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

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Sty (Hslltgt si tl t (Eitg si JJetor sxk ($iiite si Ifittsibent 8T. NICHOLAS TERRACE ANO ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-NINTH STREET May 1927. Class of 1927 - This volume seems a precious thing now, .ait it will become more and more dear to you as the years flow by, because it is a record of your youth. From time to time you will open it and recall thoughts and words and deeds which were part of your life at College. It will be a picture of your little Misle of the long ago” which in reality grows dimmer and dimmer as you float down the river of time . My wish is that you may be able to retain in all the situations of life the best qualities of your youth in College. Here you were taught by disinterested seekers after the truth. Possibly your professors did not all agree among themselves on all subjects, but their motives were honorable, and they appealed to the natural and spontaneous frankness of young men. I hope that as you become more skilled in practical affairs, more re- sourceful, more powerful, more tactful and more shrewd, you will control the strength of your maturity with an idealism that will remain forever young. Vay a glance now and then at this record of life on an isle of the long ago keep alive a love for truth and a sincere desire to combine with practical success the ideals of the scientist who toils for the good of humanity. President

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EiUimrb Presidet Mczes was called to the College at precisely the conjuncture to which his special qualities of mind and character were best adapted. It had been the task of Dr. Finley to make over an institution which was becoming fossilized, to inject new life into its hardening arteries, and to fit it for a brilliant future in its new home upon the heights; but at the time of his retirement, the task had become, not so much one of fresh initiatives, as one of the wise and temperate guidance of an evolution already begun. I rise and temperate the guidance of Dr. Mezes assuredly ztfas, and under him the evolution of the College was continuous, logical and steady. The curriculum zi s enlarged by the addition of a course leading to the degree B. S. S., in all departments numerous electives were added, a summer school was instituted, the Evening Session was expanded enormously, and a Division of vocational Subjects was established. From this Division emerged the School of Business, and then, with a parallel development, the Schools of Education and Technology; each proceeding zvith the utmost regularity as a natural growth from something already in existence. Many further details might be adduced, but enough has been here presented to indicate how the progress of the College, allowing all proper credit to indispensable subordinates, has reflected the character- istics of the man at its head and to manifest our debt to the able administrator who has just retired. Lewis Freeman Mott.