Union League Club
a club organized in 1863 by members of the Republican party in New York, for social and political purposes. Its object, originally, was "to promote, encourage and sustain by all proper means, absolute and unqualified loyalty to the government of the United States."
To-day it is the stronghold of Republicanism, exerting its the United States." To-day it is the influence wholly along party lines. The New York Club house is situated at Fifth Avenue and Thirty-ninth Street. The building was designed by Peabody and Stearns, of Boston, and built in 1881. It contains a fine collection of paintings and a library of about 13,000 volumes.
Its membership, on Oct. 1, 1918, was 1,800. In Philadelphia, Chicago and other cities there are institutions of the same name which are similarly units in the Republican party machine.
UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA. See SOUTH AFRICA, UNION OF.
UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, of New York City, was founded in 1836.
It was of Presbyterian origin, but is now independent of ecclesiastical control. In 1919 there were 275 students and 33 professors. The Seminary is organically connected with Columbia University, its students being permitted to take courses in the University, and the University students being admitted to certain courses in the Seminary. In 1910 the Seminary moved into new, extensive and attractive buildings at Broadway and 120th Street.