The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-16
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urn letenI on chs cufficuluHs ~ In"fraaa
mo v%eftlrai head meaaufeTnent hoid that
irrsr inchaa u sufficient Nv These btsS
I,rs and ihtt q yuune man ehould not ~
r. urallri ~ wait ~ feuuirs q fur Inch
Ifiw. they say IL MT only Unnecessary
~ ma purposes n suclaltstlo and apclo.
Isis,l aiioattun, bot 10 would bo playing
dir.riIy into tho hands n thu hat trust,
iNii chafss ~ trust favoritlsm "a denisi
h. Wv w the tour inch sorialista, Who deciafs
that their obisctiosa are baasd entirely on
educational reasons. For n thing, theirs
snnt 10 room In q low a,thlded head 10
h.ld mors than half ~ what tho students
vii haya 20 learn NJ ths nov College. with
. hack campus abuttlng on Brander Mat
,heva. A glance NJ the curriculum seems
to c~orrobopto that theory.
well, II o three inch head won't hold
more than half, why don't you demand
an applicant with q slG inch brown taunt-
lnaly askesI an easy admittcr member
4 tho board u trustees. Hut that wasn't
real argument and was ignored, There
may Ia a compromise on q three and a half
inch head. but whatever happens tho college
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over the door ~ each recitation room.
The discussion about the size Of the heads
has bean much longer than that about the
advisability of accepting the money left
by Elizabeth ID. Rand, mother-in-law Of
George ID. Heron. TO endow the college.
Tho money was more or less tainted by the
capitalistio end Of the lumber trade, but IL
will have TO do, for the founders can't find
enough genuine sweat Of brow increment
in one pile to lease b~rownstone houses or
sndow chairs in sociology. That the Rand
money was unearned and acquired in a way
that will be frowned upon by the professors
was admitted yesterday by Algernon Leo,
Socialist candidate for Mayor last year
and the president OF the new college.
Yes said President Lee with resigna-
ton, the and fortune was acquired In the
lumber business in Wisconsin, not by the
honest hewing down Of trees or dragging
them to the mills or saving them into lum-
Der, but from the profits taken from the
real work Of the wage earners who did
those honest things. The Rand money
came from the corporate on, c~apitalistic end
of that lumber business, which we could not
approve. In fact, 1t may as we'll be adj
"itfal rtUhf pAuu that tho Banda nunal fha
timber land which really belonged to the
people. But Mrs. Rand couldn't help own
ing all the money; she was a helpless victim
Of a bad system and she has lone the best
she could by leaving the money to found
this college in which will be taught that
such ownership as the Rands' is not right
President Lee was asked, il the college
really had 80 many alumni loyal to its teach
ings that nobody wa left with money, how
it would & let new dormitories and swimming
tanks and running tracks for the later
students. But he wouldn't say. Nothing in
the way Of athletics has been determined 30
far, except that the students will indulge
only in play Of masses.
The house which the college has leased II
at 1l2 East Nineteenth street, a four story
brownstone dwelling Of the sort occupied
by classes rather than masses In this city.
II was built fifty years ago by Homer
Morgan and Is now owned and occupied as
shnme by A, j. Bastine, who buys and sells
land. The college will take possession on
July /. Next door there is a power station
Of the Metropolitan Street Railway Com
pany, which owns q few public utilities.
Students will be able to look in any time,
In the rear there is O is foot squarey yard,
which will do very nicely for a campus.
The oll aD,tfh fannn aafNaFataa the 0a m ntIa
from the house Of Brander Matthews.
The Socialist faculty may cut a hole through
for the interchange Of ideas and hope that
Prof. Matthews will be neighborly.
College will be open seven months Q year
with Saturdays and Sundays as holidays,
May /, Of course, will be a holiday. Morris
Hillquit, the treasurer Of the school, had
May / marked with a red cross on the calen-
dar in his law Office at 800 Broadway, but
1t was merely to call attention to the fact
that the water tax was due on that day.
The water tax course will be elective for
sophomores.
The course is to be divided into three
groups, first the systematic group In
which there will be lecture, text books
and examinations; second the lecture;
talk; and third. the plain lecture course,
conducted by the lecturer. -.
Some Of the lighter studies OF the several
groups will be;
No. /. Political economy, the state,
history Of sociology, development sociology,
rhetoric, elocution.
No. 2. Social theories, principles Of So
GEOLOGY, social reform, social history, ethics.
No, 3. Socialism, labor unions, child
labor, woman suffrage, farmers, lower
classes, middle classes, upper classes, old
age pensions, immigration, history OF labor
movement.
There will also be special courses.
Strong appeal is to be made to the Rs-
thetic by adjoining the walls with pictures.
Some Of the portraits hat will surely be
hung, said President Lee, are those Of Karl
Marx, Ferdinand Lassalle, Fred Engels,
William Liebknecht, August Boel, Eugene
V. Debs and Horace Greeley.
"We claim both Horace Greeley and Wen
dell Phillips" said the college president.
The class room will be decorated with red
flags Of course. That is our flag. Tn black
flag belongs to the anarchists. There may
ba some American flags in the school,
At the beginning there will be nothing
hut evening classes, but the college will be
open days IL there is any demand for 1t.
although no professor will be expected to
lecture more han eight hours a day, not
counting an hour of at noon.
Work in defamation will be compulsory
and there will b., field work in this course
70 get the students accustomed to talking
from the tails of wagons in campaign times.
Algernon Lee won't be the first college
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