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

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January 26, 1918 February 19, 1918 April 20. 1918 April 24. 1918 May 7. 1918 October 9. 1918 December 7, 1918 Junior Promenade; hired dress suits shine. Class Elections. Junior Hop in Gym—Great success. 1919 Microcosm Elections— Mike” Goldberg defeats himself. Charter Day Celebration. Induction into the Students Army Training Corps. Demobilization of the Students Army Training Corps. January 30, 1919 February 28. 1919 April 5. 1919 April 25. 1919 May 16. 1919 June 2. 1919 June 26. 1919 June 26. 1919 Foundation of the C. C. N. Y. “Union.” Class Elections—Some politics” played. Senior Dance—most decorative of dances. “The Microcosm” revived for the nth time. Faculty-Senior Game—Faculty losing as unusual. Numeral Eights Exercises and Burial of the Curriculum. Also a moonlight dance on the Campus to the syncopated strains of a red hand—the first of its kind in the college. Commencement Exercises. Prexy Mezes unburdens his soul on the European situation and “Integrity.” Farewell Banquet and Formation of Class Alumni Association on a new style.

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September 13. 1915 September 20. 1915 September 23. 1915 October 29. 1915 November 17. 1915 November 27. 1915 November 27. 1915 November 29. 1915 Aprii. 31, 1916 September 30. 1916 October 5. 1916 October 8. 1916 October 11, 1916 October 27. 1916 November 9. 1916 November 16. 1916 December 10. 1916 February 16. 1917 February 25. 1917 March 9. 1917 April 29. 1917 May 7. 1917 May 19. 1917 October 3, 1917 (Balttibar of the ffllaaa of 1019 The Class of 1919 enters C. C. N. Y. 800 strong. Freshman Class elections plus much excitement. 'I'ltc hirst scrap with the Sophomores; needless to say the Sophs were licked. The Hag Rush. 1919-1918 blood spilled. Freshman Banquet—two soph guests by special request. The 1918-1919 Cane. Spree—some spree! The 1918-1919 Wrestling Match. 'flic 1918-1919 Tug-O-War—100 Indians bit the dust! 1918- 1919 Peace Banquet—“Airs well that ends well.” 1919 Smoker—Informal in I.uneh-room. Class Elections. Soph Hazing Party, three Frcshics pledged and—oh. well. 1919- 1920 Tug-O-War— (vide November 29. 1915) Hag Rush—black eyes galore. 1919 wins Interclass Swimming Meet. 1919 wins Annual Fresh-Soph Basket-Ball game and also Interclass Tournament. Sophomore Smoker. Class Elections.—Reform element wins. Class Constitution created amid much applause. 1919 wins interclass ten-lap Relay Race. 1919-1920 Peace Banquet—vide April 31. 1916. Charter Day Celebration—Luncheon in Gym—General Webb statue unveiled. Sophomore Dance —T9 sets precedent. Junior Class Elections. 30

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Histury nf tlir (Elass nf 1U10 In September, 1915. a few hundred students walked up to the dean’s office at City College and announced tint they were in the field for a college education. The office staff looked them over, thought that they | o$sessed the intelligence of the average freshman, which is pretty close to nothing, and these few hundred from then on to eternity became the class of 1919. A grand and glorious class was good old '19. It had its ups and its downs, its defeats and its victories: but it always remained faithful and stuck to the end. It started its college career against one of tlic strongest classes of the college, '18. The sophs took it as their mission, in life to harass the precious freshman class that had just made its debut at Alma Mater. Oh, those freshman days! ’Wbuld that we sedate old grads could live once more with our former vigor: the care-free days of a freshman. Ivightccn soon found that it had its hands full in taming the new- comers. We soon grew to know each other and to establish our rights as freshmen. Under the guidance of '17 we set the college precedent and seized for ourselves what is now known as Eternity Rock.” Each morning, at half-past eight, wjc assembled there in our Frosh caps and marched boldly on the sophomore-guarded college. These scenes of strife went on till the classic events of the season, the Flag Rush, came along. For ten long minutes we attacked that | o!c doggedly, gamely, resolutely. Time and again our men mounted the heads of our adversaries and soared toward the flag; but the ten minutes | asscd and the flag still waved. Nineteen shared honors equally during the freshman year. We took all the athletic events, especially the basket-ball games. Here was our greatest contribution to the college: we put out the strongest freshman team ever seen on our courts and gave four men to the Varsity. We double-crossed '18 when we ran our feed success- fully at the Hollywood, while two '18 men entertained. One week later, the sophs held their smoker and found to their surprise that the whole frosh class were guests. And so the first year of'19’s stay at college gradually passed and we soon found ourselves saying good- bye for a summer. And. as is the wont of vacations, that one passed hurriedly and when we reassembled on the Campus, we found our Selves much fewer in numbers than when we had said farewell-” The next year was spent largely in taming the freshmen. We found '20 a pretty refractory proposition: but we finally made them learn their place. The youthful point-of-view of our initial year was giving way to a more staid and serious idea of college. Despite this, however, we had as many men come out for our Flag Rush as the freshman class had, though their registration doubled ours. But of that sad event let us say no more— we lost. 32