Townsend Harris High School - Crimson Gold Yearbook (Flushing, NY)

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PROFESSOR HOLLAND THOMPSON SSISTANT PROFESSOR HOLLAND THOMPSON, Director of the Townsend Harris Hall Annex, was born in North Carolina and was graduated from the State University in l895. For the next four years he was principal of the Academy at Concord, N. C. In 1899 f-S4944 he resigned on receiving an appointment as University Fellow in Columbia University, New York City, from which institution he later received the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. He was appointed Tutor in History in the College of the City of New York in l90l, Instructor in 1902, and Assistant Professor in 1906. XVhen the number of students applying for admission to the Preparatory De- partment, as it was then called, grew beyond the accomodations provided for them, Mr. Thompson was placed in charge of the Afternoon Session in the old Cass Building in Twenty-third Street in 1904. The next year he was assigned to the charge of Townsend Harris Hall, which was not yet completed, but was finished around the classes. In l906-O7 the Main Building was rendered habitable though far from completed and Professor Thompson was placed in charge of the A and B classes which recited there. The College proper removed to the new site in the fall of l907 and Professor Thompson was then placed in charge of the old building in Twenty-third Street, where he remained five years. When the building was closed preparatory to the construction of the new School of Commerce on that site, the classes attending were transferred to 138th Street. Professor Thompson has found time to do much literary and scholarly work. He is author of From Cotton Field to Cotton Mill, f'The Prisoners of the Civil lfVar, History of Our Land, and the New South, Economic and Social, besides many magazine articles. He contributed to the New International and Nelson's Encyclopaedias and to the Encyclopaedia Britannica and is joint editor of the Book of Knowledge. He has served on the editorial staff of Current Litera- ture and Review of Reviews and is now engaged on a work on Southern Economic history. Professor Thompson is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, of the Academy of Political Science, of the American Historical Association and of the American Economic Association. In this article it is extremely difficult to give to Professor Thompson the credit which he so rightfully deserves. In his years of service at the college it has been his wish and desire to perfect the education of the student. Professor Thompson has succeeded wonderfully and is continuing the good work which he has so earnestly chosen as his life's mission. Professor Thompson is held in such high esteem by his colleagues and the students who come under his care that it is doubt- ful whether any other man could so gain the love and confidence of his associates, both young and old. To conclude we may say with assurance that it would be a wise and prudent act on the part of the young student who is just beginning life, to set the career of Professor Thompson before him, and to follow it faithfully and absolutely.

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PROFESSOR HOLLAND THOMPSON

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MR. 'IOWNSEND HARRI S