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

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Srpartmrnt of JJhtjoiro Professor William Fox, B.S., M.K. Assist a ul Professors C' 11 All LRS A. CoHCOHAK, A.M. I.RIOIITON B. MoilSR, Pit.I). Tutors Instructors Rorkrt Drrsslrr Rrinii.mii» W. Wktxrl, R.S. A. R. MacOlkavk, C.E. Rov I’isiirr I.rioiiton, M.S Ahhaiiam M. Goi.dstrin, R.S. Alrxanrrr Marcus, R.S. Fellows Hknrv Brrdrkamp Simon Sonkin Thro dorr A. Smith 0r|iartmrut of (Elaaatral iCatujmuu'o Professor Caiilktox I». Biiownson, PIi.D. Associate Professors Adoust Rupp, A.B. Edmund Buhkk, A.R. Allan P. Ball, PIi.D. Caiirol N. Brown, PIi.D. Maiiio Emilio Cosrnza, PIi.D. Homkr ('. Nkwton, PIi.D. Assistant Professor Emory R. I.rahr, PIi.D. n str actors Ciiahlrs Jahthow MRNDRI.SOIIN. PIi.D. Groror Pavn Qi-ackrnros, PIi.D. Stanlrv Simons, PIi.D. .Iosrpii Praiil, PIi.D. Barclay W. Rhadi.rv, PIi.D Eiioaii HaI.Liday, A.M. Grorok V. Edwards. PIi.D. NZMET mh€ ENTY 30§M Page Ttccntn-Four

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Bpjfartnmtt nf Art Professor I.KIOII 11.Mill ISON llr.NT, M. S., M. I). Assistant Professors GrOROK ('. AUTKNKKITII, A. M. Knokliikrt Kim, A. M. ,1. Rkiidino Kri.lv It. liaccc MacDouoai.l I.ous Wkiniikro, A. H. William II. IIaskkll Kiiwahd J. Stork, 1$. S. Instructors I'rkdkrick W. Hutchinson JOSKPII CuMMINOS C'llAHK Marry W. Pkckwkll AiiIIAM (f. ScllUl.MAN, A. It. Tutor John T. I.ano Brjiartmrnt nf Sjintnry Associate Professors NKI.SON I'. MKAD, I'll. I). J. Salwvn Sciiapiro, I’ll, I). Holland Thompson, Ph. 1). Thomas It. Mookk, I'll. I). I.l VINOSTON ItoWK Scill'VLKH, S. T. H., I'll. I). Assistant Professor I.IVINliHTON HuHKII.L MoRKK, I). S. Instructors Austin Haxtkk Kkkp, PIi. 1). Morton Gottsciiai.l, A. It., .1. I). I.kon II. Canpirij , Ph. I). Sami'kl Carlrton IIakiiit, B. S. Howard ('. Giikkn, A. B. NINE Mnc ENTV e§M Pane Ttccnty-Thrcc

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The Chapel [ ■'vl I’It o] lcr nluinni can look hack to sonic of the most pleasant moments of their lives in the assemblies in the old chapel at the College building on Twenty-third Street and Lexington Avenue. Attendance was a privilege allowed to Seniors and .Juniors, and some Sophomores only. The Faculty took their seats arranged in an arc from the right to the left corner of the stage. After each oration one might observe the professors mak- ing marks in their little note hooks. The Professor of English and the Professor of Hellos Letters marked for Coni|N sition and the Professor of Elocution marked for shaking. The Ward medals in Composition and Ora- tory were awarded in Chapel for Senior Orations, on the bases of marks given in the assembly. The best description of the assemblies was written by II. (L S. Noble, '80. in tin- Class Day book. “Star of 80. “When the reading of the Bible begins, and the terrible moment approaches lie is seized with a violent pain —well, in tin- region immediately below his thoracic cavity, and he suddenly forgets the first two lines of his piece . . . And then his name is called, llis head swims as in a dream, lie suddenly finds himself upon the platform and before him extends a sea of upturned faces with beadv eves, and In-luiid the Faculty are distributed in a half-moon armed with little books in which to express their various opinions. . . . At length he has said his say, and hurries from the platform hack among his section where he is told that he “did well,” in a tone of voice im- plying that it was not so awfully bad as it might have been; and the business of the day goes on as if his grand efforts of oratorical effect had never taken place at all.” And in the publication of the Alumni The College of the City of New York. Memories of Sixty Years”: ”... Frobisher, author of 'Voice and Action,’ bid you ‘speak Large and Wide!—speak to that window up thereat the other end of the chapel.’ When you spoke your piece on the stage and heard your own voice somewhere in the remote distance sounding like a tinv dog in distress under a barrel, he sat in grim solitude at the right of the stage where your wobbling knees showed most—in profile, because they wouldn't stay back,— and put down marks agin’ you. It was a blood curdling experience. When the College moved uptown the regular compulsory assemblies were discontinued. NINE! Mine WaVENTY «BOSM Page Turniy-Fivc