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

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• THE 1 924- ■ microcosm Duggan, Lewis Freeman Mott, William Bradley Otis, and Justin Hartley Moore. The college soon returned to its peace-time status but has fortunately still retained its high war-time blood pressure for comprehensive and extensive activity. In recognition of the catholicity of interest, the disinterestedness of scholarship and the freedom from dogma which have ever characterized col- lege tradition, and in line with the genial tolerance of Nicholas, its patron saint, the banners of the Universities of Berlin, Heidelburg, Prague and Cracow were restored to their rightful positions in the Great Hall of World Learning. To the notable collection has been added the emblem of the great University of Strasbourg. Among the most historic and colorful events in the history of the college was the unveiling of the ancient marble stele from Marathon, presented to the college in the Spring of 192.1 by the Greek government and obtained through the loyal offices of John 11. Finley. The monument, dating from 350 II. C. originally stood near the triumphal mound reared over the bodies of the 192 Athenians who perished in the decisive battle which saved the ancient world from Oriental domination. The ornamental carving on the stone is still clear and the inscriptions are legible. It hears the names of two brothers, El pines and Eunikos, the sons of Elpinikos of the township of Probaiinthium. The tablet has been fittingly placed in the great Greek Stadium, made possible through the munificence of Adolph Lewisohn, which Arnold W. Brunner de- signed along classical lines, with its twenty tiers of seats surrounded by a great collonade of sixty-four Doric columns, sixteen feet high. In their aca- demic settings, both symbolize the contribution that was Greece of a free and untrammclcd search after truth, and such has been the motivating force in the educational policy of Alma Mater throughout its ceaseless pro- gress. “There is an instinctive sense,” wrote John Huston Finley, quoting from Emerson’s essay on J’olilics, “that the highest end of government is the culture of men. that if men can he educated, the institutions will share their im- provement and the moral sentiment will write the law of the land.” The seventy-five years that have passed bear inqicrishablc witness that that in- stinctive sense has found noble expression in the College of the City of New York. May the City College in the remaining years of its first century mark olT a tradition of catholic interest, of profound scholarship, of character-molding, of vigorous maintenance of the policy of the open door” to all worthy seekers after knowledge, regardless of race, religion or wealth, and 'a wholesome, free-spirited democracy, which shall lay the foundations for the Greater College of the Greater Era! M. twenty-six a c

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l'Qi •THE 19 4-- MICROCOSM 1 lit (ifltrera nf Afcinimatratinn Charles II. Tuttle, A.B., LL.B.. James VV. Hyde, A.I . LLB....... George McAkexy, LL.I). Moses J. Stroock, B.S., LL.B. Lee Koiixs, B.S. Frederick P. Bellamy, A.M.. l.L.B. Albert Weiss George J. Ryan John G. Dyer .Acting Chairman ...... Secretary Uuari) of uiruatwa Sidney F.dward Mkzes, President Carlton L. B.rownson. Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Science Frederick B. Robinson, Dean of the School of business and Civic Administration and Director of the livening Sessions Frederick Skene, Dean of the School of Technology Paul Klaiter, Dean of the School of Education Herbert R. Moody, Director of the Chemistry Pudding Thomas Andrew Storey, Director of the Hygiene Pudding and of the Stadium Mario Kmilio Cosenza, Director of the Preparatory High School Daniel W. Redmond, Director of the Summer Session Morton Gottsciiai.l. Recorder Iweiily-ciffht