Henry MacCracken

Henry Mitchell MacCracken (1840–1918) was an American educator.

Henry MacCracken
Born
Henry Mitchell MacCracken

(1840-09-28)September 28, 1840
Oxford, Ohio
DiedDecember 24, 1918(1918-12-24) (aged 78)
Orlando, Florida
Resting placeWoodlawn Cemetery
EducationMiami University
OccupationEducator
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Biography

Henry MacCracken was born in Oxford, Ohio on September 28, 1840.[1] 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 coining the term "Hall of Fame".[2]

Henry MacCracken died in Orlando, Florida on December 24, 1918.[3] He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery.[4]

Henry Noble MacCracken, president (1915–46) of Vassar College, and John Henry MacCracken, president (1915–26) of Lafayette College, were his sons.

MacCracken Hall, a residence hall at Miami University bears his name.

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,[5] was comically portrayed as a still active Times trends section editor after the newspaper published a similarly-themed article in 2013.[6]

References
  • Alberts, Robert C. (1987). Pitt: The Story of the University of Pittsburgh 1787-1987. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-1150-7.

See T. F. Jones, New York University, 1832–1932 (1933).

  1. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. VI. James T. White & Company. 1896. p. 281. Retrieved November 29, 2020 – via Google Books.
  2. Sedensky, Matt (November 25, 2001). "NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS; the Original Hall of Fame Tries to Get Back on Its Feet". The New York Times.
  3. "New York University Chancellor Emeritus is Dead at Orlando". The Tampa Tribune. Orlando. December 26, 1918. p. 4. Retrieved November 29, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "Hold Rites for MacCracken". New York Herald. December 28, 1918. p. 7. Retrieved November 29, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. MacCracken, Henry Mitchel (February 7, 1904). "Moral Risks Surrounding College Men In Big Cities" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved July 21, 2013.
  6. Kingkade, Tyler (July 19, 2013). "Colbert Lampoons New York Times College Sex Coverage (VIDEO)". The Huffington Post. Retrieved July 20, 2013.
Academic offices
Preceded by
George Woods		 University of Pittsburgh Chancellor
1881–1884		 Succeeded by
Milton Goff
Preceded by
John Hall		 Chancellor of New York University
1891–1911		 Succeeded by
Elmer Ellsworth Brown
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