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. 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). Henry MacCracken died in

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on December 24, 1918. He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City. 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.

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, a residence hall at Miami University bears his name.

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'',' ''was comically portrayed as a still active ''Times'' trends section editor after the newspaper published a similarly themed article in 2013.

References

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

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maccracken, Henry Mitchell 1840 births 1918 deaths Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York) Miami University alumni Chancellors of the University of Pittsburgh Presidents of New York University