Union College Union | Digital Works The oncC ordiensis 1899 The oncC ordiensis 1890-1899 4-15-1899 The oncorC diensis, Volume 22, Number 23 George Clarence Rowell Union College - Schenectady, NY Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalworks.union.edu/concordiensis_1899 Recommended Citation Clarence Rowell, George, "The oncC ordiensis, Volume 22, Number 23" (1899). The Concordiensis 1899. 12. https://digitalworks.union.edu/concordiensis_1899/12 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the The oncC ordiensis 1890-1899 at Union | Digital Works. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oncC ordiensis 1899 by an authorized administrator of Union | Digital Works. For more information, please contact [email protected]. j..J /('.\ . .· :.. ' .. The Concordiensis. ~~ .· \' PUBLISHED W:EEKLV BY THE STUDENTS OF' UNION COLLECE, SCHENECTA:DY, N. Y. -4,:{ VoL. XXII. APRIL 15, 1899. No. 23. -ADVERrriSEMENTS.------- rules at our store. 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LL. :o., Presidn:t, DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE. Albany Medical College.-T.erm commences last Tues­ day in September. Four years strictly graded cottrse. iin­ structionl!l by lectures, I~eci'tations, labm~atory worlr, clinics and practical demonstrations and operations. Clinical .a;dvantages excellent. Expenses·.-Matl.'iculation fee, S5; annual lect11.r.e .course, .. $100: perpetual ticket, $;300: graduation ,fee, $25; diss-eetiag fee, ' $10; laboratory cours~. ~ach, $10. For circular address j WILLIS G. TJ.".TOKER, M.D., Reg'istrar, .Albany-, iN". Y. DEPARTMENT OF LAW. Albany Law School.-This department of the un.i•versity is located at Albany., near the State Capitol. It <)CCllpies a building wholly dev<>ted to its use. The course lead.iu.g to the degree of LL. B., is two years, each year is divided. into two semesters. Expenses.-Mat1·iculation Fee, $10; Tuition fee, $100. Fot• catalogueR or other inf()rmation, e~ddress Qlflf{I'S SJi:OE ST®RE J. NEWTON FTEHO. Dean. 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VoL. XXII. UNION COLLEGE, APRIL 15, 1899. No. 23. of woods will be converted into a residential lMPOQTANT LAND TRANSFER. section, not for General Electric people exclu­ sively but for any who are willing to abide by the terms that will accompany the sale of lots. Part of the College Woods Sold to The General Electric Company. <St}e Evolutiol) of tl]~ Boo~. The final lecture of the winter term was One of the most important sales of college delivered on Friday, March 24, too late for property in years was consutnmated on Thurs­ publication in the term's last issue of The Con­ day, March 30, when the trustees sold to the cordiensis. The lecturer was Mr. George General Electric cotnpany seventy-six acres of Haven Putnam, the well-known literary man the land lying to the east of the college buildings and publisher; and his thetne, "The Evolution at a purchase price of $750 an acre, a total of Of The Book." Any inscription, Mr. Putnam $57,000. said, which carries a record is in a general way When the trustees decided to sell some of the a book, but a broader definition is any intel­ large real estate holdings of the college, among lectual conception recorded so as to be of value the first bidders was the General Electric com­ to others. pany. The l?roperty they desired to secure was It is supposed that the first book, exhumed in the tract nortl1 and northeast of University Place. the plains of Mesopotamia, dated back to 4000 The easterly portion of the tract runs directly years B .. C., though so1ne archreologists declare north fro1n the intersection of University Place that these were produced in 5500 B. C. antl Union a-venue, and extends through the The earliest incentive to write books was to college woods to upper Nott street. 1."he 76 record deeds. The Greeks used to carry their acres purchased include all the woods from the thoughts from mouth to tnouth without writing western line to the extretne eastern end of the the1n and it was 950 B. C. before the Greek I ! woods, except son1e little land that is owned by poetus first took shape. This state of affairs ' private parties. called for the ext!rcise of memory in the hearers It is hardly necessary to state that the General and of intense power of attention and discrimina­ Electric cotnpany has not purchased this land tion, more, in fact, than is found in the most for manufacturing purposes. It has been pur­ intellectual audience of today. chased by the company in order that its officers The earliest book that con1es fro1n the Egyp­ and leading employees might be able to pur­ tians was the Book of the Dead, which was chase suitable sites, on which to erect homes. published at the death of a man and buried with It is not an investn1ent or a speculation, but a hin1. Hence the first publisher in Egypt was move of the concern that has at heart the best the undertaker. interests of its officers and employees. The With the dawn of the fourth century came a protnoters of the plan have not yet formulated developtnent in the shape of papyrus. This any definite plan, bnt that the tract will be laid disappeared in the seventh century A. D. The out and large villa lots sold, is a certainty. It part which Alexander played in the develop­ also is a certainty that on these sites there wiil ment of the book was next touched on by Mr. be erected handsom,e hotnes, and the entire tract Putnam, who said that it exerted a large influ- 6 THE CONCORDIENSIS. = ence upon the Roman book. In 401 occurred the destruction of Rome, and " r.rhe City of . ~ra IJQell.JWestir]qt}ouse. God," St. Augustine's book founded upon this · One of the brilliant events of the season was J destruction was prominent in the literature of : the 1narriage of Miss Emeline Westinghouse, Re1 the age.