[Besides the above there were employed from 1864 to 1882 13 Instructors and 63 Assistants.] FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE. Professor of Constitutional Law and International History and Law. John W. Burgess, A. M., 1880 Professor of Philosophy. Archibald Alexander, A. M., Ph. D. (Adj.), 1880-81; (Prof.), 1881- Richmond M. Smith, A. M. (Adj.), 1880 Lecturers. E. Munroe Smith, LL. B., J. U. D. (Roman Law), 1880- Melvil Dewey, A. M., 1884 Attendance since 1831 and by classes since 1835 in the Under graduate Course of School of Arts since 1835, in Columbia College. Number of Graduates of Columbia College (including those under its former name as King's College) from its organization to the year 1884 inclusive. YEARS. Number of Graduates of Columbia College. - Continued. Whole number of graduates in the School of Arts, to 1884, inclusive, 2,667. Beginning with the class of 1882 graduates received the degree of Bachelor of Arts (A. B.), Bachelor of Letters (L. B.), or Bachelor of Science (B. S.), according to the character of the studies chiefly pursued by them during the last two years of their college course. Graduates in Law receive the degree of Bachelor of Law (LL. B.). Graduates of the School of Mines receive the degree of Engineer of Mines (E. M.), Civil Engineer (C. E.), or Bachelor of Philosophy (Ph. B.). Graduates who pursue at the School of Mines, for not less than one academic year, a course of study prescribed by the Faculty, pass a satisfactory examination and present an acceptable dissertation embodying the results of special study upon an approved subject, receive the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.). Students of the School of Political Science receive the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy (Ph. B.) upon the completion of the first year, and that of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.) upon the completion of the entire course of three years, having also passed examinations and prepared an original dissertation upon a subject assigned or approved by the Faculty. UNION UNIVERSITY. By an act passed April 10, 1873,' a corporation was allowed to be formed by voluntary association of the four corporations previously existing under the names of Union College, the Albany Medical College, the Law Department of the University of Albany, and the Dudley Observatory. This was not to affect any rights of property nor any of the corporate rights previously existing. The new corporation might hold an estate with an income of not over $100,000 a year, and was to be managed by a Board of Governors not more than seventeen in number. The organic law of the University might be modified by the Regents upon application of the Board of Governors; but no change could be made affecting the funds or property or the individual government and control of either of these institutions without the consent of its Trustees. Under this authority an agreement was made June 12, 1873, by which the Board of Governors was to consist of thirteen persons, in addition to the four Presidents, who were to be ex-officio members, making the whole number seventeen. Of these thirteen Governors one was to be chosen by the Trustees of each of the three Albany institutions, and ten by the Trustees of Union College. Their terms are unlimited. The University appoints a permanent Chancellor and an honorary Chancellor. The former (who is the President of Union College) confers the degrees. The latter is appointed for a year, and is expected to deliver an address at Commencement. He is thereafter a member of the Board of Visitors. Commencement is always on the fourth Wednesday of June. Two stated meetings are to be held annually—one at Albany on the fourth Tuesday of 'Chap. 193, Laws of 1873. The succession of honorary Chancellors has been as follows: Hon. Horatio Seymour, LL. D., 1873. Hon. John L. Dix, LL. D., 1874. Rt. Rev. Horatio Potter, DD., LL. D., D. C. L., 1875. Rt. Hon. William E. Gladstone,* D. C. L., 1876. Hon. George William Curtis, LL. D., 1877. Hon. William Porcher Miles, LL. D., 1878. Hon. John K. Porter, LL. D., 1879. Hon. John Walsh, LL. D., 1880. Hon. Alexander H. Rice, LL. D., 1881. Rt. Rev. Abram H. Littlejohn, D. D., 1882. Henry Copée, LL. D., 1884. * Politely declined on account of pressing engagements. January, and the other at Schenectady on the day before Commencement. This agreement was approved by the Regents October 31, 1873. I. UNION COLLEGE. The earliest movement toward the establisnment of a college at Schenectady was made in 1779, when petitions were circulated in various places in the eastern and northern parts of the State, and a charter was prepared, with the intention of naming it CLINTON COLLEGE.' These petitions were referred to a committee, who made a favorable report, recommending that the petitioners be allowed to bring in a bill for this purpose at the next session. But the emergencies of the war appear to have diverted attention from the subject, and we find nothing more concerning it. On the 21st of February, 1785, measures were begun for the establishment of an academy at Schenectady, by mutual agreement among the citizens, and placed in charge of twelve trustees." Its work was carried on with as much success as could be expected in a private seminary, until its sphere of usefulness was enlarged in the manner we shall presently notice. The following notice of an early plan proposed for the establishment of a college at Schenectady occurs in the Memoirs of the Rev. Dr. John H. Livingston: "A plan was projected the ensuing winter (1785-86) by some friends of literature in the northern part of the State, for founding a College in Schenectady, for the prosperity of which the Doctor evinces a benevolent concern, and probably made some exertions at the meetings of the Regents of the University, being a member of that Board. In a letter to his worthy friend and brother, the Rev. Clinton Papers No. 3,467, State Library: A further notice of this enterprise is given in a "Historical Sketch of Union College" prepared by the editor of this volume in 1876, and published by the National Bureau of Education in connection with a plan then proposed for the publication, under his editorial supervision, of a general series of Histories of American Colleges, with reference to the Centennial year. A notice of the early attempts for the establishment of a college at Schenectady and at Albany will also be found in Munsell's Annals of Albany, VII, p. 126. A petition was received August 26, 1779, from John Cuyler and 542 inhabitants of Albany and Tryon counties, and from Thomas Clarke and 131 others of Charlotte county for a college in Schenectady.- [Assembly Journal, 1779, p. 9. 2 This building was on the north-west corner of what are now Union and Ferry streets. It was of brick, two stories high, and about fifty by thirty feet on the ground plan. It was the only college edifice of Union College until 1804. |