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

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Foreword On addrng thrs book to the ever growlng 11st of what Charles Lamb termed books whrch are no books Bzblza abzbl rt seems proper to explarn on wha grounds thrs, the latest Crrmson and Gold makes 1tS clarm to berng both useful and yustrflable and for what reasons rt was publrshed For, rn our op1n1on a Senror magazrne, such as thrs, 1S both useful and justrfiable As the record of our class, of rts trrals rts farlures, and 1ts ultrmate successes rt rs to the undergraduates a shrnrng lrght to gurde them on to even greater successes And for the Senrors, members of the Class of une 1930 men who 1n a short whlle w1ll leave these walls If performs another and strll more valuable functron It rs the brrdge whrch spans the gap of trme and lrnks wrth tender memorres the boy of today and the man that wrll be The turn of events has grven thrs volume another functron whrch If was not, at flrst, our rntentron to grve rt That of chronrcles of our school For the Harrrs of yesterday and to day wrll tomorrow be no more By the move to Twenty thrrd Street the Townsend Harrrs Hall that we now know wrll cease to exrst And lest rt perrsh sprrrtually as well as phvsrcally we have attempted to make of thrs book a chron rcle and a record To th1s end we have placed herern an rncreased number of prctures, enlarged the lrterary depart ment by addrng to the amount of storres and estabhshrng a poetry and humor department, and have rncluded a hrstory of Harrrs The aforementroned rncrease rn the srze of the lrterature sectron IS one of the chref features of thrs magazrne Hereto fore an almost entrtely neglected department we have attempted If to the hrgh POSIIIOD whrch IS rrghtfully 1tS For, as the chref medrum of student ewcpressron lrterature has an exceedrngly great place rn all student actrvrtres I 15 the soul and the sprrrt of Townsend Harrrs Hall the rnterpreter of progress and the mrrror of rdeals H . , I . ian-Tv. v . t 7 7 7 J , 9 - . . . . . t Page Two

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TI-llll-I Harrrs may be dated back to the beffrnnrng of the Free Academy By act of the State Legrslature on May 7 1847 the proposal of Town send Harrrs to establrsh the Academy was passed and approved rn a general referendum that une In November the Academy burldrng at Tvx enty thrrd Street and Lexrngton Avenue was begun The course proper was scheduled to take four years but an Introductory Year was consrdered necessary to brrdge the gap be tvs een elementary school and Academy Thus the first class entered the Introductory department on anuary 15 1849 and drd not become students of the Academv rtself untrl a year later Always there was marntarned a drstrnctron between the Introducts and the rest of the classes In 1870 a separate burldrnv was erected to house the sub Freshman department and rn 1871 Mr Davrd Burnet Scott was appornted prrnrcpal Overcrowdrng menaced the college rn the nrnetres Annexes part trme sessrons and offrce lofts were resorted to trde the college over un trl the new burldrngs on St Nrcholas Terrace whrch had been made At the end of the century the Board of Regents demanded that the College lengthen rts course rn accordance wrth the current trend It was finally agreed to gradually lengthen the course to seven years bv subdrvrdrng the sub Freshmen year rnto srx terms The class of anuary 1908 was the frrst to complete the course rn the requrred seven years The Academrc Department was now definrtely separated from the College under Prof ohn R Srm the Professor rn charge Frnally rn September 1905 Townsend Harrrs Hall was made ready for Part occupancy and a year later the entrre school was rn stalled rn the burldrng named as Pres Frnley sugvested after the man to whom the college owes rts foundatron Srnce 1906 the Hrstory of Townsend Harrrs Hall has been a steady unruffled flow Few changes have been made although a wealth of tradrtron has grown lrke the rvy about the burldrnff The greatest development has been rn the extra currrcular freld yet the college lrberty of Harrrsrtes has not been harmful Harrrs has ever marntarned a record for scholarshrp unexcelled rn the State co o co .. i D . , 7 7 I - V , 7 O J . A , L 7 - I r . 7 J 7 7 I 1 C 3 ' . , , ' 7 possrble by a legrslatrve act in 1895, should be frnrshed. J 7 , . D . , . I . ' , ' - . l 7 1 7 7 , 1. 7 7 7 ' 7 ' 5 7 A 7 ' 9 7 7 5' ' 7 7 Y A ' Page