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The Systematizing and Strengthening;;; Of Higher Education: An Address by Chancellor Maccracken, of New York University (Classic Reprint)
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First, I shall argue that this work needs to be done, and that Presbyterians may fitting y lead in attempting it. You will allow me to present this argument not in abstract propositions, but by con crete facts, in the way of illustration.
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Henry Mitchell MacCracken was an American clergyman and educator.
Background
Henry Mitchell MacCracken was born on September 28, 1840, at Oxford, Ohio. He was the eldest son of the Rev. John Steele and Eliza Hawkins (Dougherty) Welch MacCracken.
His great-grandfather, Henry MacCracken of Sunbury, Pennsylvania, fought in the Revolution, and was killed by Indians in 1780. On his mother's side, he was descended from the English Col. Charles Hawkins, who was killed at the siege of Gibraltar in 1704.
John Steele MacCracken was a minister of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, and his wifehad established and conducted for several years in Oxford a female seminary, which was the forerunner of the Oxford College for Women, later merged in Miami University.
Education
In 1857, Henry graduated from Miami. Following his graduation, he was principal of an academy in Cedarville and superintendent of schools in South Charleston, Ohio.
In his twenty-first year, along with his teaching of the classics in the local high school, he began the study of theology in the seminary of the United Presbyterian Church, Xenia. After two years here, he spent a year in Princeton Theological Seminary.
In 1867-68, he was in Europe, where he devoted a portion of the time to study in the universities of Tübingen and Berlin.
Career
On November 7, 1863, MacCracken was ordained and became pastor of the Westminster Church, Columbus, Ohio. He assumed the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church, Toledo, which he served until 1881. His chief literary work was The Lives of the Leaders of Our Church Universal, a translation of Ferdinand Piper's Die Zeugen der Wahrheit, with the lives of American religious leaders added.
The year 1881, marks his definite turn from pastoral to educational activity. In that year, he became chancellor of the Western University of Pennsylvania, at Pittsburgh, and professor of philosophy. During his three years as head of this institution, he accomplished its removal from the heart of Pittsburgh to Allegheny, where it was to remain until its return to a new site in Pittsburgh.
In 1884, he went to the University of the City of New York as professor of philosophy. A year later, he was made vice-chancellor, and from that time on the actual administration of the institution was in his hands. On the resignation of Dr. John Hall in 1891, MacCracken succeeded him as chancellor.
On the completion of his seventieth year, in 1910, he resigned the chancellorship, and received from the University the designation of chancellor emeritus. He continued to the end of his life his membership in the university council, with special service as committeeman of the Hall of Fame.
In the year following his retirement, he made a tour of the world, the immediate fruit of which was an address on Urgent Eastern Questions published in 1913. For years, he was an active member of the American Institute of Christian Philosophy, founded by Dr. Charles F. Deems. He became its president in 1900, and brought it into close working relations with New York University.
MacCracken's death, after a brief illness, occurred at Orlando, Florida on December 24, 1918.
Achievements
In the twenty-five years that it was under MacCracken's direction, the University experienced a complete transformation. The University College, with the school of engineering, was removed to University Heights.
On the old site at Washington Square a ten-story structure was erected, the upper floors to be used by certain University divisions; the remainder to be rented for business use, thereby producing an income for educational purposes.
A graduate school and school of pedagogy and commerce were established. The loosely related Medical College was brought under direct control of the university council and given new strength and vitality by union with the Bellevue Hospital Medical College. The School of Law was likewise brought under full University control.
The ambulatory encircling the main group of buildings at University Heights was designated as the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, and a plan was elaborated by which this was to be made a shrine of patriotic remembrance.
MacCracken's most important contribution to the Institute's proceedings, "Kant and Lotze, " published in Christian Thought, gives some indication of his philosophical position. He was also associated with Howard Crosby and Charles H. Parkhurst in the Society for the Prevention of Crime.
His annual reports and occasional addresses give a general view of his thought and work, particularly "A Metropolitan University, " in The Christian at Work, and his state convocation address of 1904, University Problems in the Metropolis.
Membership
a member of the American Institute of Christian Philosophy
Personality
All of his advances were made only with the greatest difficulty, and brought into full play the dominant elements of the Chancellor's character, his active and creative imagination, his courage and tenacity of purpose, and his resourcefulness in finding ways to ends deliberately chosen.
His interest in religious activities continued, with occasional preaching, to the end of his life. He was not an active participant in the doctrinal dissensions of the time, though by no means indifferent to them.
Connections
On July 2, 1872, MacCracken married Catherine Almira Hubbard, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Swan Hubbard, of Rochester, Vermont, by whom he had four children.
