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...Bronx, N. Y. because he thought his name was "a drawback socially and sounded un-American," Hubertus Ralph Theodore Roosevelt Kretzschmar had it changed to Ralph Theodore Roosevelt...
...Chase-now white-haired though only 49 -made ready to move last week. He had accepted the chancellorship (presidency) of sprawling, polyglot New York University, to succeed Dr. Elmer Ellsworth Brown who is retiring at 71. Dr. Chase once said that his faith was in the State universities. N. Y. U. is privately endowed, receiving nothing from city or State. But it is large-the nation's largest, with 27,905 degree candidates-and its widespread activities are such as to keep Dr. Chase busy and happy...
...University Heights overlooking the Harlem River. Here, doubtless, he will play badminton, at which he excels, and be accessible and agreeable to all who visit him. He will find his students far different from the corn-fed stalwarts of Illinois, the more so as he goes southward among N. Y. U.'s five scattered major centres. On the Heights there are: fraternity houses and dormitories; a genial campus policeman named John Quigley who was a fast friend of the late Sir Thomas Lipton; the famed Hall of Fame...
...Y. U. built its Washington Square college in 1835, four years after N. Y. U.'s founding by a council of 169 prominent men whose first president was Jeflersonian Albert Gallatin. Here once dwelt Artist Winslow Homer, Richard Grant White (father of Stanford White who designed most of the N. Y. U. buildings on the Heights) and many another pioneer Greenwich Villager. Today the Washington Square College is N. Y. U.'s third largest division, with more than 6,600 students, even less clean and corn-fed than the students on the Heights...
What Chancellor-elect Chase plans for N. Y. U. he did not announce last week. He will, perforce, ponder its growth in 101 years, from the time that Samuel Finley Breese Morse there developed the telegraph and Professor John William Draper took the first photograph by sunlight. In 22 years under Chancellor Brown the enrolment grew from 4,175 to nearly 40,000 (including part-time students); the faculty from 282 to 1,800; the schools and colleges from eight to 12, including the important Graduate School of Business Administration. N. Y. U.'s endowment grew in proportion...