Editor’s note: the publication date of this article reflects the date this article was added to the new version of The New School Histories website, not the original publication date.

The New School for Social Research was not founded for interested graduate students who did not want degrees, as J. Kirk Sale asserts ["The New School at Middle Age," July-August 1969], but for interested adults of varied educational backgrounds.

Albert Landa, born Abraham Willie Landa in 1927, was a public relations executive at The New School from 1960 to 1985. He played a central role in developing the school into the university we know today, and securing its financial base.

A collage of the covers of the New School catalogs over the years.

Agnes de Lima was born in New Jersey to a conservative banking family that had emigrated from Curaçao. De Lima grew up in Larchmont, New York, and New York City, and graduated from Vassar College in 1908, majoring in English.