Author: Columbia University

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-13

Total Pages: 684

ISBN-13: 9781333213732

Excerpt from Annual Report of the President and Treasurer to the Trustees: With Accompanying Documents for the Year Ending June 30, 1934 The appointment of a committee of representative architects to make a study of the School of Architecture as now organized and conducted and to oer such suggestions and recommendations concerning the work of the School as might seem to them im portant, and the very helpful report submitted by this committee a few months later; the development of the plan of the School of Architecture for the organization of an Urban Institute, the pur pose of which is to conduct research relating to the important prob lems of New York City so far as these relate to the administrative organization, the economic and social development, and the physi cal facilities and provisions for urban life; the appointment to posi tions upon the University faculties of six distinguished German scholars who had found it impossible longer to carry on their teaching and research in their own homeland; the significant and important manifesto concerning currency and monetary questions issued November 28, 1933 over the signatures of thirty-eight mem bers of the University faculties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.