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

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State of New York Executive Chamber Albany I am happy to send warm greetings to the staff and readers of 1948 Microcosm. You have chosen a fruitful theme in the role of the college in relation to the city and state communities. From the standpoint of the city, the college is not only an opportunity for the realization of all those purposes of personal aspiration which college brings nearer, but it is also an opportunity for the city to realize in full degree much in culture which the city without such a college sorely misses. The College of the City of New York is heir to a great historical tradition. In Western Europe the early institutions of college grade were primarily city institutions. One need only recall their names - Cracow, Bologna, Paris, Padua, Salamanca, etc. These colleges of the medieval day served their community in a fruitful fashion which rarely has been duplicated after many centuries of lost objective. As a cultural center for the city, the college provides opportunity for great new infusions - infusions in the arts, in the practical sciences, in public lectures, and in debates. It furnishes a platform on which the issues of civic moment may be reviewed freely, wholesomely and with worthy result. In quite another aspect of the city-college- culture relationship there resides the resource contribu- tion. As a resource for public leadership the college staff, consisting of highly trained specialists, are called upon to make specific contributions to local government, to the local administration of those many new aspects of government which are increasingly part of our civilization. As a source for those necessary factual collections of liberty, laboratory and museum the college stands almost alone. It will by premise hold laboratory resource, library resource, to which free access should be available not only to the citizens of the city but to the city's government and, by implication and in fact, these many uses and employments of the college are most assuredly open to the state and its people as well. With kind regards and best wishes, Sincerely yours,

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Qtye Gtalbg at tb[t CUttg at Nm fork THE CITY COLLEGE-OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT CONVENT AVENUE AND 139TH STREET I join with Microcosm in greetings to the Greater City of New York as she celebrates her fiftieth anniversary. Her fifty years have seen the transition from the America of the gay nineties with its horse and buggy days and its philosophy of inevitable progress to an era of intensely heightened and activated technology shadowed by heavy clouds of questioning and doubt. Through it all City College has been a part of the changing scene, pouring many thousands of its graduates into the life of the city and country. And now that world events have placed our country in a position of leadership and have made our city the capital of the world we pledge all our resources to the bringing of every possible means of higher education to their service.

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City of New York OrricE of the Mayor New York 7, N.Y. As the College of the City of New York starts a second century of activity, the Greater City of New York reaches a Golden Anniversary. Both have grown in freedom and have flourished in democracy. Many of the 35,000 living graduates of City College have done great things, and have had great ideas. Their works have affected this City and the world. It is my sincere hope that the future years for our City, and for our City College will bring to both an intellectual prosperity that will surpass even what has gone before.