Pratt Institute - Prattonia Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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of its cultural riches are perpetually astonish- ing, almost beyond belief, even to the most knowing. Other schools situated in large cities, have rightly or wrongly, claimed for their cam- puses their urban surroundings, but Pratt’s re- lationship to New York City is always ‘in the process of being re-discovered. No one imagines that tall buildings inspire high purposes or that wide avenues induce breadth of mind. But the elan of a world capital is pervasive, and none are more responsive to its calls than the mem- bers of the Pratt community.

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But the whole, the Pratt community, is plainly greater than the aggregate of its parts. To dis- cover one reason for this is simply to discover that the boundaries of the Pratt campus extend away, far beyond Library Park. New York City, the Pratt campus, is not simply an environment it is an unparalleled experience in living. The campus of Pratt Institute is the City of New York, one of the great contemporary re- positories of the creative arts, perhaps the greatest in history. The extent and diversity

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The Guggenheim, the Modern Museum, the Met- ropolitan, the Museum of Primitive Art, the Whitney, the Museum of Natural History, the Public Library, the Opera, the theaters, the gal- leries, the City Center, the Medical center, Rockefeller Center, the projected Lincoln Cen- ter are a grand nucleus of all the best and time- less in man surrounded by a gleaming sinewy network of thousands of miles-the very streets of New York pulsing with the flow of ideas and the collision of concepts, the shifting popula- tions, the trundle of commerce, the zest of a hundred modes of living—-the heart-fire of man in his metropolis. Kaleidoscope, mind, Pratt Institute. Where is the unifying element, the connecting link among