Living Legacies at Columbia

by De Bary, William Theodore

• ISBN13: 9780231138840
• ISBN10: 0231138849
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-30
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

From Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston to Lionel Trilling and Lou Gehrig, Columbia University has been home to some of the most important historians, scientists, critics, artists, physicians, and social scientists of the twentieth century. (It can also boast a hall-of-fame athlete.) In Living Legacies at Columbia, contributors with close personal ties to their subjects capture Columbia's rich intellectual history. Essays span the birth of genetics and modern anthropology, constitutionalism from John Jay to Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Virginia Apgar's test, Lou Gehrig's swing, journalism education, black power, public health, the development of Asian studies, the Great Books Movement, gender studies, human rights, and numerous other realms of teaching and discovery. They include Eric Foner on historian Richard Hoftstader, Isaac Levi and Sidney Hook on John Dewey, David Rosand on art historian Meyer Schapiro, John Hollander on critic Mark Van Doren, Donald Keene on Asian studies, Jacques Barzun on history, Eric Kandel on geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan, and Rosalind Rosenberg on Franz Boas and his three most famous pupils: Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, and Zora Neale Hurston.Much more than an institutional history, Living Legaciescaptures the spirit of a great university through the stories of gifted men and women who have worked, taught, and studied at Columbia. It includes stories of struggle and breakthrough, searching and discovery, tradition and transformation.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Wm. Theodore de Bary
Part One: Arts and Letters
Lionel Trilling at Columbia	3	(10)
Quentin Anderson
Gilbert Highet and Classics at Columbia	13	(14)
Robert Ball
Da Ponte, MacDowell, Moore, and Lang: Four Biographical Essays	27	(18)
Jack Beeson
The Many Lives of Moses Hadas	45	(12)
Rachel Hadas
Brander Matthews and Theater Studies at Columbia	57	(12)
Howard Stein
Joseph Wood Krutch as Cultural Critic, Drama Critic, and Nature Writer	69	(38)
Joseph Wood Krutch as Cultural Critic	70	(6)
John Margolis
Joseph Wood Krutch: A Rare Critic	76	(7)
Howard Stein
In the Desert with Joseph Wood Krutch	83	(9)
Gerald Green
John Dewey on Morningside Heights
My Memories of John Dewey	92	(8)
Sidney Hook
John Dewey and Intelligent Problem Solving	100	(7)
Isaac Levi
The Many Lives of Paul Oskar Kristeller	107	(10)
John Monfasani
Making Art History at Columbia: Meyer Schapiro and Rudolf Wittkower	117	(14)
David Rosand
The ``Conscience of Columbia'': Remembering Marjorie Hope Nicolson, Scholar and Teacher	131	(12)
Andrea Walton
Learning a Pedagogy of Love: Thomas Merton	143	(8)
Martha S. Jones
Part Two: The Sciences
Edmund Beecher Wilson: America's First Cell Biologist	151	(14)
Qais Al-Awqati
Biology at Columbia	165	(34)
Thomas Hunt Morgan at Columbia University	166	(12)
Eric Kandel
An American Century of Biology	178	(6)
Eric Kandel
Genetics, Biology, and the Mysteries of the Mind at the Cusp of the Twenty-first Century	184	(15)
Eric Kandel
Darcy B. Kelley
Chemistry at Columbia	199	(12)
Leonard W. Fine
Ronald Breslow
I.I. Rabi: Physics and Science at Columbia, in America, and Worldwide	211	(26)
Samuel Devons
Cournand and Richards and the Bellevue Hospital Cardiopulmonary Laboratory	237	(16)
Yale Enson
Mary Dickinson Chamberlin
Virginia Apgar: Savior of New Lives	253	(14)
Marion Hunt
Beyond Typhoid Mary: The Origins of Public Health at Columbia and in the City	267	(10)
David Rosner
Maurice Ewing and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory	277	(20)
Laurence Lippsett
Edwin Howard Armstrong: Pioneer of the Airwaves	297	(12)
Yannis Tsividis
Part Three: Law and Society
Paul F. Lazarsfeld's Scholarly Journey	309	(14)
Jonathan R. Cole
Two Centuries of ``Columbian'' Constitutionalism	323	(10)
Michael C. Dorf
From Muskogee to Morningside Heights: Political Scientist Charles V. Hamilton	333	(10)
Wilbur C. Rich
The Developing Science and Art of Anthropology	343	(22)
Benedict and Mead at Columbia: A Student Looks Back	344	(3)
Virginia Heyer Young
Benedict Herself	347	(3)
Fritz Stern
The ``Daughters'' of Papa Franz: Benedict, Mead, and Hurston	350	(15)
Rosalind Rosenberg
Part Four: History and Economics
Reminiscences of the Columbia History Department: 1923-75	365	(18)
Jacques Barzun
Jacques Barzun: Cultural Historian, Cheerful Pessimist, Columbia Avatar	383	(14)
Thomas Vinciguerra
Salo Wittmayer Baron: Demystifying Jewish History	397	(8)
Michael Stanislawski
Richard Hofstadter: Columbia's Evolutionary Historian	405	(10)
Eric Foner
Columbia and the Great Empirical Tradition of American Economics	415	(12)
Gerald Friedman
Benjamin Graham: Father of Value Investing	427	(10)
Bruce C. Greenwald
Eli Ginzberg: Skeptical Economist, Conservator of Manpower	437	(18)
James W. Kuhn
Part Five: Columbia as a University
John W. Burgess and the Birth of the University	455	(10)
Roger Bagnall
Virginia Gildersleeve: Opening the Gates	465	(16)
Rosalind Rosenberg
Carl W. Ackerman: The Journalism School's Other Founder	481	(8)
James Boylan
Frank Tannenbaum and Collegial Learning in the University Seminars	489	(14)
Robert Belknap
Tannenbaum as Latin Americanist	495	(8)
Robert Alexander
The Core Curriculum
Van Doren, Erskine, and the Great Books Legacy	503	(26)
The Beginnings of the Great Books Movement at Columbia	504	(5)
John Van Doren
In Class with Mark Van Doren	509	(4)
John D. Rosenberg
Mark Van Doren as Poet and Teacher	513	(2)
John Hollander
What Columbia College Is Known For	515	(14)
Carl Hovde
Wisdom, Training, and Contemporary Civilization	529	(14)
J. W. Smit
Asia in the Core Curriculum	543	(16)
Wm. Theodore de Bary
Hall of Fame
Lou Gehrig, Columbia Legend and American Hero	559	(12)
Ray Robinson
Part Six: Columbia and the World
James T. Shotwell: A Life Devoted to Organizing Peace	571	(10)
Lisa Anderson
Louis Henkin and the Age of Rights	581	(12)
J. Paul Martin
East Asian Studies at Columbia	593	(20)
East Asian Studies at Columbia: The Early Years	594	(11)
Wm. Theodore de Bary
Ryusaku Tsunoda: Pioneer of Japanese Studies at Columbia	605	(8)
Donald Keene
A Cycle of Cathay and Columbia	613	(8)
Donald Keene
Columbia's Russian Institute: The Formative Years	621	(12)
Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
A Communitarian at Large	633	(20)
Wm. Theodore de Bary
About the Editors	653	(1)
Notes and Bibliographies	654	(14)
Illustration Credits	668	(3)
Index	671