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OCHESTER is known for so many out and the Rose Bowl at Durand-Eastman, standing and attractive features that covering 5.5 acres, contains more than the choice of any one of them must he 10,000 rose bushes and is recognized as the left to the individual. It is an industrial most colorful rose garden in the world. city, with 935 industries within its corNo wonder Rochester is known as the porate hounds. These include the largest Flower City! film and camera factories in the world. It The Genesee, as it flows through the is also well and favorably known for its heart of the city, after traversing the whole optical goods, surgical instruments, therbreadth of the state, is crossed by twelve mometers, telephones, radios, check propublic bridges, each different, and some of tectors and safety paper, filing equipment them uncommonly interesting. Main and office systems, men's clothing and acStreet, through the heart of the business cessories, women's shoes, carbon paper and section, is carried over the river on a bridge other office supplies, and glass-lined equipflanked solid on both sides by business ment for the chemical and food industries. establishments, over which many pass The food and beverage companies have every day, never realizing that a great carried the fame of this locality to far river is rushing under their fret. places. Then there is the Broad Street bridge which is, in fact, the aqueduct of the Erie Many of its industries are set in large Canal, famous in its day as an engineering parklike grounds, with well-kept grass and accomplishment. This and other parts of beautiful shade trees and shrubs. Nearly the old canal have been roofed over to 75 per cent of the citizens own their own form Broad Street, while in its bed are the homes and pride themselves on maintaintracks of Rochester's subway. Stutson ing beautiful lawns and gardens. Despite Street bridge, near the lake, is of the all this privately owned and maintained "Jack-knife" type, so designed to allow the beauty, vast sums have been expended by lake boats to move up and down the lower city and county in developing great park reaches of the river. For anyone interested areas in and near the city. The city has six large parks with an area of about 1800 in bridges, there is a rather remarkable railroad bridge just north of the Stutson acres. Two of these are on the shore of Lake Ontario, where long sandy beaches and well-appointed bathhouses are extremely popular during the summer months. Each park has some feature which differentiates it from all the others. Mother Nature has been kind in helping to make this possible. Two of the parks, Cobb's Hill and Highland, in which are situated the great reservoirs for Rochester's water, are on the kame morain left by the receding ice of the great Labradorian glacier. One of the county parks, Ellison, is in the huge old river bed through which the Genesee flowed before that same glacier changed the river's course. Two of the city parks flank the almost perpendicular rock walls of the river's present channel, in which it flows calmly to the lake after its mighty tumbles of 267 feet over two great falls and one smaller one within the city. The collections of flowers, trees, and shrubs in the various parks have become world famous. In Highland Park there are 371 different varieties of lilacs, RUNDEL LIBRARY AND 315
Street bridge, which is pivoted at its center and rests on a foundation in the middle of the river. By moans of a stationary steam engine and gears, it is swung parallel to the flow of the current to allow vessels to pass and then back across the river to complete the railroad right of way. Rochester has a well-ordered school system, part of which will be just getting under way for another school year as the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY meets in
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city. It consists of a public school system of forty-five elementary schools and eleven junior-senior high schools, including a technical high school, and a Roman Catholic school system of forty elementary units, four high schools, and a college. Here also is situated the heavily endowed University of Rochester, formerly a Baptist institution but now nonsectarian, the Mechanics Institute, Catholic and Baptist Theological seminaries, and several private schools and schools for specialized training. Rochester also has a school for the deaf. Visual education in the Rochester schools has reached a high point of development through the use of classroom films and slides. Lessons in science, literature, guidance, art, and current history are broadcast daily by the Rochester
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School of the Air, not only to the classes in the city but also to many classes throughout up-state New York and the Province of Ontario. The library system of the city consists of the main library, housed in the beautiful Rundel Library and Fine Arts Building, opened this spring, and 84 other libraries, branches, and distributing points. Visitors t o the city would be well repaid by a visit to the Rundel Building at the corner of South Avenue and Court Street and the Memorial Art Gallery on the women's campus on University Avenue. In the beautiful Eastman Theater, seating 3600 and with exceptionally fine acoustics, will be delivered the President's address on Tuesday evening, the week of the national meeting, preceded by a musical and followed by a reception in the adjoining Kilbourne Hall, both gifts of George Eastman to the University of Rochester. In the Eastman Theater, too, will be held the public meeting on Wednesday afternoon. It is in this theater that the Metropolitan Opera Co. stages its annual Rochester performance.
Rochester is recognized as a leader in the field of social welfare, occupying an advanced place among the cities of the United States in the standard of health of its citizens. Its public health department pioneered in the popularization of vaccination and inoculation. The city owns its own water system. It brings pure water more than 30 miles by gravity flow from city-owned upland lakes into its storage reservoir in Rush, N. Y., and its two local reservoirs where it is again aerated in its picturesque escape through the great fountains which are central figures of the reservoirs. The high quality of the water is said to have been an important factor in establishing the reputation of Rochester's five large breweries for the beverages they produce. The sanitary sewage of the city passes through well-managed and efficient disposal plants from which the effluent goes to Lake Ontario in a high degree of purity. The collection of garbage, which is done during the early morning hours as an aesthetic courtesy, is a city function, as is its disposal in the modern city-owned
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plant, which recovers the fats and converts the balance of the solids to fertilizer. Visitors to Rochester have always liked the city and many have stayed to become its permanent citizens. That is why Rochester grew from a scant 12,000 persons a century ago to the third largest city in the Empire State. You, too, will like the city and the arrangements which have been made for your visit to the fall meeting of the
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N THE area of the Rochester Section there are five universities and colleges. Two of these, the University of Rochester and Nazareth College, are in the city itself. The oldest college in this area is Hobart at Geneva, N. Y., founded in 1822. Alfred University at Alfred, N. Y., was founded in 1836; the University of Rochester, in 1850; Keuka, at Penn Yan, N. Y., in 1921; and Nazareth College, in 1924. The two last named are women's colleges exclusively.
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It had its inception in a movement among the Baptists of the state, which led several professors and a number of students of what was then Madison University at Hamilton, N. Y., to transfer to the more populous community of Rochester and there organize a new institution in the old United States Hotel building on West .Main Street. Although denominational in origin, it has long since become entirely nonsectarian in its organization, administration, and control. In the early 1850's it obtained by gift and purchase 25 acres of land in the eastern part of the city. In 1857 the state legislature appropriated $25,000 towards the erection of a university building—the only funds ever received by the university from the state—and this sum, supplemented by SI4,000 obtained by popular subscription, was used to build Anderson Hall, into which the universitv moved in 1861. In 1930 it again moved to its present beautiful campus of 87 acres in a great bend of the Genesee River, giving it a beautiful water frontage of nearly a mile. The move was made possible by a successful public campaign for S 10,000,000. This campus is for the men students, while the old UNIVERSITY of ROCHESTER RIVER CAMPUS SITUATED IN A BEND OF THE GENESSE RIVER T h e University of Rochester From its foundation in 1850 to 1900, the university enjoyed a steady, though slow and very conservative growth. In 1900 a new president was inaugurated, the university became coeducational, and it began a more rapid growth in endowment, buildings, and faculty. It is now one of the most heavily endowed educational institutions in the country. Perhaps few universities have roamed about as has the University of Rochester.
