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by a citizen in a great community, full of the idea of what makes 
a noble city, determined that New York shall realize its destiny, 
has proposed and is carrying into execution the great scheme of 
a University which shall include ail knowledge and secure the 
cooperation of every institution of learning within the limits of 
this city. He has appealed to the public of New York for money 
to build a suitable habitation for such university as the City of 
New York ought to have, and he will get the money beyond any 
doubt. 
My honored friend, Chancellor McCracken, is engaged in a 
work equally meritorious, and although it has not the advantage 
perhaps of the venerable claims of Columbia College and may 
not have the sanction of so many years in its favor, yet the work 
which he proposes to do is one worthy of a great city, and he 
also will find that his plans will be responded to by the rich men 
of New York who sympathize with him ; and so when this 
institution and the Museum of Art go to the city authorities 
and ask them to furnish the means for opening these halls and 
those other halls on the other side of the park to the public, free 
as the air of heaven on the Sabbath day, and every other day, 
where is the Mayor, where is the Board of Apportionment, where 
are the Park Commissioners who will deliberately say " We are 
officers of a mean city, and we will not give you the money 
necessary for noble ends ! " No. The money will be granted. 
The public opinion which is developed in this room decides the 
issue. The smile on the face of my good young friend, the 
President of the Park Department, indicates that he will go to the 
Board of Apportionment and ask for all the money that the Leg- 
islature has authorized. And I know the Mayor of this city well 
enough to know that coming as he is to the close of an adminis- 
tration longer than is usual in the municipal history of this city, 
I know that he and his colleagues will desire to signalize his 
administration by a crowning act of public beneficence for which 
the people of New York will be profoundly grateful. 
Address of the Right Rev. Henry C. Potter : 
It is so very unusual to meet Archbishop Corrigan on a plat- 
form in New York, that I think he ought to make a speech to-day, 
