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

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I KWSN f a.+.. ffiff Y... , , tggii ll l .lg lllu f Q I , A i , W in tfllf i I 4 f i ifffafuvv --lf lll l -tu if I in Eg i lflfll I I ', V sl, 1, ,- x K' I N, is 1 i f ' gf ' ' if Qx I' 1 1 11 if f HISTORY OF TOWNSEND HARRIS HALL Description , : urn N 138th Street, fronting Amsterdam Avenue, flanked on one side X-f-RX by the sand-piled, rock-studded fields of the future stadium, on Xi,-7-X on the 'rear the historic Campus of the college with its stone S lg' benches and its enormous flagpole, stands a building, one of a whole group, called Townsend Harris Hall. The building is in the English- Gotliic style, massive and impressive, yet leaving room for an intricacy of Terra Cotta ornamentation, on the natural greystone ground peculiar to this style alone. There are the gargoyled entrances, the almost monastic pannelling on the doors, the white-trimmed edges with outcroppings of fantastic figures. girdling the entire edifice. No one can deny that in conjunction with the other City College Buildings it is one of the City's art treasures. Its location commands here the silvering expanse of the Hudson, there a cluster of mist- enshrouded houses, and seems to isolate it from the rest of the city, with only the hum of the street cars, and only the insistence of grey steeples and spires and slender factory chimneys, spiralling smoke from invisible mouths, to remind it of the city and that it is one of the petals on the Hfiower of the city's educational system, City College. 9 'ss A xx- . the other shadowed by the Mechanic Arts Building, and facing xy 5 fb, , Origin No one, I presume, has read a biography without some mention of the liero's parentage, a history without a preface of prehistoric life, a story without a mass of antecedents. Townsend I-Iarris.I-Iall is peculiarly prolific in its ante- cedents. It grew out of the City College. lt is one of the City College buildings: substantially it is only a link in the chain of The City College education. Townsend Harris Hall cannot have a separate history. Its history must, therefore, begin with a summary of The City College history. In the sixty-seven years of its existence, the City College has known no more notable year than that of l907. The old buildings on Twenty-third street with their gloomy interior and their distracting outlook upon one of the busiest thoroughfares in the city, were abandoned for the new buildings on Vxfashing- ton Heights. The College became practically a new college. New and mag- nificent quarters produced a regeneration that the City College was little aware of. It was an unconscious refreshening. There was infused a new and nobler spirit in the student body, a new student consciousness.

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