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9780231130080

Stand, Columbia

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  • ISBN13:

    9780231130080

  • ISBN10:

    0231130082

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-10-01
  • Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

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Stand, Columbia! Alma MaterThrough the storms of Time abideStand, Columbia! Alma MaterThrough the storms of Time abide."Stand, Columbia!" by Gilbert Oakley Ward, Columbia College 1902 (1904)Marking the 250th anniversary of one of America's oldest and most formidable educational institutions, this comprehensive history of Columbia University extends from the earliest discussions in 1704 about New York City being "a fit Place for a colledge" to the recent inauguration of president Lee Bollinger, the nineteenth, on Morningside Heights. One of the original "Colonial Nine" schools, Columbia's distinctive history has been intertwined with the history of New York City. Located first in lower Manhattan, then in midtown, and now in Morningside Heights, Columbia's national and international stature have been inextricably identified with its urban setting.Columbia was the first of America's "multiversities," moving beyond its original character as a college dedicated to undergraduate instruction to offer a comprehensive program in professional and graduate studies. Medicine, law, architecture, and journalism have all looked to the graduates and faculty of Columbia's schools to provide for their ongoing leadership and vitality. In 2003, a sampling of Columbia alumni include one member of the United States Supreme Court, three United States senators, three congressmen, three governors (New York, New Jersey, and California), a chief justice of the New York Court of Appeals, and a president of the New York City Board of Education. But it is perhaps as a contributor of ideas and voices to the broad discourse of American intellectual life that Columbia has most distinguished itself. From The Federalist Papers,written by Columbians John Jay and Alexander Hamilton, to Charles Beard's An Economic Interpretation of the Constitutionand Jack Kerouac's On the Roadto Edward Said's Orientalism,Columbia and its graduates have greatly influenced American intellectual and public life. Stand, Columbiaalso examines the experiences of immigrants, women, Jews, African Americans, and other groups as it takes critical measure of the University's efforts to become more inclusive and more reflective of the diverse city that it calls home.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments xi
Tory Preamble: The Short History of King's College
1(48)
Flirting with Republicanism
49(30)
Knickerbocker Days: The Limits of Academic Reform
79(38)
Midcentury Stirrings
117(27)
Takeoff
144(33)
The Aspect of a University
177(34)
Bolt to the Top
211(23)
1917: Twilight of Idols
234(22)
Jews at Columbia
256(21)
The Invention of Columbia College
277(23)
Prosperity Lost
300(28)
Columbia in the American Century
328(28)
A Second Flowering
356(35)
Afternoon on the Hudson
391(32)
Riding the Whirlwind: Columbia '68
423(39)
It's About Columbia
462(28)
A Tough Place
490(21)
Bottoming Out
511(22)
Columbia Recovered
533(24)
The Way We Are
557(21)
Epilogue: Worth the Candle? 578(5)
Notes 583(102)
Bibliographical Note 685(6)
Index 691

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