New-York tribune., 1922-12-25
Supreme Court Asked TO
Compel Estimate Board
TO Make Full Payment;
Salary Cut Threatens
n. Y. Right to Endow
School Is Involved
Dean Says Old Question
of ConstitutiOnalily Is
Raised Again in Council

Action in The Supreme Court 60 com
pei the Board Of Estimate 20 release
the City College and Hunter College
budgets for 1928 has been started by
officials Of City Co ege, can Frederic
B. Robinson ammo ed yesterday. The
dean said the College officials
have asked Sup, ne Court Justice
George V. Mullan 70 issue an order
compelling payment Of q full bud
get for the college, which now, AZ hg-
ured by Comptroller Craig. is 100000
short Of tho reeulremen Of the insti-
tuition as listed BY the dean.
"The reason given for holding up the
money due City College" Dean Robin
son said, "is that the Corporation Coun-
sel doubted the constitutional right Of
the city to establish and maintain an
institution Of higher learning
Raise an Age Question
This is very interesting, because
that very question came up before the
people in referendum taken seventy
FIVE years ago. IN lS47, when Tho Board
Of Education proposed TO extend the
GRADES maintained by the city through
bieh school and college 90 an academic
degree Now we find the public Off
cials raise the old question whicn came
ND in 1866 as we'll as In lS4l
"Represented by Charles II. Tuttle,
rf4-. Ea11ona and IN bel
az the firm Of Davies, Auerbach q Cor
nell, the college has peutioned JusllCe
W,iion a order the Board of Estimate
"a do what "A required Of ~ by law.
CITY College has done LIS part by max
inc, ont a list Of names Of teachers 90
he Maid and expenses 20 be incurred TOT
Tho Gaming wear. The Board OF Est-
mate and the Corporation Council now
according 20 the laws OF the city mus
raise the necessary money and Turn IL
over 10 the college.
"If the Supreme Court does not foree
the releasing OF the budgets u will mean
that the teachers employed by City Col
lsoe will suffer greatly reduced salaries
next wear. and even those salaries may
be delayed.
~ believe the salaries now paid our
teachers. though not excessive, arc tair
and lust, but in the past there have oecn
unwarranted delays in the payment
The teachers in the 1920 summer school
for instance, were compelled 20 wait SIX
months before receiving their pay.
There we're delays Of several months IN
1921 and al other times. The 1920 Leg
islature 40 amended the Lockwood-Day
hin that the salaries Of teachers IN
Hunter and City Colleges we're provided
for bv a definite scale. In 1920, Comp
troller Craig refused 20 pay the scale
reouired for the year 1921, but was
compelled 20 release the proper salaries
in 1921"
Right TO Function Proved
Speaking Of the history Of the col,
lege, Dean Robinson said: ownsena
Harris and J. Boswarth succeeded IN
establishing the collegiate grades run
nv the CITY OF New York under the
name Of the Free Academy. AZ that
time there were only two other city
colleges, az Louisville and Charleston
but there are many now. including the
University Of Cincinnati, the Uniyer.
sitv Of Toledo and the University OF
Akron. In spite of Comptroller Craig'
tho right Of City College 20 function
here Is established By the state ma
tional and city laws.
"The faith Of these early men is
justified because We have graduated
such men as Alfred G. Compton, the
phvsicist; Cleveland Able, the geolog
ist: Everett p. Wheeler and General
Goethals. When Assemblyman Grady
in 1877 introduced a bill IN the As
sembly trying TO abolish se college,
the plan was overwhelmingly de-
feated."