Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thrice the board balloted on seventh-grade history. Then into the lobby where waited some 75 agents strode dark, rawboned President Sanderford and blond State School Superintendent L. A. Woods. Superintendent Woods began to make a speech. "Read us the adoptions," grimly cried the bookmen. Slowly the superintendent read them off. For seventh-grade history pupils: Row, Peterson's Building Our Nation...
Fortnight ago the colleges had undergone a less heralded but more significant change, the advent of a new administration. City College is ruled by a Board of Higher Education of 21 members, who are appointed by the Mayor for nine-year terms. For 20 years board and college had been ruled by Tammany Hall. Since 1934 Fusion Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia had made inroads on this regime by appointing nine members to vacancies. But when three more terms expired last June, and one of his appointees resigned, the Mayor, on the verge of transferring control of higher education from Tammany...
Leading LaGuardians on the board are Columbia University's roly-poly Professor Joseph D. McGoldrick, currently running for comptroller of the city, and ruddy, fast-talking John T. Flynn, writer and economist. Others include Author Ordway Tead, Amalgamated Clothing Workers Secretary-Treasurer Joseph Schlossberg. Art Critic Lewis Mumford is the one who resigned...
...four colleges operated by this board are City (men), Hunter (women), Brooklyn and Queens (co-educational). Each in turn is run by a president and an administrative committee of board members. City has a group of Gothic buildings on Washington Heights and a 16-story business school downtown. Hunter is scattered among its main centre at 68th St. and Lexington Ave., a midtown office building and a new campus next to a reservoir at the farthest limits of The Bronx. Brooklyn has just moved out of five rented, jampacked office buildings around Borough Hall. Queens starts in a group...
...slot of a huge old semicircular, yellow pine dispatcher's table. The minutes read. Mr. Harrison rose and, instead of passing the chair to someone else while his name was put in nomination (as he had done for a quarter of a century), he quietly announced to the board that he wished to retire. Having served the Southern since he joined it in 1896 as a solicitor, Mr. Harrison nominated to succeed himself his operating vice president, Ernest Eden Norris. The election took about the same length of time as a flag whistle and the southeast's largest...