NYU Washington Square College - Album Yearbook (New York, NY)

 - Class of 1934

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They were fleeing into a safety Where they could practice their art unmolested, un- hampered by the conventions of the rest of the city of New York. They were fleeing into a sanctuary for the mind and for the emotions. A place where no one would bother about the kind of clothes they wore, about the way in which they let their hair grow, and about the way they let their ideas grow. Such a sanctuary, despite the fact that the Village is no longer as picturesque as it used to be, and despite the fact that pent houses have replaced attics, Greenwich Village still is. People who want freedom-freedom from convention, freedom from the tongues and the thoughts of more conventional folk still flee to Greenwich Village. Here, they may still dress, and act, and talk as they please. Here they may shirk their thoughts, paint their pictures, and write their poetry unhampered by a citizenry: still conven- tional and staid and unimaginative. Yes, they came looking for flagged courtyards and for delightfully tangled streets, they came looking for retreats and for sanctuaries, for havens and for escapes from boredom and from monotony. They came, these wild-eyed, long-haired young men, in pastel-colored smocks and black flowing ties- they came, these brittle-looking, slen- der young blondes, puffing away incessantly at cigarettes held between two trembling fingers . . . art students, cubists, futuristS, poets, playwrights, novelists . . . they opened studios, they opened art shops, they opened restaurants. just like their early ancestors fleeing before the epidemic, these nineteenth and soon to follow twentieth century children were also fleeing into the safety of the Village. There does not appear to be any record of the day when our Village first be- came the center of Art, but if the age of a building may be construed to be a calen- dar, we can look on West Fourth Street, near Sixth Avenue, to the ramshackle Old Studios as they were called until most of the original building was torn down re- cently. The estimate made by historians of this part of N eu! York and confirmed by engineers of the wrecking concern which cleared away the debris 'was that the Old Studios must have been built in the 1830's. It has been confirmed that John La- Farge had his studio here, and it was here that F-Frdx,-X xl-7f he produced his most famous Ascension. The 5' - - wit -. - Village beckoned and the young artist came, F ,Ur Dq seeking garrets and cellars, seeking all of the 4 -.f:gH E-: ,, ' ' - dinginess and poverty which seems inherent to A 3 the status of one who seeks expression in Art. Robert Blum, who won his fame in pen draw- ings, lived in an old house facing Grove Street Q! ' H Park. Jules Guerin, illustrator and painter of I bmi: murals, lived in the same house, and it was ..fi from here that he drew his inspiration for the M y H panels which now decorate a part of the Lin- ..l.ii if coln Memorial at Washington. It was the ,ffe ,,.f e - atmosphere of peace and freedom from inter- ,ef 1 if 1' 'f::r': .,.' f' : 2f'-Glu ruption which the Village offered to these young Artists-they answered the call. 6' if Q' '. . . I 1, 3 . I ii T 1 ' 5 ff-1 5 1 'lg ,x f ' T fa it 2' - -,,. . 5- A, e 'fri ' f fi. f ff f .v Mi X f ff- A 4, my, J ,f un- K l gym, ' I A Iilllh' ,X 'I M, ' df, f -1. V ' f -2 F a , F , Y r V ' . m ' K V ffl' ' i ni' H X ' 9 I 1 X 1 an 1' . i . xr st ' ' , X x, ll '1 1 Ki' t K x V iv' 1 x ' 1. it X 1 'Z 1 .ff ,....,.n. X - -1w.w-.- ,1::g,qt-5.5.4 -N -:Ply ' f Leis! ,eiizii'fr-i-5.1-5'--'J : , PEM s' :W 2'-ff-'.1f-54.27,-falf' X' X migtfffiiyl' ' gf' vf I M, f - ' -- 43, i F 1 U Jn 1 - 1- 4 ll. 1 9,1 J I 1 tv' 4 if ' . ' 'Q f 1 r ml , i , 1 ji fa U ,v If X f., Z J fn I igffifi, I I .I 1 J r ,g 5' L91 7, ,ff 5 ff ', e , ff , 43 H ll l' , f ,fwfr 79-f sf' ,. KN , , 1, , ,J .'5-4424,-1 - 'f'f'f' 'I---'-:'f',43fffLf e95?v.'g1ZjH2E!'f'?- Y-a: g.9f gif .4-,Viv mr 22 an 1 rf' ' . 4 13' f 1 .1 IAS- . e . f23 O56 Vfvlye A 9 l 5 , ' , -4-

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side of the new Parade Ground. Today some twenty thousand Students attend the Washington Square division of New York University. Very few of them know that the original building was built by conviets whom the builders had brought down from Sing Sing. The Stone-Cutters' Guild of New York resented this intrusion into their industry and rioted so violently that the 27th Regiment was quartered in the partly eredted building continuously for four days and four nights, until the strikers had been dissuaded from attacking the convicts. It was here that Morse, working with a handful of students, sent the Hrst telegraph message out into space, it was here too, that Colt conceived and perfected the pistol which bears his name. Wireless communi- cation over great distances and deathly fire-arms were born in Greenwich Village! O shades of the Gread War, look back to Morse and Colt! It was in these exciting days of the mid-century that Washington Square saw its irst labor demonstration and its iirst important duel. William Coleman, founder of the Evening Post, challenged and mortally wounded his friend Jeremiah Thompson, Collector of the Port. The New York Society, feeling that sufficient time had passed for Potter's Fields and public gallows to have been forgotten, declared Washington Square North to be the fashionable residence district of New York. The year 1830 was a propitious time to celebrate the anniversary of the evacuation of the British. Beginning at Tammany Hall, a procession of more than 25 ,000 marched to Washington Square, there to listen to speeches delivered by dottrine Monroe and by Samuel Gouveneur. Celebrities mingled with citizens. Alexander Whaley, a member of the Boston Tea Party, was thereg so were the two men who shared equal glories on the day of the evacuation of New York 5 one, John Van Arsdale, had pulled down the British flag on the Battery flag pole and the other, Anthony Glenn, had pulled aloft the banner of the United States. Democracy and the Star Spangled Banner were gaining momentum, Stanford White designed the Washington Arch which was erecfted in 1889, with the inscription at the top beginning Let us raise a standard to which the wise and 'the honest can repair . . . Washington. Across the park, Washington Square College also bears a diadem across her forehead: Perstando et Praestando-Utilitati. y 7. E ARE NOW at the latter part of the nineteenth century, a gala parade it was that crossed our line of vision from the days of the Sappokanikans to the building of Wash- ington Arch. What then, can be said of the past thirty-four years in Greenwich Village? In a census of not so long ago, Greenwich Village, the so-called Bohemia of New York City, listed more than 25,000 men and women who gave as their professions, artists. But there is more to the story than just that label, artist. O. Henry described the coming of these people: U To quaint old Greenwich Village the art people soon came prowling, ' - hunting for north windows and eighteenth century gables and dutch Q attics and low rents. I -.144 221 4996 UNI!-ep is I , N A. 4 'Him bbc: nip



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In our own day Qsome thirty years agoj, the very wealthy Mrs. Whitney first opened her studio in Macalougal Alley. This recognition of the Village as an art center brought still more aspirants to Fame via the brush and canvas down into the neighborhood of Washington Square. Today the Whitney Museum on Eighth Street, just off Fifth Avenue, presents some of the most brilliant exhibits in America. With Art as its banner, the Village welcomed experimenters in all the forms of artistic expression. So it was that an old blacksmith shop saw itself emptied of forge and of horseshoes, and given instead footlights and backdrops. The Province- town Players invaded Macclougal Street with their experimental stage. It was to this that the noted English critic, William Archer, referred when he said: In the region of Greenwich Village we must look for the real hirthplace of the New American Drama. Tony Sarg's marionettes saw the first light of day in our Village. Eugene O'Neil little dreamed in those early days that the play which has recently estab- lished a record for length of run would ever go beyond the confines of the Village. Yes, The Emperor jones had its world premiere not very far from the shadow of the Arch, and his In the Zone, with our own college's Washington Square Players. And to prove how versatile Art may be when it dons the matronly garments of Green- wich Village and plays hostess to young neophytes of the Drama, it shall here be re- corded that the ardent lover in many' a Eve-reel flicker movie thriller, one John Barrymore to wit, has also sought Greenwich Village as a home and a retreat from the madding mob. There they are on parade, artists, adtors, playwrights, writers, critics, and even newspapermen. In 1921 the Greenwich Villager made its appearance as an eight-page weekly newspaper, and here, for the first time, a departure was made from the form followed by all of the existing newspapers of the City. Literary in charaster, the Greenwich Villager set about describing the doings and activities of the Villagers in a delightfully humorous and whimsical fashion, thus reflecting the spirit of friendship which existed amongst its neighbors. ' s HERE ARE thousands of bright-eyed men and women, young and old, who came to the Village looking for two things essential to their profession, atmosphere and human interest. These were the writers of novels. Thousands made their little bid, many succeeded. Recently it was confirmed by a representative group of book- sellers that of the forty living authors whose name deserved mention on a Roll of Honor, seven were genuine Villagers, and some twenty or so more were occasional visitors to our old Sappokanikan Village. O. Henry half ironically described a res- taurant in the Village as a resort for interesting Bohemians . . . only writers, painters, attors and musicians go there. To the writers of the nineteenth century the Village was the American Latin Quarter. The Village was destined to acquire the label Bohemia. It accepted its new mantle without comment, much as it had accepted other labels in earlier days. As early as 1878 William H. Rideing wrote an article in Scrihneris on The French Quarter of New York. Those were the days when the two hostelries, the Grand Vatel and the Tauerne Alsacienne, offered to struggling young vt 44 241 40 vN '4-,, 5 a I gp' .. -2 4 5 - il lil Q C-':cxi ' HI X

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