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soon caused the abandonment of all classes. The Great Hall was converted into a huge sleeping barracks, the Concourse into a mess hall. The Federal Government contracted to raise a structure on Amsterdam Avenue, the Robinson Foundation. The war ended. The Government forgot its contract and the College emerged with a silently eloquent honor roll and a strongly intrenched R. O. T. C. unit. Between 1919 and 1920 the organization of a School of Business under Professor Robinson, a School of Education under Professor Klapper, and a School of Technology under Professor Skene, all attested to the great proportions the old Free Academy had assumed. In the spring of 1926, Dr. Frederick Bertrand Robinson ’04 was elected to succeed Sidney E. Mezes as President. Daniel W. Redmond was simultaneously elected dean. The old Free Academy fell to the sighs of many an alumnus and a modern skyscraper that shall house the School of Business rose. The first wing of the library was built. A little internal fireworks, gentle repercussions of war time days, kept the College from smugness. Today we arc a University in all but name, a living, pulsating tribute to the fore- sight of the city fathers. Vourtetn
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The Library Dedication suspended. The Free Press was published anonymously outside of the College and poked merciless fun at the great ones. Mercury prospered. The red turreted and Gothic- arched building at Twenty-Third Street and Lexington Avenue strained beneath the weight of increasing numbers. Alumni became active and soon only $200,000 was necessary to start building on the new site. General Webb travelled up to Albany. It was an exciting moment when at the last session, Mr. Ellsworth led the distinguished President of the College out on the floor of the Senate, and introducing him as the hero of Gettysburg, ob- tained unanimous consent for the appropriation. With the accession of Dr. John Huston Finley in 1903, the College impatiently began to mark time until it should occupy the new buildings on the Terrace. Bands of undergraduates would organize picnics and travel up to watch the carpenters and masons and to steal a marvelling glance at the architect’s plans. At length, in May, 1907 sur- rounded by Mark Twain, Ambassador Bryce, Rufus Choate and other dignitaries. Presi- dent Finley, under the eyes of mocking gargoyles, inaugurated this Brightest Gem in Democracy’s Crown.” In 1908 The Cain pits appeared. Four years later the Evening Session was organized. Modest in its beginnings it soon developed into one of the most prosperous arms of the College. A dean was created in the person of Professor Brownson. In 1914, Sidney Edward Mezes, President of the University of Texas, became President of the College. Under him the curriculum was broadened, creating precedent for the widely variegated courses we have today. Student activities plodded along; The Campus deplored the lack of spirit when no pro- testing hand was raised against the sophomore who violated the exclusiveness of the Senior Pedestal. But the Juniors still met every Wednesday evening in the shadow of the same pedestal Absentem ut cantant amicam.” Once more a war shattered the cloistered industriousness of the College. Several hurried off to volunteer. The drafts President Mezes
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