The celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its founding as Queens College, 1766-1916 . informed on reaching this placetonight that it is a mere fortuity that Rutgers College isnot located in Albany. That it is here is due to the high-mindedness of an Albany man whose name has been men-tioned gratefully here tonight. We may well applaudhis disinterested highmindedness. On the other hand,it would have greatly contributed to my convenience ifRutgers College had been located in Albany, for I hadto come all the way down from Albany this afternoonand I have to go all the way back
The celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its founding as Queens College, 1766-1916 . informed on reaching this placetonight that it is a mere fortuity that Rutgers College isnot located in Albany. That it is here is due to the high-mindedness of an Albany man whose name has been men-tioned gratefully here tonight. We may well applaudhis disinterested highmindedness. On the other hand,it would have greatly contributed to my convenience ifRutgers College had been located in Albany, for I hadto come all the way down from Albany this afternoonand I have to go all the way back to Albany I am sure that Mr. Loree is sorry with me thatRutgers College is not located in Albany. We have therean institution referred to as the University of the Stateof New York, a mystical sort of an institution which hasno professors and no students. If Rutgers College, withits professors and students, were there, it would havebeen more profitable for the D. & H. Railroad. Still, I am very glad, after all, that Rutgers Collegewas not established in Albany, because President Dema-. Pageant, Episode V: THE BALL AT BUCCLEUCH FRIDAY, OCTOBER THIRTEENTH 93 rest would be President of Rutgers College, which wouldbe, I suppose, the University of the State of New York,and I do not know where I should have been—perhapsstill a professor at Princeton. These are trivial reasons I must admit. I add a morecogent one. President Hibben Grandpapa Hibben^)has just been talking about our ancestors and about chil-dren still unborn. He has referred to these lights andto some power house, I think outside. Well, if RutgersCollege had been located in Albany, then probably theAlbany Academy would not have been established. Andprobably a certain boy, who was the son of a day laborerthere, would not have entered that school and he wouldnot have become the man who made all these lights pos-sible. I found in the church records the other day theentry: Joseph Henry, the son of a day laborer
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