New York University School of Commerce - Commerce Violet Yearbook (New York, NY)

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The new building brought with it another important change. The School of Commerce had been giving a course leading to a B.C.S. degree which required three years of study for day students and four years for night students. This course was lengthened to four years during the day and to six years at night. This was accom' plished by requiring all new students to take one year of cultural work, in addition to the A u - -v- - -Lil regular commerce courses. A new four year fja.. course, leading to a B.S. in Commerce degree, was inaugurated. This course enabled the stu' dent to take two years of cultural work and two years of commerce work. These new courses, besides greatly increasing the prestige of the 1 B M. ll f of G17 0 1K s'll ,,f il i ll xi the A school, gave the students one or two years of 1 lil' ii l V My D w training in how to live together with the very g . ll sg 4 important training in how to make a living. -:11 '1..-. .127 In writing of these momentous changes, it ' A -TED is impossible to forget the man who is most ref sponsible for these improvements. This man is Dean John T. Madden. Dean Madden is himself a son of Commerce and was appointed to his present position in October, 1925, to succeed the late Joseph French Johnson. Since that time he has built up quite a reputation for himself. He is known as the hardest worker on the faculty, yet he is never too busy to give some of his time to any student who wants to see him. , The year 1911 was a historic one both for the School of Commerce and the University. Dean Madden received his B.C.S. degree during that year and Dr. Elmer Ellsworth Brown was appointed as chancellor of the University. Last Novemf ber, Chancellor Brown was honored with a testimonial dinner to celebrate the com- pletion of fifteen years of notable service as head of the institution. More than five hundred people of prominence and representatives of over twenty universities were present at the dinner, which took place at the Waldorf Astoria. The success of Chancellor Brown's administration lead a group of prominent New Yorkers to take the initiative in commemorating his fifteen years of notable service to the community. The dinner committee was probably the largest and most able committee ever organized to arrange a celebration in honor of a publicfspirited American. The majority of the men, on the committee, are leaders in the educational, politif J- 5 1, 11.2- cal and business world and are well known in X ft I every part of the country. - ,XX ' asia A Chancellor Brown came to New York Uni- f- P X 2- versity from Washington, where for five years 5' , he was United States Commissioner of Educa' IJ! XX , tion, having been appointed by President Roosef velt. Chancellor Brown is a graduate of the University of Michigan and had been a professor of education there and at the University of Calif Q , P ., fornia. During his administration at New York University, enrollment has increased from 4,364 t A S.. in 1911f12 to 26,813 in 192526, New York an A 51 . j ' . 1 X - S- -. 1- P - lx q 'V 'R : '-F . 1 N--K . X I all ll lilli l w-i . l -u,.5f,,fb: AH Af ' T 10

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.if i 2 , , g SN ' l ear, e st r ay 'Ul'.l' X X K lf . S Cf ,4 f l 0 . 1, la ill, s 'l .rl f Efg lfsqgg, '. qwhgkgi k. fa f. 1 ' l '- ' 'il lJglule55Gr1f0TClSChe1'e1' E college year 1926-1927 was one of the most active and changes and events took place that it is diflicult to pick the one, which ten, twenty or thirty years from now, will be the most ' s 4 . V' e outstanding to the students of today. To the School of Commerce I , . u,a,,-.X S1523 N. successful in the history of the School of Commerce. So many 1 ' . 14 . 1 '- , 2 at x itself, the new building is perhaps the most vital of all. Twentyfseven years ago a request was made of the University by the Society of Certified Public Accountants of New York for the establishment of a school that would prepare students to take the C.P.A. examinations. So in 1900 a new school was established, the School of Commerce, Accounts, and Finance. It is hard to realize today that in 1900 the School of Commerce had only 67 students and a few rooms in the Washington Square building. The first course offered in the new school was one covering but two years of Commerce work, and this was given only in the evening. But with this humble beginning, the school had grown to be the largest in the university and in 1926 a building of its own was found to be necessary. The university, therefore, purchased the eleven story building at Fourth and Wooster streets late in the spring of 1926. During the summer vacation the building was completely remodeled, so that when the students arrived at school last September they found awaiting them the finest of the University buildings at Washington Square- the New Commerce Building. The building was complete with study halls, lockers, accounting laboratories, smoking rooms, rest rooms, commerce practice rooms, faculty rooms and a wonderful library. It is worthy of note that the new building, dedicated to the teaching of business principles, lies in the heart of the world's greatest business district. 9

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University now heing the third largest institu' Z if f. fi1':2'A,-,YPIFTFL . a'r'??i-' ' , . in' - Zi- 5-'J f ACM f 1,-kv tion of higher learning in the country. . V ,fn , A, . . . -417 f tl '56 fffjfi' :fi 1' The past year witnessed the start of a new V-T' ,T '25 tradition at the School of Commerce. This is the ,171 ' S 'A jz'5 5', Commerce Wiiiter Frolic which is to he held each fa gke, ' QS l' ' year and will rank with the Junior Prom and the I' ,i QE:-Q. ff . ' 7 f Senior Hop as an annual affair of the school. .5 pfff 41 . 5 The student council was prompted to hold the . rf , fgt,. j2'5i-,I Frolic hy the success of the animal affair of our sister college, the Vsfashington Square College T '1 ,Tf T--vgbf' 5 Spring Fete. The first Wiiiter Frolic was held - , 'fi ' ffl Xu ii 3 on Deeemher 17, 1926, in the Watldtmrf Astoria -2-T ftfif ..,.-'fin . Roof Carden. Over 300 couples attended and 76 the affair was a higger success than was even hoped for. Closely rivaling the new huilding in the hearts of the students is the wonderful foothall team of 1926. From the lowest rung of the foothall ladder, the N.Y.U. machine, coached hy john Chick Meehan, crashed into the spotlight as one. of the leading teams in the East. N.Y.U., who in previous years had a hard time heating even the smallest college elevens, finished the season with eight victories and only one defeat, playing against some of the strongest teams in the country. Few Violet adherents will forget those glorious Saturday afternoons, when we traveled to Ohio field or to the Yankee Stadium to see Chick's team of sophomores heat eight teams in a row. Students are still talking ahout the Fordham game. Of how Zev Graham and his team mates held the Violet scoreless for three and one' half heartfhreaking periods while they tallied a field goal. Ol' how in the gathering dusk of the Stadium, the frantic Violet rooters were hrought to their feet, as Connor slipped through the line and raced passed three tacklers and the invincihle Graham for a touchdown. Then, thousands of N.Y.U. rooters went wild. They swarmed on the field despite the efforts of policemen and guards to hold them hack. For more than an hour after the game, they sang, cheered and -X snakefdanced around the field, while the Ford' ham contingent on the other side glumly lllilkcd Un. lt' seemed as if nothing could stop the Un' shrinking Violets. But in the last game of the season, the Nehraska eleven, with the help of a hli::ard, caused the New York hoys to stiffer their one and only sethack of the season. Of this great eleven, mention must he made of several of the men. AI Lassman, the giant tackle, was placed on most of the All'American teams that were compiled throughout the eounf try. In thc hackfield, Captain Briante, Roherts, Strong and Connor received the title of the Four Centaurs whom many helicvcd were even more powerful than the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame. Connor, next ycar's captain, was also placed on some of the All'American teams. at-Q9 ll