One hundred years ago today, the New School for Social Research offered its first course, one of seven offered as a teaser for the planned opening in October. The school sought people wishing to enter the fields of journalism, municipal administration, labor organization, and the teaching of social science. Cosmopolitan from the get-go, the very first lecture was by a 26-year-old British Jew (although he had repudiated his faith), Harold Laski.
