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

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7.7 Sty? $?ar in SUumu 7.7 (Concluded) When Professor Albert Einstein, the distinguished discoverer of the theory of relativity, visited America on behalf of the Palestine University, he made City College his headquarters and delivered a scries of lectures there. A panoramic group photograph of the entire student body was taken on the occasion of his visit here. Before concluding this summary of the year, which is, of necessity, rather fragmentary, a word should be said about the evening session of the College—a branch which exceeds the day session numerically and is fully as important. The College maintains its evening sessions at various centers throughout the city. At the Main Building on St. Nicholas Terrace it conducts most of its liberal educational courses, vocational courses, and ad- vanced professional courses. The enrollment in the sessions here has had a remarkable growth, the number of students increasing from 201 in 1900 to 2,437 in 1920. The School of Business and Civic Administration has its headquarters at the old college building on 23rd Street, now called the Commerce Building. Here are given the professional courses of the College. The Brook- lyn branch of the College, located at the Bovs’ High School building, offers similar courses to those given at the Main Building. Established in 1917, it now has more than 800 students. In the Municipal Building, the Col- lege gives courses for the benefit of city employees. The student activities in the evening session of the College has developed considerably in the past year. The Main Building, the Commerce Building, and the Brooklyn branch all have their Student Councils. Several clubs arc maintained, and recently a baseball team was organized. An evening session magazine, “The Owl,” has been successfully started. The future of the evening session is indeed a bright one. Fourteen

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