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Stanford White
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Stanford White was an American architect and partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts firms. He designed a series of houses for the rich, and numerous public, institutional. His design principles embodied the American Renaissance, in 1906, White was murdered by millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw over Whites relationship with Thaws wife, actress Evelyn Nesbit. This led to a case which was dubbed The Trial of the Century by contemporary reporters. White was the son of Shakespearean scholar Richard Grant White and Alexina Black Mease and his father was a dandy and Anglophile with no money, but a great many connections in New Yorks art world, including painter John LaFarge, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Frederick Law Olmsted. He remained with Richardson for six years, in 1878, White embarked for a year and a half in Europe, and when he returned to New York in September 1879, he joined Charles Follen McKim and William Rutherford Mead to form McKim, Mead and White. As part of the partnership, all designed by the architects were identified as being the work of the collective firm. In 1884, White married 22-year-old Bessie Springs Smith and his new wife hailed from a socially prominent Long Island family, her ancestors were early settlers of the area, and Smithtown, New York, was named for them. Their estate, Box Hill, was not only a home, a son, Lawrence Grant White, was born in 1887. In 1889, White designed the arch at Washington Square. White was the director of the Washington Centennial celebration and created a temporary triumphal arch which was so popular, outside of New York City, White designed the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland, now Lovely Lane United Methodist Church. He also designed Cocke, Rouss, and Old Cabell halls at the University of Virginia, additionally, he designed the Blair Mansion at 7711 Eastern Ave. in Silver Spring, Maryland, now being used as a restaurant. He was responsible for designing the Boston Public Library and the Boston Hotel Buckminster, in 1902, he designed the Benjamin Walworth Arnold House and Carriage House in Albany, New York, and he helped to develop Nikola Teslas Wardenclyffe Tower, his last design. Just as his Washington Square Arch still stands, so do many of Whites clubhouses, which were focal points of New York society, the Century, Colony, Harmonie, Lambs, Metropolitan, and Players clubs. However, his clubhouse for the Atlantic Yacht Club, built in 1894 overlooking Gravesend Bay, sons of society families also resided in Whites St. Anthony Hall Chapter House at Williams College, now occupied by college offices. In the division of projects within the firm, the sociable and his fluent draftsmanship was highly convincing to clients who might not get much visceral understanding from a floorplan, and his intuition and facility caught the mood. Whites Long Island houses have survived well, despite the loss of Harbor Hill in 1947 and he also designed the Kate Annette Wetherill Estate in 1895. White designed a number of other New York mansions as well, including the Iselin family estate All View, White was also active designing country estate homes in Greenwich, Connecticut
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Michael Middleton Dwyer
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He is also a writer of architectural history who was the editor of Great Houses of the Hudson River and author of Carolands. Dwyer graduated from Columbia College where he studied with the architect Robert A. M and he also received a degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Eleanor Roosevelt Monument, Riverside Park, New York, Penelope Jencks, sculptor, Bruce Kelly/David Varnell, landscape architects, Michael M. Dwyer, cosmopolitan Club, New York, Thomas Harlan Ellett, original architect, Michael M. Dwyer, consulting architect. Synod of Bishops,75 East 93rd St, New York, Delano & Aldrich, original architect, Michael M. Dwyer, restoration architect. Gin Lane Residence, Longview, Southampton, NY, meads Point Residence, Greenwich, CT. Edward S. Lampert Residence, Greenwich, CT. Toylsome Place Residence, Stone Cottage, Southampton, NY, jefferys Lane Residence, Sommariva, East Hampton, NY. Redwood City, CA, San Mateo County Historical Association,2006, ISBN 0-9785259-0-6 Dwyer, Michael Middleton, ed. with preface by Mark Rockefeller. Great Houses of the Hudson River, boston, MA, Little, Brown and Company, published in association with Historic Hudson Valley,2001. ISBN 0-8212-2767-X MIchael Dwyer, Architect in The Magazine Antiques, synod of Bishops restored by Michael M. Dwyer, at the Upper East Side Book. Franklin Report Card at The Franklin Report, institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America Michael Dwyer Architect in Adventures with Old Houses. Michael Dwyer Architect in Antiques and Fine Art
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Tower Records
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Tower Records was a retail music chain based in Sacramento, California. It currently exists as a franchise and an online music store. From 1960 until 2006, Tower operated retail stores in the United States, Tower. com was purchased by a separate entity and was not affected by the retail store closings. The corporate name was MTS Inc. but this was compared to the much more widely recognized Tower Records. In 1960, Russell Solomon opened the first Tower Records store on Watt Avenue, in Sacramento and he named it for his fathers drugstore, which shared a building and name with the Tower Theater, where Solomon first started selling records. By 1976, Solomon had opened Tower Books, Posters, and Plants at 1600 Broadway, in 1995, Tower. com opened, making the enterprise one of the first retailers to move online. Seven years after its founding, Tower Records expanded to San Francisco, opening a store in what was originally a store at Bay Street. The Tower Records stores in Japan split off from the chain and are now independent. In New York City, Tower Records operated a suite of stores on and it was a noted hangout for teenagers from the wider metropolitan area. The Tower Records Annex was in the building, but located in the back at the southwest corner of East 4th and Lafayette Streets, and stocked items that were older. The third store, Tower Video located on the southeast corner of East 4th and Lafayette Streets, specialized in video and, for a while, the second floor of this location also sold books. Their location on the Upper West Side, near Lincoln Center on 66th Street, the Nashville location on West End Avenue was in a former Packard dealership. The old showroom floor in front was devoted to CDs, cassettes, the area in the back housed videocassette sales and rentals, PC and console games and music paraphernalia. The strip mall next door contained a separate Tower Books, the location was famous for their late-night Monday events that culminated at midnight on Tuesday when staff started ringing up sales of new releases. Because of the proximity to Music Row, country music stars could occasionally be seen performing or shopping there. As part of a 2002 settlement with 41 states over CD price fixing Tower Records, along with retailers Musicland and Trans World Entertainment and it is estimated that between 1995 and 2000 customers were overcharged by nearly $500 million and up to $5 per album. In 2005, the company began using scan and listen stations in its stores and these stations allowed customers to listen to audio samples from CDs and to search for particular songs, albums and artists. This model of listening station is used at the Arizona-based chain Zia Records
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Piccadilly Circus
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Piccadilly Circus is a road junction and public space of Londons West End in the City of Westminster, built in 1819 to connect Regent Street with Piccadilly. In this context, a circus, from the Latin word meaning circle, is an open space at a street junction. Piccadilly now links directly to the theatres on Shaftesbury Avenue, as well as the Haymarket, Coventry Street, the Circus is close to major shopping and entertainment areas in the West End. Its status as a traffic junction has made Piccadilly Circus a busy meeting place. It is surrounded by several buildings, including the London Pavilion and Criterion Theatre. Directly underneath the plaza is Piccadilly Circus tube station, part of the London Underground system, the street was known as Portugal Street in 1692 in honour of Catherine of Braganza, the queen consort of King Charles II of England but was known as Piccadilly by 1743. Piccadilly Circus was created in 1819, at the junction with Regent Street, around 1858 it was briefly known as Regents Circus. The circus lost its form in 1886 with the construction of Shaftesbury Avenue. The junction has been a busy traffic interchange since construction, as it lies at the centre of Theatreland and handles exit traffic from Piccadilly. The Piccadilly Circus tube station was opened 10 March 1906, on the Bakerloo line, in 1928, the station was extensively rebuilt to handle an increase in traffic. The junctions first electric advertisements appeared in 1910, and, from 1923, traffic lights were first installed on 3 August 1926. During World War II many servicemens clubs in the West End served American soldiers based in Britain, at the start of the 1960s, it was determined that the Circus needed to be redeveloped to allow for greater traffic flow. This concept was kept throughout the rest of the 1960s. A final scheme in 1972 proposed three octagonal towers to replace the Trocadero, the Criterion and the Monico buildings. The plans were rejected by Sir Keith Joseph and Ernest Marples, the key reason given was that Holfords scheme only allowed for a 20% increase in traffic. Piccadilly Circus has since escaped major redevelopment, apart from extensive ground-level pedestrianisation around its side in the 1980s. The Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain in Piccadilly Circus was erected in 1893 to commemorate the works of Anthony Ashley Cooper. During the Second World War, the statue atop the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain was removed and was replaced by advertising hoardings, Piccadilly Circus is surrounded by several major tourist attractions, including the Shaftesbury Memorial, Criterion Theatre, London Pavilion and several major retail stores
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Saint Thomas Choir School
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Saint Thomas Choir School is a church-affiliated boarding choir school in Manhattan, New York. It was founded in 1919 and is supported by the nearby Saint Thomas Church, since 2005, the school has also offered a summer residential Girl Chorister Course. The school officially opened on March 3,1919 at its first location, the $18 million 55, 000-square-foot school building was clad with red brick on a granite base, with a central two-story window trimmed in Indiana limestone. It rose six stories before stepping back in a tower with a roof that houses the chapel. The new school opened its doors in September 1987, with twenty-six enrolled students, paying tuition of $4, 800/year each, the school also engages in an athletic program, competing against local private schools in soccer, basketball, and track. Students are admitted on a rolling basis, the school schedules auditions three times a year for boys entering the third, fourth, and fifth grade. Third grade students must live within a proximity to New York that permits them to return home each weekend and return on Sunday evening, the Choir School offers a challenging pre-preparatory curriculum, interscholastic sports, and musical training for boys in grades three through eight. The Choir School is committed to training and educating talented musicians without regard to religious, choristers are sought from all regions of the country. Tuition for the 2015 school year is $15,000, with over 85% of the students receiving financial aid. The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys is considered by many to be the ensemble in the Anglican choral tradition in the United States. Currently directed by Daniel Hyde, the choir performs regularly with the period instrument ensemble, Concert Royal, the choirs primary raison dêtre, however, is to provide music for five choral services each week at St. Thomas Church. S. In 2004, the choir toured Italy, and performed for a Papal Mass at the Vatican, during 2007, the choir performed Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion for the opening concert of the Mexico Festival in Mexico City as well as at Saint Thomas Church. In February 2012, the Boys of the traveled to Dresden to give the premiere of Lera Auerbachs Dresden Requiem with the Dresden Staatskapelle in the Frauenkirche. Later in 2012, the choir was invited to perform in the Thomaskirche at the Bachfest Leipzig, a highlight of their June 2012 tour to Germany and Copenhagen
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Grand Army Plaza (Manhattan)
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Grand Army Plaza lies at the intersection of Central Park South and Fifth Avenue in front of the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, New York City. It stretches from 60th to 58th streets between East Drive and Fifth Avenue, the idea for a unified treatment of the plaza was first proposed by Bitter in 1898. The current layout was designed by Beaux-Arts architecture firm Carrère and Hastings, the New York City Board of Aldermen named it Grand Army Plaza in 1923 after the Grand Army of the Potomac. The newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer died in 1911 having bequeathed $50,000 for the creation of a fountain to be like those in the Place de la Concorde. The executors invited five architecture firms to participate in a competition to determine the fountains design, in January 1913, the five schemes were exhibited at the New York Public Library, including the winning scheme, designed by Carrère and Hastings. Architect Thomas Hastings design placed the fountain in the half of the plaza. In 1933, Herbert, Joseph and Ralph, sons of Joseph Pulitzer, donated $35,000 for the restoration of the Pulitzer Fountain, the work, delayed by labor troubles, was completed by June 1935. As part of the work, the basin was rebuilt in Italian marble. The measure was approved on July 23,1974, the plans called for the restoration of the balustrade and columns removed in the 1935 repairs. The work was completed in June 1990, including a reconstruction of the fountain, plans to restore the balustrade and columns were abandoned on account of costs. According to The New York Times, For years this fountain merely dripped and dribbled, but now it cascades, the restoration work included a re-gilding of the Sherman Monument. The plaza was renewed again in 2013, including a re-gilding of the statue of William Tecumseh Sherman
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Chapin School
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The Chapin School is an all-girls independent day school located in Manhattan in New York City. Maria Bowen Chapin opened Miss Chapins School for Girls and Kindergarten for Boys, the school originally enrolled 78 students, who were taught by seven teachers. Chapin ran the educational side of “Primary Classes for Girls, ” while Wetmore ran the business end, the two ended their partnership in 1901, and “Miss Chapin’s School” was born. Chapins first high school diplomas were granted in 1908, and the last boys attended in 1917, at her request, the name of the school changed to the Chapin School after she died, in 1934. Chapin is located at 100 East End Avenue, at East 84th Street, Chapins school was originally located at 12 West 47th Street. In 1905, the moved to East 58th Street. In 1910, it moved to East 57th Street, the school has maintained its current location on the Upper East Side since 1928. Sixty girls start in kindergarten, where they are divided into three classes, each K class has two teachers, with regular use of teaching specialists There are about 265 girls in the Upper School, where they are taught by 53 faculty members. Traditionally, Chapin did not make an effort to replace girls who left the school, in recent years, girls are more readily accepted into Chapins middle and upper schools, leading to graduating classes of around 55. While the lower school program combines progressive and traditional characteristics, the school curriculum is considered to be a traditionally rigorous liberal arts program. There are multiple requirements, including at least one modern language, while a small school, Chapin offers 15 Advanced Placement courses and a total of 36 elective courses in grades 10-12. Elective courses may cover topics such as neuroscience, pharmacology, directing lab or Greek, Upper school students may take up to 2 electives per trimester. Many girls do independent studies or study abroad programs, particularly through Chapins exchange programs with the St. Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls, since 2011, Chapin has worked with the Kibera School for Girls in Nairobi, Kenya, developing curriculum ideas and visiting each others campuses. Chapin is also an affiliate member of the Online School for Girls. New York Interschool courses are offered in advanced math, leadership, mentorship derives from multiple sources, including faculty advisors and peer leaders. While some Chapin girls live on the Upper East Side near the school, others hail from other parts of Manhattan, as well as Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, New Jersey, Westchester, the student-to-teacher ratio is 6.8 to 1. Twenty-one percent of the girls receive tuition assistance, amounting to over $5 million per year, the Chapin robotics team is a collaborative effort with neighboring girls school, Brearley. Girls are also welcome to start up new clubs during the school year, There are 18 athletic teams at Chapin, including 15 varsity sports
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Harlem Meer
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Harlem Meer occupies the northeast corner of New York Citys Central Park, in a section of park that was added to the original site, which had originally ended at 106th Street. To avoid the swamp, the Boston Post Road had detoured westwards into the park site. The Meer and its landscape were carried out by Andrew Haswell Green, to Olmsted and Vauxs specifications, from 1861. Harlem Meer once again has natural-seeming banks, restored in 1988-93 after a 1940s concrete curbing was removed, the waterside plaza next to it is the site for the Sunday afternoon Harlem Meer Performance Festival, from mid-June to the first week of September. Catch-and-release fishing is a favorite summertime occupation along the Meers banks, besides the usual yellow perch and crappies anglers have reported catches of the predatory Asian northern snakehead, Channa argus, a notoriously invasive species. An island in the Meer provides a retreat for waterfowl, particularly black-crowned night herons, the meer also has a resident population of muskrats. Ron P. Swegman, fly fishing author, made Harlem Meer a focal point of the essay collection Small Fry, Central Park Conservancy, Harlem Meer Central Park2000, Harlem Meer
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Jed Johnson (designer)
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Jed Johnson was an American interior designer and film director. Initially hired by Andy Warhol to sweep floors at Warhols Factory, he moved in with Warhol. As a passenger in the first class cabin, he was killed when TWA Flight 800 exploded shortly after takeoff in 1996, in 1967, Johnson and his twin brother Jay moved from Minnesota to Manhattan. Two weeks later, he delivered a telegram to the Decker building which was being renovated by Paul Morrissey before it became the new home of Andy Warhols Factory. Johnson accepted a job offer to sweep floors, but quickly moved into editing several films including Andy Warhols Dracula and LAmour. He picked out a townhouse for Warhol on East 66th Street and he lived there with Warhol for a number of years. Johnson was later a member of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board, among other offshoot projects, Johnson designed the offices of Interview magazine. Through that work, he met Sandra and Peter Brant and worked them on eleven projects. He built on this career, eventually forming a partnership in both business and life with the architect Alan Wanzenberg, and taking on such as Mick Jagger. He was awarded the Interior Design Magazine Hall of Fame Award in 1996, on July 17,1996, Johnson was a passenger on TWA Flight 800. He, along with 230 other passengers and crew members, was killed when the plane exploded off the coast of Long Island, Jed Johnson, Opulent Restraint with contributions by Paul Goldberger, Bob Colacello, Pierre Berge and Sandra Brant. November 2005, Rizzoli, ISBN 978-0-8478-2714-5 Jed Johnson Associates
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Casa Italiana
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It was built in 1926-27 and was designed by William M. Kendall of McKim, Mead & White in the Renaissance style, modeled after a 15th-century Roman palazzo. The building was restored, and the east facade completed, in 1996 by Buttrick, casa Italiana originally opened as an outreach of the Italian government of Benito Mussolini in conjunction with then university President Nicholas Murray Butler. It eventually closed due to the controversy surrounding its connection with that Fascist government, the building reopened under the auspices of a later Italian government in 1991 and was restored in 1996. The restoration was financed by having the Italian government buy the building, the structure is currently the home of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, the board of guarantors of which is half appointed by the university and half by the Italian government. In 2012, a lawsuit filed by the Italic Institute, an advocacy group and it claimed that the collection of 200,000 books donated to the buildings library by real estate developer Charles V. Paterno had been broken up and moved to various buildings on campus. In addition, the universitys Italian Department is no longer located in the building, casa Italiana represents one of three buildings on the Columbias campus landmarked by the city of New York, having achieved that status in 1978. It was also added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, list of New York City Landmarks National Register of Historic Places listings in New York County, New York In The Italian American experience, an encyclopedia The Italian Academy
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Sarah Lawrence College
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Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in the United States. It is located in southern Westchester County, New York, in the city of Yonkers,15 miles north of Manhattan, the college is known for low student-to-faculty ratio, and highly individualized course of study. The school models its approach to education after the Oxford/Cambridge system of one-on-one student-faculty tutorials, Sarah Lawrence emphasizes scholarship, particularly in the humanities, performing arts, and writing, and places high value on independent study. Sarah Lawrence College is ranked 59th in the National Liberal Arts Colleges category in 2017 by U. S. News & World Report, Sarah Lawrence was also named the higher education institution with the best classroom experience in all of America by Princeton Review in 2013. Sarah Lawrence College was established by real-estate mogul William Van Duzer Lawrence on the grounds of his estate in Westchester County and was named in honor of his wife, the College was originally intended to provide instruction in the arts and humanities for women. In addition to founding Sarah Lawrence College, William Lawrence played a role in the development of the neighboring community of Bronxville. Harold Taylor, President of Sarah Lawrence College from 1945 to 1959, Taylor, elected president at age 30, maintained a friendship with educational philosopher John Dewey, and worked to employ the Dewey method at Sarah Lawrence. Sarah Lawrence became an institution in 1968. Prior to this transition, there were discussions about relocating the school and merging with Princeton University, at the undergraduate level, Sarah Lawrence offers an alternative to traditional majors. Students pursue a variety of courses in four different curricular distributions, the Creative Arts, history and the social sciences, the humanities. Classes are structured around a system through which students learn in small, highly interactive seminars. Each student is assigned to a faculty advisor, known as a don, to plan a course of study and provide ongoing academic guidance. Most courses, apart from those in the arts, consist of two parts, the seminar, limited to 15 students, and the conference, a meeting with a seminar professor. In these conferences, students develop projects that extend the course material. Sarah Lawrence has no required courses and traditional examinations have largely replaced with research papers. Additionally, grades are recorded only for transcript purposes—narrative evaluations are given in lieu of grades, the College sponsors international programs in Florence, at Wadham College, Oxford, at Reid Hall in Paris, and at the British American Drama Academy in London. Sarah Lawrence is one of the only American colleges operating an international program in Cuba, Sarah Lawrence offers a program for people wishing to seek a B. A. or a Masters and have been out of school for any period of time. Eugene Lang College Exchange Program, In 1996 the college began its program with Eugene Lang College
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Trinity School (New York City)
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Founded in 1709 in the old Trinity Church at Broadway and Wall Street, the school is the fifth oldest in the United States and the oldest continually operational school in New York City. In April 2010, Forbes Magazine named Trinity the best college preparatory school in the United States. Trinity School was founded by William Huddleston, working under the aegis of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, in 1709 as a charity school for Trinity Church. Originally open to boys and girls, classes were held in Trinity Church in lower Manhattan, but in 1749. The building burned down two months later and had to be rebuilt, Columbia University, then Kings College, was founded in that buildings first floor. Trinity traditionally educated its students for Columbia given their close ties, in 1789, Trinitys 56 boys and 30 girls were under the instruction of John Wood, clerk of St. Pauls Chapel at 29 John Street. No longer a charity school, its tuition stood at seven dollars per quarter, in 1838, Trinity closed admission to girls. Girls would not be readmitted until 1971, in 1889, Trinity School moved to 627 Madison Avenue, and moved again a year later to 108 West 45th Street. In 1898, the established the St. Agathas School for Girls at 257 West 93rd Street as a sister school for Trinity. St. Agathas eventually closed its doors, in 1895, Trinity moved to its current location at 91st Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Shortly before the completion of the new school building in 1968, Trinity severed its Episcopal ties with Trinity Church. The school does, however, retain an Episcopal priest who is paid by Trinity Church and he delivers weekly chapel services at the school, as well as the annual baccalaureate service held at Trinity Church each May. The Wall Street Journal consistently ranks Trinity as one of the top three schools in the United States, as measured by students admission to exclusive colleges. The Lower and Middle School courseloads are highly structured, and ninth and tenth graders are offered limited flexibility in their courses, juniors and seniors, however, are much freer to flexibly select electives and other such courses. English is the only subject mandated through four years in the Upper School, math is mandated for three, the languages for three, and the lab sciences for two. There is a requirement for religion and Physical Education, Trinity is also notable for having a full Classics department, which is widely recognized as one of the strongest in the nation. Nearly 40% of the student body takes either Latin or Greek, Trinity offers AP classes in Statistics, Economics, Calculus, Spanish Language, Spanish Literature, French Language, Latin Caesar and Vergil, and Art History. Musical performances figure in all three divisions with concerts, assemblies and chapel performances during the day and in the evening
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Brooklyn College
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Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. Brooklyn Colleges origin began in 1910 with the establishment of a division of the City College for Teachers. The school then began offering evening classes for male college students in 1917. With the merger of these branches, Brooklyn College became the first public coeducational liberal arts college in New York City, the colleges 26-acre campus is known for its beauty, and is often regarded as the poor mans Harvard because of its low tuition and reputation for respectable academics. In 1932, the architect Randolph Evans drafted a plan for the campus on a large plot of land his employer owned in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. He sketched out a Georgian-style campus facing a central quadrangle, Evans presented the sketches to the president of the college at the time, Dr. William A. Boylan. Boylan was pleased with the plans, and the lot of land was purchased for $1.6 million, construction of the new campus began in 1935, with a groundbreaking ceremony attended by then Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and Brooklyn Borough President Raymond Ingersoll. In 1936, then-President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt went to Brooklyn College to lay the cornerstone of the Brooklyn College Gymnasium, President Boylan, Borough President Ingersoll, and President Roosevelt all had buildings on Brooklyn Colleges campus named after them. The campus located in Midwood became the only Brooklyn College campus after the schools Downtown Brooklyn campus was shut down during the 1975 budget emergency, Brooklyn Colleges campus East Quad today looks much as it did when it was originally constructed. The campus also serves as home to the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts complex and its four theaters, the demolition of Gershwin Hall, replaced by The Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts, is the most recent construction on an evolving campus. Other changes to the design include the demolition of Plaza Building, due to its inefficient use of space, poor ventilation. To replace Plaza Building the college constructed West Quad Center, designed by the notable Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly, the new building contains classroom space, offices, gymnasiums and a swimming pool. It houses the offices of Registration, Admissions, Financial Aid, the grounds contain a quadrangle with grassy areas and trees. New façades are being constructed on Roosevelt and James halls where they connected with Plaza Building. The 2009–10 CUNYAC championship mens team now plays its home games in the West Quad Center. This follows a major renovation that saw the library moved to a temporary home while construction took place. The Brooklyn College library is now located in its location in a completely renovated and expanded LaGuardia Hall. Noted as one of the most beautiful in the United States, in 2006, the Core Curriculum was revamped, and the 13 required courses were replaced with 15 courses in 3 disciplines, from which students were required to take 11
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Little, Brown and Company
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Early lists featured Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinsons poetry, and Bartletts Familiar Quotations. As of 2016, Little, Brown & Company is a division of the Hachette Book Group, Little, Brown and Company had its roots in the book selling trade. It was founded in 1837 in Boston by Charles Little and James Brown and they formed the partnership for the purpose of Publishing, Importing, and Selling Books. It can trace its roots before that to 1784 to a bookshop owned by Ebenezer Batelle on Marlborough Street and they published works of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington and they were specialized in legal publishing and importing titles. Little, Brown and Company was the American publisher for Edward Gibbons the Decline, the firm was the original publisher of United States Statutes at Large beginning in 1845, under authority granted by a joint resolution of Congress. In 1874, Congress transferred the authority to publish the Statutes at Large to the Government Printing Office, in 1853, Little, Brown began publishing the works of British poets from Chaucer to Wordsworth. Ninety-six volumes were published in the series in five years, in 1859, John Bartlett became a partner in the firm. He held the rights to his Familiar Quotations, and Little, John Murray Brown, James Browns son, took over when Augustus Flagg retired in 1884. In the 1890s, Little, Brown expanded into publishing, including fiction. In 1896, it published Quo Vadis, in 1898, Little, Brown purchased a list of titles from the Roberts Brothers firm. 19th century employees included Charles Carroll Soule, John Murray Brown died in 1908 and James W. McIntyre became managing partner. When McIntyre died in 1913, Little, Brown incorporated, in 1925, Little, Brown entered into an agreement to publish all Atlantic Monthly books. Chips, Walter D. Edmondss Drums Along the Mohawk, William Least Heat-Moons Blue Highways, Tracy Kidders The Soul of a New Machine, salinger later terminated his contract with the publishing house sometime in the 1970s, though his novel was still published by Little, Brown. Little, Brown also published the photography of Ansel Adams, in 1996, Little, Browns legal and medical publishing division was purchased by Wolters Kluwer. In 2001, Michael Pietsch became Publisher of Little, Brown, the imprint was purchased by Time Inc. in 1968, and was made part of the Time Warner Book Group when Time merged with Warner Communications to form Time Warner in 1989. Little, Brown expanded into the UK in 1992 when TWBG bought MacDonald & Co from Maxwell Communications, taking on its Abacus and Orbit lists, feminist publisher Virago Press followed in 1996. Also in 1996, Wolters Kluwer acquired Little, Browns professional division, in 2006, the Time Warner Book Group was sold to French publisher Hachette Livre. Following this, the Little, Brown imprint is used by Hachette Livres U. S. publishing company, in 2011, Little, Brown launched an imprint devoted to suspense publishing, Mulholland Books
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