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seek an escape from the spick and spanness of the most modern city in the world . . . ancient instincts still associate physical comfort with cave-like dwellings and primitive existences. A handful of centuries do not make for complete civilization. And so the few, twenty-ive thousand of them, still obey these instincts which trans- cend childhood training. They flee to Greenwich Village, the haven for those who seek self-expression. A wistful sigh escapes us as we drop the curtain on our history of the Village. As We contemplate New York City with its suspension bridges, its hordes of people, as we think of those tall skyscrapers with their elevators shooting up and down inside of them like nerve impulses, as we hear the lonely hooting of the brave little tug boats on that friendly East River, we also, like those many, many others, flee to Green- wich Village. 3 C35 L27 viii. il 5 ac -14 - 's fe-jim
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When Richard Harding Davis, in The Exiles, has Meakin become lonesome for New York, Meakin asks only to be able to come back once more to the friendly wel- comeness of lower Fourteenth Street. When Arthur Train wrote The Man Hunt he remembered and described the Pie Houses of Greenwich Village. just where Barrow and Commerce Street join there is a little cluster of houses of very unusual con- strustion. He wrote: . Strangely enough, when the street turned, the house turned, too, so that half its front faced East and half North. The natural inference was that the inside of the house was shaped like a piece of pie, with its partially bitten end abutting on the corner. . May it be whispered here that a poet laureate of an Empire which rules the waves and is determined that its subjests never, never, shall be slaves was once a bartender in Luke Connor's saloon over on the West Side? We feel that John Masefield may well be proud of having lived in our Village. 9 RECENT perusal of the Faculty Diredtoryi of New York University's Wash- ington Square College has brought to light the astonishing fact that even such a learned group of human beings as Professors of many of the branches of Higher Education are not immune to the fascination which the Village has 'to offer to those creatures seeking self-expression. Counting only those who are either full-fledged or Assistant Professors, there are twenty-eight men who live in Greenwich Village! What, then, may be said of the hundreds of younger men and women Instrucitors of whom a count was not even atternpted?- Of these twenty-eight, nine teach subjedts re- lated to English and Literature, twelve teach History and Political Science, two are Philosophers and Psychologists and five are Scientists. To name only a few, there are such people as Harry Woodburn Chase, Chancellorg Alexander Baltzly, Assistant Dean and Professor of History, Willard Earl Atkins, Professor of Economics, Andre Alden Beaumont, to whom this volume has been dedicatedg W. H. Harnley, well- known Geneticistg Caspar J. Kraemer, head of the Classics Department, B. Niederl, of the Chemistry Department, and Philip Evans Wheelwright, Professor of Philosophy. It must be true that the Village does offer some kind of security and peace of mind to the dwellers of Manhattan, for, just at the dayl of this writing we have learned that Dorothy McSparran Arnold, Dean of Women and Professor of English, is com- ing to make her permanent home on the West Side of Washington Square! 10 REENWICH VILLAGE cannot be considered geographically as just a place. Greenwich Village is an attitudeg it is a form of human expression. It is inevi- table that man's mind, still carrying its heritage of prehistoric environments, should K lun 261 V Age. 11.99 'Z -C CM' .4 -r ll .-. . : 'Sift ZIM farmers: Nocccxffx
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