 
 Max Schlesinger....... Rabbi Beth Emeth Synagogue, 
 
 Robertescott!... 46. .56. Lumber Merchant. 
 
 CRATICE LIACGY sto. 54 President Columbia Dist. Co. and ex-Congressman. 
 VWilisiG. ‘Ducker.) 2... Physician and Professor, Albany Medical College. 
 
 Garret A. Van Allen.... President Commerce Insurance Co. 
 William J. Walker .... Wholesale Drug Merchant. 
 pamuel BY Ward... 3. Physician and Professor, Albany Medical College. 
 
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