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

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(Uu' (Citu (Cnllnu' (Club Ttrfmlf-BSghl To quote from the club circular: So long ago that ‘the memory of most of us ‘runneth not to the contrary,’ the illustrious Alumni of the earlier classes, such men as Werner, Compton, Colonel Kctchum, John Hardy, ‘Joe’ Woods, General Tremain, Colonel Lydcclccr. Ferdinand Shack. Richard Sweezy. and many others too numerous to mention here, all gone but all held in fond and proud recollection by every true C. C. N. Y. man,—got together and formed, for their own edification and good fellowship and the good of the College, the Cit College Club. How would their hearts re- joice could they revisit now the little old New York they held so dear, and in its choicest quarter, find the new home of the little Club they fostered!” And they would have plenty to rejoice about. 1922 was formally introduced to the Club on Commence- ment Night, June 22, and some of the more enthusiastic new graduates, resisting the pleas of their deserted fami- lies. are at the Club yet. From the tastefully decorated little lobby on the ground floor to the gym on the top this new home of C. C. N. Y., is a convincing answer to the question Why hoys leave home.” The house is located at -16 Hast 50th Street, between Madison and Park Avenues, a wide, five-story. Amcri- can-basement dwelling, handsomely decorated, its walls draped with textiles, and every room appropriately fur- nished. A restaurant occupies the entire second floor; 'fable d’hote dinners are served every evening, table d’hote luncheons at noon time, and a la carte suppers every evening, with dancing at supper-time and music furnished by an Ampico piano and a victrola. In addition, a radio receiving amplifying outfit will soon be installed, offering those who care for it the widest choice of entertainment. Ladies arc admitted to the restaurant at all times.

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On the floor above the restaurant arc a library and a lounge room, which latter is in frequent demand for class and society dinners. The library is growing rapidly and already includes hundreds of books of especial inter- est to City College men, such as old Microcosms, Quarterlies, Merit Rolls, books by C. C. N. Y. men, etc. The floor above has a billiard room (with two new tables), and a card room. This floor is always well patronized, and justly so. On the top floor arc a line, splendidly equipped little “gym” and showers. For hand- ball, the floor of the gym can be cleared of apparatus in less than two minutes. The club-house was leased and furnished by the Twentieth Century Graduates Club, known to the older men as “those ardent and patriotic youngsters.” No initiation fee is charge (at least for the present), and the dues have been fixed at $15 a year. Membership is open to all C. C. N. Y. men, old or young, graduates and such non-graduates as have earned a year of college credits by attendance at the College, and to all who now serve or have served the College on its teaching or administrative staff. To again quote from the club circular: To a young man of modest income what more can be offered than such dignified, attractive, and well-appointed house, where, with a certain subconscious satisfaction at being under his own roof-tree and yet without a shade of the responsibilities of ownership and house-keeping, he may play the host to customer, patient, client, or social guest, or, care-free and alone, save as he meets good fellows of the old days, may stretch a lazy leg, blow a wreath to My Lady Nicotine, and say, 'Fate cannot touch me; 1 have dined today,’ or, with jolly Jack Falstaff. ‘May I not take mine ease at mine inn ?' ” Bernard Naumberg, '94. is president of the Club and chairman of the club-house committee. Lewis Sayre Burchard, 77, is chairman of the membership committee, of which Donald A. Roberts, '19, is secretary. Arthur Taft, '20. is the house secretary and can be reached at any time at the house. The Club tele- phone is Plaza 5495. Thirty