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Alvin Johnson was the president of the New York New School for Social Research when, in 1933, he responded with alacrity to the growing crisis in Europe. The previous year, Alvin Johnson had traveled to Europe and had witnessed a potential need for a haven for academics and scholars. Johnson had been in frequent correspondence […]
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A Proposal for an Independent School of Social Science” (1919), a key document in the founding of The New School, argued that the circumstances over the past two and a half decades call for a “new type of leadership in every field of American life.” Source: New School Archives and Special Collections Digital Archive. Web. […]
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On May 19, 1944, the Board of Regents granted the New School the ability to give bachelor’s degrees and the school aimed to attract adult students starting or finishing their degrees. The school was poised to take advantage of the recently passed G.I.Bill that gave government subsidy for education for soldiers returning from World War […]
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" In any civilization there will be found something in the way of esoteric knowledge. "
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" A whole literature of citations, eulogies, testimonials, of addresses, editorials and reviews has grown around the work and record of Alvin Johnson. "
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" If some magical transformation could be produced in men’s ways of looking at themselves and their fellows, no inconsiderable part of the evils which now afflict society would vanish away or remedy themselves automatically. "
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" In any study of the relations between personality and social classification the queries arise why the social categories are alike so compulsive to the conservative-minded and so precious, why they are given such unfailing loyalty, why such unquestioning devotion? "
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" The political and social problems forced upon the country by the economic development of the past twenty-five years call for a new type of leadership in every field of American life. "
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" Towards the end of the reign of Henry the Fourth of France, Marquise de Rambouillet built for herself a new in the Rue St. Thomas du-Lovre, and placed her staircase in a corner of the building instead of in the middle where all the world had supposed a staircase must be. "