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Townsend Harris High School (often shortened to Townsend Harris or simply Townsend, and often abbreviated as THHS) is a public high school for the humanities in the New York City borough of Queens. [5] It is located on the campus of Queens College, [6] a public college part of the City University of New York system. [7]
The original, James Renwick Jr.-designed Free Academy building on 23rd Street housed the Sub-Freshman school. The school was named for Townsend Harris who, besides his many diplomatic accomplishments, had helped found the Free Academy of the City of New York, [2] later to become the City College of New York, and who was a strong proponent of free education.
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Townsend Harris Hall houses the CUNY School of Medicine. Designed by famed New York architect George B. Post and completed in 1908, the Collegiate Gothic-style building is named for Townsend Harris, the founder of City College, and was dedicated in a ceremony at which Mark Twain was the featured speaker.
Founder Townsend Harris proclaimed, "Open the doors to all… Let the children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no distinction save that of industry, good conduct and intellect." Horace Webster (1794–1871), a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, was the first president of the Free Academy ...
The Classic is the student-run high school newspaper of Townsend Harris High School in Queens, New York.Frequently named [1] the best high school newspaper [2] in New York City [3] by Baruch College's NYC public school journalism awards, [4] the paper has run free of censorship and administrative review since its founding in the fall of 1984.
The "Free Academy of the City of New York", the first public high school, was established in 1847 by a wealthy businessman and president of the Board of Education Townsend Harris. It included both a high school and a college. There was no tuition; one goal was to provide access to a good education based on the student's merits alone.
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