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The Bright Boys A History of Townsend Harris High School
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Eileen F. Lebow
ISBN: 0-313-31479-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31479-7
248 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 9/30/2000
List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £82.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Named for the man who brought free higher education to city youths unable to afford the two local private colleges, Townsend Harris High School reminded generations of New Yorkers of the city's debt to him. Its mission was to prepare young men for success at City College, where education was free to graduates of the city's public high schools. The school's three year course was tough and rigorous. Students learned to survive and perform, or they left.

By the 1930s, Townsend Harris was synonymous for bright boys, students who scored high on the yearly Regents examinations, but whose athletic ability, hard as they tried, was something of a joke. The author traces the development of the preparatory school from the first years of its beginning in 1849 to its 1942 closing by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia amid much controversy.
Table of Contents:
  • A Look Back
    Sub-Freshman Moves Up
    Students and Theories
    Change of Identity
    Harris Observed
    Perpendicular Learning
    Educators' Dilemma
    Ferment and Agitation
    Clouds Over 23rd and Lexington
    Troubles Abound
    Sam's Boys
    State of "Chasis"
    Beginning of the End
    To Plan or Not to Plan
    Waiting It Out
    Fatal Spring
    Ave Atque Vale
    Reference Sources
    Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: EILEEN F. LEBOW is the author of A Grandstand Seat: The American Balloon Service in World War I (Praeger, 1998), and Cal Rodgers and the Vin Fiz: The First Transcontinental Flight (1998). Lebow taught in the Maryland public schools for thirty years.
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