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

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• THE 1 924- • MICROCOSM £ euenty-fuie $rars nf JIjp (Enllrye 1349-1924 OVKRNOR BERKELEY »f Virginia historically crystallized the attitude of all enemies of free education in America two centuries ago, when, in reply to the query of the English Comniisioner of Foreign Plantations as to what course was taken in Virginia for public instruction, he said: ‘‘I thank Ciod there arc no free schools nor printing-presses, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy and sects into the world, and printing lias divulged them, and libels against the best of governments: (iod keep us from both!' This declaration, typical of much that has persisted in the attitude of apparent hostility to the ever-growing needs of higher education, is a direct challenge to the great experiment which made possible the College of the City of New York. Has the college justi- fied the confidence of those voters, who, by referendum in 1847, made possible its creation? Have we, the seventy-five college generations who have passed through its portals, given to our city of ourselves ceaselessly and unstintingly? Have we kept the faith with our Ephcbic Oath? The only answer conics through deeds, not through words. Yes, City College has kept the faith. For seventy-five years Alma Mater has sent on their way men whose personality and attainments are writ large in public service: Bernard M. Baruch, ’89. Director of the Allied War Industries Board during the war and donor of the institute of Politics at Williamstown; Col. (Icorgc W. Goethals, who made possible the monumental task symbolized by the words: Panama Canal;” Henry Morgenthau, '84, former American Am- bassador to Turkey; Roswell B. Burchard, '80 former Lieutenant-Governor of Rhode Island, to mention just a few. In every field of public welfare have the alumni of City College been prominent. In the Drama, James K. Hackctt, '91, the internationally famous Macbeth” of our decade; in Art, our own Leigh Hunt, 77, David C. Taylor. '90, critic. Arnold William Brunner. 78, celebrated architect, whose work in- cludes Mt. Sinai Hospital, the Columbia School of Mines, and the Lewisohn Stadium; and Edward Morse Shephard, 79, architect of the new college; in the field of belles lettres, Richard Rogers Bowker, '68, editor and critic; Arthur twenty-two “s; . c 3