Union College

Arthur grew up disciplined, educated and ambitious.

He attended Union College in New York where he excelled.

He was fashionable, confident, socially skilled.

Unlike many frontier politicians, Arthur was polished.

Test it yourself.

Well, Jerry Coleman, Mr. Ewing Kaufman, the owner of the Kansas City Royals, and also the founder and president of Marion Laboratories, will be honored at Union College in Schenectady, New York, where he will receive an honorary doctor of science degree.

Also to be honored are Senator Charles E. Goodell of New York, and Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, among others.

The exercises, part of the commencement exercises at Union College in Schenectady on Saturday at 5.30 in the afternoon.

So our congratulations to Mr. Kaufman, to Senator Goodell, and to Mayor Stokes.

We're ready for the bottom half of the fifth inning.

Test it yourself.

Well, Jerry Coleman, Mr. Ewing Kaufman, the owner of the Kansas City Royals, and also the founder and president of Marion Laboratories, will be honored at Union College in Schenectady, New York, where he will receive an honorary doctor of science degree.

Also to be honored are Senator Charles E. Goodell of New York and Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, among others.

The exercises, part of the commencement exercises at Union College in Schenectady on Saturday at 5.30 in the afternoon.

So our congratulations to Mr. Kaufman, to Senator Goodell, and to Mayor Stokes.

We're ready for the bottom half of the fifth inning.

There are three specific findings that explain why these lines we just reviewed actually work.

Anita Williams Woolley at Carnegie Mellon with colleagues at MIT and Union College put 699 people into groups of two to five and gave them a range of tasks from puzzles to negotiations to brainstorming.

The average IQ of the group and the IQ of its smartest member didn't significantly predict how well the group did.

But two things did.

After preaching a while, he removed to Perry, Wyoming County, and preached there.

Then he went to Greenwich, Washington County, in the same state, and afterwards moved to Schenectady, New York, where both he and his son entered Union College.

And the record shows that on September 5, 1845, Chester Alan Arthur, formerly William Chester Alan Arthur, matriculated with Union College and entered the sophomore class, stating his age then to be 16 years.

He graduated in July 1848.

Elder William Arthur received a degree of A.M. from Union College.

Reverend William Arthur preached from 1855 to 1863 as pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Little State Street in the city of Albany, New York, and finally finished his career as a divine by preaching in the Newtonville Baptist Church near Albany until his death on October 28, 1875.

Chester Alan Arthur, on leaving Union College, studied law and was admitted to the bar in New York City on the 15th of May, 1854. his ability as a lawyer is unquestioned for it has been written by his friends that old members of the bar like e d culver would retire from a case to let him try it or like william m evarts begged to be allowed to be an associate counsel in the case and that he arthur would win the cases even though charles o'connor were the opposing counsel It is claimed and believed to be true that he took a very active part in politics from an early age, but did not cast his first ballot for president until November 1852.

He could have done so, it is claimed, only he was not quite old enough and did not know how to vote without getting out his last papers, and the 1868 papers were not known in those days.

As we'll hear, even a tiny error in timing can create enormous problems for systems like GPS.

Our next guest is Chad Orzel, a physicist and professor at Union College in Schenectady, New York.

He's the author of A Brief History of Timekeeping, The Science of Marking Time from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks.

Professor Chad Orzel, welcome to America at 250, Due Diligence.

Yeah, and I'm a college professor.

I can't afford underground lairs.

Chad Orzel, professor of physics and astronomy at Union College and author of A Brief History of Timekeeping.

We've come an awfully long way from sundials and church bells.