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Cornell Alvmni News CORNELL ALVMNI NEWS VOL. I.—NO. 7. ITHACA, N. Y., WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1899. PRICE TEN CENTS. GOVERNOR FLOWER DEAD. Flower & Co., which has since been THE SAGE SCHOOL OF PHILOS- study of the intellectual, moral, and a power in Wall Street. OPHY. religious nature of man, and of the Mr. Flower's first vote was cast for problems which human life presents. Passed Away Suddenly at Kast- Buchanan. He was always a Demo- An Account of Its Organization For this reason he wished to make port, I^oiiji Island—Action of crat. In the early seventies he help- permanent provision at Cornell for tlie Trustees—Sketch and Work. of His I^ife. ed Samuel J. Tilden to develop the philosophical instruction and investi- famous organization which exposed The Sage School of Philosophy is gation of .the most varied kinds and and smashed Boss Tweed, and enjoy- constituted by the Departments of of the highest order. It was explicit- The University was cast into sud- ed many other triumphs. Mr. Flower the History and Philosophy of Re- ly declared that the School was not den gloom on Saturday by the news was chosen to be chairman of theligion, Logic and Metaphysics, Psy- to be an institution for the propaga- that ex-Governor Roswell P. Flower, Democratic State Committee in 1877, chology, Ethics, Education, and tion of any pre-determined doctrine Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and in 1881 he defeated William Ancient and Mediaeval Philosophy. or system, but should devote itself to had died at eleven o'clock Friday the free and unhampered quest for evening, at the Long Island Country truth. Mr. Sage's purpose was that Club, Eastport, L. I., of heart failure all sides of philosophy should be rep- resulting from acute indigestion. resented, and that every method of The news came with such a shock discovering truth—observation, ex- that it seemed hard to believe. Many periment, speculation, reflection, and were the expressions of genuine re- historical investigation—should be gret and sorrow for during his con- given its appropriate place. nection with the Board of Trustees During the spring and summer of Mr. Flower had become well known 1890, Professor Schurman visited the in Ithaca and had made many warm principal universities of Great Britain friends here. and Germany for the purpose of At a meeting of the Executive studying the organization of various Committee of the Board of Trustees philosophical departments, and ob- held on Saturday morning, a com- serving their methods of instruction. mittee was appointed, consisting of The organization having been com- President Crane, Hon. S. D. Halli- pleted, and appointments made to the day, Mynderse VanCleef, Franklin C. various departments, the School be- Cornell, and Hon. D. F. Van Vleet, gan its work in the fall of 1891. to prepare suitable resolutions upon Since that time some changes have the death of Mr. Flower. It was also taken place in the staff, and some ad- resolved that the report of the com- ditions and promotions have been mittee be made to a full meeting of made. In 1896 President Schurman the Board of Trustees and that the was compelled by the ever increasing- Executive Committee attend the fun- duties of his office to resign the chair eral. of ethics, which he had held up to The career of Roswell Pettibone this time. The Trustees chose as his Flower was a remarkable one, even successor Professor James Seth, a m this age and land of great fortunes graduate of the University of Edin- in a single lifetime. He was born burgh, who had made a brilliant repu- in Theresa, Jefferson County, N. Y., tation as a teacher and author at August 7, 1835. His father was Brown University. After two years born at Oak Hill, Greene County, N. of service at Cornell, during which he Y., whither his ancestors went from contributed very greatly to the suc- Connecticut. Roswell was the sixth cess of the School, Professor Seth of nine children, and at the death of was called by his alma mater to his father was eight years old. He accept the historic chair of moral worked with his brothers on two philosophy in that institution. This farms which his mother owned, and vacancy has been filled by the ap- spent his time between school sessions pointment of Professor E. B. Mc- in the hardest kind of labor, earning Gilvary of the University of Califor- extra money by sawing wood at fifty nia, who will next year begin his cents a cord. His first big financial work at Cornell. Last year, Professor operation was when, at the age of fif- S. G. Williams felt obliged, on ac- teen years, he drove a yoke of steers count' of advancing years, to resign in a brickyard for two weeks and the professorship of pedagogy, and earned $3. ROSWELL PETTIBONE FLOWER. was succeeded by Professor Charles He taught an unruly district school DeGarmo, who gave up the presi- and chastised a turbulent band of dis- dency of Swarthmore College to take turbers into order before he was sev- this chair at Cornell. The Depart- enteen years old. In 1853, he be- ments of Psychology, and of Logic came deputy postmaster of Water- Waldorf Astor for Congress after a It owes its existence to the generosity and Metaphysics, which were at first town, N. Y., and kept the place six hot campaign in the Eleventh Dis- of Hon. Henry W. Sage, whose per- in charge of an assistant and an as- years at a salary of $50 a month. trict. His majority was 3,100, while sonal devotion to the interests of the sociate professor respectively, are now Then he became a partner in theLevi P. Morton, Republican, had University was felt throughout every conducted by full professors, and an jewelry firm of Hitchcock & Flower, carried it at the last previous election department, and whose many gifts instructor and assistant in psychology bought out his partner at the end of by more than 7,000 votes. He re- entitle him to rank as its second —made necessary by the develop- two years, and continued in the busi- fused a renomination. He was elect- founder. ment of the psychological laboratory— ness until 1869. ed governor of the state in 1891. Mr. Sage's interest in philosophy have been added to that department. In that year Mr. Flower went to In the cholera epidemic in the late was first shown by his foundation of The original plan of the School New York to take charge of the es- summer of 1892 thousands of passen- a chair of philosophy and Christian made provision for the establishment tate of Henry Keep, whose widow gers arriving from Europe were quar- ethics in 1886, to which Professor of a philosophical journal, and in was Mrs. Flower's sister. Mr. Keep antined on shipboard down the bay. Schurman was called as its first in- January, 1892, the first number of owned many railroads and other As an emergency measure Governor cumbent. In 1890 Mr. Sage added The Philosophical Review appeared stocks, and during the months before Flower bought with his own money to his original gift to the Department under the editorship of Professor his death he spent much time instruct- the Fire Island Hotel, in the name of of Philosophy the further sum of Schurman. After Professor Schur- ing Mr. Flower about them. the state, and ordered that the pas- $2 00,000,stipulating that the Trustees man's election to the presidency of Having thus gained an insight into sengers be sent there. Some neigh- should, wherever it was needed, sup- the University, Professor Creighton Wall Street and its methods, Mr. boring Long Islanders got an injunc- plement the proceeds of his endow- was made co-editor, and upon him has Flower formed in 1870 the firm of tion to prevent the landing. ments with appropriations from the fallen since that time the main respon- Benedict, Flower, & Co., in which he A member of his staff said: "Gov- general funds of the University. Al- sibility for the conduct of the journal. joined E. C. Benedict and H. H.ernor, let me manage this now and though a clear-sighted, practical man Professor Seth, who for two years was Truman. This firm was dissolved in you won't lose a vote." of affairs, Mr. Sage was profoundly a member of the editorial board, still 1872, when Mr. Flower was ill for "Never mind the votes," said the impressed by the mysteries of exist- retains his connection with Cornell several months. Not long afterward Governor. "I'm going to get those ence, and firmly persuaded that the by remaining a co-operating editor he organized the banking firm of Continued on Page 49. highest culture should embrace a 48 CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS. and representing the Review in Great Leipzig Institute, the first and great- University of Wisconsin W. B. El- Wilderness, Spottsylvania, etc. Af- Britain. Although the Review very est of psychological laboratories, kin, '94, Teachers' College, Columbia ter the war he was for seven years frequently contains contributions from founded by Professor Wundt in 1879. University Miss Margaret F. Wash- pastor of the South Congregational Cornell professors, instructors, and It has two distinct series of instru- Church of Chicago, and in 1872 was students, it is not in any narrow sense ments, for educational and research called to the First Congregational a Cornell organ. Articles have ap- work respectively. Every department Church of Ithaca. In 1891 Dr. Ty- peared in its pages from nearly every of experimental inquiry is represent- ler was appointed professor of the prominent philosophical writer in ed and while it is especially rich in history and philosophy of religion America, and it also numbers among acoustical and haptical apparatus, the in Cornell.
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