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" Ford, Carnegie, Mellon and Rockefeller are respectable enough names in the realms of foundations, but in the minds of most people concerned with prehistoric preservation, city planning and the quality of life in New York City, they don't hold a candle to Kaplan. "
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" Even before it began publishing in 1914, the New Republic had become the focus of Progressive attention. The infant journal out of New York City seemed to speak for a generation of reformers ambitious to transform American society. Whatever its intellectual merits, it owed its prominence to the joint intentions and extensive connections of its married publishers, Dorothy Whitney and Willard Straight, who created it to fulfill the shared elements of their reform agendas and thus to give their marriage a public presence. "
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Clara Woolie Mayer (1895-1988) is possibly the most important forgotten figure in New School administrative history. The New School Library had boxes of her institutional papers and some personal papers but, since none of the library staff had been working here when she was here, we knew nothing about her. Then, one day in the […]
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Dorothy Payne Whitney was born in 1887, the youngest child of Flora Payne and William C. Whitney. By the age of 17, her mother, stepmother, and her father had all died, leaving Dorothy with an enormous inheritance and a sense of urgency to make her life have meaning. In the years that followed, Dorothy traveled […]
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Alvin Saunders Johnson (December 18, 1874 – June 7, 1971) was an American economist and a co-founder and first director of The New School. Alvin Johnson was born near Homer, Nebraska. He was educated at the University of Nebraska and Columbia (Ph.D., 1902). Afterwards, he was employed in various positions at Columbia, the University of […]