The second phase of our New School history project focuses on Eugene Lang College, which celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2010-11. Part of what needs to be better understood is Lang before Lang... when and how did it start? Lang may be as old as I am! We usually hear that something called the Seminar College was founded in 1973. Something else happened in 1978, I think it was a move to becoming a four-year program. But it turns out there was something much like Lang before any of this, witness this spread from the New School Bulletin in October 1966! That day-in-the-life could be from today (though Lang students today are less likely to go to the Bach organ matinees at Grace Church); the furnishings in the room at upper right are used to this day!
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Lang lang ago
The second phase of our New School history project focuses on Eugene Lang College, which celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2010-11. Part of what needs to be better understood is Lang before Lang... when and how did it start? Lang may be as old as I am! We usually hear that something called the Seminar College was founded in 1973. Something else happened in 1978, I think it was a move to becoming a four-year program. But it turns out there was something much like Lang before any of this, witness this spread from the New School Bulletin in October 1966! That day-in-the-life could be from today (though Lang students today are less likely to go to the Bach organ matinees at Grace Church); the furnishings in the room at upper right are used to this day!
