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the city college CONVENT AVB. « ■»! T NEW YORK 51 NEW YORK OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT holds a special meaning for me - jus. as i, does for you. You and I arc classmates in a very real sense. Havmg begun together as freshmen back in September, 1952, we can now look back together on four of the most stimulating and rewarding years of our lives. I hope you have been as enriched by your stay at (aty College as ha c. We have received, each in our own way, the finest education a democratic society has to offer. Yours has been the result of your contacts with your fellow students and professors, both in the classroom and outside of it. Mine, too, has been largely the fruit of my contacts with my “fellow students” and colleagues in the faculty and student body. Long before I came to the College, I had heard of the high academic reputation of its undergraduates. My four-year “course here has merely confirmed what I had already been told. However, it has taught me that in addition to his academic achievement, the City College student has a deep and real interest in the world about him and is not afraid to speak up for what he believes. And even when he believes strongly in a principle, he is not afraid of the opinions of those who disagree with him. He wel- comes such divergent viewpoints, in fact, and is willing to display his intellectual wares in the open market of free debate. It is this free-wheeling approach to the world of ideas that is the pillar of true liberalism and the foundation on which our democratic society rests. I hope you will carry this part of your City College education with you, proudly, wherever you go. However, this is not meant to be a parting message only. It is also a message of greeting as I welcome you into the ranks of CCNY alumni. During your years as students, you have seen the fulfillment of a long- standing dream. You have witnessed the birth pangs of a new era in the College’s history and have been present at the birth of an expanded Alma Mater and a magnificent Student Center. To a large degree, all of this was made possible through the efforts of our organized alumni, the men and women who preceded you as students. As you prepare to leave our Gothic halls, I hope you will consider yourselves alumni m every sense of the word and will take an active and permanent interest in the College and work in its behalf. As a City College y0U f,U ’C” a grC! tradilion; you have every reason to be proud of your Alma Mater. Sincerely, President
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DEDICATION Today the College of the City is a tower rising from a mountain, stretch- ing to a terrace on one side, and moving slowly downward toward a river on the other. It is an ivy-coated village wrought of stone dug from the very bowels of the city to which it belongs. It was the first of the great public institutions of higher learning, dedicated to freedom of education to the deserving, with acceptance based solely on ability. This was the City’s college. It was built by its people, by vote of its people, for the benefit of all the people. The College has made men great. These men, spreading, using, and recrystallizing the College’s wisdom have made the City’s college great. It is to one of these men, one among the many, that we dedicate our yearbook. On April 20, 1903, John Huston Finley became president of the College of the City of New York. He found the school an old-fashioned liberal arts college with antiquated methods and ideas; he left it a municipal university with a broad program attuned to the educational needs of the modem age. He wrought changes that have remained to the present. Most impor- tant of all, from the point of view of the student, was the change of spirit which became apparent with Finley’s accession. They discovered that they were treated as responsible college men who were expected to conduct themselves according to standards of decency and honor. The earlier heritage of harsh strict discipline was thrown into the discard. All restrictions on the students’ freedom of discussion or criticism of College policies were removed. Student self-government was increased under Finley’s administration, with the founding of a student council that became an influential and valuable institution. He exuded so much goodness and charm that he won not only men’s respect but their firmest loyalty. The hobbies and traits of the man only made him more beloved by students, alumni, and colleagues; together with his oft-repeated advice: “Read a book, take a walk, make a friend,” they have served to endear him to everyone of The City College. Thus it is, that to the memory of this man, John Huston Finley, we dedicate this 1956 Microcosm. 5
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