JOURNALISM AND THE PRESS.

How college men may best qualify themselves for the profession.

8. By Hon. Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun.

9. By William H. McElroy, LL. D., '60, editor of the New York Tribune.

WEALTH AND ITS USES.

The practical value of a college training for business men.

10. By Andrew Carnegie.

11. By Hon. Chauncey M. Depew.

COLLEGE WORK AS A PREPARATION FOR THE DUTIES OF LIFE.

12. By Hon. Warner Miller, '60.

13. By Gen. Daniel Butterfield, '49.

TRADE SCHOOLS-THE ELEVATION OF LABOR-INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.

14. By Col. R. T. Auchmuty, founder of the New York trade schools. 15. By Prof. Rossiter W. Raymond.

BANKING AND FINANCE.

Currency and its political economy.

16. By Hon. George S. Coe, president of the American Exchange Bank of New York.

AMERICAN FINANCE.

17. By Senator John Sherman, ex-Secretary of the Treasury.

ART AND ARCHITECTURE.

Honesty and truth in their purpose and expression.

18. By Montgomery Schuyler, '34.

THE POLITICS AND DIPLOMACY OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S ADMINISTRATION.

19. By Gen. Daniel E. Sickles.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WEST AND SOUTH.

Westward the star of empire takes its way."

20. By Hon. Charles F. Manderson, United States Senator from Nebraska, and President pro tempore of the Senate.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

21. By Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D. D.

COURTS-MARTIAL-MILITARY LAW-MARTIAL LAW.

The suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. Respective jurisdictions of the State and Federal courts in 'war and peace.

22. By Maj. John W. Klous, U. S. A.. judge-advocate and professor of law, West Point Academy.

MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.

23. By Hon. Seth Low, ex-mayor of Brooklyn, and president of Columbia College. 24. By Abram S. Hewitt, ex-mayor of New York.

THE DUTIES OF A GOVERNOR AND HIS WORK,

25. By Alex. H. Rice, '44, ex-governor of Massachusetts.

THE MASSING OF POPULATION IN THE TENEMENT HOUSES OF CITIES-THE PROBLEM OF THE FUTURE.

26. By Hon. Bourke Cockran, M. C.

27. Farming on a large scale.—By Hon. Lyman R. Casey, United States Senator from North Dakota.

28. Canada and the Great North Land.-By Erastus Wyman.

29. Relation of brain to muscle.--By Dr. William A. Hammond.

30. Lecture.-By Hon. John Wanamaker, ex-Postmaster-General.

There were offered 30 prizes of $25 each for the best essay upon the subject of each of the lectures, and prizes of the value of $125, $60, and $30, respectively, upon the first, second, and third best series of papers upon the entire course of lectures. For the first, second, and third best papers upon any single lecture in the course prizes of $75, $40, and $20 each were given. In addition to the student prizes a prize of $150 was awarded to the private school or private teacher to whom the greatest number of prize winners shall have ascribed his college preparation.

Although Union College is an eleemosynary institution to so liberal an extent, its greatest present need is for unrestricted funds to be applied to general objects. Its largest endowments are trusts entailed to a particular purpose, as is the case with so many other of the older colleges of the country. An endowment fund for the establishment of new professorships or for increasing the salaries attached to existing chairs would be of substantial benefit. A handsome beginning in this direction was recently made by the gift to the college of valuable real estate in Plattsburg, N. Y., the annual income of which (about $6,500) is designated for the establishment of a professorship of political economy and social science. The donor is Mr. Thomas Armstrong, of Plattsburg. Other needs of the college are for new dormitories to accommodate the yearly increasing number of students and a hall for commencement and other public purposes similar to that lately provided for Princeton by the munificence of Mrs. Charles B. Alexander.

UNION UNIVERSITY.

Union University embraces the following institutions: Union College, Albany Medical College, Albany Law School, Dudley Observatory, Albany College of Pharmacy.

Union College acquired by its original charter full university powers, but the creation of graduate institutions at Schenectady was not found practicable. Schools of law and medicine and also an astronomical observatory had existed at Albany, only a few miles distant, for many years previous to 1873. The arrangement naturally suggested by these circumstances was that the professional schools and the observatary at Albany should be united with Union College under the charter and board of trustees of the latter. This was accordingly 3176-15

effected by the incorporation of Union University in 1873. The Albany College of Pharmacy was created by the board of regents June 21, 1881, and incorporated as a department of the university August 21 of the same year.

The president of Union College and permanent chancellor of Union University has the oversight of the university, each of the institutions having its resident dean. The university board of governors is composed of certain of the permanent trustees of Union College and of representatives of each of the other institutions embraced in Union University.

The election of Dr. Harrison E. Webster as president in May, 1888, began a new era of progress and development in the history of Union College. He had been a member of the faculty from the time of his graduation in 1868 to the year 1883, and the members of twenty successive classes had carried away with them not only the highest respect for Professor Webster's ripe scholarship and his rare qualities as an instructor, but also a personal regard which was generally sincere affection for him as a personal friend. His election to the presidency of the institution to which he had given a lifetime of self-sacrificing devotion was therefore hailed with universal joy and enthusiasm.

President Webster served the college till January, 1894, when, by reason of ill health, he presented his resignation, which was accepted with many expressions of regret and of appreciation for his valuable services to his alma mater.

Early in 1894 the trustees selected as the successor of President Webster Rev. Dr. Andrew V. V. Raymond, a graduate of the class of 1875, and at that time pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Albany. There are many who link this coincidence with the youth, the enthusiasm, the oratorical ability, and the remarkable personal influence of Dr. Raymond, and draw a parallel between President Nott and President Raymond. Not since the war has the old college experienced such a period of prosperity and of hopeful enthusiasm as since the inauguration of President Raymond, which occurred in June, 1894. The classes have doubled in numbers, the teaching force has been largely increased, new endowments secured, and the standard of scholarship constantly elevated. New interest and enthusiasm have been inspired among the alumni and complete harmony exists in the college councils.

The celebration of the centennial anniversary of the charter of Union College was an event which stirred the loyalty and kindled the enthusiasm of every alumnus. Two years before preparations had been begun, looking to a fitting celebration of this interesting event. At the commencement of 1894 the organization of working committees was completed, and the year which followed was filled with busy preparations for the great event. The exercises extended over a period of five days, commencing Sunday, June 23, 1895. The centen

nial programme was opened on Sunday morning by the memorial sermon of Rev. Dr. George Alexander, '66, pastor of the University Place Presbyterian Church in New York. In the afternoon a religious conference was held on religion and education, in which clergymen of the Reformed, Methodist, Baptist, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic denominations, respectively, took part, thus typifying, in a peculiarly impressive manner, the nonsectarian purposes of the college. The same evening the baccalaureate sermon was preached by Right Rev. William C. Doane, Episcopal bishop of Albany. On Monday morning and afternoon an "educational conference was held, in which part was taken by Secretary Melvil Dewey, of the board of regents; Superintendent Maxwell, of Brooklyn; Principal Bancroft, of Phillips Academy, Andover; President Scott, of Rutgers; President Andrews, of Brown, and President Taylor, of Vassar. The conference was continued in the evening, and the invited speakers were President Gilman, of Johns Hopkins; President Low, of Columbia; President Hall, of Clark University; President Harper, of Chicago University, and Chancellor MacCracken, of the University of the City of New York.

On Tuesday, June 25, was held the annual meeting of the alumni, of whom over 600 were in attendance during the celebration. At the centennial banquet held in Memorial Hall President Raymond presided, and fraternal greetings from sister colleges were presented in eloquent addresses by Chancellor Anson J. Upson, of the State board of regents; Prof. George Herbert Palmer, of Harvard; President Patton, of Princeton; President Andrews, of Brown; Prof. Henry Parks Wright, dean of Yale College; Prof. John Haskell Hewitt, of Williams; Prof. Charles F. Richardson, of Dartmouth; Prof. J. H. Van Amringe, dean of Columbia College; Prof. William MacDonald, of Bowdoin; Prof. John Randolph Tucker, of Washington and Lee; President Scott, of Rutgers; Prof. Oren Root, of Hamilton; Prof. Anson D. Morse, of Amherst; President Taylor, of Vassar, and Chancellor MacCracken, of New York University.

In the afternoon of Tuesday, June 25, the class-day exercises of '95 were held in the college garden, and a reception was given by President and Mrs. Raymond. In the evening commemorative exercises were held, presided over by Rev. Dr. Charles D. Nott, '54, at which addresses were given by Judge George F. Danforth, '40, and Rev. Dr. Stealy B. Rossiter, '65, while the centennial poem was read by William H. McElroy, LL. D.

A unique feature of the celebration was that on Wednesday morning, June 26, consisting of a flag raising with an artillery salute. The exercises, which were held in the open air, were presided over by Gen. Daniel Butterfield, '49; Maj. Austin A. Yates, '54, made an eloquent and patriotic oration, and a poem was read by Col. Weston Flint, '60. On the same morning exercises typifying "Union College

in professional life," presided over by Hon. William H. H. Moore, '44, were held under a tent on the campus, and addresses on behalf of the three learned professions were made by Rev. Dr. Teunis S. Hamlin, '67; Maj. J. V. R. Hoff, M. D., '71, and Hon. J. Newton Fiero, dean of the Albany Law School. The alumni banquet was held at noon in Memorial Hall, presided over by Hon. Amasa J. Parker, '63, president of the General Alumni Association, at which speeches were made by representatives of the decennial classes and others.

In the afternoon of June 26 was held the celebration of the semicentennial of the engineering school of Union College, at which addresses were made by Cady Staley, '65, president of the Case School of Applied Science; Hon. Warner Miller, '60; Gen. Roy Stone, '58, and Prof. O. H. Landreth, '76.

The exercises of Wednesday evening were especially interesting. They were presided over by Hon. John Gary Evans, '83, governor of South Carolina; Hon. David C. Robinson, '65, and Hon. Charles Emory Smith, '61. At this ceremony was first played the Union College Centennial March, composed by John T. Mygatt, '58.

The centennial ceremony was concluded on commencement day, June 27, when, following the orations of graduates, a brief address was made by President Eliphalet Nott Potter, of Hobart College, and the chancellor's oration was delivered by Right Rev. Henry C. Potter, bishop of New York.

Thus closed the first century of Union College, a century of usefulness, of progress, and of development. The second century opens with the happiest auguries for the future-a future bright with hope and promise.

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CODE. 1880.

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MEMORIAL VOLUME. An account of the tricentennial class meeting held at the college, June 24, 1884.

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FIRST SEMICENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY. Celebrated July 22, 1845.

SEYMOUR, HORATIO. University address, July 2, 1873.

CELEBRATION OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF DR. NOTT's PRESIDENCY OF UNION COLLEGE. July 25, 1854.

DELAVAN, E. C. Communication to the board of trustees of Union College.

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WELLS, W. Harper, 31: 809.