Henry MacCracken
{{Short description|American academic administrator (1840–1918)}}
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{{For|his son who became the fifth president of Vassar College|Henry Noble MacCracken}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Henry MacCracken
| image = Henry MacCracken.jpg
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| office = 6th Chancellor of New York University
| term_start = 1891
| term_end = 1911
| predecessor = John Hall
| successor = Elmer Ellsworth Brown
| office1 = 6th Chancellor of the Western University of Pennsylvania
| term_start1 = 1881
| term_end1 = 1884
| predecessor1 = George Woods
| successor1 = Milton Goff
| birth_name = Henry Mitchell MacCracken
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1840|09|28}}
| birth_place = Oxford, Ohio, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1918|12|24|1840|09|28}}
| death_place = Orlando, Florida, U.S.
| resting_place = Woodlawn Cemetery
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| education = Miami University
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| signature = Signature of Henry Mitchell MacCracken.png
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Henry Mitchell MacCracken (September 28, 1840 – December 24, 1918) was an American educator and academic administrator.
Biography
Henry MacCracken was born in Oxford, Ohio on September 28, 1840.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z9kbAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA281 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=VI |publisher=James T. White & Company |page=281 |year=1896 |access-date=2020-11-29 |via=Google Books}} He graduated from Miami University in Ohio in 1857. After a brief teaching career, he entered the Presbyterian ministry in 1863. From 1881 to 1884 he served as the sixth chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, then called the Western University of Pennsylvania.
In 1884 he was appointed professor of philosophy and vice chancellor of New York University, becoming chancellor in 1891. Before his retirement in 1910, the University Heights campus was acquired, a graduate school and schools of commerce and pedagogy were founded, and the university medical school was strengthened by union with Bellevue Hospital medical college. While chancellor he was responsible for the creation of Hall of Fame for Great Americans on the campus and using the term "Hall of Fame" in English, inspired by Munich's Ruhmeshalle ("hall of fame" in German).{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/25/nyregion/neighborhood-report-university-heights-original-hall-fame-tries-get-back-its.html |title = NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS; the Original Hall of Fame Tries to Get Back on Its Feet|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 2001-11-25|last1 = Sedensky|first1 = Matt}}
Henry MacCracken died in Orlando, Florida on December 24, 1918.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64283674/new-york-university-chancellor-emeritus/ |title=New York University Chancellor Emeritus is Dead at Orlando |newspaper=Tampa Morning Tribune |location=Orlando |page=4 |date=1918-12-26 |access-date=2020-11-29 |via=Newspapers.com}} He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64284275/hold-rites-for-maccracken/ |title=Hold Rites for MacCracken |newspaper=The Sun |publication-place=New York |page=7 |date=1918-12-28 |access-date=2020-11-29 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Henry Noble MacCracken, president of Vassar College from 1915 to 1946, and John Henry MacCracken, president of Lafayette College from 1915 to 1926, were his sons.
MacCracken Hall, a residence hall at Miami University bears his name.
His former residence on the campus of Bronx Community College also carries the name MacCracken Hall.
Popular culture
On a July 2013 episode of the satirical television program The Colbert Report, Henry Mitchel MacCracken, who penned a 1904 New York Times article on the moral risks of college men,{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/02/07/120284010.pdf|first=Henry Mitchel|last=MacCracken|title=Moral Risks Surrounding College Men In Big Cities|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 7, 1904|accessdate=July 21, 2013}} was comically portrayed as a still active Times trends section editor after the newspaper published a similarly themed article in 2013.{{cite web| url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/19/colbert-new-york-times-college-sex_n_3624092.html|title=Colbert Lampoons New York Times College Sex Coverage (VIDEO)|first=Tyler|last=Kingkade|work=The Huffington Post|date=July 19, 2013|accessdate=July 20, 2013}}
References
- {{cite book | author=Alberts, Robert C. | title=Pitt: The Story of the University of Pittsburgh 1787-1987 | location=Pittsburgh | publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press | year=1987 | isbn=0-8229-1150-7}}
See T. F. Jones, New York University, 1832–1932 (1933).
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External links
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Henry MacCracken |sopt=t}}
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Category:Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
Category:Miami University alumni