City College of New York - Microcosm Yearbook (New York, NY)

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1 May Doc Clifford, of the Y. M. C. A. gave the students a real treat when he related his experiences at the front. S Combination Victory Loan and College Library Fund drive made. 7 Charter Day. 73rd Anniversary. Dr. Finley spoke at the Great Hall Assembly. 9 Semi-annual Prize Speaking contest in the Great Hall. 16 Seniors take revenge on Faculty by beating them in baseball. Prof. Guthrie as umpire was the head- liner as usual. 16 '20-22 Old King Cole Smoker in Wlebb Room. Prof. Guthrie’s and Mr. Burchard’s words had great weight behind them. 21 Student Council Soiree at City College Club. Sonte had something to say and some had to say something. 22 Walter Lippman, Editor of the “New Republic,” sjtcaks in the Great Hall on the Peace Conference.” 23 A. A. elections. Very exciting—to the candidates. 23 Clio-Phreno Debate. Phreno convinces Clio to pay severi cent fare in a hot debate. 29 Cantor Rosenblatt and Prof. Baldwin give a joint recital in the Great Hall. Huge audience enthralled. 30-31 Dramatics in college revived by the successful presentation of four one-act plays by the Dramatic Society. The Varsity plays held in T. H. H. were well attended. June 1 Finley Hike. Changes in Route. Women also entered. 2 1919 Numeral Lights Exercises. After exercises in the Great Hall, the mournful audience followed the class coffin to Jasper Oval, where the curriculum was burned amid doleful eulogies. Dancing fol- lowed on the Campus. 5 Presentation by the Student Council to the Red Cross of an auto-bus donated by the 1918 Summer Session students. 10 College Sessions close. The worst is in store yet. 12-20 Examinations. The most exciting week of the term. 26 Commencement Exercises. First public appearance of President Mezes since his return from the Peace Conference. 26 Senior Banquet. 1919 Alumni firmly established. August The 1919 Microcosm. The long-felt necessity of the college since 1916 is here at last. “Necessity is the mother of invention.” 10

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J Cliiir (ttnllwjp in t r Hkr The war was a test of many American institutions and it was also a school. It tried the spirit of bus- iness. of tile professions, and of political parties, and it also proved the colleges. Though actual warfare was for us very short in duration, its experiences taught valuable lessons. While, to be sure, there were in- dividual cases of politicians, business men. college professors,- and students who revealed grave defects of char- acter under the test of war, our institutions as a body responded, to the call of war in a most inspiring manner and acquitted themselves gloriously in the struggle. The students, alumni, faculty, and trustees of our own college made an enviable record and the College has learned lessons which will bear fruit in the future. It will be recollected that in the latter part of March and in the first few days of April, 1917, the Gov- ernment seemed to entertain some doubt concerning the feelings of America on the question of entering the war. Our student body was one of the first to pledge support to President Wilson in the crisis. Mass meetings were held by the students of the Day Session and of the Evening Session at which resolutions of loyalty were solemnly and unanimously adopted. These meetings were not noisy or boisterous or tilled with thoughtless expres- sions of schoolboy enthusiasm; they were calm and pervaded with a deep feeling of loyal responsibility and obli- gation to dedicate all to national service. On the fifteenth of February, the Faculty resolved to place itself and all the resources of the College. Iioth physical and intellectual at the service of the National Government, and the Hoard of Trustees, on April 3, joined in the resolution and transmitted it to the President of the United States. The College had. earlier than this, organized a Department of Military Science with a course of study outlined by the War I epartment. and Professor Herbert M. Holton was placed in charge of the work. When Professor Holton left with his regiment for France, after the Declaration of War, Captain King. D. S. O.. Canadian Army was made Professor of Military Science. The Evening Session organized the first battalion for college men in the country, to which were admitted men from any college. This battalion drilled in the Stadium at night and had representatives from twenty-six American institutions and five foreign universities. Hcforc the Man-Power bill was passed, the College was giving military training to its Day Session students, those of the Evening Session, those of Townsend Harris Hall and the College men’s battalion. After the Declaration of Whr. many of the upper classmen of the Day Session and of the Evening Session enlisted as volunteers in various branches of the armed service, and those who remained at home con- tinued energetic preparations of drill and study. Two hundred and sixty-five Day Session undergraduates entered the service before the Student Army Training Corps came to turn the whole College into a great training camp. Even more of the mature men of the Evening Session left college to join the colors, but here it has been 12