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Class Day

2024-05-06T17:50:10Z

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'''Class Day''' is like graduation, but not really ([[University Commencement]], at which students are formally conferred their [[degrees]], is held on a separate day). These celebrations, held for each of Columbia's schools, feature student speakers (usually class presidents and [[valedictorian]]s or [[salutatorian]]s, depending on the school) and keynote speakers (usually alumni), and an occasion for students to have their names called out, walk across the stage, and shake hands with the [[Dean]] and the [[University President|president]]. Their existence forces students' parents to spend an extra day or two dealing with their children's commencement. The upshot is that the ceremonies are more intimate and personal. Both the [[Columbia College]] and [[SEAS]] ceremony includes a [[Parade of Classes]].

Instead getting a [[diploma]], undergraduate students receive a [[Class Pin]] from members of the 50th reunion class of that year.

== History ==

The first class day for Columbia College was held in [[1865]].<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19640601-01.2.7]</ref>

The location of Class Days has shifted considerably over time, moving between indoor and outdoor locations. Columbia College Class Day was held in the [[University Gymnasium]] around [[1907]], on "the Green between [[Earl Hall|Earl]] and [[School of Mines|Mines]]" in [[1921]], and in [[McMillan Theater]] in [[1931]].<ref>http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F20C15FF3D5F157A93C0A9178DD85F458385F9</ref> In [[1938]], Class Day was held on the [[Van Am Quadrangle]]. In [[1943]], ceremonies moved indoors again, to [[Brander Matthews Hall]]. Over the years, Class Day exercises have gradually migrated to [[South Lawn]]. However, [[Barnard College|Barnard]]'s Class Days have often been held in [[Dodge Gym]].

In [[1944]] due to "wartime difficulties," Class Day for Columbia College was held without cap and gown.

Although speeches have become the focal point of Class Day, in earlier years, prior to the establishment of the [[Academic Awards Ceremony]], the focus was on distributing prizes. In [[1941]], for example, there were no designated speakers at Columbia College Class Day other than University President [[Nicholas Murray Butler|Butler]], Dean [[Herbert Hawkes|Hawkes]], and the valedictorian and salutatorian.

In subsequent years a Senior Banquet was held on the same day, during which students would hear from an invited speaker, but the integrated Class Day speaker tradition did not begin until the later decades of the 20th century.

===Speaker Complaints===

Speakers at recent class days have stirred howls of complaint. Supposedly there is a rule the speaker must be an alumnus of their school, which accounts for Columbia's less famous speakers relative to our [[Ivy League|peer institutions]]. However, this rule has been ignored by CC when speakers such as novelist Ralph Ellison or Senator John McCain have agreed to speak, and does not apply to GS when the administration finds it convenient. Barnard does not have this rule.

In [[1991]], students circulated a petition hoping to disinvite [[1968 protests]] leader [[Juan Gonzalez]] as speaker; Gonzalez spoke anyway. Among the complaints were that literally no one apart from the class president could identify who Gonzalez was when the choice was announced.

In [[2006]], Senator [[John McCain]] (whose daughter is [[Columbia College|CC]] [[2007|'07]]) spoke, and some students expressed disapproval arguing that he did not represent the political beliefs of most CC students.

[[Matthew Fox]], a star of TV's ''Lost'', was the speaker for [[2007]], and was seen as an underwhelming or inappropriate choice for such a serious occasion, although his speech turned out well-received. These controversies generally involve petulant members of the senior class, who desire a meaningful close to their four year stint at the university, i.e. a charismatic intellectual celebrity.

In [[2012]], controversy was ignited again when President [[Barack Obama]], a Columbia College alumnus, opted to speak at [[Barnard College]]'s Class Day, despite entreaties from CC.

== Class Day speakers ==
===Undergraduate School Speakers===

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| '''Year'''
| '''[[Columbia College]]'''
| '''[[SEAS]]'''
| '''[[General Studies]]'''
| '''[[Barnard College]]
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|[[2024]]
|[[Poppy Harlow]] '05CC
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|[[2023]]
|[[Katori Hall]] '03CC
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|[[2022]]
|[[Tom Kitt]] '96CC
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|[[2021]]
|[[Mario Van Peebles]] '78CC
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|[[2020]]
|[[Rolando Acosta]] '79CC '82Law
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|[[2019]]
|[[Brandon Victor Dixon]] '03CC
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|[[2018]]
|[[Dede Gardner]] '90CC
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|[[2017]]
|[[Sheena Wright]] '90CC '94 Law
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|[[2016]]
|[[Dean Baquet]] '78CC
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|-
|[[2015]]
|[[Eric Garcetti]] '92CC '93 SIPA
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|[[2014]]
|[[Dan Futterman]] '89CC
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|[[Gale Brewer]] '97GS
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|-
|[[2013]]
|[[Terrence McNally]] '60CC
|[[Robert Bakish]] '85SEAS, '89[[Business|BUS]]
|[[Nicholas Dirks]]
|[[w:Leymah Gbowee|Leymah Gbowee]]
|-
|[[2012]]
|[[John MacArthur]] '78CC
|[[Ursula Burns]] '82SEAS
|[[Thomas Reardon]] '08GS
|[[Barack Obama]] '83CC
|-
|[[2011]]
|[[Alexandra Wallace Creed]] '88CC
|[[Ralph Izzo]] '79SEAS
|[[Roger Leeds]] '66GS
|[[w:Sheryl Sandberg|Sheryl Sandberg]]
|-
|[[2010]]
|[[Benjamin Jealous]] '94CC
|[[Paul Brandt-Rauf]] '70, '74SEAS; '79[[College of Physicians and Surgeons|P&S]]; '87[[Mailman School of Public Health|PH]]
|[[Jacques Pepin]] '70GS
|[[w:Meryl Streep|Meryl Streep]]
|-
|[[2009]]
|[[Eric Holder]] '73CC
|[[James Albaugh]] '74SEAS M.S.
|[[Philippe Reines]] '00GS
|[[w:Hillary Clinton|Hillary Clinton]]
|-
|[[2008]]
|[[Joel Klein]] '67CC
|[[Armen A. Avanessians]] '83SEAS M.S.
|[[Alicia Graf]] '03GS
|[[w:Michael Bloomberg|Michael Bloomberg]]
|-
|[[2007]]
|[[Matthew Fox|Matthew C. Fox]] '89CC
|[[Santiago Calatrava]] Parent '06, '07, '08, '09SEAS
|Deborah Marshall, '79GS
|Anna Deavere Smith
|-
|[[2006]]
|[[John McCain]] Parent '07CC
|[[Raymond P. Daddazio]] '75, '76, '82SEAS
|Antonio Luis Freitas '97GS
|[[Francine du Plessix Gray]] '52BC
|-
|[[2005]]
|[[Robert Kraft]] '63CC
|Mynoon Doro '73SEAS
|Michael Margitich, '99GS
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|-
|[[2004]]
|[[Tony Kushner]] '78CC [http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/jul04/cover.php]
|[[Savio Tung]] '73SEAS; Parent '01SEAS, '11B
|[[Carlos Fedrigotti]], '73GS
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|[[2003]]
|[[George Stephanopoulos]] '82CC [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/vforum/03/cc_class_day/cc.ram]
|[[Michael Massimino]] '84SEAS [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/vforum/03/seas_class_day/seas.ram]
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|[[2002]]
|[[David J. Stern]] '66L [http://www.college.columbia.edu/aboutcc/news/video_classday2002_stern_ref.php]
|Jeffrey Bleustein [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/vforum/02/seas_class_day/seas.ram]
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|-
|[[2001]]
|[[w:David Boies|David Boies]]
|Russell Bassette
|R. W. Apple, Jr '61GS
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|-
|[[2000]]
|[[Brian Dennehy]] '60CC
|[[Peter Slosberg]] '72SEAS; '74B; Parent '04SEAS
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|-
|[[1999]]
|[[Claire Shipman]] '86CC
|[[David E. Shaw]]
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|-
|[[1998]]
|Judge [[Joseph A. Greenaway]] '78CC
|Norman R. Augustine
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|Joyce Purnick '67BC
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|[[1997]]
|Jonathan Kozol
|David Marks
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|[[Anna Quindlen]] '74BC
|-
|[[1996]]
|[[w:Robert Rubin|Robert Rubin]]
|Y.D. Kim
|Joseph Califano
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|-
|[[1995]]
|[[w:Tom Brokaw|Tom Brokaw]]
|Samuel L. Higginbottom '43CC, '43SEAS
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|[[Madeleine Albright]] '68GSAS, '76SIPA
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|[[1994]]
|[[Fritz Stern]] '46CC
|Eleanor Baum
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|Sheila E. Widnall
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|[[1993]]
|[[w:Marian Wright Edelman|Marian Wright Edelman]]
|[[Anna K. Longobardo]] '49, '52SEAS
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|[[1992]]
|[[w:Louis Harris|Louis Harris]]
|Lee-Un Chung
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|-
|[[1991]]
|[[w:Juan Gonzalez (journalist)|Juan Gonzalez]] '98CC
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|[[1990]]
|[[w:Ralph Ellison|Ralph Ellison]]
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|Madeleine Kunin
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|[[1989]]
|[[Herman Wouk]] '34CC
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|[[Mary Gordon]] '71BC
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|[[1988]]
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|[[1987]]
|[[w:Anthony Lewis|Anthony Lewis]]
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|Charles S. Robb
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|[[1986]]
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|[[Thomas Kean]] MA (TC)
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|[[1984]]
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|Vartan Gregorian
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|[[1983]]
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|Mario Cuomo
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|[[1982]]
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|Carol Bellamy
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|[[1980]]
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|Shirley Hufstedler
|}

==Trivia==

*Part of [[James Russell]]'s valedictory speech was delivered in ancient Armenian
*In [[2010]], the [[General Studies]] valedictorian, [[Brian Corman]], plagiarized part of his speech from comedian Patton Oswalt
*In [[1961]], valedictorian [[John Vaio]] delivered the first Latin Valedictory at Columbia since 1901, while his classmates followed along with English translations.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19610605-01.2.6 Exercises Today to Include Latin Valedictory Address], Columbia Spectator, 5 June 1961</ref><ref>Coincidentally, two months earlier Harvard had announced it would be issuing undergraduate diplomas in english, to great uproar. [https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/5/23/students-latin-ravenel-pusey/ As Diplomas Change from Latin to English, Students Join in Protest], Harvard Crimson, 23 May 2011. Columbia's undergraduate diplomas notably remain in Latin as of 2024.</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Commencement]]

List of books about Columbia

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This page is a '''list of books about Columbia'''.

== Biography ==
* "Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler" by [[Michael Rosenthal]] (2006) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Nicholas+Miraculous&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://www.amazon.com/Nicholas-Miraculous-Amazing-Career-Redoubtable/dp/0374299943/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176051853&sr=8-1 Amazon.com]
* "Eisenhower at Columbia", by Travis Jacobs (2001) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Eisenhower+At+Columbia&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0765800365 Google eBook (limited preview)] [http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780765800367&itm=1 Barnes and Noble]
* "Memoirs of Frederick A. P. Barnard, by John Fulton (1896) [http://books.google.com/books?id=Dx9AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook]
* "Seth Low: The Reformer in an Urban and Industrial Age", by Gerald Kurland (1971)
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=SGLOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false King's College Alumni] by Leonard Felix Fuld (originally published in [[Columbia University Quarterly]] from September 1907-September 1911)

== Fiction ==

*"Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution," by [[Jerome Charyn]] (2008) [http://www.amazon.com/Johnny-One-Eye-Tale-American-Revolution/dp/0393064972/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203800117&sr=1-1 Amazon]
*"Moon Palace", by [[Paul Auster]] (1989) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Moon+Palace&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO]
*"Morningside Heights," by [[Cheryl Mendelson]] (2005) [http://www.amazon.com/Morningside-Heights-Novel-Cheryl-Mendelson/dp/0375760687/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203800172&sr=1-1 Amazon]
*"Vanity of Duluoz," by [[Jack Kerouac]] (1968) [http://www.amazon.com/Vanity-Duluoz-Adventurous-Education-1935-46/dp/0140236392 Amazon]
*"The Caine Mutiny," by [[Herman Wouk]] (1951) [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CEkQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCaine-Mutiny-Novel-Herman-Wouk%2Fdp%2F0316955108&ei=LntXTJ3JNYH_8AaI47z6Ag&usg=AFQjCNH5BOmtSr_dCh3Cq8kP7kdbQuXkGQ&sig2=rChTDWCnI32pkOK7_NZAHg]
*''A Bachelor of Arts'', by [[John Erskine]]

== Guides ==

* "An Official Guide to Columbia University" (1912) ed. [[Brander Matthews]] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0kgC32Cg2T5t-YolhPy&id=yBATAAAAIAAJ Google eBook] [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Official+Guide+To+Columbia+University&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO]
* "A Guide to Columbia University: With Some Account of Its History and Traditions" ed. John William Robson (1937) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=2&ti=1,2&Search%5FArg=A%20Guide%20to%20Columbia%20University&Search%5FCode=TALL&CNT=50&PID=lOM_VpuaHCKQB_21DBd2uo8uvEp&SEQ=20071216055110&SID=2 CLIO]
* "Columbia University, College Prowler Off The Record" (2005) [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1596580348 Google eBook]

== History ==

=== Columbia ===
* "A Lever Long Enough: A History of Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Science Since 1864" by [[Robert A. McCaughey]] (2014)
* "Columbia University and Morningside Heights" (Postcard History Series) by Michael V. Susi [http://books.google.com/books?id=Tl5SnSGvhHoC Google eBook (limited preview)]
* "Living Legacies at Columbia" ed. [[Wm. Theodore de Bary]] (2006) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Living+Legacies+at+Columbia&Search_Code=TALL&PID=dKa8t08ZranCElQP4hrltq7HgM2&SEQ=20071211224838&CNT=50&HIST=1 CLIO] [http://www.amazon.com/Living-Legacies-Columbia-Theodore-Bary/dp/0231138849/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197430435&sr=8-1 Amazon.com]
* "Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754-2004" by [[Robert A. McCaughey]] (2003) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=stand%2C+columbia&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://www.amazon.com/Stand-Columbia-History-University-1754-2004/dp/0231130082/ref=sr_1_1/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176052272&sr=1-1 Amazon.com]
* "My Columbia: Reminiscences of University Life" ed. Ashbel Green (2004) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=My+Columbia%3A+Reminiscences+of+University+Life&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=fEZjf7MKi6HROwoFCuqjYTO3g&SEQ=20070321033746&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN023113486X Google eBook] [http://www.amazon.com/My-Columbia-Reminiscences-University-Life/dp/023113486X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176052335&sr=1-1 Amazon.com]
* "From King's College to Columbia, 1746-1800" by David C. Humphrey (1976) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=6&ti=1,6&SC=Subject&SA=Columbia%20University%20History%2E&PID=-RnVfTDedwaTD96BFqucwmPdn&SEQ=20070321034318&SID=13 CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0231039425&id Google eBook (limited preview)]
* "Columbia Remembered" ed. Wesley First (1967) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Columbia+Remembered&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO]
* "The Bicentennial History of Columbia University," [[Dwight C. Miner]], ed., 15 vols. (1954-1957)
** "A History of Columbia College on Morningside," (1954), with chapters by [[Irwin Edman]], [[Lionel Trilling]], [[Justus Buchler]], Charles W. Everett, Fon W. Boardman, Jr., [[Jack N. Arbolino]], and [[Gene R. Hawes]] [http://archive.org/details/historyofcolumbi012462mbp Archive.org]
** "A History of Barnard College," Marian Churchill White (1954)
** "A History of the School of Engineering," James Kip Finch (1954)
** "A History of Adult Education at Columbia University; University Extension and the School of General Studies," John Angus Burrell (1954)
** "A History of the Graduate School of Journalism," Richard Terrill Baker (1954)
** "A History of the Graduate School of Business," T. W. Van Metre (1954)
** "A History of Teachers College," Lawrence A. Cremin, David A. Shannon, and Mary Evelyn Townsend (1954)
** "A History of the School of Architecture," Theodor Karl Rohdenburg (1954)
** "A History of the School of Library Service," Ray Trautman (1954)
** "A History of the School of International Affairs and Association Area Institutes," L. Gray Cowan (1954)
** "A History of the School of Law," Foundation for Research in Legal History/Julius Goebel, Jr. (1955)
** "A History of the New York School of Social Work," Elizabeth G. Meier (1954)
** "A History of the College of Pharmacy," C. W. Ballard (1954)
** "A History of the Faculty of Philosophy" (1957)
** "A History of the Faculty of Political Science," R. Gordon Hoxie (1955)
* "Columbia: Colossus on the Hudson", by Horace Coon (1947) [http://archive.org/details/columbiacollssus012334mbp Archive.org] [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Columbia+Colossus+on+the+hudson&Search_Code=TALL&PID=bSKarTaQKedizbNuC0dSvPmI6HX&SEQ=20070408124651&CNT=50&HIST=1 CLIO]
* "Columbia: An American University in Peace and War by Fon W. Boardman, Jr. (1944) [http://books.google.com/books/about/Columbia_an_American_university_in_peace.html?id=U0FJAAAAIAAJ]
* "King's College and the Early Days of Columbia College, A Paper Read at the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the New York State Historical Association" by John B. Pine (1917) [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t00z7x12p;view=1up;seq=21] [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101068037777;view=1up;seq=1]
* "Columbia" by [[Frederick Paul Keppel]] (1914) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=3&ti=1,3&Search%5FArg=Columbia&Search%5FCode=TALL&SL=None&CNT=50&PID=UD9E8b4iY3bcphB8OqHY3uJcSVJ&SEQ=20070408124757&SID=6 CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?id=hLAWAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook (full book)]
* "A History of Columbia University, 1754-1904" by [[Brander Matthews]] (1904) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=history+of+columbia+university&Search_Code=TALL&PID=mXd8qjM4-lN4-0_M799A4H_wNCY&SEQ=20070408135755&CNT=50&HIST=1 CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0f9ChN0yzhCAvBADU4H2Uds&id=ZvAKAAAAIAAJ Google eBook (full book)] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0Ggbf7CcdFGkpiDqe0o&id=3xEUAAAAIAAJ Google eBook (Another Version- full book)]
*"Columbiana: A Bibliography of Manuscripts, Pamphlets and Books Relating to the History of King's College Columbia College Columbia University" prepared by Charles Alexander Nelson (1904) [http://books.google.com/books?id=hikVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook (Google Books Version)]
*"Universities and Their Sons: History, Influence and Characteristics of American Universities" (See section on Columbia by J. H. Van Amringe) [http://books.google.com/books?id=3rM-AQAAMAAJ Vol. I (1898) Google eBook], [https://archive.org/details/universitiesthei01cham Vol. I (1898) Archive.org], [https://archive.org/details/universitiesthei02cham Vol. II (1899) Archive.org], [https://archive.org/details/universitiesthei03cham Vol. III (1899) Archive.org], [https://archive.org/details/universitiesthei04cham Vol. IV (1900) Archive.org], [https://archive.org/details/universitiesthei05cham Vol. V (1900) Archive.org],
*"Columbia College in the City of New York: Historical Sketch & Present Condition" (1893) [http://books.google.com/books?id=z8E4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook (full book)]
*"Views of Columbia College" (1886) (photos of [[Midtown campus]]) [http://wackzut.archive.org/details/viewsofcolumbiac00colu Archive.org]
*"The Undergraduate Record Columbia College A Book of Statistical Information compiled by William S. Sloan" (1881) [http://books.google.com/books?id=cxATAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA87#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook]
*"An Historical Sketch of Columbia College in the City of New York 1754-1876" edited by [[John Howard Van Amringe]] (1876) [http://books.google.com/books?id=j7TAsGQxY_YC&pg=PP3#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books (full book)]
* "An Historical Sketch of Columbia College in the City of New York by [[Nathaniel Fish Moore]] (1846) [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ra8WAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books - full book]

=== Founding Documents and University Statutes ===
* "The Original Charter of Columbia College in the City of New York, October 31st, 1754; with the Acts of Legislature amending the same, or relating to the College" (1836) [http://books.google.com/books?id=cHo4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook]
* "The Original Charter of Columbia College in the City of New York, October 31st, 1754; with the Acts of Legislature amending the same, or relating to the College" (1854) [http://books.google.com/books?id=i22Zf8BMbjYC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook]
* "Charters Acts and Official Documents Together with the Lease and Re-Lease by Trinity Church of a Portion of the King's Farm" compiled by John B. Pine (1895) [http://books.google.com/books?id=_rBBAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP5#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook]
* "Charters and Statutes with Amendments to April 3, 1916" (1916) [http://books.google.com/books?id=lnzOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook]
* "Charters Acts of the Legislature Official Documents and Records" compiled by John B. Pine (1920) [http://books.google.com/books?id=PTc4AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google eBook]
* The [[University Statutes]]

=== Neighborhood/Architecture ===

* "Morningside Heights" by [[Andrew S. Dolkart]] (2001) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=3&ti=1,3&Search%5FArg=morningside%20heights&Search%5FCode=TALL&SL=None&CNT=50&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&SID=9 CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN023107851X&id=tHM_JXOp4JAC Google eBook (limited preview)]
* "Mastering McKim's Plan: Columbia's First Century on Morningside Heights" by [[Barry Bergdoll]] (1998) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Mastering+McKim%27s+Plan&Search_Code=TALL&PID=dKa8t08ZranCElQP4hrltq7HgM2&SEQ=20071211224838&CNT=50&HIST=1 CLIO] [http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-McKims-Plan-Columbias-Morningside/dp/1884919057/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197430642&sr=1-9 Amazon.com]
*AIA Guide to New York City - These often feature a number of buildings on or around Columbia's campus.
*[http://www.scup.org/asset/62643/HindsightForesight.pdf Hindsight to Foresight: From the Founding to the Future of Five Ivy League Campuses] by Robert Spencer Barnett - 2012 ebook published by the Society for Campus and University Planning with a wealth of information on Columbia and other Ivy League architecture

=== 1968 Protests ===
* " Up Against the Ivy Wall: A History of the Columbia Crisis" by Jerry L. Avorn (1968) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=up%20against%20the%20ivy%20wall&SL=None&Search_Code=TALL&CNT=50&HIST=1&DB=local CLIO]
* "Crisis at Columbia", the Cox Commission Report on the [[1968 protests]] (1968) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=1&ti=1,1&Search%5FArg=crisis%20at%20columbia&Search%5FCode=TALL&CNT=50&PID=IMHsRgBkIzhtkgXlnzDx86kpPb&SEQ=20070321081617&SID=3 CLIO]
* "Six Weeks that Shook Morningside" Columbia College Today, Spring 1968 [http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/sites/cct/files/cct_spring_1968.pdf PDF]
* "The Battle For Morningside Heights" by Roger Kahn (1970) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=2&ti=1,2&Search%5FArg=kahn%2C%20roger&Search%5FCode=NAME%5F&CNT=50&PID=3QkbEKAKR--bdPxymMhwOyYe8&SEQ=20070321033712&SID=4 CLIO]
* "The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary", by James S. Kunen (1970) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=strawberry+statement&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=3qelN7rlP2KALGag-_9wdeAzQih&SEQ=20070408140036&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://www.amazon.com/Strawberry-Statement-Notes-College-Revolutionary/dp/1881089525/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176055564&sr=1-1 Amazon.com]
*"Confrontation on campus;: The Columbia pattern for the new protest" by Joanne Grant (1969) [http://www.amazon.com/Confrontation-campus-Columbia-pattern-protest/dp/B0006CT3R8 Amazon]
=== Columbia University Press ===
*"Columbia University Press 1893-1983", by Henry H. Wiggins (1983) [http://books.google.com/books?id=hlqUE_4JE3UC&source=gbs_navlinks_s Google eBook (limited preview)]

=== Social History ===
* "Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think About Sex and Politics", by Rosalind Rosenberg (2004) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Changing+The+Subject:+How&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0231126441&id=X3stnfg-IpQC&dq Google eBook (limited preview] [http://www.amazon.com/Changing-Subject-Columbia-Shaped-Politics/dp/0231126441/ref=sr_1_2/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176056056&sr=1-2 Amazon.com]

=== School of Journalism ===
* "Pulitzer's School: Columbia University's School of Journalism, 1903-2003" by James R. Boylan (2003) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Pulitzer's+School&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0231130902 Google eBook] [http://www.amazon.com/Pulitzers-School-Universitys-Journalism-1903-2003/dp/0231130902/ref=sr_1_1/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176055824&sr=1-1 Amazon.com]

=== Barnard ===
* "A History of Barnard College" (published in honor of Barnard's 75th Anniversary) (1964)
* "A History of Barnard College," Marian Churchill White (1954)
* "Barnard Beginnings," Annie Nathan Meyer (1935] [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015020054931;view=1up;seq=9]
* "Barnard College 1889-1914," Nicholas Murray Butler (speech) (1914) [http://books.google.com/books?id=tmw7AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook]
* "Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think About Sex and Politics", by Rosalind Rosenberg (2004) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Changing+The+Subject:+How&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0231126441&id=X3stnfg-IpQC&dq Google eBook (limited preview] [http://www.amazon.com/Changing-Subject-Columbia-Shaped-Politics/dp/0231126441/ref=sr_1_2/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176056056&sr=1-2 Amazon.com]

== Core Curriculum ==

* "Great Books" by [[David Denby]] (1997) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=5&ti=1,5&Search%5FArg=denby%2C%20david&Search%5FCode=NAME%5F&SL=None&CNT=50&PID=fEZjf7MKi6HROwoFCuqjYTO3g&SEQ=20070321033746&SID=5 CLIO] [http://www.amazon.com/Great-Books-David-Denby/dp/0684835339/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176055870&sr=1-2 Amazon.com]
* "An Oasis of Order: The Core Curriculum at Columbia College", by Timothy Cross (1995) [http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/oasis/]

== Other ==

* "The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and his struggle to save New York" by Vincent Cannato (2001) (chapter 7 on the [[1968 protests]]) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=3&ti=1,3&Search%5FArg=cannato%2C%20vincent&Search%5FCode=NAME%5F&CNT=50&PID=V7MNovGGvownYFEPLWXvjb9YFLO&SEQ=20070321081005&SID=2 CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0465008445&id=Upv5ezVPBOMC&dq Google eBook (limited preview)] [http://www.amazon.com/Ungovernable-City-John-Lindsay-Struggle/dp/0465008445/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176056116&sr=1-1 Amazon.com]
* "Ivy Briefs: True Tales of a Neurotic Law Student" by Martha Kimes [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0743288386/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful/105-4896802-5798000?ie=UTF8&n=283155#customerReviews Amazon]
* ''The Seven Storey Mountain'' by Thomas Merton. (He talks about his life as an undergraduate here.)
* The Varsity Show: A Celebration (2004) - volume about the [[Varsity Show]] published in conjunction with [[Columbia 250]].

==Documentaries (video) ==
*"Columbia University: A Celebration" by Ric Burns (2003)

==See also==
* [[Research guide and resources for new authors]]

[[Category:History]]
[[Category:Books]]

John Henry Pell

2020-02-04T02:18:18Z

Absentminded:

'''John Henry Pell''' Columbia College Class of 1852 was the intended honoree of [[Pell Hall]], which for some reason was never built.

* Born Jun 14, 1831 - Died February 5, 1902<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=_6Q-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA96&dq=%22john+henry+pell#v=onepage&q=%22john%20henry%20pell&f=false]</ref>
* Moved to Minnesota in 1856
* Elected to Minnesota State Senate in 1860. Resigned in 1861 to enlist in Union Army. <ref>https://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail?id=14285</ref>
* Captain in the 1st Minnesota Infantry Regiment from April 29, 1861 (unit founding) to March 26, 1863 (resigned)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YykfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA311&dq=%22john+h+pell]</ref><ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=UClQRRqJ5lgC&pg=PA63&dq=%22john+h+pell%22#v=onepage&q=%22john%20h%20pell%22&f=false</ref> Resigned for disability? <ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=0wBAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1602&lpg=PA1602&dq=john+henry+pell#v=onepage&q=john%20henry%20pell&f=false]</ref>
* Member of the Numismatic Society <ref>https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$c144607&view=1up&seq=107</ref>
* May have been involved in wars against the Sioux, and maybe a massacre? <ref>https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/09/27/iconic-minnesota-soldier-part-of-atrocity</ref>

* https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/179585631/john-henry-pell
* https://books.google.com/books?id=6e8KAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA122#v=onepage&q=john%20h%20pell&f=false
*https://books.google.com/books/about/Minnesota_in_the_Civil_and_Indian_Wars_1.html?id=gLAEVluEQCcC
*https://books.google.com/books/about/Minnesota_in_the_Civil_and_Indian_Wars_1.html?id=ZuoLAAAAIAAJ
*https://archive.org/details/minnesotacivil01minnrich/page/n7/mode/2up

==References==
<references/>

John Henry Pell

2020-02-04T01:21:12Z

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Pell Hall

2020-02-03T22:58:49Z

Absentminded:

'''Pell Hall''' was a building designated to be built with funds from a bequest by Mary Bogert Pell, widow of John H. Pell Class of 1852. Although the bequest was reported in 1913, and the money was reportedly received in 1928, no building was ever erected.

== Pell Bequest==
Mary Bogert Pell passed away in May 1913. Her will provided for gifts to be made to the Dutch Reformed Church, Columbia, and [[Rutgers]].<ref>The text of the bequest: [http://books.google.com/books?id=PTc4AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA607 "Charters, Acts of the Legislature, Official Documents and Records"], Pgs. 607-608. Compiled by John B. Pine in 1920.</ref><ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2249&dat=19140519&id=SGknAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EQQGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3025,3737871 "LARGE BEQUESTS TO COLLEGES - Columbia and Rutgers Given Nearly Half a Million in Pell Will"], Boston Evening Transcript, 19 May 1914.</ref><ref>[http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/New%20York%20NY%20Press/New%20York%20NY%20Press%201914/New%20York%20NY%20Press%201914%20-%200082.pdf "Nearly $400,000,000 In Benefactions Is American Record For Year 1913"], The New York Magazine, Part VII, 4 January 1914.</ref> Initial reports valued the bequests at between $500,000 and $1,000,000 per institution.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8RFLAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA939#v=onepage&q&f=false Science], Vol. 37, No. 964, Pg. 939, 20 June 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=2VpGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA494#v=onepage&q&f=false Nature], Vol. 91, Pg. 493, 10 July 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=Yx4BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA513#v=onepage&q&f=false The American Education Review], Vol. 34, No. 10, Pg. 513, July 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=oDQoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia University Quarterly], Vol. 16, No. 1, Pg. 82</ref> Subsequent estimates would revise the value of the bequest to Columbia down to approximately $272,000.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19140520-01.2.4 "Columbia Beneficiary Under Pell Will"], Columbia Spectator, 20 May 1914</ref> The gift was among the largest the school had received, and the first gift specifically for the construction of a building since [[Joseph Pultizer]]'s gift to establish the [[School of Journalism]] and erect [[Pulitzer Hall]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lIohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA758#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 5, No. 36, Pg. 758, 10 July 1914</ref><ref>Ironically, much like Columbia never built Pell Hall, Columbia also ignored the fact that Pulitzer's bequest required that the building bear his name for almost 100 years.</ref>

The gifts to Rutgers and the Reformed Church were intended for buildings honoring Pell's father, Wessel Wessels, while the gift to Columbia was intended to honor her late husband and Columbia alumnus, [[John Henry Pell]], Class of 1852. The bequest was tied up in real estate investments subject to [[w:Life estate|life estates]], presumably with the beneficiaries as [[w:Remainderman|remainderman]]. As a result the beneficiaries did not receive the bequests until years after Pell's death. It appears that the Reformed Church constructed their memorial to Wessels in the form of an annex to the Gardner Sage Library at New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 1929.<ref>There is a reference to the completion of a "Wessel s Memorial Building" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=oxkOdII1eU4C&pg=PA190#v=onepage&q&f=false "A Digest and Index of the Minutes of of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America"], Pg. 190</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=oWVzcFMfPy4C&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84]</ref><ref>[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=18&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiMlc7zu7bnAhWBLn0KHbUiCXkQFjARegQIBhAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fejbe.libraries.rutgers.edu%2Findex.php%2Fjrul%2Farticle%2Fdownload%2F1629%2F3069&usg=AOvVaw0ykX_WvoyUE4YlZEUV2OUP]</ref> Rutgers erected Wessels Hall, a dormitory, with Pell's gift by 1930, and also named a companion dormitory after Pell herself.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100706104712/http://housing.rutgers.edu/ie/index.php?page=content/Common/Halls/CollegeAve/Pell.php Pell Hall]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100706095340/http://housing.rutgers.edu/ie/index.php?page=content/Common/Halls/CollegeAve/Wessels.php Wessels Hall]</ref><ref>[http://rumaps.rutgers.edu/location.jsp?id=C137419 RUMaps - Pell Hall]</ref><ref>[http://rumaps.rutgers.edu/location.jsp?id=C137418 RUMaps - Wessels Hall]</ref>

Columbia on the other hand, never built Pell Hall despite the fact that [[President]] [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] included the receipt of $269,686.46 from the estate of Mary B. Pell in a list of legacies and bequests received by the University in an October 1928 announcement,<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19281015-01.2.20 "President Butler Announces the Receipt Of Legacies, Bequests Totaling $500,000"], Columbia Spectator, 15 Oct 1928</ref> and in his [[Annual Reports of the President to the Trustees|annual report]] delivered to the [[Trustees]] in January of 1929 (though this time it was reported to be in the amount of $258,185.82).<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19290107-01.2.20 "Butler Report Shows Prospect of Deficit; Cites List of Achievements of Past Year"], Columbia Spectator, 7 Jan 1929</ref> No mention is made in either report that the Pell gift was intended for a building. In fact, the 1929 report lists the Pell bequest among "additions the general endowment," while gifts for "buildings and grounds" are tallied elsewhere.

It is unclear why Pell Hall was never built. As late as 1920, the Pell bequest was recognized as being towards the construction of a building, with John Pine reproducing the language of the Pell bequest in his 1920 edition of his "Charters, Acts of the Legislature, Official Documents and Records" of Columbia. Yet by 1928, the bequest was considered a general endowment gift. One possibility is that by 1928, the gift was insufficient to fund a building - while [[Furnald Hall]], whose cornerstone was laid in December 1912 shortly before Pell's death, was funded by a similar sized $300,000 gift, [[John Jay Hall]], constructed between 1925-1927, shortly before the bequest was received, was funded by the University itself to the tune of approximately $1.8 million - significantly more than the Pell bequest.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O4ohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA201#v=onepage&q&f=false "Furnald Cornerstone Laid"], Columbia Alumni News, Vol. 4, No. 14, Pg. 201, 13 December 1913; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19250204-01.2.6 "Trustees Decide To Build Students Hall As Soon As Weather Conditions Permits; Will Raise University Tuition Fee in July"], Columbia Spectator, 4 February 1925</ref> Of course, John Jay is a substantially larger building than Furnald.

== Location ==
It appears that Pell Hall was initially intended to be a dormitory constructed immediately south of [[Furnald Hall]] - a [[Wallach Hall|Wallach]] to Furnald's [[Hartley Hall| Hartley]].<ref>The clearest references to location are with respect to a proposed building for the Philolexian Society, which multiple reports described as to be built between Furnald Hall and the anticipated Pell Hall. The Philolexian building was never constructed. [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19150531-01.2.15 "Two Generations at Philolexian Dinner"], Columbia Spectator, 31 May 1915; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19160313-01.2.6 "Philolexian Holds Annual Banquet"], Columbia Spectator, 13 March 1916; [https://books.google.com/books?id=DY0hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA744#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 7, No. 24, Pg. 744, 17, March 1916; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19160511-01.2.8 "Launch Campaign for Philo House"], Columbia Spectator, 11 May 1916</ref> However, no permanent structure was erected south of Furnald until [[Ferris Booth Hall]], which was completed in 1960. At least one source, describing a proposal for [[Van Amringe Memorial Quadrangle]] in 1916, noted that the as-of-yet unbuilt structure opposite [[Hamilton Hall]] might one day be Pell Hall.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=DY0hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA983&lpg=PA983#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 7 No. 34, Pg. 983, 26 May 1916</ref> Of course, when [[John Jay Hall|a dormitory]] finally rose in that location in 1927, it was ultimately named after John Jay.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category: Unbuilt buildings]]

Pell Hall

2020-02-03T22:55:59Z

Absentminded:

'''Pell Hall''' was a building designated to be built with funds from a bequest by Mary Bogert Pell, widow of John H. Pell Class of 1852. Although the bequest was reported in 1913, and the money was reportedly received in 1928, no building was ever erected.

== Pell Bequest==
Mary Bogert Pell passed away in May 1913. Her will provided for gifts to be made to the Dutch Reformed Church, Columbia, and [[Rutgers]].<ref>The text of the bequest: [http://books.google.com/books?id=PTc4AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA607 "Charters, Acts of the Legislature, Official Documents and Records"], Pgs. 607-608. Compiled by John B. Pine in 1920.</ref><ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2249&dat=19140519&id=SGknAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EQQGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3025,3737871 "LARGE BEQUESTS TO COLLEGES - Columbia and Rutgers Given Nearly Half a Million in Pell Will"], Boston Evening Transcript, 19 May 1914.</ref><ref>[http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/New%20York%20NY%20Press/New%20York%20NY%20Press%201914/New%20York%20NY%20Press%201914%20-%200082.pdf "Nearly $400,000,000 In Benefactions Is American Record For Year 1913"], The New York Magazine, Part VII, 4 January 1914.</ref> Initial reports valued the bequests at between $500,000 and $1,000,000 per institution.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8RFLAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA939#v=onepage&q&f=false Science], Vol. 37, No. 964, Pg. 939, 20 June 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=2VpGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA494#v=onepage&q&f=false Nature], Vol. 91, Pg. 493, 10 July 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=Yx4BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA513#v=onepage&q&f=false The American Education Review], Vol. 34, No. 10, Pg. 513, July 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=oDQoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia University Quarterly], Vol. 16, No. 1, Pg. 82</ref> Subsequent estimates would revise the value of the bequest to Columbia down to approximately $272,000.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19140520-01.2.4 "Columbia Beneficiary Under Pell Will"], Columbia Spectator, 20 May 1914</ref> The gift was among the largest the school had received, and the first gift specifically for the construction of a building since [[Joseph Pultizer]]'s gift to establish the [[School of Journalism]] and erect [[Pulitzer Hall]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lIohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA758#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 5, No. 36, Pg. 758, 10 July 1914</ref><ref>Ironically, much like Columbia never built Pell Hall, Columbia also ignored the fact that Pulitzer's bequest required that the building bear his name for almost 100 years.</ref>

The gifts to Rutgers and the Reformed Church were intended for buildings honoring Pell's father, Wessel Wessels, while the gift to Columbia was intended to honor her late husband and Columbia alumnus, John Henry Pell, Class of 1852. The bequest was tied up in real estate investments subject to [[w:Life estate|life estates]], presumably with the beneficiaries as [[w:Remainderman|remainderman]]. As a result the beneficiaries did not receive the bequests until years after Pell's death. It appears that the Reformed Church constructed their memorial to Wessels in the form of an annex to the Gardner Sage Library at New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 1929.<ref>There is a reference to the completion of a "Wessel s Memorial Building" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=oxkOdII1eU4C&pg=PA190#v=onepage&q&f=false "A Digest and Index of the Minutes of of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America"], Pg. 190</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=oWVzcFMfPy4C&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84]</ref><ref>[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=18&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiMlc7zu7bnAhWBLn0KHbUiCXkQFjARegQIBhAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fejbe.libraries.rutgers.edu%2Findex.php%2Fjrul%2Farticle%2Fdownload%2F1629%2F3069&usg=AOvVaw0ykX_WvoyUE4YlZEUV2OUP]</ref> Rutgers erected Wessels Hall, a dormitory, with Pell's gift by 1930, and also named a companion dormitory after Pell herself.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100706104712/http://housing.rutgers.edu/ie/index.php?page=content/Common/Halls/CollegeAve/Pell.php Pell Hall]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100706095340/http://housing.rutgers.edu/ie/index.php?page=content/Common/Halls/CollegeAve/Wessels.php Wessels Hall]</ref><ref>[http://rumaps.rutgers.edu/location.jsp?id=C137419 RUMaps - Pell Hall]</ref><ref>[http://rumaps.rutgers.edu/location.jsp?id=C137418 RUMaps - Wessels Hall]</ref>

Columbia on the other hand, never built Pell Hall despite the fact that [[President]] [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] included the receipt of $269,686.46 from the estate of Mary B. Pell in a list of legacies and bequests received by the University in an October 1928 announcement,<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19281015-01.2.20 "President Butler Announces the Receipt Of Legacies, Bequests Totaling $500,000"], Columbia Spectator, 15 Oct 1928</ref> and in his [[Annual Reports of the President to the Trustees|annual report]] delivered to the [[Trustees]] in January of 1929 (though this time it was reported to be in the amount of $258,185.82).<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19290107-01.2.20 "Butler Report Shows Prospect of Deficit; Cites List of Achievements of Past Year"], Columbia Spectator, 7 Jan 1929</ref> No mention is made in either report that the Pell gift was intended for a building. In fact, the 1929 report lists the Pell bequest among "additions the general endowment," while gifts for "buildings and grounds" are tallied elsewhere.

It is unclear why Pell Hall was never built. As late as 1920, the Pell bequest was recognized as being towards the construction of a building, with John Pine reproducing the language of the Pell bequest in his 1920 edition of his "Charters, Acts of the Legislature, Official Documents and Records" of Columbia. Yet by 1928, the bequest was considered a general endowment gift. One possibility is that by 1928, the gift was insufficient to fund a building - while [[Furnald Hall]], whose cornerstone was laid in December 1912 shortly before Pell's death, was funded by a similar sized $300,000 gift, [[John Jay Hall]], constructed between 1925-1927, shortly before the bequest was received, was funded by the University itself to the tune of approximately $1.8 million - significantly more than the Pell bequest.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O4ohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA201#v=onepage&q&f=false "Furnald Cornerstone Laid"], Columbia Alumni News, Vol. 4, No. 14, Pg. 201, 13 December 1913; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19250204-01.2.6 "Trustees Decide To Build Students Hall As Soon As Weather Conditions Permits; Will Raise University Tuition Fee in July"], Columbia Spectator, 4 February 1925</ref> Of course, John Jay is a substantially larger building than Furnald.

== Location ==
It appears that Pell Hall was initially intended to be a dormitory constructed immediately south of [[Furnald Hall]] - a [[Wallach Hall|Wallach]] to Furnald's [[Hartley Hall| Hartley]].<ref>The clearest references to location are with respect to a proposed building for the Philolexian Society, which multiple reports described as to be built between Furnald Hall and the anticipated Pell Hall. The Philolexian building was never constructed. [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19150531-01.2.15 "Two Generations at Philolexian Dinner"], Columbia Spectator, 31 May 1915; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19160313-01.2.6 "Philolexian Holds Annual Banquet"], Columbia Spectator, 13 March 1916; [https://books.google.com/books?id=DY0hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA744#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 7, No. 24, Pg. 744, 17, March 1916; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19160511-01.2.8 "Launch Campaign for Philo House"], Columbia Spectator, 11 May 1916</ref> However, no permanent structure was erected south of Furnald until [[Ferris Booth Hall]], which was completed in 1960. At least one source, describing a proposal for [[Van Amringe Memorial Quadrangle]] in 1916, noted that the as-of-yet unbuilt structure opposite [[Hamilton Hall]] might one day be Pell Hall.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=DY0hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA983&lpg=PA983#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 7 No. 34, Pg. 983, 26 May 1916</ref> Of course, when [[John Jay Hall|a dormitory]] finally rose in that location in 1927, it was ultimately named after John Jay.

==References==
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Midtown campus

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[[Image:Midtowncampuscolor.jpg|thumb|Aerial view of the Midtown campus. St. Patrick's Cathedral is visible at upper left.]]

Columbia was located at a '''Midtown campus''' from [[1857]] to [[1897]] between Madison Ave and Park Ave (when it was just uncovered tracks for the [[w:New York Central Railroad|New York Central Railroad]]) from 49th to 50th streets. It has also been referred to as the '''Madison Avenue campus''' and the '''49th Street campus.''' The campus was originally home to the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb.

A common misconception is that this campus once encompassed [[Rockefeller Center]], but it did not. Although the [[trustees]] had considered moving the campus to the [[Upper Estate]], property it already owned on Fifth Avenue that would eventually become Rockefeller Center, they bought a different piece of land two blocks away for the school.

== Acquisition ==
In [[1853]] the trustees of Columbia College had decided to move out of [[College Hall]] on the [[Park Place campus]], whose surrounding neighborhood had transformed into a bustling commercial warehouse district by the 1840s. Deadlock over whether to move the school onto the undeveloped [[Upper Estate]] was broken when the trustees managed to score a real estate coup. They found out that the property formerly occupied by the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb was up for sale in June of [[1856]] for just $100,000. After haggling the price down to $63,000, the trustees bought the land and the 11,000 sq foot building on it on October 6. 4 months later the trustees sold off the land under [[College Hall]] for nearly $600,000 and laughed all the way to the bank.

== Development ==

At first, the campus consisted of the large, grey stone Greek Revival building inherited from the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, with two added wings, but it was gradually overtaken by newer Neo-Gothic structures in the style of contemporary [[Yale]] or [[Princeton]]. Eventually, it was consigned to administrative purposes only, and finally demolished, leaving the Gothic campus as all that remained. (interestingly, Columbia would continue this practice, recycling and then demolishing [[Bloomingdale Insane Asylum]] buildings on the [[Morningside Heights campus]] and reusing a Studebaker factory for administration on the [[Manhattanville campus]]).

One of President [[Frederick A. P. Barnard]]'s great accomplishments was managing to brow-beat the penny-pinching [[trustees]] into actually spending money to construct new buildings on the campus, providing much needed space for the rapidly growing school. The Midtown campus thus included both the first iteration of [[Hamilton Hall]] and the first [[law school]] building. The [[School of Mines]] was also established for the first time on the Midtown campus. Despite the lack of space, he also managed to finagle space for a President's House on the grounds.

In sum, the following buildings were constructed on campus. With the exception of the President's House, for whom the architect was unknown, all were designed by Charles Coolidge Haight.<ref>http://www.scup.org/asset/62643/HindsightForesight.pdf</ref>

* President’s House ([[1862]])
* School of Mines ([[1872]], additions [[1880]], [[1884]])
* Hamilton Hall (1880)
* Library (1884)

== Departure ==

The midtown campus had been intended as a temporary solution while the College contemplated where to locate for the long term. However, as time passed and the school grew, roots were laid down in midtown out of necessity until the land became too valuable and space too cramped. As early as [[1872]] Columbia acquired 8 acres of land near 161st known as the [[Wheelock property]] as a potential site for the school.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZvAKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA160#v=onepage&f=false A History of Columbia University 1754-1904, Pg. 160].</ref> President Barnard began seeking alternatives, including expansion into the nearby Elgin Botanical Gardens. Also known as the [[Upper Estate]], the overgrown gardens, which had been developed by Professor [[David Hosack]], had been given to Columbia by the state as consideration for a planned uptown move early in the 19th century. Columbia had developed much of the property (which then occupied the four square blocks between 5th and 6th Avenues and 47th and 51st Streets), but some space remained.

Ultimately, it was [[Seth Low]] who moved the school to the [[Morningside Heights campus]], where it became, for the first time, Columbia University. The only physical artifact of the midtown campus to be found on Morningside is the gate between [[Butler Library]] and [[Weston Plaza]] in front of [[John Jay Hall]]. A small plaque on the gate identifies it. The 49th Street lot has since been occupied by two office towers, one of which is the work of the prolific New York firm [[w:Emery Roth | Emery Roth & Sons]].

==Gallery==

<gallery>
Image:Early midtown campus.jpg|Early view of the first Midtown campus building
Image:49thcampus.jpg|Final layout of the Midtown campus
Image:Midtown campus 1865.jpg|Midtown campus, [[1865]]. The foreground building is the President's House.
Image:Columbiaharper.jpg|Scenes of the Midtown campus from ''Harper's Magazine''
Image:Library.gif|College library on the Midtown campus
Image:1878seas.jpg|Colour-tinted photo of the [[School of Mines]] building, [[1878]]
Image:Midtown campus 1882.jpg|View of the Midtown campus in [[1882]]
Image:Midtown campus 1884.jpg|View showing the old Greek Revival administration building (left), law school (center), library (right)
Image:Law.gif|Library (right)and first [[law school]] building (left) after demolition of the Greek Revival building
Image:Midtown campus 1886.jpg|View of the first Hamilton Hall (left) and the library (right)
Image:1887 montage.jpg|[[1887]] ''Harper's Weekly'' montage of famous Columbia professors and Midtown campus scenes, including one of the college's short-lived Zoological Museum
Image:1891law.jpg|An [[1891]] montage of the Midtown campus law school in celebration of the career of [[Theodore Dwight]]
Image:Madison.gif|Black and white version of the image at the top of the article
</gallery>

{{succession|preceded=[[College Hall]]|succeeded=[[Morningside Heights campus]]|office=Campus of Columbia University|years=1857-1897}}

==References==
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Trustees

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[[Image:Trustees room.JPG|thumb|right|The Trustees' baller hideout inside [[Low Library]]. The portrait over the fireplace is of the first president of [[King's College]], [[Samuel Johnson]]]]

The '''Trustees of Columbia University''' (or '''Board of Trustees''' or just '''Trustees''') truly pwn the University, and meet in their own special power-trippy room of [[Low Library]] once in awhile.

All power in the university flows from the Trustees because Columbia is, legally speaking, a [[University Charter|state chartered corporation]] called the "Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York" (just like it says at the top of your [[diploma]]). This entity is sometimes colloquially referred to as the "'''Columbia Corporation'''", as distinguished from parts/affiliates of the University that are separate legal entities, such as [[Barnard College]], or [[Columbia University Press]]. The trustees are therefore akin to the Board of Directors of a corporation, and the [[University President]] its CEO.

==History==

The [[Royal charter]] granted by [[King George II]] in [[1754]] gave power to "the Governors of the College in the Province of New York in the City of New York in America", making them a corporate body. The Trustees as we known them today, however, only came into being after Columbia was returned to private trusteeship in [[1787]], after a three-year post-Revolutionary War experiment in state control by the New York Board of Regents. [[Alexander Hamilton]], then a Regent, was instrumental in investing the members of the original King's College Board of Governors with the same power under the new "Trustees of Columbia College in the City of New York," which was to extend "in perpetual succession," according to the "original intent" of the 1754 charter.

The full powers of the Trustees are enumerated in the most recent full promulgation of the [[University Charter|charter]], passed in [[1810]] (and since amended a few times). The name of the corporation was changed to the "Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York" through a court order in [[1912]], sixteen years after the Trustees had voted to rename Columbia College into Columbia University.

==Powers==

Among their other duties, including the selection of the [[University President]] and overseeing all senior faculty and administrative appointments, monitoring the budget and [[endowment]], and amending the [[University Statutes]] - Columbia's administrative code - the trustees have the true power to grant [[degrees]] to any Columbia school or affiliated institution (although [[Barnard College]] has its own trustees, its students have received their degrees from Columbia's trustees, dating back to Barnard's predecessor, the [[1883]] [[Plan for the Education of Women in Connection to Columbia College|Plan for the Education of Women]]). [[Diplomas]] accordingly begin with (in English variations) "The Trustees of Columbia University" or (in [[Latin phrases|Latin]] variations) "Curatores Universitatis Columbiae".

== By-laws and Resolutions ==
*By-Laws:
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=uz8ZAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false By-Laws and Rules of Order of the Trustees as adopted March 7, 1892 (1892)]
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=l3zOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false By-Laws and Rules of Order of the Trustees as adopted March 7, 1892 with Amendments (1901)]
*Resolutions:
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=FFg9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false Resolutions Passed by the Trustees of Columbia College 1820-1868]
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=EaS9N9AeAZgC&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false Resolutions Passed by the Trustees of Columbia College 1868-1874]
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=uHzOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Resolutions Passed by the Trustees of Columbia College 1874-1879]
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=h109AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Resolutions Passed by the Trustees of Columbia College 1880-1885]
**[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101067944437;view=1up;seq=1 Resolutions of the Trustees Vol. XII-XVII 1891-1898]
**[https://archive.org/details/resolutionsadopt00colu Resolutions Adopted by the Trustees of Columbia College October 3, 1898 to June 1, 1903]
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=rFg9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false Resolutions Adopted by the Trustees of Columbia College October, 1903 to June, 1909]
**[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101017674514;view=1up;seq=7 Resolutions Adopted by the Trustees 1903-1914]
**[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101067944445;view=1up;seq=5 Resolutions Adopted by the Trustees 1914-1918]
**[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101067944452&view=1up&seq=1 Resolutions Adopted by the Trustees 1918-1923]

== See also ==
* [[University Statutes]]
* [[University Charter]]

==External links==
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/secretary/docs/trustees/background-information.html Backgrounds of the current Trustees]
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/secretary/docs/trustees/trustees-emeriti.html List of Trustees emeriti]

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[[Category:Trustees|*]]

Renamed buildings and facilities

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'''Renamed Buildings and Facilities''' are common on Columbia's campuses. The changing of building names is often (though not always) tied to the receipt of a sizable donation. Typically the building that is renamed has been built by the University and named in honor of some figure, rather than built and named for its original donor.

==Morningside Heights Campus==
*[[Dodge Hall]] - Known originally as the "Business School" building, it was built with funds donated by utilities magnate [[w:Emerson McMillin|Emerson McMillin]]. While McMillin declined to be recognized in the buildings name, the University named the academic theatre housed in the building in his honor (until it too was later renamed). The trustees voted to name the building after serial donor and fellow trustee [[Marcellus Hartley Dodge]] at his passing.
*[[Wallach Hall]] - Built by the trustees to form a matching pair with [[Hartley Hall]], which had been donated by Marcellus Hartley Dodge, it was originally named Livingston Hall, after Kings College alumnus and American revolutionary Robert Livingston. It was renamed in honor of serial donor Ira Wallach, who paid for its renovation in 1979.
*[[Hartley Hall]] (almost) - At the same time that Ira Wallach agreed to pay for Wallach (née Livingston) Hall's renovation, fellow serial donor Jerome Greene agreed to pay for renovations to Wallach. Greene acquiesced to requests from fellow alumni to forego having the building renamed for him, while Wallach did not.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19791115-01.2.4&srpos=2 Livingston will be renamed for alum], Columbia Spectator, 15 November 1979</ref>
*[[Mathematics Hall]] - Originally the Engineering Building, it was renamed following the relocation of the Engineering School to [[Mudd Hall]].
*[[Lewisohn Hall]] - Curiously, Lewisohn Hall, originally called the School of Mines Building, was in fact donated by Lewisohn himself. It didn't bear his name until its original tenant departed for [[Mudd Hall]].
*[[Butler Library]] - Donated by Edward Harkness, Butler Library was known as "South Hall" until spring of 1946, at which point the trustees followed through on their original plan and named the building after President [[Nicholas Murray Butler]], who had resigned earlier that academic year (Butler had apparently objected to the idea when it was first proposed in 1931).<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19320111-01.2.13&srpos=1&e 'Harkness'? Or Butler? No! Just 'South' Hall], Columbia Spectator, 11 January 1932</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19320112-01.2.15&srpos=2&e Editorial: South Hall?], Columbia Spectator, 12 December 1932</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19460430-01.2.5&srpos=7&e South Hall to Be Renamed For Butler], Columbia Spectator, 30 April 1946</ref> Although the Spectator referred to the planned building as "Harkness Library" and "Harkness Memorial Library" in its early reporting, it was never officially called that, and Harkness himself specifically instructed that the building not bear the name of him or anyone in his family (though similar to the case of Emerson McMillin's refusal to be honored in the building's name, a theatre in the building was dedicated to Harkness).<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19310601-01.2.2 Begin Work on Library After Commencement], Columbia Spectator, 1 June 1931</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19311015-01.2.15 Editorial: Columbiana], Columbia Spectator, 15 October 1931</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19311204-01.2.16 Editorial: Deserved Honor], Columbia Spectator, 4 December 1931</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19311209-01.2.27 Communication], Columbia Spectator, 9 December 1931</ref>
*[[Carman Hall]] - Opened in fall of 1959 as "New Residence Hall" (colloquially "New Hall"), the building was apparently left unnamed for years in hopes of bartering the name in return for a substantial donation. The illusive donation failing to materialize, the Spectator urged the administration to honor any of a number of figures, including DeWitt Clinton, Gouverneur Morris, or former Dean of the College [[Herbert Hawkes]] in 1962. <ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19620927-01.2.23 Editorial: New Hall -- Old Problem], Columbia Spectator, 27 September 1962</ref> Following President Kennedy's assassination in 1963, students circulated a petition urging the university to rename the building in honor of the late President.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19631127-01.2.10 Petitions Circulated To Name New Hall For Pres. Kennedy], Columbia Spectator, 27 November 1963</ref> The matter was finally settled in 1965, the administration having apparently resolved to name the building without a donor the prior fall, whenthe passing of former Dean of the College Harry Carman spurred a final decision to name the building in his honor (although Hawkes was again briefly considered for the honor by the administration).<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19640929-01.2.8 New Hall Remains Unloved, Nameless], Columbia Spectator, 29 September 1964</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19650305-01.2.7 New Hall Renamed To Honor Carman], Columbia Spectator, 5 March 1965</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19650208-01.2.4 Naming New Hall For Dean Carman Strong Possibility], Columbia Spectator, 8 February 1965</ref> Without a donor, the University instead recovered mortgage repayment costs for Carman Hall through hefty room fee hikes.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19631205-01.2.5 Official Notice Of Rate Rise May Be Soon], Columbia Spectator, 5 December 1963</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19640226-01.2.15 Passing the Buck], Columbia Spectator, 26 February 1964</ref> [[Alfred Lerner Hall]] would similarly be partially paid for through student fees, and [[Broadway Residence Hall]] would suffer a similar fate of being stuck with an uninspired placeholder name while waiting for a name donor that would never materialize.
*[[Pulitzer Hall]] - Originally known as "Journalism Hall", it has housed the School of Journalism since its construction. However the University avoided branding the place with the name of the infamous yellow journalist for over a century, until an alumnus noticed that Pulitzer's donation was conditioned on the building bearing his name.
*[[Wien Hall]] - Built in conjunction with [[John Jay Hall]] as a high rise residential tower, Wien Hall too originally bore the name of 18th century Columbians. "Johnson Hall", as it was originally known, was named after father and son [[Samuel Johnson|Samuel]] and [[William Samuel Johnson]], the first and fourth presidents of Kings/Columbia College. Johnson Hall was renamed after [[Lawrence Wien]] in the 1980s after the real estate magnate engaged in a string of generous donations, including a brand new football stadium.
*[[East Campus]] High Rise - The high rise portion of East Campus actually has a name: Hudson hall, for Percy Hudson, who in the 1970s made the single largest private donation to the University at the time to complete the Fairchild Biological Lab.
*[[Miller Theatre]] - Miller Theatre was originally named McMillin Theatre, after Emerson McMillin, who had donated what is now known as Dodge Hall, but declined to have the building named after him. Maybe he should've taken up the offer, because when the Miller Foundation paid for gut renovations of the by-then dilapidated McMillin Theatre in the 1980s, the Theatre's name was changed to honor the new donor. Poor McMillin is only recognized today in a plaque in the lobby of Miller Theatre bearing testimony to the original dedication of the location.

==Baker Athletics Complex==
*[[Robertson Field at Satow Stadium]] - The baseball field at Baker Athletic Complex had once been named after baseball team coach Andy Coakley. Until Hal Robertson donated money towards renovation of the field, which then bore his name. Until Phil Satow donated money towards further renovation of the stadium, which then came to bear the new dual name.
*[[Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium]] - For nearly half a century Columbia played football in a classic U-shaped wooden stadium, known simply as the Columbia Football Stadium. In the 1980s, Lawrence Wien paid for the construction of a brand modern concrete stadium. The facility was then known as "Lawrence Wien Stadium at Baker Field." George Baker, of course, had purchased the land for Columbia athletics in the 1920s. When Robert Kraft donated $5 million to Columbia athletics, the football field was named in his honor. So now it's Kraft Field at Wien Stadium. As a knock on effect, Baker Field is now Baker Athletic Complex. At least things worked out better for him than Emerson McMillin.

==Candidates for Renaming==
In the spirit of maximizing revenue opportunities, based on the criteria indicated above, as well as other factors, here's a list of buildings potentially available for renaming:
*Broadway Residence Hall
*Northwest Corner Building
*Columbia Soccer Stadium
*Columbia Field Hockey Venue
*Columbia Softball Complex
*University Gym
*John Jay Hall
*Carman Hall
*Pupin Hall
*Kent Hall
*Butler Library
*East Campus
*International Affairs Building

== See also ==
*[[Pell Hall]] - a building for which Columbia received a "name donor" yet never actually built.

== References ==
<references/>

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[[Category:Fundraising campaigns]]

Renamed buildings and facilities

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Absentminded: /* Morningside Heights Campus */

'''Renamed Buildings and Facilities''' are common on Columbia's campuses. The changing of building names is often (though not always) tied to the receipt of a sizable donation. Typically the building that is renamed has been built by the University and named in honor of some figure, rather than built and named for its original donor.

==Morningside Heights Campus==
*[[Dodge Hall]] - Known originally as the "Business School" building, it was built with funds donated by utilities magnate [[w:Emerson McMillin|Emerson McMillin]]. While McMillin declined to be recognized in the buildings name, the University named the academic theatre housed in the building in his honor (until it too was later renamed). The trustees voted to name the building after serial donor and fellow trustee [[Marcellus Hartley Dodge]] at his passing.
*[[Wallach Hall]] - Built by the trustees to form a matching pair with [[Hartley Hall]], which had been donated by Marcellus Hartley Dodge, it was originally named Livingston Hall, after Kings College alumnus and American revolutionary Robert Livingston. It was renamed in honor of serial donor Ira Wallach, who paid for its renovation in 1979.
*[[Hartley Hall]] (almost) - At the same time that Ira Wallach agreed to pay for Wallach (née Livingston) Hall's renovation, fellow serial donor Jerome Greene agreed to pay for renovations to Wallach. Greene acquiesced to requests from fellow alumni to forego having the building renamed for him, while Wallach did not.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19791115-01.2.4&srpos=2 Livingston will be renamed for alum], Columbia Spectator, 15 November 1979</ref>
*[[Mathematics Hall]] - Originally the Engineering Building, it was renamed following the relocation of the Engineering School to [[Mudd Hall]].
*[[Lewisohn Hall]] - Curiously, Lewisohn Hall, originally called the School of Mines Building, was in fact donated by Lewisohn himself. It didn't bear his name until its original tenant departed for [[Mudd Hall]].
*[[Butler Library]] - Donated by Edward Harkness, Butler Library was known as "South Hall" until spring of 1946, at which point the trustees followed through on their original plan and named the building after President [[Nicholas Murray Butler]], who had resigned earlier that academic year (Butler had apparently objected to the idea when it was first proposed in 1931).<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19320111-01.2.13&srpos=1&e 'Harkness'? Or Butler? No! Just 'South' Hall], Columbia Spectator, 11 January 1932</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19320112-01.2.15&srpos=2&e Editorial: South Hall?], Columbia Spectator, 12 December 1932</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19460430-01.2.5&srpos=7&e South Hall to Be Renamed For Butler], Columbia Spectator, 30 April 1946</ref> Although the Spectator referred to the planned building as "Harkness Library" and "Harkness Memorial Library" in its early reporting, it was never officially called that, and Harkness himself specifically instructed that the building not bear the name of him or anyone in his family (though similar to the case of Emerson McMillin's refusal to be honored in the building's name, a theatre in the building was dedicated to Harkness).<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19310601-01.2.2 Begin Work on Library After Commencement], Columbia Spectator, 1 June 1931</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19311015-01.2.15 Editorial: Columbiana], Columbia Spectator, 15 October 1931</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19311204-01.2.16 Editorial: Deserved Honor], Columbia Spectator, 4 December 1931</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19311209-01.2.27 Communication], Columbia Spectator, 9 December 1931</ref>
*[[Carman Hall]] - Opened in fall of 1959 as "New Residence Hall" (colloquially "New Hall"), the building was apparently left unnamed for years in hopes of bartering the name in return for a substantial donation. The illusive donation failing to materialize, the Spectator urged the administration to honor any of a number of figures, including DeWitt Clinton, Gouverneur Morris, or former Dean of the College [[Herbert Hawkes]] in 1962. <ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19620927-01.2.23 Editorial: New Hall -- Old Problem], Columbia Spectator, 27 September 1962</ref> Following President Kennedy's assassination in 1963, students circulated a petition urging the university to rename the building in honor of the late President.<ref>http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19631127-01.2.10 Petitions Circulated To Name New Hall For Pres. Kennedy], Columbia Spectator, 27 November 1963</ref> The matter was finally settled in 1965, the administration having apparently resolved to name the building without a donor the prior fall, whenthe passing of former Dean of the College Harry Carman spurred a final decision to name the building in his honor (although Hawkes was again briefly considered for the honor by the administration).<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19640929-01.2.8 New Hall Remains Unloved, Nameless], Columbia Spectator, 29 September 1964</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19650305-01.2.7 New Hall Renamed To Honor Carman], Columbia Spectator, 5 March 1965</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19650208-01.2.4 Naming New Hall For Dean Carman Strong Possibility], Columbia Spectator, 8 February 1965</ref> Without a donor, the University instead recovered mortgage repayment costs for Carman Hall through hefty room fee hikes.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19631205-01.2.5 Official Notice Of Rate Rise May Be Soon], Columbia Spectator, 5 December 1963</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19640226-01.2.15 Passing the Buck], Columbia Spectator, 26 February 1964</ref> [[Alfred Lerner Hall]] would similarly be partially paid for through student fees, and [[Broadway Residence Hall]] would suffer a similar fate of being stuck with an uninspired placeholder name while waiting for a name donor that would never materialize.
*[[Pulitzer Hall]] - Originally known as "Journalism Hall", it has housed the School of Journalism since its construction. However the University avoided branding the place with the name of the infamous yellow journalist for over a century, until an alumnus noticed that Pulitzer's donation was conditioned on the building bearing his name.
*[[Wien Hall]] - Built in conjunction with [[John Jay Hall]] as a high rise residential tower, Wien Hall too originally bore the name of 18th century Columbians. "Johnson Hall", as it was originally known, was named after father and son [[Samuel Johnson|Samuel]] and [[William Samuel Johnson]], the first and fourth presidents of Kings/Columbia College. Johnson Hall was renamed after [[Lawrence Wien]] in the 1980s after the real estate magnate engaged in a string of generous donations, including a brand new football stadium.
*[[East Campus]] High Rise - The high rise portion of East Campus actually has a name: Hudson hall, for Percy Hudson, who in the 1970s made the single largest private donation to the University at the time to complete the Fairchild Biological Lab.
*[[Miller Theatre]] - Miller Theatre was originally named McMillin Theatre, after Emerson McMillin, who had donated what is now known as Dodge Hall, but declined to have the building named after him. Maybe he should've taken up the offer, because when the Miller Foundation paid for gut renovations of the by-then dilapidated McMillin Theatre in the 1980s, the Theatre's name was changed to honor the new donor. Poor McMillin is only recognized today in a plaque in the lobby of Miller Theatre bearing testimony to the original dedication of the location.

==Baker Athletics Complex==
*[[Robertson Field at Satow Stadium]] - The baseball field at Baker Athletic Complex had once been named after baseball team coach Andy Coakley. Until Hal Robertson donated money towards renovation of the field, which then bore his name. Until Phil Satow donated money towards further renovation of the stadium, which then came to bear the new dual name.
*[[Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium]] - For nearly half a century Columbia played football in a classic U-shaped wooden stadium, known simply as the Columbia Football Stadium. In the 1980s, Lawrence Wien paid for the construction of a brand modern concrete stadium. The facility was then known as "Lawrence Wien Stadium at Baker Field." George Baker, of course, had purchased the land for Columbia athletics in the 1920s. When Robert Kraft donated $5 million to Columbia athletics, the football field was named in his honor. So now it's Kraft Field at Wien Stadium. As a knock on effect, Baker Field is now Baker Athletic Complex. At least things worked out better for him than Emerson McMillin.

==Candidates for Renaming==
In the spirit of maximizing revenue opportunities, based on the criteria indicated above, as well as other factors, here's a list of buildings potentially available for renaming:
*Broadway Residence Hall
*Northwest Corner Building
*Columbia Soccer Stadium
*Columbia Field Hockey Venue
*Columbia Softball Complex
*University Gym
*John Jay Hall
*Carman Hall
*Pupin Hall
*Kent Hall
*Butler Library
*East Campus
*International Affairs Building

== See also ==
*[[Pell Hall]] - a building for which Columbia received a "name donor" yet never actually built.

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Renamed buildings and facilities|*]]
[[Category:Fundraising campaigns]]

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'''Renamed Buildings and Facilities''' are common on Columbia's campuses. The changing of building names is often (though not always) tied to the receipt of a sizable donation. Typically the building that is renamed has been built by the University and named in honor of some figure, rather than built and named for its original donor.

==Morningside Heights Campus==
*[[Dodge Hall]] - Known originally as the "Business School" building, it was built with funds donated by utilities magnate [[w:Emerson McMillin|Emerson McMillin]]. While McMillin declined to be recognized in the buildings name, the University named the academic theatre housed in the building in his honor (until it too was later renamed). The trustees voted to name the building after serial donor and fellow trustee [[Marcellus Hartley Dodge]] at his passing.
*[[Wallach Hall]] - Built by the trustees to form a matching pair with [[Hartley Hall]], which had been donated by Marcellus Hartley Dodge, it was originally named Livingston Hall, after Kings College alumnus and American revolutionary Robert Livingston. It was renamed in honor of serial donor Ira Wallach, who paid for its renovation in 1979.
*[[Hartley Hall]] (almost) - At the same time that Ira Wallach agreed to pay for Wallach (née Livingston) Hall's renovation, fellow serial donor Jerome Greene agreed to pay for renovations to Wallach. Greene acquiesced to requests from fellow alumni to forego having the building renamed for him, while Wallach did not.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19791115-01.2.4&srpos=2 Livingston will be renamed for alum], Columbia Spectator, 15 November 1979</ref>
*[[Mathematics Hall]] - Originally the Engineering Building, it was renamed following the relocation of the Engineering School to [[Mudd Hall]].
*[[Lewisohn Hall]] - Curiously, Lewisohn Hall, originally called the School of Mines Building, was in fact donated by Lewisohn himself. It didn't bear his name until its original tenant departed for [[Mudd Hall]].
*[[Butler Library]] - Donated by Edward Harkness, Butler Library was known as "South Hall" until spring of 1946, at which point the trustees followed through on their original plan and named the building after President [[Nicholas Murray Butler]], who had resigned earlier that academic year (Butler had apparently objected to the idea when it was first proposed in 1931).<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19320111-01.2.13&srpos=1&e 'Harkness'? Or Butler? No! Just 'South' Hall], Columbia Spectator, 11 January 1932</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19320112-01.2.15&srpos=2&e Editorial: South Hall?], Columbia Spectator, 12 December 1932</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19460430-01.2.5&srpos=7&e South Hall to Be Renamed For Butler], Columbia Spectator, 30 April 1946</ref> Although the Spectator referred to the planned building as "Harkness Library" and "Harkness Memorial Library" in its early reporting, it was never officially called that, and Harkness himself specifically instructed that the building not bear the name of him or anyone in his family (though similar to the case of Emerson McMillin's refusal to be honored in the building's name, a theatre in the building was dedicated to Harkness).<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19310601-01.2.2 Begin Work on Library After Commencement], Columbia Spectator, 1 June 1931</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19311015-01.2.15 Editorial: Columbiana], Columbia Spectator, 15 October 1931</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19311204-01.2.16 Editorial: Deserved Honor], Columbia Spectator, 4 December 1931</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19311209-01.2.27 Communication], Columbia Spectator, 9 December 1931</ref>
*[[Carman Hall]] - Opened in fall of 1959 as "New Residence Hall" (colloquially "New Hall"), the building was apparently left unnamed for years in hopes of bartering the name in return for a substantial donation. The illusive donation failing to materialize, the Spectator urged the administration to honor any of a number of figures, including DeWitt Clinton, Gouverneur Morris, or former Dean of the College [[Herbert Hawkes]] in 1962<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19620927-01.2.23 Editorial: New Hall -- Old Problem], Columbia Spectator,27 September 1962<ref>. Following President Kennedy's assassination in 1963, students circulated a petition urging the university to rename the building in honor of the late President.<ref>http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19631127-01.2.10 Petitions Circulated To Name New Hall For Pres. Kennedy], Columbia Spectator, 27 November 1963</ref> The matter was finally settled in 1965, the administration having apparently resolved to name the building without a donor the prior fall, whenthe passing of former Dean of the College Harry Carman spurred a final decision to name the building in his honor (although Hawkes was again briefly considered for the honor by the administration).<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19650305-01.2.7 New Hall Renamed To Honor Carman], Columbia Spectator, 5 March 1965</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19650208-01.2.4 Naming New Hall For Dean Carman Strong Possibility], Columbia Spectator, 8 February 1965</ref> Without a donor, the University instead recovered mortgage repayment costs for Carman Hall through hefty room fee hikes.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19631205-01.2.5 Official Notice Of Rate Rise May Be Soon], Columbia Spectator, 5 December 1963</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19640226-01.2.15 Passing the Buck], Columbia Spectator, 26 February 1964</ref> [[Alfred Lerner Hall]] would similarly be partially paid for through student fees, and [[Broadway Residence Hall]] would suffer a similar fate of being stuck with an uninspired placeholder name while waiting for a name donor that would never materialize.
*[[Pulitzer Hall]] - Originally known as "Journalism Hall", it has housed the School of Journalism since its construction. However the University avoided branding the place with the name of the infamous yellow journalist for over a century, until an alumnus noticed that Pulitzer's donation was conditioned on the building bearing his name.
*[[Wien Hall]] - Built in conjunction with [[John Jay Hall]] as a high rise residential tower, Wien Hall too originally bore the name of 18th century Columbians. "Johnson Hall", as it was originally known, was named after father and son [[Samuel Johnson|Samuel]] and [[William Samuel Johnson]], the first and fourth presidents of Kings/Columbia College. Johnson Hall was renamed after [[Lawrence Wien]] in the 1980s after the real estate magnate engaged in a string of generous donations, including a brand new football stadium.
*[[East Campus]] High Rise - The high rise portion of East Campus actually has a name: Hudson hall, for Percy Hudson, who in the 1970s made the single largest private donation to the University at the time to complete the Fairchild Biological Lab.
*[[Miller Theatre]] - Miller Theatre was originally named McMillin Theatre, after Emerson McMillin, who had donated what is now known as Dodge Hall, but declined to have the building named after him. Maybe he should've taken up the offer, because when the Miller Foundation paid for gut renovations of the by-then dilapidated McMillin Theatre in the 1980s, the Theatre's name was changed to honor the new donor. Poor McMillin is only recognized today in a plaque in the lobby of Miller Theatre bearing testimony to the original dedication of the location.

==Baker Athletics Complex==
*[[Robertson Field at Satow Stadium]] - The baseball field at Baker Athletic Complex had once been named after baseball team coach Andy Coakley. Until Hal Robertson donated money towards renovation of the field, which then bore his name. Until Phil Satow donated money towards further renovation of the stadium, which then came to bear the new dual name.
*[[Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium]] - For nearly half a century Columbia played football in a classic U-shaped wooden stadium, known simply as the Columbia Football Stadium. In the 1980s, Lawrence Wien paid for the construction of a brand modern concrete stadium. The facility was then known as "Lawrence Wien Stadium at Baker Field." George Baker, of course, had purchased the land for Columbia athletics in the 1920s. When Robert Kraft donated $5 million to Columbia athletics, the football field was named in his honor. So now it's Kraft Field at Wien Stadium. As a knock on effect, Baker Field is now Baker Athletic Complex. At least things worked out better for him than Emerson McMillin.

==Candidates for Renaming==
In the spirit of maximizing revenue opportunities, based on the criteria indicated above, as well as other factors, here's a list of buildings potentially available for renaming:
*Broadway Residence Hall
*Northwest Corner Building
*Columbia Soccer Stadium
*Columbia Field Hockey Venue
*Columbia Softball Complex
*University Gym
*John Jay Hall
*Carman Hall
*Pupin Hall
*Kent Hall
*Butler Library
*East Campus
*International Affairs Building

== See also ==
*[[Pell Hall]] - a building for which Columbia received a "name donor" yet never actually built.

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Renamed buildings and facilities|*]]
[[Category:Fundraising campaigns]]

Renamed buildings and facilities

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'''Renamed Buildings and Facilities''' are common on Columbia's campuses. The changing of building names is often (though not always) tied to the receipt of a sizable donation. Typically the building that is renamed has been built by the University and named in honor of some figure, rather than built and named for its original donor.

==Morningside Heights Campus==
*[[Dodge Hall]] - Known originally as the "Business School" building, it was built with funds donated by utilities magnate [[w:Emerson McMillin|Emerson McMillin]]. While McMillin declined to be recognized in the buildings name, the University named the academic theatre housed in the building in his honor (until it too was later renamed). The trustees voted to name the building after serial donor and fellow trustee [[Marcellus Hartley Dodge]] at his passing.
*[[Wallach Hall]] - Built by the trustees to form a matching pair with [[Hartley Hall]], which had been donated by Marcellus Hartley Dodge, it was originally named Livingston Hall, after Kings College alumnus and American revolutionary Robert Livingston. It was renamed in honor of serial donor Ira Wallach, who paid for its renovation in 1979.
*[[Hartley Hall]] (almost) - At the same time that Ira Wallach agreed to pay for Wallach (née Livingston) Hall's renovation, fellow serial donor Jerome Greene agreed to pay for renovations to Wallach. Greene acquiesced to requests from fellow alumni to forego having the building renamed for him, while Wallach did not.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19791115-01.2.4&srpos=2 Livingston will be renamed for alum], Columbia Spectator, 15 November 1979</ref>
*[[Mathematics Hall]] - Originally the Engineering Building, it was renamed following the relocation of the Engineering School to [[Mudd Hall]].
*[[Lewisohn Hall]] - Curiously, Lewisohn Hall, originally called the School of Mines Building, was in fact donated by Lewisohn himself. It didn't bear his name until its original tenant departed for [[Mudd Hall]].
*[[Butler Library]] - Donated by Edward Harkness, Butler Library was known as "South Hall" until spring of 1946, at which point the trustees followed through on their original plan and named the building after President [[Nicholas Murray Butler]], who had resigned earlier that academic year (Butler had apparently objected to the idea when it was first proposed in 1931).<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19320111-01.2.13&srpos=1&e 'Harkness'? Or Butler? No! Just 'South' Hall], Columbia Spectator, 11 January 1932</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19320112-01.2.15&srpos=2&e Editorial: South Hall?], Columbia Spectator, 12 December 1932</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19460430-01.2.5&srpos=7&e South Hall to Be Renamed For Butler], Columbia Spectator, 30 April 1946</ref> Although the Spectator referred to the planned building as "Harkness Library" and "Harkness Memorial Library" in its early reporting, it was never officially called that, and Harkness himself specifically instructed that the building not bear the name of him or anyone in his family (though similar to the case of Emerson McMillin's refusal to be honored in the building's name, a theatre in the building was dedicated to Harkness).<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19310601-01.2.2 Begin Work on Library After Commencement], Columbia Spectator, 1 June 1931</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19311015-01.2.15 Editorial: Columbiana], Columbia Spectator, 15 October 1931</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19311204-01.2.16 Editorial: Deserved Honor], Columbia Spectator, 4 December 1931</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19311209-01.2.27 Communication], Columbia Spectator, 9 December 1931</ref>
*[[Pulitzer Hall]] - Originally known as "Journalism Hall", it has housed the School of Journalism since its construction. However the University avoided branding the place with the name of the infamous yellow journalist for over a century, until an alumnus noticed that Pulitzer's donation was conditioned on the building bearing his name.
*[[Wien Hall]] - Built in conjunction with [[John Jay Hall]] as a high rise residential tower, Wien Hall too originally bore the name of 18th century Columbians. "Johnson Hall", as it was originally known, was named after father and son [[Samuel Johnson|Samuel]] and [[William Samuel Johnson]], the first and fourth presidents of Kings/Columbia College. Johnson Hall was renamed after [[Lawrence Wien]] in the 1980s after the real estate magnate engaged in a string of generous donations, including a brand new football stadium.
*[[East Campus]] High Rise - The high rise portion of East Campus actually has a name: Hudson hall, for Percy Hudson, who in the 1970s made the single largest private donation to the University at the time to complete the Fairchild Biological Lab.
*[[Miller Theatre]] - Miller Theatre was originally named McMillin Theatre, after Emerson McMillin, who had donated what is now known as Dodge Hall, but declined to have the building named after him. Maybe he should've taken up the offer, because when the Miller Foundation paid for gut renovations of the by-then dilapidated McMillin Theatre in the 1980s, the Theatre's name was changed to honor the new donor. Poor McMillin is only recognized today in a plaque in the lobby of Miller Theatre bearing testimony to the original dedication of the location.

==Baker Athletics Complex==
*[[Robertson Field at Satow Stadium]] - The baseball field at Baker Athletic Complex had once been named after baseball team coach Andy Coakley. Until Hal Robertson donated money towards renovation of the field, which then bore his name. Until Phil Satow donated money towards further renovation of the stadium, which then came to bear the new dual name.
*[[Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium]] - For nearly half a century Columbia played football in a classic U-shaped wooden stadium, known simply as the Columbia Football Stadium. In the 1980s, Lawrence Wien paid for the construction of a brand modern concrete stadium. The facility was then known as "Lawrence Wien Stadium at Baker Field." George Baker, of course, had purchased the land for Columbia athletics in the 1920s. When Robert Kraft donated $5 million to Columbia athletics, the football field was named in his honor. So now it's Kraft Field at Wien Stadium. As a knock on effect, Baker Field is now Baker Athletic Complex. At least things worked out better for him than Emerson McMillin.

==Candidates for Renaming==
In the spirit of maximizing revenue opportunities, based on the criteria indicated above, as well as other factors, here's a list of buildings potentially available for renaming:
*Broadway Residence Hall
*Northwest Corner Building
*Columbia Soccer Stadium
*Columbia Field Hockey Venue
*Columbia Softball Complex
*University Gym
*John Jay Hall
*Carman Hall
*Pupin Hall
*Kent Hall
*Butler Library
*East Campus
*International Affairs Building

== See also ==
*[[Pell Hall]] - a building for which Columbia received a "name donor" yet never actually built.

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Renamed buildings and facilities|*]]
[[Category:Fundraising campaigns]]

Renamed buildings and facilities

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School of Professional Studies

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{{Infobox school
|Name=Professional Studies
|Image=ContinuingEd.png
|Established=[[1995]]
|Dean=[[Jason Wingard]]
|Degrees=[[MS]], Certificates
|Enrollment= 1,375 students (2005)
|Website=[http://sps.columbia.edu/ sps.columbia.edu/]
}}

The '''School of Professional Studies''' (known as the '''School of Continuing Education''' from 2002-2015) offers Master of Science Degrees, Postbaccalaureate Certification of Professional Achievement, the American Language Program, Overseas Programs, Summer Session and High School Programs, and classes for non-matriculated elective course students, including the Auditing and Lifelong Learner Program.

CE traces its roots to the Division of Special Programs, Continuing Education which was established in [[1995]]. It oversaw several nondegree programs, an overseas program, Summer Session, Summer High School Programs, the [[American Language Program]], and a few inter-institution arrangements. In [[2002]] the [[trustees]] voted to establish the School of Continuing Education, placed it under the [[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]], and gave it the authority to grant Master of Science degrees.

The majority of students are enrolled in its programs as non-degree students.

== External links ==
[http://web.archive.org/web/20070610001505/http://www.ce.columbia.edu/about/pdf/deans_report_2006.pdf The Dean's Report "1995-2005: The First Ten Years - A Strong Foundation Built]

[[Category:School of Continuing Education]]

{{Schools}}

School of Professional Studies

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{{Infobox school
|Name=Continuing Education
|Image=ContinuingEd.png
|Established=[[1995]]
|Dean=[[Jason Wingard]]
|Degrees=[[MS]], Certificates
|Enrollment= 1,375 students (2005)
|Website=[http://ce.columbia.edu/ ce.columbia.edu/]
}}

The '''School of Professional Studies''' (known as the '''School of Continuing Education''' from 2002-2015) offers Master of Science Degrees, Postbaccalaureate Certification of Professional Achievement, the American Language Program, Overseas Programs, Summer Session and High School Programs, and classes for non-matriculated elective course students, including the Auditing and Lifelong Learner Program.

CE traces its roots to the Division of Special Programs, Continuing Education which was established in [[1995]]. It oversaw several nondegree programs, an overseas program, Summer Session, Summer High School Programs, the [[American Language Program]], and a few inter-institution arrangements. In [[2002]] the [[trustees]] voted to establish the School of Continuing Education, placed it under the [[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]], and gave it the authority to grant Master of Science degrees.

The majority of students are enrolled in its programs as non-degree students.

== External links ==
[http://web.archive.org/web/20070610001505/http://www.ce.columbia.edu/about/pdf/deans_report_2006.pdf The Dean's Report "1995-2005: The First Ten Years - A Strong Foundation Built]

[[Category:School of Continuing Education]]

{{Schools}}

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#REDIRECT [[School of Professional Studies]]

School of Professional Studies

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List of books about Columbia

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This page is a '''list of books about Columbia'''.

== Biography ==
* "Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler" by [[Michael Rosenthal]] (2006) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Nicholas+Miraculous&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://www.amazon.com/Nicholas-Miraculous-Amazing-Career-Redoubtable/dp/0374299943/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176051853&sr=8-1 Amazon.com]
* "Eisenhower at Columbia", by Travis Jacobs (2001) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Eisenhower+At+Columbia&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0765800365 Google eBook (limited preview)] [http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780765800367&itm=1 Barnes and Noble]
* "Memoirs of Frederick A. P. Barnard, by John Fulton (1896) [http://books.google.com/books?id=Dx9AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook]
* "Seth Low: The Reformer in an Urban and Industrial Age", by Gerald Kurland (1971)
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=SGLOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false King's College Alumni] by Leonard Felix Fuld (originally published in [[Columbia University Quarterly]] from September 1907-September 1911)

== Fiction ==

*"Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution," by [[Jerome Charyn]] (2008) [http://www.amazon.com/Johnny-One-Eye-Tale-American-Revolution/dp/0393064972/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203800117&sr=1-1 Amazon]
*"Moon Palace", by [[Paul Auster]] (1989) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Moon+Palace&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO]
*"Morningside Heights," by [[Cheryl Mendelson]] (2005) [http://www.amazon.com/Morningside-Heights-Novel-Cheryl-Mendelson/dp/0375760687/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203800172&sr=1-1 Amazon]
*"Vanity of Duluoz," by [[Jack Kerouac]] (1968) [http://www.amazon.com/Vanity-Duluoz-Adventurous-Education-1935-46/dp/0140236392 Amazon]
*"The Caine Mutiny," by [[Herman Wouk]] (1951) [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CEkQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCaine-Mutiny-Novel-Herman-Wouk%2Fdp%2F0316955108&ei=LntXTJ3JNYH_8AaI47z6Ag&usg=AFQjCNH5BOmtSr_dCh3Cq8kP7kdbQuXkGQ&sig2=rChTDWCnI32pkOK7_NZAHg]
*''A Bachelor of Arts'', by [[John Erskine]]

== Guides ==

* "An Official Guide to Columbia University" (1912) ed. [[Brander Matthews]] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0kgC32Cg2T5t-YolhPy&id=yBATAAAAIAAJ Google eBook] [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Official+Guide+To+Columbia+University&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO]
* "A Guide to Columbia University: With Some Account of Its History and Traditions" ed. John William Robson (1937) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=2&ti=1,2&Search%5FArg=A%20Guide%20to%20Columbia%20University&Search%5FCode=TALL&CNT=50&PID=lOM_VpuaHCKQB_21DBd2uo8uvEp&SEQ=20071216055110&SID=2 CLIO]
* "Columbia University, College Prowler Off The Record" (2005) [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1596580348 Google eBook]

== History ==

=== Columbia ===
* "Columbia University and Morningside Heights" (Postcard History Series) by Michael V. Susi [http://books.google.com/books?id=Tl5SnSGvhHoC Google eBook (limited preview)]
* "Living Legacies at Columbia" ed. [[Wm. Theodore de Bary]] (2006) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Living+Legacies+at+Columbia&Search_Code=TALL&PID=dKa8t08ZranCElQP4hrltq7HgM2&SEQ=20071211224838&CNT=50&HIST=1 CLIO] [http://www.amazon.com/Living-Legacies-Columbia-Theodore-Bary/dp/0231138849/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197430435&sr=8-1 Amazon.com]
* "Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754-2004" by [[Robert A. McCaughey]] (2003) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=stand%2C+columbia&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://www.amazon.com/Stand-Columbia-History-University-1754-2004/dp/0231130082/ref=sr_1_1/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176052272&sr=1-1 Amazon.com]
* "My Columbia: Reminiscences of University Life" ed. Ashbel Green (2004) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=My+Columbia%3A+Reminiscences+of+University+Life&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=fEZjf7MKi6HROwoFCuqjYTO3g&SEQ=20070321033746&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN023113486X Google eBook] [http://www.amazon.com/My-Columbia-Reminiscences-University-Life/dp/023113486X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176052335&sr=1-1 Amazon.com]
* "From King's College to Columbia, 1746-1800" by David C. Humphrey (1976) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=6&ti=1,6&SC=Subject&SA=Columbia%20University%20History%2E&PID=-RnVfTDedwaTD96BFqucwmPdn&SEQ=20070321034318&SID=13 CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0231039425&id Google eBook (limited preview)]
* "Columbia Remembered" ed. Wesley First (1967) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Columbia+Remembered&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO]
* "The Bicentennial History of Columbia University," [[Dwight C. Miner]], ed., 15 vols. (1954-1957)
** "A History of Columbia College on Morningside," (1954), with chapters by [[Irwin Edman]], [[Lionel Trilling]], [[Justus Buchler]], Charles W. Everett, Fon W. Boardman, Jr., [[Jack N. Arbolino]], and [[Gene R. Hawes]] [http://archive.org/details/historyofcolumbi012462mbp Archive.org]
** "A History of Barnard College," Marian Churchill White (1954)
** "A History of the School of Engineering," James Kip Finch (1954)
** "A History of Adult Education at Columbia University; University Extension and the School of General Studies," John Angus Burrell (1954)
** "A History of the Graduate School of Journalism," Richard Terrill Baker (1954)
** "A History of the Graduate School of Business," T. W. Van Metre (1954)
** "A History of Teachers College," Lawrence A. Cremin, David A. Shannon, and Mary Evelyn Townsend (1954)
** "A History of the School of Architecture," Theodor Karl Rohdenburg (1954)
** "A History of the School of Library Service," Ray Trautman (1954)
** "A History of the School of International Affairs and Association Area Institutes," L. Gray Cowan (1954)
** "A History of the School of Law," Foundation for Research in Legal History/Julius Goebel, Jr. (1955)
** "A History of the New York School of Social Work," Elizabeth G. Meier (1954)
** "A History of the College of Pharmacy," C. W. Ballard (1954)
** "A History of the Faculty of Philosophy" (1957)
** "A History of the Faculty of Political Science," R. Gordon Hoxie (1955)
* "Columbia: Colossus on the Hudson", by Horace Coon (1947) [http://archive.org/details/columbiacollssus012334mbp Archive.org] [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Columbia+Colossus+on+the+hudson&Search_Code=TALL&PID=bSKarTaQKedizbNuC0dSvPmI6HX&SEQ=20070408124651&CNT=50&HIST=1 CLIO]
* "Columbia: An American University in Peace and War by Fon W. Boardman, Jr. (1944) [http://books.google.com/books/about/Columbia_an_American_university_in_peace.html?id=U0FJAAAAIAAJ]
* "King's College and the Early Days of Columbia College, A Paper Read at the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the New York State Historical Association" by John B. Pine (1917) [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t00z7x12p;view=1up;seq=21] [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101068037777;view=1up;seq=1]
* "Columbia" by [[Frederick Paul Keppel]] (1914) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=3&ti=1,3&Search%5FArg=Columbia&Search%5FCode=TALL&SL=None&CNT=50&PID=UD9E8b4iY3bcphB8OqHY3uJcSVJ&SEQ=20070408124757&SID=6 CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?id=hLAWAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook (full book)]
* "A History of Columbia University, 1754-1904" by [[Brander Matthews]] (1904) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=history+of+columbia+university&Search_Code=TALL&PID=mXd8qjM4-lN4-0_M799A4H_wNCY&SEQ=20070408135755&CNT=50&HIST=1 CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0f9ChN0yzhCAvBADU4H2Uds&id=ZvAKAAAAIAAJ Google eBook (full book)] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0Ggbf7CcdFGkpiDqe0o&id=3xEUAAAAIAAJ Google eBook (Another Version- full book)]
*"Columbiana: A Bibliography of Manuscripts, Pamphlets and Books Relating to the History of King's College Columbia College Columbia University" prepared by Charles Alexander Nelson (1904) [http://books.google.com/books?id=hikVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook (Google Books Version)]
*"Universities and Their Sons: History, Influence and Characteristics of American Universities" (See section on Columbia by J. H. Van Amringe) [http://books.google.com/books?id=3rM-AQAAMAAJ Vol. I (1898) Google eBook], [https://archive.org/details/universitiesthei01cham Vol. I (1898) Archive.org], [https://archive.org/details/universitiesthei02cham Vol. II (1899) Archive.org], [https://archive.org/details/universitiesthei03cham Vol. III (1899) Archive.org], [https://archive.org/details/universitiesthei04cham Vol. IV (1900) Archive.org], [https://archive.org/details/universitiesthei05cham Vol. V (1900) Archive.org],
*"Columbia College in the City of New York: Historical Sketch & Present Condition" (1893) [http://books.google.com/books?id=z8E4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook (full book)]
*"Views of Columbia College" (1886) (photos of [[Midtown campus]]) [http://wackzut.archive.org/details/viewsofcolumbiac00colu Archive.org]
*"The Undergraduate Record Columbia College A Book of Statistical Information compiled by William S. Sloan" (1881) [http://books.google.com/books?id=cxATAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA87#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook]
*"An Historical Sketch of Columbia College in the City of New York 1754-1876" edited by [[John Howard Van Amringe]] (1876) [http://books.google.com/books?id=j7TAsGQxY_YC&pg=PP3#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books (full book)]
* "An Historical Sketch of Columbia College in the City of New York by [[Nathaniel Fish Moore]] (1846) [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ra8WAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books - full book]

=== Founding Documents and University Statutes ===
* "The Original Charter of Columbia College in the City of New York, October 31st, 1754; with the Acts of Legislature amending the same, or relating to the College" (1836) [http://books.google.com/books?id=cHo4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook]
* "The Original Charter of Columbia College in the City of New York, October 31st, 1754; with the Acts of Legislature amending the same, or relating to the College" (1854) [http://books.google.com/books?id=i22Zf8BMbjYC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook]
* "Charters Acts and Official Documents Together with the Lease and Re-Lease by Trinity Church of a Portion of the King's Farm" compiled by John B. Pine (1895) [http://books.google.com/books?id=_rBBAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP5#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook]
* "Charters and Statutes with Amendments to April 3, 1916" (1916) [http://books.google.com/books?id=lnzOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook]
* "Charters Acts of the Legislature Official Documents and Records" compiled by John B. Pine (1920) [http://books.google.com/books?id=PTc4AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google eBook]
* The [[University Statutes]]

=== Neighborhood/Architecture ===

* "Morningside Heights" by [[Andrew S. Dolkart]] (2001) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=3&ti=1,3&Search%5FArg=morningside%20heights&Search%5FCode=TALL&SL=None&CNT=50&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&SID=9 CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN023107851X&id=tHM_JXOp4JAC Google eBook (limited preview)]
* "Mastering McKim's Plan: Columbia's First Century on Morningside Heights" by [[Barry Bergdoll]] (1998) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Mastering+McKim%27s+Plan&Search_Code=TALL&PID=dKa8t08ZranCElQP4hrltq7HgM2&SEQ=20071211224838&CNT=50&HIST=1 CLIO] [http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-McKims-Plan-Columbias-Morningside/dp/1884919057/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197430642&sr=1-9 Amazon.com]
*AIA Guide to New York City - These often feature a number of buildings on or around Columbia's campus.
*[http://www.scup.org/asset/62643/HindsightForesight.pdf Hindsight to Foresight: From the Founding to the Future of Five Ivy League Campuses] by Robert Spencer Barnett - 2012 ebook published by the Society for Campus and University Planning with a wealth of information on Columbia and other Ivy League architecture

=== 1968 Protests ===
* " Up Against the Ivy Wall: A History of the Columbia Crisis" by Jerry L. Avorn (1968) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=up%20against%20the%20ivy%20wall&SL=None&Search_Code=TALL&CNT=50&HIST=1&DB=local CLIO]
* "Crisis at Columbia", the Cox Commission Report on the [[1968 protests]] (1968) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=1&ti=1,1&Search%5FArg=crisis%20at%20columbia&Search%5FCode=TALL&CNT=50&PID=IMHsRgBkIzhtkgXlnzDx86kpPb&SEQ=20070321081617&SID=3 CLIO]
* "Six Weeks that Shook Morningside" Columbia College Today, Spring 1968 [http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/sites/cct/files/cct_spring_1968.pdf PDF]
* "The Battle For Morningside Heights" by Roger Kahn (1970) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=2&ti=1,2&Search%5FArg=kahn%2C%20roger&Search%5FCode=NAME%5F&CNT=50&PID=3QkbEKAKR--bdPxymMhwOyYe8&SEQ=20070321033712&SID=4 CLIO]
* "The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary", by James S. Kunen (1970) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=strawberry+statement&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=3qelN7rlP2KALGag-_9wdeAzQih&SEQ=20070408140036&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://www.amazon.com/Strawberry-Statement-Notes-College-Revolutionary/dp/1881089525/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176055564&sr=1-1 Amazon.com]
*"Confrontation on campus;: The Columbia pattern for the new protest" by Joanne Grant (1969) [http://www.amazon.com/Confrontation-campus-Columbia-pattern-protest/dp/B0006CT3R8 Amazon]
=== Columbia University Press ===
*"Columbia University Press 1893-1983", by Henry H. Wiggins (1983) [http://books.google.com/books?id=hlqUE_4JE3UC&source=gbs_navlinks_s Google eBook (limited preview)]

=== Social History ===
* "Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think About Sex and Politics", by Rosalind Rosenberg (2004) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Changing+The+Subject:+How&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0231126441&id=X3stnfg-IpQC&dq Google eBook (limited preview] [http://www.amazon.com/Changing-Subject-Columbia-Shaped-Politics/dp/0231126441/ref=sr_1_2/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176056056&sr=1-2 Amazon.com]

=== School of Journalism ===
* "Pulitzer's School: Columbia University's School of Journalism, 1903-2003" by James R. Boylan (2003) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Pulitzer's+School&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0231130902 Google eBook] [http://www.amazon.com/Pulitzers-School-Universitys-Journalism-1903-2003/dp/0231130902/ref=sr_1_1/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176055824&sr=1-1 Amazon.com]

=== Barnard ===
* "A History of Barnard College" (published in honor of Barnard's 75th Anniversary) (1964)
* "A History of Barnard College," Marian Churchill White (1954)
* "Barnard Beginnings," Annie Nathan Meyer (1935] [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015020054931;view=1up;seq=9]
* "Barnard College 1889-1914," Nicholas Murray Butler (speech) (1914) [http://books.google.com/books?id=tmw7AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook]
* "Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think About Sex and Politics", by Rosalind Rosenberg (2004) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Changing+The+Subject:+How&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0231126441&id=X3stnfg-IpQC&dq Google eBook (limited preview] [http://www.amazon.com/Changing-Subject-Columbia-Shaped-Politics/dp/0231126441/ref=sr_1_2/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176056056&sr=1-2 Amazon.com]

== Core Curriculum ==

* "Great Books" by [[David Denby]] (1997) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=5&ti=1,5&Search%5FArg=denby%2C%20david&Search%5FCode=NAME%5F&SL=None&CNT=50&PID=fEZjf7MKi6HROwoFCuqjYTO3g&SEQ=20070321033746&SID=5 CLIO] [http://www.amazon.com/Great-Books-David-Denby/dp/0684835339/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176055870&sr=1-2 Amazon.com]
* "An Oasis of Order: The Core Curriculum at Columbia College", by Timothy Cross (1995) [http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/oasis/]

== Other ==

* "The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and his struggle to save New York" by Vincent Cannato (2001) (chapter 7 on the [[1968 protests]]) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=3&ti=1,3&Search%5FArg=cannato%2C%20vincent&Search%5FCode=NAME%5F&CNT=50&PID=V7MNovGGvownYFEPLWXvjb9YFLO&SEQ=20070321081005&SID=2 CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0465008445&id=Upv5ezVPBOMC&dq Google eBook (limited preview)] [http://www.amazon.com/Ungovernable-City-John-Lindsay-Struggle/dp/0465008445/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176056116&sr=1-1 Amazon.com]
* "Ivy Briefs: True Tales of a Neurotic Law Student" by Martha Kimes [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0743288386/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful/105-4896802-5798000?ie=UTF8&n=283155#customerReviews Amazon]
* ''The Seven Storey Mountain'' by Thomas Merton. (He talks about his life as an undergraduate here.)
* The Varsity Show: A Celebration (2004) - volume about the [[Varsity Show]] published in conjunction with [[Columbia 250]].

==Documentaries (video) ==
*"Columbia University: A Celebration" by Ric Burns (2003)

==See also==
* [[Research guide and resources for new authors]]

[[Category:History]]
[[Category:Books]]

Seth Low

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[[Image:Low.jpg|thumb|Seth Low]]

'''Seth Low''' [[Columbia College|CC]] [[1870]] was president of Columbia College, then of Columbia University. Oh, and the campus moved from Midtown to [[Morningside Heights]] under his watch. Ironically, despite all that, no building on the [[Morningside Heights campus]] is named in his honor ([[Low Library]] is so named in memory of his father, Abiel Abbott Low.) In fact the only building in the neighborhood honoring him, [[Seth Low Hall]], is a [[Teachers College]] housing building.

While the move to Morningside Heights is Low's lasting legacy, equally important was his work to coordinate the activities and faculties of the numerous graduate schools that had been founded under [[Frederick A. P. Barnard|F. A. P. Barnard's]] watch into a well organized university. His people skills and deft touch earned him the name the "Great Harmonizer."

In [[1902]], he left Columbia to become mayor of [[New York City]], paving the way for [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] to take charge.

At least the [[Seth Low Professor of History]] chair is named after him.

== External links ==
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=frFBAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Proceedings at the Installation of Seth Low as President of Columbia University], 3 February 1890.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t07w7482s Minutes Adopted by the Trustees of Columbia College in the City of New York and the University Council On the Resignation of Seth Low, LLD as President], 12 October 1901.

{{succession|preceded=[[Frederick A. P. Barnard]]|succeeded=[[Nicholas Murray Butler]]|office=President of Columbia University|years=1890-1901}}

[[Category:Columbia College alumni|Low, Seth]]
[[Category:University presidents|Low, Seth]]
[[Category:Class of 1870|Low, Seth]]
[[Category:Key historical figures|Low]]

Annual Reports of the President to the Trustees

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The '''Annual Reports of the President to the Trustees''' were started by President [[Frederick A. P. Barnard]] as a public platform for proclaiming his vision for Columbia College, much to the consternation of the [[Trustees]]. The tradition of published reports continued with his [[President of Columbia University|successors]], and they leave a neat and tidy history.

==Reports of the President==
===Reports of President Barnard===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=rzQZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1866]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=H1kdAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1870]
*[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015068525859;view=1up;seq=1 1881-1885]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=z08dAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1885]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=bPxNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1886]
*[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015058394548;view=1up;seq=9 1886-1890] (includes Report of Acting President Drisler in 1889, and Report of President Low in 1890)

===Reports of President Low===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=UG4MAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5#v=onepage&q&f=false 1891]
*[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxgas2;view=1up;seq=7 1895]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=t_BNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1896]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=QzUZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP3#v=onepage&q&f=false 1901]

===Reports of President Butler===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=GlEdAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1902]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=dTUZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1903]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=61AdAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1904]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=q-xNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1906]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=w24MAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1907]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=fe1NAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1910]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=nu9NAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1913]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=7S7blnVBzosC&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1915]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=8-9NAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1917]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=qvFNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1920]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=APzeVbGCZiYC&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1921]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=NyIZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1922]

===Reports of President Rupp===
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/report/98/index.html Five Year Report 1993-1998]
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/report/99/index.html 1999]
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/report/00/index.html 2000]

===Reports of President Bollinger===
[http://fiveyear.columbia.edu/ Five Year Report 2002-2007]

==See also==
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=2fnEAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Annual reports of Chief Librarian Melvil Dewey 1884-1889]

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[[Category:Office of the President]]

University Statutes

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The '''University Statutes''' are the governing documents of the university. The Statutes are laid out by the [[Board of Trustees]] and govern the highest level of the university administration, including officially establishing each of Columbia's faculties and governing the relationship between them (such as the [[Columbia-Barnard relationship]]).

The Statutes also establishes the official roles of university officials, such as the [[University president]] and [[Provost]]. They also officially establish the [[University Senate]] and the [[Student Governing Board]] (SGB), though the purpose of the SGB has changed since its original creation in the Statutes.

== See also ==
* [[Trustees#By-laws and Resolutions|By-laws and Resolutions of the Trustees]]
* [[University Charter]]

==External Links==
* [https://secretary.columbia.edu/files/secretary/university_charters_and_statutes/UniversityStatues_December2017.pdf University Statutes of 1959 as Amended to December 2017 (PDF) (Current statutes)]
* Old Statutes: [http://books.google.com/books?id=YF0WAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1843]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=cXo4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1843 (Alternate copy)]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=rEwMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1853]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=wEwMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1871]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=m3o4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1874]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=w3vOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1878]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=o3o4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1880]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=pEYbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1882]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=03vOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR2-IA3#v=onepage&q&f=false 1885]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=WkMbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1885 (Alternate copy)]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=WUMbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1887]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=MH8fAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11#v=onepage&q&f=false 1890]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=23vOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP11#v=onepage&q&f=false 1890 (alternate copy)]; [http://archive.org/details/statutesenactedb00colu 1891]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=CX8fAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1894]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=EX8fAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1897]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=I38fAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1899]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=nogfAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5#v=onepage&q&f=false 1902]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=JH8fAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1908]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=lnzOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1916]; [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t58d0nv1b;view=1up;seq=5 1921]; [http://secretary.columbia.edu/files/secretary/university_charters_and_statutes/University%20Charters%20and%20Statutes_June%202013.pdf]; [https://web.archive.org/web/20160620165553/http://secretary.columbia.edu/files/secretary/university_charters_and_statutes/University%20Charters_Statutes_December%202015_Printed%20January2015.pdf 2015]

[[Category:University components]]
[[Category:Trustees]]
[[Category:History]]

University Statutes

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Absentminded: /* External Links */

The '''University Statutes''' are the governing documents of the university. The Statutes are laid out by the [[Board of Trustees]] and govern the highest level of the university administration, including officially establishing each of Columbia's faculties and governing the relationship between them (such as the [[Columbia-Barnard relationship]]).

The Statutes also establishes the official roles of university officials, such as the [[University president]] and [[Provost]]. They also officially establish the [[University Senate]] and the [[Student Governing Board]] (SGB), though the purpose of the SGB has changed since its original creation in the Statutes.

== See also ==
* [[Trustees#By-laws and Resolutions|By-laws and Resolutions of the Trustees]]
* [[University Charter]]

==External Links==
* [http://secretary.columbia.edu/files/secretary/university_charters_and_statutes/University%20Charters_Statutes_December%202015_Printed%20January2015.pdf University Statutes of 1959 as Amended to December 2015 (PDF) (Current statutes)]
* Old Statutes: [http://books.google.com/books?id=YF0WAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1843]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=cXo4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1843 (Alternate copy)]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=rEwMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1853]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=wEwMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1871]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=m3o4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1874]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=w3vOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1878]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=o3o4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1880]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=pEYbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1882]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=03vOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR2-IA3#v=onepage&q&f=false 1885]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=WkMbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1885 (Alternate copy)]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=WUMbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1887]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=MH8fAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11#v=onepage&q&f=false 1890]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=23vOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP11#v=onepage&q&f=false 1890 (alternate copy)]; [http://archive.org/details/statutesenactedb00colu 1891]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=CX8fAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1894]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=EX8fAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1897]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=I38fAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1899]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=nogfAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5#v=onepage&q&f=false 1902]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=JH8fAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1908]; [http://books.google.com/books?id=lnzOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1916]; [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t58d0nv1b;view=1up;seq=5 1921]

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[[Category:Trustees]]
[[Category:History]]

List of books about Columbia

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This page is a '''list of books about Columbia'''.

== Biography ==
* "Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler" by [[Michael Rosenthal]] (2006) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Nicholas+Miraculous&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://www.amazon.com/Nicholas-Miraculous-Amazing-Career-Redoubtable/dp/0374299943/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176051853&sr=8-1 Amazon.com]
* "Eisenhower at Columbia", by Travis Jacobs (2001) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Eisenhower+At+Columbia&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0765800365 Google eBook (limited preview)] [http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780765800367&itm=1 Barnes and Noble]
* "Memoirs of Frederick A. P. Barnard, by John Fulton (1896) [http://books.google.com/books?id=Dx9AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook]
* "Seth Low: The Reformer in an Urban and Industrial Age", by Gerald Kurland (1971)
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=SGLOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false King's College Alumni] by Leonard Felix Fuld (originally published in [[Columbia University Quarterly]] from September 1907-September 1911)

== Fiction ==

*"Johnny One-Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution," by [[Jerome Charyn]] (2008) [http://www.amazon.com/Johnny-One-Eye-Tale-American-Revolution/dp/0393064972/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203800117&sr=1-1 Amazon]
*"Moon Palace", by [[Paul Auster]] (1989) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Moon+Palace&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO]
*"Morningside Heights," by [[Cheryl Mendelson]] (2005) [http://www.amazon.com/Morningside-Heights-Novel-Cheryl-Mendelson/dp/0375760687/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203800172&sr=1-1 Amazon]
*"Vanity of Duluoz," by [[Jack Kerouac]] (1968) [http://www.amazon.com/Vanity-Duluoz-Adventurous-Education-1935-46/dp/0140236392 Amazon]
*"The Caine Mutiny," by [[Herman Wouk]] (1951) [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=6&ved=0CEkQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCaine-Mutiny-Novel-Herman-Wouk%2Fdp%2F0316955108&ei=LntXTJ3JNYH_8AaI47z6Ag&usg=AFQjCNH5BOmtSr_dCh3Cq8kP7kdbQuXkGQ&sig2=rChTDWCnI32pkOK7_NZAHg]
*''A Bachelor of Arts'', by [[John Erskine]]

== Guides ==

* "An Official Guide to Columbia University" (1912) ed. [[Brander Matthews]] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0kgC32Cg2T5t-YolhPy&id=yBATAAAAIAAJ Google eBook] [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Official+Guide+To+Columbia+University&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO]
* "A Guide to Columbia University: With Some Account of Its History and Traditions" ed. John William Robson (1937) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=2&ti=1,2&Search%5FArg=A%20Guide%20to%20Columbia%20University&Search%5FCode=TALL&CNT=50&PID=lOM_VpuaHCKQB_21DBd2uo8uvEp&SEQ=20071216055110&SID=2 CLIO]
* "Columbia University, College Prowler Off The Record" (2005) [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN1596580348 Google eBook]

== History ==

=== Columbia ===
* "Columbia University and Morningside Heights" (Postcard History Series) by Michael V. Susi [http://books.google.com/books?id=Tl5SnSGvhHoC Google eBook (limited preview)]
* "Living Legacies at Columbia" ed. [[Wm. Theodore de Bary]] (2006) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Living+Legacies+at+Columbia&Search_Code=TALL&PID=dKa8t08ZranCElQP4hrltq7HgM2&SEQ=20071211224838&CNT=50&HIST=1 CLIO] [http://www.amazon.com/Living-Legacies-Columbia-Theodore-Bary/dp/0231138849/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197430435&sr=8-1 Amazon.com]
* "Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754-2004" by [[Robert A. McCaughey]] (2003) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=stand%2C+columbia&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://www.amazon.com/Stand-Columbia-History-University-1754-2004/dp/0231130082/ref=sr_1_1/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176052272&sr=1-1 Amazon.com]
* "My Columbia: Reminiscences of University Life" ed. Ashbel Green (2004) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=My+Columbia%3A+Reminiscences+of+University+Life&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=fEZjf7MKi6HROwoFCuqjYTO3g&SEQ=20070321033746&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN023113486X Google eBook] [http://www.amazon.com/My-Columbia-Reminiscences-University-Life/dp/023113486X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176052335&sr=1-1 Amazon.com]
* "From King's College to Columbia, 1746-1800" by David C. Humphrey (1976) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=6&ti=1,6&SC=Subject&SA=Columbia%20University%20History%2E&PID=-RnVfTDedwaTD96BFqucwmPdn&SEQ=20070321034318&SID=13 CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0231039425&id Google eBook (limited preview)]
* "Columbia Remembered" ed. Wesley First (1967) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Columbia+Remembered&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO]
* "The Bicentennial History of Columbia University," [[Dwight C. Miner]], ed., 15 vols. (1954-1957)
** "A History of Columbia College on Morningside," (1954), with chapters by [[Irwin Edman]], [[Lionel Trilling]], [[Justus Buchler]], Charles W. Everett, Fon W. Boardman, Jr., [[Jack N. Arbolino]], and [[Gene R. Hawes]] [http://archive.org/details/historyofcolumbi012462mbp Archive.org]
** "A History of Barnard College," Marian Churchill White (1954)
** "A History of the School of Engineering," James Kip Finch (1954)
** "A History of Adult Education at Columbia University; University Extension and the School of General Studies," John Angus Burrell (1954)
** "A History of the Graduate School of Journalism," Richard Terrill Baker (1954)
** "A History of the Graduate School of Business," T. W. Van Metre (1954)
** "A History of Teachers College," Lawrence A. Cremin, David A. Shannon, and Mary Evelyn Townsend (1954)
** "A History of the School of Architecture," Theodor Karl Rohdenburg (1954)
** "A History of the School of Library Service," Ray Trautman (1954)
** "A History of the School of International Affairs and Association Area Institutes," L. Gray Cowan (1954)
** "A History of the School of Law," Foundation for Research in Legal History/Julius Goebel, Jr. (1955)
** "A History of the New York School of Social Work," Elizabeth G. Meier (1954)
** "A History of the College of Pharmacy," C. W. Ballard (1954)
** "A History of the Faculty of Philosophy" (1957)
** "A History of the Faculty of Political Science," R. Gordon Hoxie (1955)
* "Columbia: Colossus on the Hudson", by Horace Coon (1947) [http://archive.org/details/columbiacollssus012334mbp Archive.org] [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Columbia+Colossus+on+the+hudson&Search_Code=TALL&PID=bSKarTaQKedizbNuC0dSvPmI6HX&SEQ=20070408124651&CNT=50&HIST=1 CLIO]
* "Columbia: An American University in Peace and War by Fon W. Boardman, Jr. (1944) [http://books.google.com/books/about/Columbia_an_American_university_in_peace.html?id=U0FJAAAAIAAJ]
* "King's College and the Early Days of Columbia College, A Paper Read at the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the New York State Historical Association" by John B. Pine (1917) [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t00z7x12p;view=1up;seq=21] [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101068037777;view=1up;seq=1]
* "Columbia" by [[Frederick Paul Keppel]] (1914) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=3&ti=1,3&Search%5FArg=Columbia&Search%5FCode=TALL&SL=None&CNT=50&PID=UD9E8b4iY3bcphB8OqHY3uJcSVJ&SEQ=20070408124757&SID=6 CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?id=hLAWAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook (full book)]
* "A History of Columbia University, 1754-1904" by [[Brander Matthews]] (1904) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=history+of+columbia+university&Search_Code=TALL&PID=mXd8qjM4-lN4-0_M799A4H_wNCY&SEQ=20070408135755&CNT=50&HIST=1 CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0f9ChN0yzhCAvBADU4H2Uds&id=ZvAKAAAAIAAJ Google eBook (full book)] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=0Ggbf7CcdFGkpiDqe0o&id=3xEUAAAAIAAJ Google eBook (Another Version- full book)]
*"Columbiana: A Bibliography of Manuscripts, Pamphlets and Books Relating to the History of King's College Columbia College Columbia University" prepared by Charles Alexander Nelson (1904) [http://books.google.com/books?id=hikVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook (Google Books Version)]
*"Universities and Their Sons: History, Influence and Characteristics of American Universities" (See section on Columbia by J. H. Van Amringe) [http://books.google.com/books?id=3rM-AQAAMAAJ Vol. I (1898) Google eBook], [https://archive.org/details/universitiesthei01cham Vol. I (1898) Archive.org], [https://archive.org/details/universitiesthei02cham Vol. II (1899) Archive.org], [https://archive.org/details/universitiesthei03cham Vol. III (1899) Archive.org], [https://archive.org/details/universitiesthei04cham Vol. IV (1900) Archive.org], [https://archive.org/details/universitiesthei05cham Vol. V (1900) Archive.org],
*"Columbia College in the City of New York: Historical Sketch & Present Condition" (1893) [http://books.google.com/books?id=z8E4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook (full book)]
*"Views of Columbia College" (1886) (photos of [[Midtown campus]]) [http://wackzut.archive.org/details/viewsofcolumbiac00colu Archive.org]
*"The Undergraduate Record Columbia College A Book of Statistical Information compiled by William S. Sloan" (1881) [http://books.google.com/books?id=cxATAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA87#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook]
*"An Historical Sketch of Columbia College in the City of New York 1754-1876" edited by [[John Howard Van Amringe]] (1876) [http://books.google.com/books?id=j7TAsGQxY_YC&pg=PP3#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books (full book)]
* "An Historical Sketch of Columbia College in the City of New York by [[Nathaniel Fish Moore]] (1846) [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ra8WAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Google Books - full book]

=== Founding Documents and University Statutes ===
* "The Original Charter of Columbia College in the City of New York, October 31st, 1754; with the Acts of Legislature amending the same, or relating to the College" (1836) [http://books.google.com/books?id=cHo4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook]
* "The Original Charter of Columbia College in the City of New York, October 31st, 1754; with the Acts of Legislature amending the same, or relating to the College" (1854) [http://books.google.com/books?id=i22Zf8BMbjYC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook]
* "Charters Acts and Official Documents Together with the Lease and Re-Lease by Trinity Church of a Portion of the King's Farm" compiled by John B. Pine (1895) [http://books.google.com/books?id=_rBBAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP5#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook]
* "Charters and Statutes with Amendments to April 3, 1916" (1916) [http://books.google.com/books?id=lnzOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook]
* "Charters Acts of the Legislature Official Documents and Records" compiled by John B. Pine (1920) [http://books.google.com/books?id=PTc4AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google eBook]
* The [[University Statutes]]

=== Neighborhood/Architecture ===

* "Morningside Heights" by [[Andrew S. Dolkart]] (2001) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=3&ti=1,3&Search%5FArg=morningside%20heights&Search%5FCode=TALL&SL=None&CNT=50&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&SID=9 CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN023107851X&id=tHM_JXOp4JAC Google eBook (limited preview)]
* "Mastering McKim's Plan: Columbia's First Century on Morningside Heights" by [[Barry Bergdoll]] (1998) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Mastering+McKim%27s+Plan&Search_Code=TALL&PID=dKa8t08ZranCElQP4hrltq7HgM2&SEQ=20071211224838&CNT=50&HIST=1 CLIO] [http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-McKims-Plan-Columbias-Morningside/dp/1884919057/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197430642&sr=1-9 Amazon.com]
*AIA Guide to New York City - These often feature a number of buildings on or around Columbia's campus.
*[http://www.scup.org/asset/62643/HindsightForesight.pdf Hindsight to Foresight: From the Founding to the Future of Five Ivy League Campuses] by Robert Spencer Barnett - 2012 ebook published by the Society for Campus and University Planning with a wealth of information on Columbia and other Ivy League architecture

=== 1968 Protests ===
* " Up Against the Ivy Wall: A History of the Columbia Crisis" by Jerry L. Avorn (1968) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=up%20against%20the%20ivy%20wall&SL=None&Search_Code=TALL&CNT=50&HIST=1&DB=local CLIO]
* "Crisis at Columbia", the Cox Commission Report on the [[1968 protests]] (1968) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=1&ti=1,1&Search%5FArg=crisis%20at%20columbia&Search%5FCode=TALL&CNT=50&PID=IMHsRgBkIzhtkgXlnzDx86kpPb&SEQ=20070321081617&SID=3 CLIO]
* "Six Weeks that Shook Morningside" Columbia College Today, Spring 1968 [http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/sites/cct/files/cct_spring_1968.pdf PDF]
* "The Battle For Morningside Heights" by Roger Kahn (1970) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=2&ti=1,2&Search%5FArg=kahn%2C%20roger&Search%5FCode=NAME%5F&CNT=50&PID=3QkbEKAKR--bdPxymMhwOyYe8&SEQ=20070321033712&SID=4 CLIO]
* "The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary", by James S. Kunen (1970) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=strawberry+statement&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=3qelN7rlP2KALGag-_9wdeAzQih&SEQ=20070408140036&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://www.amazon.com/Strawberry-Statement-Notes-College-Revolutionary/dp/1881089525/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176055564&sr=1-1 Amazon.com]
*"Confrontation on campus;: The Columbia pattern for the new protest" by Joanne Grant (1969) [http://www.amazon.com/Confrontation-campus-Columbia-pattern-protest/dp/B0006CT3R8 Amazon]
=== Columbia University Press ===
*"Columbia University Press 1893-1983", by Henry H. Wiggins (1983) [http://books.google.com/books?id=hlqUE_4JE3UC&source=gbs_navlinks_s Google eBook (limited preview)]

=== Social History ===
* "Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think About Sex and Politics", by Rosalind Rosenberg (2004) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Changing+The+Subject:+How&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0231126441&id=X3stnfg-IpQC&dq Google eBook (limited preview] [http://www.amazon.com/Changing-Subject-Columbia-Shaped-Politics/dp/0231126441/ref=sr_1_2/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176056056&sr=1-2 Amazon.com]

=== School of Journalism ===
* "Pulitzer's School: Columbia University's School of Journalism, 1903-2003" by James R. Boylan (2003) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Pulitzer's+School&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0231130902 Google eBook] [http://www.amazon.com/Pulitzers-School-Universitys-Journalism-1903-2003/dp/0231130902/ref=sr_1_1/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176055824&sr=1-1 Amazon.com]

=== Barnard ===
* "A History of Barnard College," Marian Churchill White (1954)
* "A History of Barnard College" (published in honor of Barnard's 75th Anniversary) (1964)
* "Barnard College 1889-1914," Nicholas Murray Butler (speech) (1914) [http://books.google.com/books?id=tmw7AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Google eBook]
* "Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think About Sex and Politics", by Rosalind Rosenberg (2004) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=Changing+The+Subject:+How&Search_Code=TALL&SL=None&PID=lq_H_qeo4nDLkzSI3iYPXzSpN&SEQ=20070321033857&CNT=50&HIST=1&SEARCH_FROM_TITLES_PAGE=Y CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0231126441&id=X3stnfg-IpQC&dq Google eBook (limited preview] [http://www.amazon.com/Changing-Subject-Columbia-Shaped-Politics/dp/0231126441/ref=sr_1_2/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176056056&sr=1-2 Amazon.com]

== Core Curriculum ==

* "Great Books" by [[David Denby]] (1997) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=5&ti=1,5&Search%5FArg=denby%2C%20david&Search%5FCode=NAME%5F&SL=None&CNT=50&PID=fEZjf7MKi6HROwoFCuqjYTO3g&SEQ=20070321033746&SID=5 CLIO] [http://www.amazon.com/Great-Books-David-Denby/dp/0684835339/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176055870&sr=1-2 Amazon.com]
* "An Oasis of Order: The Core Curriculum at Columbia College", by Timothy Cross (1995) [http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/oasis/]

== Other ==

* "The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and his struggle to save New York" by Vincent Cannato (2001) (chapter 7 on the [[1968 protests]]) [http://clio.cul.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=3&ti=1,3&Search%5FArg=cannato%2C%20vincent&Search%5FCode=NAME%5F&CNT=50&PID=V7MNovGGvownYFEPLWXvjb9YFLO&SEQ=20070321081005&SID=2 CLIO] [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0465008445&id=Upv5ezVPBOMC&dq Google eBook (limited preview)] [http://www.amazon.com/Ungovernable-City-John-Lindsay-Struggle/dp/0465008445/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-3530552-8402353?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176056116&sr=1-1 Amazon.com]
* "Ivy Briefs: True Tales of a Neurotic Law Student" by Martha Kimes [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0743288386/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful/105-4896802-5798000?ie=UTF8&n=283155#customerReviews Amazon]
* ''The Seven Storey Mountain'' by Thomas Merton. (He talks about his life as an undergraduate here.)
* The Varsity Show: A Celebration (2004) - volume about the [[Varsity Show]] published in conjunction with [[Columbia 250]].

==Documentaries (video) ==
*"Columbia University: A Celebration" by Ric Burns (2003)

==See also==
* [[Research guide and resources for new authors]]

[[Category:History]]
[[Category:Books]]

Fundraising

2018-09-24T23:54:12Z

Absentminded: /* History */

'''Fundraising''' is big at Columbia. In keeping with Columbia's bureaucratic traditions, each school has its own Development Office which is responsible for fundraising for that school. At the same time, the university-level [[Office of Alumni and Development]] is responsible for university-wide fundraising, and each school's development office technically reports to the larger organization.

Fundraising is actually just one component of what the university calls ''Advancement'', which is essentially Alumni Relations (Events) + Development (Fundraising) + Stewardship (Thanking donors with more events). While the university primarily focuses its development efforts on alumni of the school, each school has specific outreach to corporations or foundations that might align with its goals.

== History ==
Until the [[Campaign for Columbia (1966)]], Columbia's fundraising efforts had been ad-hoc and one-off in nature. Columbia's first endowed chair was literally just a chair. For someone to sit on. Anyway, it's been a long and bumpy road. <ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19650211-01.2.2 Fund Raising: Challenge for Columbia], Columbia Spectator, 22 February 1963. First in a 13-part series of Spec articles on Fundraising.</ref><ref>[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.cu56735855;view=1up;seq=1 Financial Condition and Present Needs of Columbia College], 2 April 1883. A pamphlet printed and distributed by the Trustees attempting to solicit $4.35 Million in endowments from the public.</ref>

== External Links ==
*[http://alumni.columbia.edu/ Columbia Alumni Association website]

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Post-graduation]]
[[Category:Endowment]]
[[Category:Fundraising campaigns|*]]

Trustees

2018-09-24T23:52:15Z

Absentminded: /* By-laws and Resolutions */

[[Image:Trustees room.JPG|thumb|right|The Trustees' baller hideout inside [[Low Library]]. The portrait over the fireplace is of the first president of [[King's College]], [[Samuel Johnson]]]]

The '''Trustees of Columbia University''' (or '''Board of Trustees''' or just '''Trustees''') truly pwn the University, and meet in their own special power-trippy room of [[Low Library]] once in awhile.

All power in the university flows from the Trustees because Columbia is, legally speaking, a [[University Charter|state chartered corporation]] called the "Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York" (just like it says at the top of your [[diploma]]). This entity is sometimes colloquially referred to as the "'''Columbia Corporation'''", as distinguished from parts/affiliates of the University that are separate legal entities, such as [[Barnard College]], or [[Columbia University Press]]. The trustees are therefore akin to the Board of Directors of a corporation, and the [[University President]] its CEO.

==History==

The [[Royal charter]] granted by [[King George II]] in [[1754]] gave power to "the Governors of the College in the Province of New York in the City of New York in America", making them a corporate body. The Trustees as we known them today, however, only came into being after Columbia was returned to private trusteeship in [[1787]], after a three-year post-Revolutionary War experiment in state control by the New York Board of Regents. [[Alexander Hamilton]], then a Regent, was instrumental in investing the members of the original King's College Board of Governors with the same power under the new "Trustees of Columbia College in the City of New York," which was to extend "in perpetual succession," according to the "original intent" of the 1754 charter.

The full powers of the Trustees are enumerated in the most recent full promulgation of the [[University Charter|charter]], passed in [[1810]] (and since amended a few times). The name of the corporation was changed to the "Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York" through a court order in [[1912]], sixteen years after the Trustees had voted to rename Columbia College into Columbia University.

==Powers==

Among their other duties, including the selection of the [[University President]] and overseeing all senior faculty and administrative appointments, monitoring the budget and [[endowment]], and amending the [[University Statutes]] - Columbia's administrative code - the trustees have the true power to grant [[degrees]] to any Columbia school or affiliated institution (although [[Barnard College]] has its own trustees, its students have received their degrees from Columbia's trustees, dating back to Barnard's predecessor, the [[1883]] [[Plan for the Education of Women in Connection to Columbia College|Plan for the Education of Women]]). [[Diplomas]] accordingly begin with (in English variations) "The Trustees of Columbia University" or (in [[Latin phrases|Latin]] variations) "Curatores Universitatis Columbiae".

== By-laws and Resolutions ==
*By-Laws:
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=uz8ZAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false By-Laws and Rules of Order of the Trustees as adopted March 7, 1892 (1892)]
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=l3zOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false By-Laws and Rules of Order of the Trustees as adopted March 7, 1892 with Amendments (1901)]
*Resolutions:
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=FFg9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false Resolutions Passed by the Trustees of Columbia College 1820-1868]
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=EaS9N9AeAZgC&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false Resolutions Passed by the Trustees of Columbia College 1868-1874]
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=uHzOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Resolutions Passed by the Trustees of Columbia College 1874-1879]
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=h109AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Resolutions Passed by the Trustees of Columbia College 1880-1885]
**[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101067944437;view=1up;seq=1 Resolutions of the Trustees Vol. XII-XVII 1891-1898]
**[https://archive.org/details/resolutionsadopt00colu Resolutions Adopted by the Trustees of Columbia College October 3, 1898 to June 1, 1903]
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=rFg9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false Resolutions Adopted by the Trustees of Columbia College October, 1903 to June, 1909]
**[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101017674514;view=1up;seq=7 Resolutions Adopted by the Trustees 1903-1914]
**[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101067944445;view=1up;seq=5 Resolutions Adopted by the Trustees 1914-1918]

== See also ==
* [[University Statutes]]
* [[University Charter]]

==External links==
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/secretary/docs/trustees/background-information.html Backgrounds of the current Trustees]
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/secretary/docs/trustees/trustees-emeriti.html List of Trustees emeriti]

[[Category:University components]]
[[Category:Trustees|*]]

Annual Reports of the President to the Trustees

2018-09-24T23:42:35Z

Absentminded: /* Reports of President Barnard */

The '''Annual Reports of the President to the Trustees''' were started by President [[Frederick A. P. Barnard]] as a public platform for proclaiming his vision for Columbia College, much to the consternation of the [[Trustees]]. The tradition of published reports continued with his [[President of Columbia University|successors]], and they leave a neat and tidy history.

==Reports of the President==
===Reports of President Barnard===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=rzQZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1866]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=H1kdAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1870]
*[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015068525859;view=1up;seq=1 1881-1885]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=z08dAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1885]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=bPxNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1886]
*[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015058394548;view=1up;seq=9 1886-1890] (includes Report of Acting President Drisler in 1889, and Report of President Low in 1890)

===Reports of President Low===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=UG4MAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5#v=onepage&q&f=false 1891]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=t_BNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1896]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=QzUZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP3#v=onepage&q&f=false 1901]

===Reports of President Butler===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=GlEdAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1902]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=dTUZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1903]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=61AdAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1904]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=q-xNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1906]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=w24MAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1907]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=fe1NAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1910]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=nu9NAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1913]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=7S7blnVBzosC&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1915]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=8-9NAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1917]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=qvFNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1920]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=APzeVbGCZiYC&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1921]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=NyIZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1922]

===Reports of President Rupp===
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/report/98/index.html Five Year Report 1993-1998]
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/report/99/index.html 1999]
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/report/00/index.html 2000]

===Reports of President Bollinger===
[http://fiveyear.columbia.edu/ Five Year Report 2002-2007]

==See also==
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=2fnEAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Annual reports of Chief Librarian Melvil Dewey 1884-1889]

[[Category:University publications]]
[[Category:Office of the President]]

Trustees

2018-09-24T23:14:20Z

Absentminded:

[[Image:Trustees room.JPG|thumb|right|The Trustees' baller hideout inside [[Low Library]]. The portrait over the fireplace is of the first president of [[King's College]], [[Samuel Johnson]]]]

The '''Trustees of Columbia University''' (or '''Board of Trustees''' or just '''Trustees''') truly pwn the University, and meet in their own special power-trippy room of [[Low Library]] once in awhile.

All power in the university flows from the Trustees because Columbia is, legally speaking, a [[University Charter|state chartered corporation]] called the "Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York" (just like it says at the top of your [[diploma]]). This entity is sometimes colloquially referred to as the "'''Columbia Corporation'''", as distinguished from parts/affiliates of the University that are separate legal entities, such as [[Barnard College]], or [[Columbia University Press]]. The trustees are therefore akin to the Board of Directors of a corporation, and the [[University President]] its CEO.

==History==

The [[Royal charter]] granted by [[King George II]] in [[1754]] gave power to "the Governors of the College in the Province of New York in the City of New York in America", making them a corporate body. The Trustees as we known them today, however, only came into being after Columbia was returned to private trusteeship in [[1787]], after a three-year post-Revolutionary War experiment in state control by the New York Board of Regents. [[Alexander Hamilton]], then a Regent, was instrumental in investing the members of the original King's College Board of Governors with the same power under the new "Trustees of Columbia College in the City of New York," which was to extend "in perpetual succession," according to the "original intent" of the 1754 charter.

The full powers of the Trustees are enumerated in the most recent full promulgation of the [[University Charter|charter]], passed in [[1810]] (and since amended a few times). The name of the corporation was changed to the "Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York" through a court order in [[1912]], sixteen years after the Trustees had voted to rename Columbia College into Columbia University.

==Powers==

Among their other duties, including the selection of the [[University President]] and overseeing all senior faculty and administrative appointments, monitoring the budget and [[endowment]], and amending the [[University Statutes]] - Columbia's administrative code - the trustees have the true power to grant [[degrees]] to any Columbia school or affiliated institution (although [[Barnard College]] has its own trustees, its students have received their degrees from Columbia's trustees, dating back to Barnard's predecessor, the [[1883]] [[Plan for the Education of Women in Connection to Columbia College|Plan for the Education of Women]]). [[Diplomas]] accordingly begin with (in English variations) "The Trustees of Columbia University" or (in [[Latin phrases|Latin]] variations) "Curatores Universitatis Columbiae".

== By-laws and Resolutions ==
*By-Laws:
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=uz8ZAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false By-Laws and Rules of Order of the Trustees as adopted March 7, 1892 (1892)]
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=l3zOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false By-Laws and Rules of Order of the Trustees as adopted March 7, 1892 with Amendments (1901)]
*Resolutions:
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=FFg9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false Resolutions Passed by the Trustees of Columbia College 1820-1868]
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=EaS9N9AeAZgC&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false Resolutions Passed by the Trustees of Columbia College 1868-1874]
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=uHzOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Resolutions Passed by the Trustees of Columbia College 1874-1879]
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=h109AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Resolutions Passed by the Trustees of Columbia College 1880-1885]
**[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101067944437;view=1up;seq=1 Resolutions of the Trustees Vol. XII-XVII 1891-1898]
**[https://archive.org/details/resolutionsadopt00colu Resolutions Adopted by the Trustees of Columbia College October 3, 1898 to June 1, 1903]
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=rFg9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false Resolutions Adopted by the Trustees of Columbia College October, 1903 to June, 1909]

== See also ==
* [[University Statutes]]
* [[University Charter]]

==External links==
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/secretary/docs/trustees/background-information.html Backgrounds of the current Trustees]
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/secretary/docs/trustees/trustees-emeriti.html List of Trustees emeriti]

[[Category:University components]]
[[Category:Trustees|*]]

Trustees

2018-09-24T23:12:27Z

Absentminded:

[[Image:Trustees room.JPG|thumb|right|The Trustees' baller hideout inside [[Low Library]]. The portrait over the fireplace is of the first president of [[King's College]], [[Samuel Johnson]]]]

The '''Trustees of Columbia University''' (or '''Board of Trustees''' or just '''Trustees''') truly pwn the University, and meet in their own special power-trippy room of [[Low Library]] once in awhile.

All power in the university flows from the Trustees because Columbia is, legally speaking, a [[University Charter|state chartered corporation]] called the "Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York" (just like it says at the top of your [[diploma]]). This entity is sometimes colloquially referred to as the "'''Columbia Corporation'''", as distinguished from parts/affiliates of the University that are separate legal entities, such as [[Barnard College]], or [[Columbia University Press]]. The trustees are therefore akin to the Board of Directors of a corporation, and the [[University President]] its CEO.

==History==

The [[Royal charter]] granted by [[King George II]] in [[1754]] gave power to "the Governors of the College in the Province of New York in the City of New York in America", making them a corporate body. The Trustees as we known them today, however, only came into being after Columbia was returned to private trusteeship in [[1787]], after a three-year post-Revolutionary War experiment in state control by the New York Board of Regents. [[Alexander Hamilton]], then a Regent, was instrumental in investing the members of the original King's College Board of Governors with the same power under the new "Trustees of Columbia College in the City of New York," which was to extend "in perpetual succession," according to the "original intent" of the 1754 charter.

The full powers of the Trustees are enumerated in the most recent full promulgation of the [[University Charter|charter]], passed in [[1810]] (and since amended a few times). The name of the corporation was changed to the "Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York" through a court order in [[1912]], sixteen years after the Trustees had voted to rename Columbia College into Columbia University.

==Powers==

Among their other duties, including the selection of the [[University President]] and overseeing all senior faculty and administrative appointments, monitoring the budget and [[endowment]], and amending the [[University Statutes]] - Columbia's administrative code - the trustees have the true power to grant [[degrees]] to any Columbia school or affiliated institution (although [[Barnard College]] has its own trustees, its students have received their degrees from Columbia's trustees, dating back to Barnard's predecessor, the [[1883]] [[Plan for the Education of Women in Connection to Columbia College|Plan for the Education of Women]]). [[Diplomas]] accordingly begin with (in English variations) "The Trustees of Columbia University" or (in [[Latin phrases|Latin]] variations) "Curatores Universitatis Columbiae".

== By-laws and Resolutions ==
*By-Laws:
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=uz8ZAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false By-Laws and Rules of Order of the Trustees as adopted March 7, 1892 (1892)]
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=l3zOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false By-Laws and Rules of Order of the Trustees as adopted March 7, 1892 with Amendments (1901)]
*Resolutions:
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=FFg9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false Resolutions Passed by the Trustees of Columbia College 1820-1868]
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=EaS9N9AeAZgC&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false Resolutions Passed by the Trustees of Columbia College 1868-1874]
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=uHzOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Resolutions Passed by the Trustees of Columbia College 1874-1879]
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=h109AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Resolutions Passed by the Trustees of Columbia College 1880-1885]
**[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101067944437;view=1up;seq=1 Resolutions of the Trustees Vol. XII-XVII 1891-1898]
**[http://wackzut.archive.org/details/resolutionsadopt00colu Resolutions Adopted by the Trustees of Columbia College October 3, 1898 to June 1, 1903]
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=rFg9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false Resolutions Adopted by the Trustees of Columbia College October, 1903 to June, 1909]

== See also ==
* [[University Statutes]]
* [[University Charter]]

==External links==
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/secretary/docs/trustees/background-information.html Backgrounds of the current Trustees]
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/secretary/docs/trustees/trustees-emeriti.html List of Trustees emeriti]

[[Category:University components]]
[[Category:Trustees|*]]

Annual Reports of the President to the Trustees

2018-09-24T23:01:08Z

Absentminded:

The '''Annual Reports of the President to the Trustees''' were started by President [[Frederick A. P. Barnard]] as a public platform for proclaiming his vision for Columbia College, much to the consternation of the [[Trustees]]. The tradition of published reports continued with his [[President of Columbia University|successors]], and they leave a neat and tidy history.

==Reports of the President==
===Reports of President Barnard===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=rzQZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1866]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=H1kdAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1870]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=z08dAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1885]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=bPxNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1886]
*[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015058394548;view=1up;seq=9 1886-1890] (includes Report of Acting President Drisler in 1889, and Report of President Low in 1890)
===Reports of President Low===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=UG4MAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5#v=onepage&q&f=false 1891]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=t_BNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1896]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=QzUZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP3#v=onepage&q&f=false 1901]

===Reports of President Butler===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=GlEdAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1902]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=dTUZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1903]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=61AdAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1904]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=q-xNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1906]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=w24MAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1907]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=fe1NAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1910]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=nu9NAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1913]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=7S7blnVBzosC&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1915]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=8-9NAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1917]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=qvFNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1920]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=APzeVbGCZiYC&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1921]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=NyIZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1922]

===Reports of President Rupp===
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/report/98/index.html Five Year Report 1993-1998]
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/report/99/index.html 1999]
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/report/00/index.html 2000]

===Reports of President Bollinger===
[http://fiveyear.columbia.edu/ Five Year Report 2002-2007]

==See also==
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=2fnEAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Annual reports of Chief Librarian Melvil Dewey 1884-1889]

[[Category:University publications]]
[[Category:Office of the President]]

Dean of Columbia College

2018-09-24T06:02:40Z

Absentminded:

The '''Dean of Columbia College''' is the highest-ranking official in [[Columbia College]] and is the head of the administration for the College.<ref>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/secretary/pdf_and_word/trustees_charter_july08.pdf</ref>

The College is a sub-unit of the [[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]]. As such, the Dean reports to the [[Nicholas Dirks|Vice President for Arts and Sciences]], who in turn reports to the [[Provost]]. The Dean of Columbia College therefore has more limited powers than his or her counterpart, the Dean of [[SEAS]].

The current Dean of Columbia College is [[James Valentini]], who took over as the sixteenth Dean of Columbia College in [[2011]], after [[Michele Moody-Adams]] resigned. Dean Valentini is also the Vice-President for Undergraduate Student Life and is a full member of the [[University Senate]] as well as the [[Columbia College Alumni Association]].

== History of the Deanship ==
The Deanship of the College was established for the first time in [[1890]] as part of a reorganization of the university, and long-time classics professor [[Henry Drisler]] was selected to hold this position with the title of Dean of the School of Arts. In [[1894]], [[John Howard Van Amringe]] was elected as Drisler's successor, and in [[1896]] his title became "Dean of Columbia College" when the [[Trustees]] voted to rename the School of Arts "Columbia College," at the same time that they renamed the entire school "Columbia University."

This confusing line of succession arises from the confusing history of the period when the undergraduate arts and sciences division of the institution had not yet inherited the title "Columbia College". For most of Columbia's first century of existence, Columbia the institution and Columbia the undergraduate school were one and the same, and so the President of Columbia was necessarily (and, really, only) the head of an undergraduate liberal arts college. Between [[1860]] and [[1890]], that changed with the opening of the [[SEAS|School of Mines]], the [[GSAPP|School of Architecture]], the conversion of the College's "law department" into the [[School of Law]], and the foundation of a [[Graduate School of Arts and Sciences|Graduate School]], and the re-affiliation of the [[College of Physicians and Surgeons]]. Columbia became a university in all but name (as [[Dartmouth College]] remains today). In order to distinguish the undergraduate arts and sciences division within Columbia College, this division was first given its own title, the "School of Letters and Science" in [[1865]]-[[1866]]. It's unclear at what exact point the [[President of Columbia University|President of Columbia College]] began delegating control of the undergraduate division to others prior to the formal establishment of a deanship. At some point a [[Board of the College]], a body consisting the the [[President of Columbia University|President of Columbia]], and all professors in a "sub-graduate" course of instruction with the power to try student offences, determine student standing, adjudge awards and punishments, and prescribing a course of study, came into existence.

In addition to the existence of the Board of the College, the restyling of the undergraduate liberal arts college as the "School of Letters and Science" coincided with the appointment of [[John Howard Van Amringe]], then only an Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, as the "Secretary of the Faculty of Arts" in the 1865-1866 school year.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=cjQbAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA72#v=onepage&q&f=false Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Columbia College 1865-1866] pgs. 6, 9-11</ref> [[1879]]-[[1880]] Van Amringe's title became the Secretary of the [[Board of the College]], and after the Deanship of the College was established, he acceded to the office of "Secretary of the School of Arts", which he resigned following his election as the second Dean. (He was succeeded by Professor [[Henry Peck]] in the office of Secretary.)

==="First" Dean of the College===
There is some confusion over who deserves the title of "First Dean" of the College. Conventional wisdom grants [[John Howard Van Amringe]] the place of honor. Columbia College's webpage listing past deans begins with Van Amringe and lists the beginning date of his tenure as [[1896]].<ref>[http://www.college.columbia.edu/about/dean/past Past Deans of Columbia College - Columbia College]</ref> Similarly, in the online appendices to his 250th Anniversary history of Columbia, "Stand, Columbia", history Professor [[Robert McCaughey]] also begins his history of College deans with Van Amringe, though crediting [[1894]] as the beginning date of his tenure.<ref>[http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/stand_columbia/dean-cc.html Appendix A 2.8 Deans of Columbia College, 1894 - 2003]. McCaughey's appendices neatly encapsulate the confusion, as, ironically, in a timeline in another part of the appendix, he writes that in [[1894]] "John Howard Van Amringe (CC 1860) succeeds first Dean of Columbia College, Henry Drisler (CC 1839); to serve until 1910." [http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/stand_columbia/TimelineCore.html Appendix F 11 The Columbia Core Curriculum, 1888-1959]. In a third appendix timeline, he writes that in [[1894]] "Mathematics Professor John Howard Van Amringe (CC 1860) succeeds Henry Drisler as head of Columbia College and its first designated Dean of Columbia College; to serve until his retirement in 1910." [http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/stand_columbia/TimelineECU.htm Appendix F3 Early Columbia University Timeline, 1858 - 1901]</ref>

However, historical records point instead towards Henry Drisler. When Columbia reorganized its schools and faculties in [[1890]] and created the office of the Dean, Drisler was the first occupant of the office.<ref>See generally, [http://books.google.com/books?id=56zOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA44#v=onepage&q&f=false Drisler Jubilee - Columbia University Bulletin, July 1894, Vol. 8]</ref> Similarly, the record makes clear that Van Amringe succeeded Drisler.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=56zOAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA6-PA4#v=onepage&f=false Notes from Board of Trustees Meeting of March 5, 1894 - Columbia University Bulletin, July 1894, Vol. 8, Pg. 4]</ref> Van Amringe did not change offices in [[1896]], but merely the precise wording of his title. This view is borne out in records such as the General Catalogue of Officers and Alumni of the University of [[1900]], printed 4 years after the name change, which provides only one list of College deans, beginning it with Drisler<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=ibkmAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA47#v=onepage&q&f=false]</ref>, or the [[Columbia Alumni News]] of February [[1911]], referring to Drisler as the "first Dean of Columbia College"<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=OErOAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA309&dq=%22first%20dean%20of%20columbia%20college%22&pg=PA309#v=onepage&q=%22first%20dean%20of%20columbia%20college%22&f=false Columbia Alumni News] Vol. 2, 2 Feb 1911, pg 309</ref>, or the volume of the Bicentennial History of Columbia University dedicated to the history of the College, in which [[Lionel Trilling]] referred to Drisler as the "Dean of the College" and Van Amringe his successor.<ref>[http://archive.org/stream/historyofcolumbi012462mbp#page/n31/mode/2up A History of Columbia College on Morningside] pg. 14</ref>, or in a history of the Deanship published in the Spectator in 1967 which establishes similar facts. <ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19670210-01.2.26 The Deanship: 'New' Office in an Old College], Columbia Spectator, 10 Feb 1967</ref>

The one argument in favor of honoring Van Amringe with the title is that he eventually became Dean of "Columbia College" while Drisler only served as Dean of the "School of Arts." Of course, using similar reasoning, all [[President of Columbia University|Presidents of Columbia University]] before [[Seth Low]] should not be counted, since the school only adopted that name in [[1896]]. Of course that would be nonsensical. It seems however at some point to have slipped into the preferred stylings of the Deans, as for example in a [[1962]] Spectator article which referred to Van Amringe as the "first Dean of Columbia College."<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19620219-01.2.30 Van Amringe Wrote First Report], Columbia Spectator, 19 Feb 1962</ref> Similarly, in a timeline of Columbia 250 years, [[Columbia College Today]] noted that in [[1894]] "Mathematics Professor John Howard Van Amringe (Class of 1860) succeeds Henry Drisler as dean of the School of the Arts; in 1896, he becomes the first dean of the College." One final technical note in Van Amringe's favor is that he was elected to serve as acting dean during Drisler's absence towards the beginning of his tenure, if in fact it occurred at the very outset.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=MCQiAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA19#v=onepage&f=false Columbia University Bulletin, July 1890, Vol. 1, Pg. 19]</ref>

== List of Deans of Columbia College ==
* [[Henry Drisler]] (as Dean of the School of the Arts 1890-1894)
* [[John Howard Van Amringe]] (as Dean of the School of the Arts 1894-1896, Dean of Columbia College from 1896 onwards)
* [[Frederick Paul Keppel]]
* [[Herbert E. Hawkes]]
* [[Harry J. Carman]]
* [[Lawrence H. Chamberlain]]
* [[John Gorham Palfrey]]
* [[David B. Truman]]
* [[Carl Hovde]]
* [[Peter Pouncey]]
* [[Arnold Collery]]
* [[Robert Pollack]]
* [[Jack Greenberg]]
* [[Steven Marcus]]
* [[Austin E. Quigley]]
* [[Michele M. Moody-Adams]]
* [[James Valentini]]
===List of Acting Deans===
* [[John Howard Van Amringe]]
* [[Herbert E. Hawkes]]
* [[John W. Alexander]]
* [[Henry Coleman]]
* [[Robert Belknap]]
* [[James Valentini]]

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:Columbia College]]

Pell Hall

2018-09-23T21:29:09Z

Absentminded:

'''Pell Hall''' was a building designated to be built with funds from a bequest by Mary Bogert Pell, widow of John H. Pell Class of 1852. Although the bequest was reported in 1913, and the money was reportedly received in 1928, no building was ever erected.

== Pell Bequest==
Mary Bogert Pell passed away in May 1913. Her will provided for gifts to be made to the Dutch Reformed Church, Columbia, and [[Rutgers]].<ref>The text of the bequest: [http://books.google.com/books?id=PTc4AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA607 "Charters, Acts of the Legislature, Official Documents and Records"], Pgs. 607-608. Compiled by John B. Pine in 1920.</ref><ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2249&dat=19140519&id=SGknAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EQQGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3025,3737871 "LARGE BEQUESTS TO COLLEGES - Columbia and Rutgers Given Nearly Half a Million in Pell Will"], Boston Evening Transcript, 19 May 1914.</ref><ref>[http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/New%20York%20NY%20Press/New%20York%20NY%20Press%201914/New%20York%20NY%20Press%201914%20-%200082.pdf "Nearly $400,000,000 In Benefactions Is American Record For Year 1913"], The New York Magazine, Part VII, 4 January 1914.</ref> Initial reports valued the bequests at between $500,000 and $1,000,000 per institution.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8RFLAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA939#v=onepage&q&f=false Science], Vol. 37, No. 964, Pg. 939, 20 June 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=2VpGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA494#v=onepage&q&f=false Nature], Vol. 91, Pg. 493, 10 July 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=Yx4BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA513#v=onepage&q&f=false The American Education Review], Vol. 34, No. 10, Pg. 513, July 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=oDQoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia University Quarterly], Vol. 16, No. 1, Pg. 82</ref> Subsequent estimates would revise the value of the bequest to Columbia down to approximately $272,000.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19140520-01.2.4 "Columbia Beneficiary Under Pell Will"], Columbia Spectator, 20 May 1914</ref> The gift was among the largest the school had received, and the first gift specifically for the construction of a building since [[Joseph Pultizer]]'s gift to establish the [[School of Journalism]] and erect [[Pulitzer Hall]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lIohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA758#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 5, No. 36, Pg. 758, 10 July 1914</ref><ref>Ironically, much like Columbia never built Pell Hall, Columbia also ignored the fact that Pulitzer's bequest required that the building bear his name for almost 100 years.</ref>

The gifts to Rutgers and the Reformed Church were intended for buildings honoring Pell's father, Wessel Wessels, while the gift to Columbia was intended to honor her late husband and Columbia alumnus, John Henry Pell, Class of 1852. The bequest was tied up in real estate investments subject to [[w:Life estate|life estates]], presumably with the beneficiaries as [[w:Remainderman|remainderman]], so they did not immediately come into the money. It's unclear whether the Reformed Church constructed their memorial to Wessels.<ref>There is a reference to the completion of a "Wessel s Memorial Building" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=oxkOdII1eU4C&pg=PA190#v=onepage&q&f=false "A Digest and Index of the Minutes of of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America"], Pg. 190</ref> Rutgers erected Wessels Hall, a dormitory, with Pell's gift by 1930, and also named a companion dormitory after Pell herself.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100706104712/http://housing.rutgers.edu/ie/index.php?page=content/Common/Halls/CollegeAve/Pell.php Pell Hall]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100706095340/http://housing.rutgers.edu/ie/index.php?page=content/Common/Halls/CollegeAve/Wessels.php Wessels Hall]</ref><ref>[http://rumaps.rutgers.edu/location.jsp?id=C137419 RUMaps - Pell Hall]</ref><ref>[http://rumaps.rutgers.edu/location.jsp?id=C137418 RUMaps - Wessels Hall]</ref>

Columbia on the other hand, never built Pell Hall despite the fact that [[President]] [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] included the receipt of $269,686.46 from the estate of Mary B. Pell in a list of legacies and bequests received by the University in an October 1928 announcement,<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19281015-01.2.20 "President Butler Announces the Receipt Of Legacies, Bequests Totaling $500,000"], Columbia Spectator, 15 Oct 1928</ref> and in his [[Annual Reports of the President to the Trustees|annual report]] delivered to the [[Trustees]] in January of 1929 (though this time it was reported to be in the amount of $258,185.82).<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19290107-01.2.20 "Butler Report Shows Prospect of Deficit; Cites List of Achievements of Past Year"], Columbia Spectator, 7 Jan 1929</ref> One possibility is that by 1928, the gift was insufficient to fund a building - while [[Furnald Hall]], whose cornerstone was laid in December 1912 shortly before Pell's death, was funded by a similar sized $300,000 gift, [[John Jay Hall]], constructed between 1925-1927, shortly before the bequest was received, was funded by the University itself to the tune of approximately $1.8 million - significantly more than the Pell bequest.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O4ohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA201#v=onepage&q&f=false "Furnald Cornerstone Laid"], Columbia Alumni News, Vol. 4, No. 14, Pg. 201, 13 December 1913; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19250204-01.2.6 "Trustees Decide To Build Students Hall As Soon As Weather Conditions Permits; Will Raise University Tuition Fee in July"], Columbia Spectator, 4 February 1925</ref> Of course, John Jay is a substantially larger building than Furnald.

== Location ==
It appears that Pell Hall was initially intended to be a dormitory constructed immediately south of [[Furnald Hall]] - a [[Wallach Hall|Wallach]] to Furnald's [[Hartley Hall| Hartley]].<ref>The clearest references to location are with respect to a proposed building for the Philolexian Society, which multiple reports described as to be built between Furnald Hall and the anticipated Pell Hall. The Philolexian building was never constructed. [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19150531-01.2.15 "Two Generations at Philolexian Dinner"], Columbia Spectator, 31 May 1915; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19160313-01.2.6 "Philolexian Holds Annual Banquet"], Columbia Spectator, 13 March 1916; [https://books.google.com/books?id=DY0hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA744#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 7, No. 24, Pg. 744, 17, March 1916; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19160511-01.2.8 "Launch Campaign for Philo House"], Columbia Spectator, 11 May 1916</ref> However, no permanent structure was erected south of Furnald until [[Ferris Booth Hall]], which was completed in 1960. At least one source, describing a proposal for [[Van Amringe Memorial Quadrangle]] in 1916, noted that the as-of-yet unbuilt structure opposite [[Hamilton Hall]] might one day be Pell Hall.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=DY0hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA983&lpg=PA983#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 7 No. 34, Pg. 983, 26 May 1916</ref> Of course, when [[John Jay Hall|a dormitory]] finally rose in that location in 1927, it was ultimately named after John Jay.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category: Unbuilt buildings]]

Pell Hall

2018-09-23T21:26:54Z

Absentminded:

'''Pell Hall''' was a building designated to be built with funds from a bequest by Mary Bogert Pell, widow of John H. Pell Class of 1852. Although the bequest was reported in 1913, and the money was reportedly received in 1928, no building was ever erected.

== Pell Bequest==
Mary Bogert Pell passed away in May 1913. Her will provided for gifts to be made to the Dutch Reformed Church, Columbia, and [[Rutgers]].<ref>The text of the bequest: [http://books.google.com/books?id=PTc4AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA607 "Charters, Acts of the Legislature, Official Documents and Records"], Pgs. 607-608. Compiled by John B. Pine in 1920.</ref><ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2249&dat=19140519&id=SGknAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EQQGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3025,3737871 "LARGE BEQUESTS TO COLLEGES - Columbia and Rutgers Given Nearly Half a Million in Pell Will"], Boston Evening Transcript, 19 May 1914.</ref><ref>[http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/New%20York%20NY%20Press/New%20York%20NY%20Press%201914/New%20York%20NY%20Press%201914%20-%200082.pdf "Nearly $400,000,000 In Benefactions Is American Record For Year 1913"], The New York Magazine, Part VII, 4 January 1914.</ref> Initial reports valued the bequests at between $500,000 and $1,000,000 per institution.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8RFLAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA939#v=onepage&q&f=false Science], Vol. 37, No. 964, Pg. 939, 20 June 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=2VpGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA494#v=onepage&q&f=false Nature], Vol. 91, Pg. 493, 10 July 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=Yx4BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA513#v=onepage&q&f=false The American Education Review], Vol. 34, No. 10, Pg. 513, July 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=oDQoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia University Quarterly], Vol. 16, No. 1, Pg. 82</ref> Subsequent estimates would revise the value of the bequest to Columbia down to approximately $272,000.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19140520-01.2.4 "Columbia Beneficiary Under Pell Will"], Columbia Spectator, 20 May 1914</ref> The gift was among the largest the school had received, and the first gift specifically for the construction of a building since [[Joseph Pultizer]]'s gift to establish the [[School of Journalism]] and erect [[Pulitzer Hall]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lIohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA758#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 5, No. 36, Pg. 758, 10 July 1914</ref><ref>Ironically, much like Columbia never built Pell Hall, Columbia also ignored the fact that Pulitzer's bequest required that the building bear his name for almost 100 years.</ref>

The gifts to Rutgers and the Reformed Church were intended for buildings honoring Pell's father, Wessel Wessels, while the gift to Columbia was intended to honor her late husband and Columbia alumnus, John Henry Pell, Class of 1852. The bequest was tied up in real estate investments subject to [[w:Life estate|life estates]], presumably with the beneficiaries as [[w:Remainderman|remainderman]], so they did not immediately come into the money. It's unclear whether the Reformed Church constructed their memorial to Wessels.<ref>There is a reference to the completion of a "Wessel s Memorial Building" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=oxkOdII1eU4C&pg=PA190#v=onepage&q&f=false "A Digest and Index of the Minutes of of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America"], Pg. 190</ref> Rutgers erected Wessels Hall, a dormitory, with Pell's gift by 1930, and also named a companion dormitory after Pell herself.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100706104712/http://housing.rutgers.edu/ie/index.php?page=content/Common/Halls/CollegeAve/Pell.php Pell Hall]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100706095340/http://housing.rutgers.edu/ie/index.php?page=content/Common/Halls/CollegeAve/Wessels.php Wessels Hall]</ref><ref>[http://rumaps.rutgers.edu/location.jsp?id=C137419 RUMaps - Pell Hall]</ref><ref>[http://rumaps.rutgers.edu/location.jsp?id=C137418 RUMaps - Wessels Hall]</ref>

Columbia on the other hand, never built Pell Hall despite the fact that [[President]] [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] included the receipt of $269,686.46 from the estate of Mary B. Pell in a list of legacies and bequests received by the University in an October 1928 announcement,<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19281015-01.2.20 "President Butler Announces the Receipt Of Legacies, Bequests Totaling $500,000"], Columbia Spectator, 15 Oct 1928</ref> and in his [[Annual Reports of the President to the Trustees|annual report]] delivered to the [[Trustees]] in January of 1929 (though this time it was reported to be in the amount of $258,185.82).<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19290107-01.2.20 "Butler Report Shows Prospect of Deficit; Cites List of Achievements of Past Year"], Columbia Spectator, 7 Jan 1929</ref> One possibility is that by 1928, the gift was insufficient to fund a building - while [[Furnald Hall]], whose cornerstone was laid in December 1912 shortly before Pell's death, was funded by a similar sized $300,000 gift, [[John Jay Hall]], constructed between 1925-1927, shortly before the bequest was received, was funded by the University itself to the tune of approximately $1.8 million - significantly more than the Pell bequest.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O4ohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA201#v=onepage&q&f=false "Furnald Cornerstone Laid"], Columbia Alumni News, Vol. 4, No. 14, Pg. 201, 13 December 1913; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19250204-01.2.6 "Trustees Decide To Build Students Hall As Soon As Weather Conditions Permits; Will Raise University Tuition Fee in July"], Columbia Spectator, 4 February 1925</ref> Of course, John Jay is a substantially larger building than Furnald.

== Location ==
It appears that Pell Hall was initially intended to be a dormitory constructed immediately south of [[Furnald Hall]] - a [[Wallach Hall|Wallach]] to Furnald's [[Hartley Hall| Hartley]].<ref>The clearest references to location are with respect to a proposed building for the Philolexian Society, which multiple reports described as to be built between Furnald Hall and the anticipated Pell Hall. The Philolexian building was never constructed. [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19150531-01.2.15 "Two Generations at Philolexian Dinner"], Columbia Spectator, 31 May 1915; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19160313-01.2.6 "Philolexian Holds Annual Banquet"], Columbia Spectator, 13 March 1916; [https://books.google.com/books?id=DY0hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA744#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 7, No. 24, Pg. 744, 17, March 1916; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19160511-01.2.8 "Launch Campaign for Philo House"], Columbia Spectator, 11 May 1916</ref> However, no permanent structure was erected south of Furnald until [[Ferris Booth Hall]]. At least one source, describing a proposal for [[Van Amringe Memorial Quadrangle]] in 1916, noted that the as-of-yet unbuilt structure opposite [[Hamilton Hall]] might one day be Pell Hall.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=DY0hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA983&lpg=PA983#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 7 No. 34, Pg. 983, 26 May 1916</ref> Of course, when [[John Jay Hall|a dormitory]] finally rose in that location in 1927, it was ultimately named after John Jay.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category: Unbuilt buildings]]

Pell Hall

2018-09-23T21:25:59Z

Absentminded:

'''Pell Hall''' was a building designated to be built with funds from a bequest by Mary Bogert Pell, widow of John H. Pell Class of 1852. Although the bequest was reported in 1913, and the money was reportedly received in 1928, no building was ever erected.

== Pell Bequest==
Mary Bogert Pell passed away in May 1913. Her will provided for gifts to be made to the Dutch Reformed Church, Columbia, and [[Rutgers]].<ref>The text of the bequest: [http://books.google.com/books?id=PTc4AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA607 "Charters, Acts of the Legislature, Official Documents and Records"], Pgs. 607-608. Compiled by John B. Pine in 1920.</ref><ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2249&dat=19140519&id=SGknAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EQQGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3025,3737871 "LARGE BEQUESTS TO COLLEGES - Columbia and Rutgers Given Nearly Half a Million in Pell Will"], Boston Evening Transcript, 19 May 1914.</ref><ref>[http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/New%20York%20NY%20Press/New%20York%20NY%20Press%201914/New%20York%20NY%20Press%201914%20-%200082.pdf "Nearly $400,000,000 In Benefactions Is American Record For Year 1913"], The New York Magazine, Part VII, 4 January 1914.</ref> Initial reports valued the bequests at between $500,000 and $1,000,000 per institution.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8RFLAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA939#v=onepage&q&f=false Science], Vol. 37, No. 964, Pg. 939, 20 June 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=2VpGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA494#v=onepage&q&f=false Nature], Vol. 91, Pg. 493, 10 July 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=Yx4BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA513#v=onepage&q&f=false The American Education Review], Vol. 34, No. 10, Pg. 513, July 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=oDQoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia University Quarterly], Vol. 16, No. 1, Pg. 82</ref> Subsequent estimates would revise the value of the bequest to Columbia down to approximately $272,000.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19140520-01.2.4 "Columbia Beneficiary Under Pell Will"], Columbia Spectator, 20 May 1914</ref> The gift was among the largest the school had received, and the first gift specifically for the construction of a building since [[Joseph Pultizer]]'s gift to establish the [[School of Journalism]] and erect [[Pulitzer Hall]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lIohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA758#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 5, No. 36, Pg. 758, 10 July 1914</ref><ref>Ironically, much like Columbia never built Pell Hall, Columbia also ignored the fact that Pulitzer's bequest required that the building bear his name for almost 100 years.</ref>

The gifts to Rutgers and the Reformed Church were intended for buildings honoring Pell's father, Wessel Wessels, while the gift to Columbia was intended to honor her late husband and Columbia alumnus, John Henry Pell, Class of 1852. The bequest was tied up in real estate investments subject to [[w:Life estate|life estates]], presumably with the beneficiaries as [[w:Remainderman|remainderman]], so they did not immediately come into the money. It's unclear whether the Reformed Church constructed their memorial to Wessels.<ref>There is a reference to the completion of a "Wessel s Memorial Building" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=oxkOdII1eU4C&pg=PA190#v=onepage&q&f=false "A Digest and Index of the Minutes of of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America"], Pg. 190</ref> Rutgers erected Wessels Hall, a dormitory, with Pell's gift by 1930, and also named a companion dormitory after Pell herself.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100706104712/http://housing.rutgers.edu/ie/index.php?page=content/Common/Halls/CollegeAve/Pell.php Pell Hall]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100706095340/http://housing.rutgers.edu/ie/index.php?page=content/Common/Halls/CollegeAve/Wessels.php Wessels Hall]</ref><ref>[http://rumaps.rutgers.edu/location.jsp?id=C137419 RUMaps - Pell Hall]</ref><ref>[http://rumaps.rutgers.edu/location.jsp?id=C137418 RUMaps - Wessels Hall]</ref>

Columbia on the other hand, never built Pell Hall despite the fact that [[President]] [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] included the receipt of $269,686.46 from the estate of Mary B. Pell in a list of legacies and bequests received by the University in an October 1928 announcement,<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19281015-01.2.20 "President Butler Announces the Receipt Of Legacies, Bequests Totaling $500,000"], Columbia Spectator, 15 Oct 1928</ref> and in his [[Annual Reports of the President to the Trustees|annual report]] delivered to the [[Trustees]] in January of 1929 (though this time it was reported to be in the amount of $258,185.82).<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19290107-01.2.20 "Butler Report Shows Prospect of Deficit; Cites List of Achievements of Past Year"], Columbia Spectator, 7 Jan 1929</ref> One possibility is that by 1928, the gift was insufficient to fund a building - while [[Furnald Hall]], whose cornerstone was laid in December 1912 shortly before Pell's death, was funded by a similar sized $300,000 gift, [[John Jay Hall]], constructed between 1925-1927, shortly before the bequest was received, was funded by the University itself to the tune of approximately $1.8 million - significantly more than the Pell bequest.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O4ohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA201#v=onepage&q&f=false "Furnald Cornerstone Laid"], Columbia Alumni News, Vol. 4, No. 14, Pg. 201, 13 December 1913; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19250204-01.2.6 "Trustees Decide To Build Students Hall As Soon As Weather Conditions Permits; Will Raise University Tuition Fee in July"], Columbia Spectator, 4 February 1925</ref>

== Location ==
It appears that Pell Hall was initially intended to be a dormitory constructed immediately south of [[Furnald Hall]] - a [[Wallach Hall|Wallach]] to Furnald's [[Hartley Hall| Hartley]].<ref>The clearest references to location are with respect to a proposed building for the Philolexian Society, which multiple reports described as to be built between Furnald Hall and the anticipated Pell Hall. The Philolexian building was never constructed. [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19150531-01.2.15 "Two Generations at Philolexian Dinner"], Columbia Spectator, 31 May 1915; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19160313-01.2.6 "Philolexian Holds Annual Banquet"], Columbia Spectator, 13 March 1916; [https://books.google.com/books?id=DY0hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA744#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 7, No. 24, Pg. 744, 17, March 1916; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19160511-01.2.8 "Launch Campaign for Philo House"], Columbia Spectator, 11 May 1916</ref> However, no permanent structure was erected south of Furnald until [[Ferris Booth Hall]]. At least one source, describing a proposal for [[Van Amringe Memorial Quadrangle]] in 1916, noted that the as-of-yet unbuilt structure opposite [[Hamilton Hall]] might one day be Pell Hall.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=DY0hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA983&lpg=PA983#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 7 No. 34, Pg. 983, 26 May 1916</ref> Of course, when [[John Jay Hall|a dormitory]] finally rose in that location in 1927, it was ultimately named after John Jay.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category: Unbuilt buildings]]

Pell Hall

2018-09-23T21:23:23Z

Absentminded:

'''Pell Hall''' was a building designated to be built with funds from a bequest by Mary Bogert Pell, widow of John H. Pell Class of 1852. Although the bequest was reported in 1913, and the money was reportedly received in 1928, no building was ever erected.

== Pell Bequest==
Mary Bogert Pell passed away in May 1913. Her will provided for gifts to be made to the Dutch Reformed Church, Columbia, and [[Rutgers]].<ref>The text of the bequest: [http://books.google.com/books?id=PTc4AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA607 "Charters, Acts of the Legislature, Official Documents and Records"], Pgs. 607-608. Compiled by John B. Pine in 1920.</ref><ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2249&dat=19140519&id=SGknAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EQQGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3025,3737871 "LARGE BEQUESTS TO COLLEGES - Columbia and Rutgers Given Nearly Half a Million in Pell Will"], Boston Evening Transcript, 19 May 1914.</ref><ref>[http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/New%20York%20NY%20Press/New%20York%20NY%20Press%201914/New%20York%20NY%20Press%201914%20-%200082.pdf "Nearly $400,000,000 In Benefactions Is American Record For Year 1913"], The New York Magazine, Part VII, 4 January 1914.</ref> Initial reports valued the bequests at between $500,000 and $1,000,000 per institution.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8RFLAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA939#v=onepage&q&f=false Science], Vol. 37, No. 964, Pg. 939, 20 June 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=2VpGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA494#v=onepage&q&f=false Nature], Vol. 91, Pg. 493, 10 July 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=Yx4BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA513#v=onepage&q&f=false The American Education Review], Vol. 34, No. 10, Pg. 513, July 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=oDQoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia University Quarterly], Vol. 16, No. 1, Pg. 82</ref> Subsequent estimates would revise the value of the bequest to Columbia down to approximately $272,000.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19140520-01.2.4 "Columbia Beneficiary Under Pell Will"], Columbia Spectator, 20 May 1914</ref> The gift was among the largest the school had received, and the first gift specifically for the construction of a building since [[Joseph Pultizer]]'s gift to establish the [[School of Journalism]] and erect [[Pulitzer Hall]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lIohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA758#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 5, No. 36, Pg. 758, 10 July 1914</ref><ref>Ironically, much like Columbia never built Pell Hall, Columbia also ignored the fact that Pulitzer's bequest required that the building bear his name for almost 100 years.</ref>

The gifts to Rutgers and the Reformed Church were intended for buildings honoring Pell's father, Wessel Wessels, while the gift to Columbia was intended to honor her late husband and Columbia alumnus, John Henry Pell, Class of 1852. The bequest was tied up in real estate investments subject to [[w:Life estate|life estates]], presumably with the beneficiaries as [[w:Remainderman|remainderman]], so they did not immediately come into the money. It's unclear whether the Reformed Church constructed their memorial to Wessels.<ref>There is a reference to the completion of a "Wessel s Memorial Building" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=oxkOdII1eU4C&pg=PA190#v=onepage&q&f=false "A Digest and Index of the Minutes of of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America"], Pg. 190</ref> Rutgers erected Wessels Hall, a dormitory, with Pell's gift by 1930, and also named a companion dormitory after Pell herself.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100706104712/http://housing.rutgers.edu/ie/index.php?page=content/Common/Halls/CollegeAve/Pell.php Pell Hall]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100706095340/http://housing.rutgers.edu/ie/index.php?page=content/Common/Halls/CollegeAve/Wessels.php Wessels Hall]</ref><ref>[http://rumaps.rutgers.edu/location.jsp?id=C137419 RUMaps - Pell Hall]</ref><ref>[http://rumaps.rutgers.edu/location.jsp?id=C137418 RUMaps - Wessels Hall]</ref>

Columbia on the other hand, never built Pell Hall. Curiously, [[President]] [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] included the receipt of $269,686.46 from the estate of Mary B. Pell in a list of legacies and bequests received by the University in an October 1928 announcement,<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19281015-01.2.20 "President Butler Announces the Receipt Of Legacies, Bequests Totaling $500,000"], Columbia Spectator, 15 Oct 1928</ref> and in his [[Annual Reports of the President to the Trustees|annual report]] delivered to the [[Trustees]] in January of 1929 (though this time in the amount of $258,185.82).<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19290107-01.2.20 "Butler Report Shows Prospect of Deficit; Cites List of Achievements of Past Year"], Columbia Spectator, 7 Jan 1929</ref> One possibility is that by 1928, the gift was insufficient to fund a building - while [[Furnald Hall]], whose cornerstone was laid in December 1912 shortly before Pell's death, was funded by a similar sized $300,000 gift, [[John Jay Hall]], constructed between 1925-1927, shortly before the bequest was received, was funded by the University itself to the tune of approximately $1.8 million - significantly more than the Pell bequest.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O4ohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA201#v=onepage&q&f=false "Furnald Cornerstone Laid"], Columbia Alumni News, Vol. 4, No. 14, Pg. 201, 13 December 1913; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19250204-01.2.6 "Trustees Decide To Build Students Hall As Soon As Weather Conditions Permits; Will Raise University Tuition Fee in July"], Columbia Spectator, 4 February 1925</ref>

== Location ==
It appears that Pell Hall was initially intended to be a dormitory constructed immediately south of [[Furnald Hall]] - a [[Wallach Hall|Wallach]] to Furnald's [[Hartley Hall| Hartley]].<ref>The clearest references to location are with respect to a proposed building for the Philolexian Society, which multiple reports described as to be built between Furnald Hall and the anticipated Pell Hall. The Philolexian building was never constructed. [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19150531-01.2.15 "Two Generations at Philolexian Dinner"], Columbia Spectator, 31 May 1915; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19160313-01.2.6 "Philolexian Holds Annual Banquet"], Columbia Spectator, 13 March 1916; [https://books.google.com/books?id=DY0hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA744#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 7, No. 24, Pg. 744, 17, March 1916; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19160511-01.2.8 "Launch Campaign for Philo House"], Columbia Spectator, 11 May 1916</ref> However, no permanent structure was erected south of Furnald until [[Ferris Booth Hall]]. At least one source, describing a proposal for [[Van Amringe Memorial Quadrangle]] in 1916, noted that the as-of-yet unbuilt structure opposite [[Hamilton Hall]] might one day be Pell Hall.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=DY0hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA983&lpg=PA983#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 7 No. 34, Pg. 983, 26 May 1916</ref> Of course, when [[John Jay Hall|a dormitory]] finally rose in that location in 1927, it was ultimately named after John Jay.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category: Unbuilt buildings]]

Pell Hall

2018-09-23T21:21:52Z

Absentminded:

'''Pell Hall''' was a building designated to be built with funds from a bequest by Mary Bogert Pell, widow of John H. Pell Class of 1852. Although the bequest was reported in 1913, and the money was possibly received in 1928, no building was ever erected.

== Pell Bequest==
Mary Bogert Pell passed away in May 1913. Her will provided for gifts to be made to the Dutch Reformed Church, Columbia, and [[Rutgers]].<ref>The text of the bequest: [http://books.google.com/books?id=PTc4AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA607 "Charters, Acts of the Legislature, Official Documents and Records"], Pgs. 607-608. Compiled by John B. Pine in 1920.</ref><ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2249&dat=19140519&id=SGknAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EQQGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3025,3737871 "LARGE BEQUESTS TO COLLEGES - Columbia and Rutgers Given Nearly Half a Million in Pell Will"], Boston Evening Transcript, 19 May 1914.</ref><ref>[http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/New%20York%20NY%20Press/New%20York%20NY%20Press%201914/New%20York%20NY%20Press%201914%20-%200082.pdf "Nearly $400,000,000 In Benefactions Is American Record For Year 1913"], The New York Magazine, Part VII, 4 January 1914.</ref> Initial reports valued the bequests at between $500,000 and $1,000,000 per institution.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8RFLAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA939#v=onepage&q&f=false Science], Vol. 37, No. 964, Pg. 939, 20 June 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=2VpGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA494#v=onepage&q&f=false Nature], Vol. 91, Pg. 493, 10 July 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=Yx4BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA513#v=onepage&q&f=false The American Education Review], Vol. 34, No. 10, Pg. 513, July 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=oDQoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia University Quarterly], Vol. 16, No. 1, Pg. 82</ref> Subsequent estimates would revise the value of the bequest to Columbia down to approximately $272,000.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19140520-01.2.4 "Columbia Beneficiary Under Pell Will"], Columbia Spectator, 20 May 1914</ref> The gift was among the largest the school had received, and the first gift specifically for the construction of a building since [[Joseph Pultizer]]'s gift to establish the [[School of Journalism]] and erect [[Pulitzer Hall]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lIohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA758#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 5, No. 36, Pg. 758, 10 July 1914</ref><ref>Ironically, much like Columbia never built Pell Hall, Columbia also ignored the fact that Pulitzer's bequest required that the building bear his name for almost 100 years.</ref>

The gifts to Rutgers and the Reformed Church were intended for buildings honoring Pell's father, Wessel Wessels, while the gift to Columbia was intended to honor her late husband and Columbia alumnus, John Henry Pell, Class of 1852. The bequest was tied up in real estate investments subject to [[w:Life estate|life estates]], presumably with the beneficiaries as [[w:Remainderman|remainderman]], so they did not immediately come into the money. It's unclear whether the Reformed Church constructed their memorial to Wessels.<ref>There is a reference to the completion of a "Wessel s Memorial Building" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=oxkOdII1eU4C&pg=PA190#v=onepage&q&f=false "A Digest and Index of the Minutes of of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America"], Pg. 190</ref> Rutgers erected Wessels Hall, a dormitory, with Pell's gift by 1930, and also named a companion dormitory after Pell herself.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100706104712/http://housing.rutgers.edu/ie/index.php?page=content/Common/Halls/CollegeAve/Pell.php Pell Hall]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100706095340/http://housing.rutgers.edu/ie/index.php?page=content/Common/Halls/CollegeAve/Wessels.php Wessels Hall]</ref><ref>[http://rumaps.rutgers.edu/location.jsp?id=C137419 RUMaps - Pell Hall]</ref><ref>[http://rumaps.rutgers.edu/location.jsp?id=C137418 RUMaps - Wessels Hall]</ref>

Columbia on the other hand, never built Pell Hall. Curiously, [[President]] [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] included the receipt of $269,686.46 from the estate of Mary B. Pell in a list of legacies and bequests received by the University in an October 1928 announcement,<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19281015-01.2.20 "President Butler Announces the Receipt Of Legacies, Bequests Totaling $500,000"], Columbia Spectator, 15 Oct 1928</ref> and in his [[Annual Reports of the President to the Trustees|annual report]] delivered to the [[Trustees]] in January of 1929 (though this time in the amount of $258,185.82).<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19290107-01.2.20 "Butler Report Shows Prospect of Deficit; Cites List of Achievements of Past Year"], Columbia Spectator, 7 Jan 1929</ref> One possibility is that by 1928, the gift was insufficient to fund a building - while [[Furnald Hall]], whose cornerstone was laid in December 1912 shortly before Pell's death, was funded by a similar sized $300,000 gift, [[John Jay Hall]], constructed between 1925-1927, shortly before the bequest was received, was funded by the University itself to the tune of approximately $1.8 million - significantly more than the Pell bequest.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O4ohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA201#v=onepage&q&f=false "Furnald Cornerstone Laid"], Columbia Alumni News, Vol. 4, No. 14, Pg. 201, 13 December 1913; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19250204-01.2.6 "Trustees Decide To Build Students Hall As Soon As Weather Conditions Permits; Will Raise University Tuition Fee in July"], Columbia Spectator, 4 February 1925</ref>

== Location ==
It appears that Pell Hall was initially intended to be a dormitory constructed immediately south of [[Furnald Hall]] - a [[Wallach Hall|Wallach]] to Furnald's [[Hartley Hall| Hartley]].<ref>The clearest references to location are with respect to a proposed building for the Philolexian Society, which multiple reports described as to be built between Furnald Hall and the anticipated Pell Hall. The Philolexian building was never constructed. [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19150531-01.2.15 "Two Generations at Philolexian Dinner"], Columbia Spectator, 31 May 1915; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19160313-01.2.6 "Philolexian Holds Annual Banquet"], Columbia Spectator, 13 March 1916; [https://books.google.com/books?id=DY0hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA744#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 7, No. 24, Pg. 744, 17, March 1916; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19160511-01.2.8 "Launch Campaign for Philo House"], Columbia Spectator, 11 May 1916</ref> However, no permanent structure was erected south of Furnald until [[Ferris Booth Hall]]. At least one source, describing a proposal for [[Van Amringe Memorial Quadrangle]] in 1916, noted that the as-of-yet unbuilt structure opposite [[Hamilton Hall]] might one day be Pell Hall.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=DY0hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA983&lpg=PA983#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 7 No. 34, Pg. 983, 26 May 1916</ref> Of course, when [[John Jay Hall|a dormitory]] finally rose in that location in 1927, it was ultimately named after John Jay.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category: Unbuilt buildings]]

Alma Mater

2018-09-23T17:43:54Z

Absentminded: Fixing citations

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[[Image:AlmaMater.jpg|thumb|180px|Alma Mater]]
[[Image:CubanAlma.jpg|thumb|180px|Alma Mater at the University of Havana. Credit: Vaughn Scriven Photography]]
[[Image:AlmaBackDesign.jpg|thumb|240px|The design stamped on the back of Alma Mater's chair]]

'''Alma Mater''' is literally the mother soul of the college/university. In the context of Columbia, Alma Mater almost always means the [[w:Daniel Chester French|Daniel Chester French]] sculpture that graces [[The Steps|the steps]] to [[Low Library]].

It was a gift of Mrs. Robert Goelet and Robert Goelet Jr. in memory of Robert Goelet, [[Columbia College]] Class of [[1860]], and presented in [[1903]].

Alma Mater was originally intended to be gilded, but never was. The bronze eventually oxidized and the statue was instead coated and sealed.

Rumor has it that back-up Alma Maters are kept at the ready should need arise.

An owl is hidden in the folds of Alma Mater's robes. According to legend, the first student of each College class to find the owl would graduate Valedictorian and marry a [[Barnard College|Barnard]] woman (back when [[Columbia College]] was still all-male.)

On the back of Alma Mater's chair you'll find the [[Columbia Crown]] and [[Columbia Seal]] lightly embossed in the metal.

Columbia's Alma Mater has a sister at the University of Havana. The Cuban Alma Mater was created in [[1919]] by Mario Korbel and inspired by Columbia's Alma Mater, while Korbel was residing in New York City. More recently, it served as somewhat uncanny validation for [[Bill O'Reilly]]'s claim that Columbia is the "University of Havana North".

== Vandalism ==
Alma Mater was bombed in the spring of 1970. The New York Times of May 15, 1970 reports that "a bomb partially damaged the statue of Alma Mater at Columbia University" and "tore a hole in the side of the statue."<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/15/archives/jackson-police-fire-on-students-2-killed-and-12-injured-at-womens.html ''JACKSON POLICE FIRE ON STUDENTS''], New York Times, 15 May 1970.</ref>

In fall of [[1984]], Alma Mater's crown-topped scepter was stolen.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19841107-01.2.15 Alma Mater robbed of scepter], Columbia Spectator, 7 November 1984</ref> Weeks later it was left with an anonymous note at the doorstep of David Drinkwater, [[Cornell]]'s dean of students.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19850121-01.2.3 Scepter recovered], Columbia Spectator, 21 January 1985</ref> It's unclear whether this heinous crime was perpetuated by Cornell students, or someone trying to frame Cornell. Nevertheless, shortly after the scepter's return, the statue of Ezra Cornell found itself doused in light blue paint. <ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19850515-01.2.45 Scepter returned; Alma sleeps better], Columbia Spectator, 15 May 1985</ref>

== School Song ==
In the United States, an "Alma mater" is also the [[school song]]. Columbia University's is "[[School Songs|Stand, Columbia]]", and the [[Columbia College|College]]'s is "[[School Songs|Sans Souci]]".

== External links ==
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/03/01/alma_mater.html Nearing Her 100th Birthday, Alma Mater Receives a Much Needed Makeover (January 2003)]
* [http://www.columbiauniversitycampus.com/#/sculptures/Sculptures-2560 Columbia University Campus Photographs]

== References ==
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[[Category:Sculptures]]
[[Category:Symbols]]
[[Category:Landmarks]]
[[Category:Morningside Heights campus]]

Pell Hall

2018-08-23T18:20:28Z

Absentminded: /* Pell Bequest */

'''Pell Hall''' was a building designated to be built with funds from a bequest by Mary Bogert Pell, widow of John H. Pell Class of 1852. Although the bequest was reported in 1913, and the money was possibly received in 1928, no building was ever erected.

== Pell Bequest==
Mary Bogert Pell passed away in May 1913. Her will provided for gifts to be made to the Dutch Reformed Church, Columbia, and [[Rutgers]].<ref>The text of the bequest: [http://books.google.com/books?id=PTc4AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA607 "Charters, Acts of the Legislature, Official Documents and Records"], Pgs. 607-608. Compiled by John B. Pine in 1920.</ref><ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2249&dat=19140519&id=SGknAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EQQGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3025,3737871 "LARGE BEQUESTS TO COLLEGES - Columbia and Rutgers Given Nearly Half a Million in Pell Will"], Boston Evening Transcript, 19 May 1914.</ref><ref>[http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/New%20York%20NY%20Press/New%20York%20NY%20Press%201914/New%20York%20NY%20Press%201914%20-%200082.pdf "Nearly $400,000,000 In Benefactions Is American Record For Year 1913"], The New York Magazine, Part VII, 4 January 1914.</ref> Initial reports valued the bequests at between $500,000 and $1,000,000 per institution.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8RFLAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA939#v=onepage&q&f=false Science], Vol. 37, No. 964, Pg. 939, 20 June 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=2VpGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA494#v=onepage&q&f=false Nature], Vol. 91, Pg. 493, 10 July 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=Yx4BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA513#v=onepage&q&f=false The American Education Review], Vol. 34, No. 10, Pg. 513, July 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=oDQoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia University Quarterly], Vol. 16, No. 1, Pg. 82</ref> Subsequent estimates would revise the value of the bequest to Columbia down to approximately $272,000.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19140520-01.2.4 "Columbia Beneficiary Under Pell Will"], Columbia Spectator, 20 May 1914</ref> The gift was among the largest the school had received, and the first gift specifically for the construction of a building since [[Joseph Pultizer]]'s gift to establish the [[School of Journalism]] and erect [[Pulitzer Hall]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lIohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA758#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 5, No. 36, Pg. 758, 10 July 1914</ref><ref>Ironically, much like Columbia never built Pell Hall, Columbia also ignored the fact that Pulitzer's bequest required that the building bear his name for almost 100 years.</ref>

The gifts to Rutgers and the Reformed Church were intended for buildings honoring Pell's father, Wessel Wessels, while the gift to Columbia was intended to honor her late husband and Columbia alumnus, John Henry Pell, Class of 1852. The bequest was tied up in real estate investments subject to [[w:Life estate|life estates]], presumably with the beneficiaries as [[w:Remainderman|remainderman]], so they did not immediately come into the money. It's unclear whether the Reformed Church constructed their memorial to Wessels.<ref>There is a reference to the completion of a "Wessel s Memorial Building" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=oxkOdII1eU4C&pg=PA190#v=onepage&q&f=false "A Digest and Index of the Minutes of of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America"], Pg. 190</ref> Rutgers erected Wessels Hall, a dormitory, with Pell's gift by 1930, and also named a companion dormitory after Pell herself.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100706104712/http://housing.rutgers.edu/ie/index.php?page=content/Common/Halls/CollegeAve/Pell.php Pell Hall]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100706095340/http://housing.rutgers.edu/ie/index.php?page=content/Common/Halls/CollegeAve/Wessels.php Wessels Hall]</ref><ref>[http://rumaps.rutgers.edu/location.jsp?id=C137419 RUMaps - Pell Hall]</ref><ref>[http://rumaps.rutgers.edu/location.jsp?id=C137418 RUMaps - Wessels Hall]</ref>

Columbia on the other hand, never built Pell Hall. Curiously, [[President]] [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] included the receipt of $269,686.46 from the estate of Mary B. Pell in a list of legacies and bequests received by the University in an October 1928 announcement,<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19281015-01.2.20 "President Butler Announces the Receipt Of Legacies, Bequests Totaling $500,000"], Columbia Spectator, 15 Oct 1928</ref> and in his [[Annual Reports of the President to the Trustees|annual report]] delivered to the [[Trustees]] in January of 1929 (though this time in the amount of $258,185.82).<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19290107-01.2.20 "Butler Report Shows Prospect of Deficit; Cites List of Achievements of Past Year"], Columbia Spectator, 7 Jan 1929</ref> One possibility is that by 1928, the gift was insufficient to fund a building - while [[Furnald Hall]], whose cornerstone was laid in December 1912 shortly before Pell's death, was funded by a similar sized $300,000 gift, [[John Jay Hall]], constructed between 1925-1927, shortly before the bequest was received, was funded by the University itself to the tune of approximately $1.8 million - significantly more than the Pell bequest.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O4ohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA201#v=onepage&q&f=false "Furnald Cornerstone Laid"], Columbia Alumni News, Vol. 4, No. 14, Pg. 201, 13 December 1913; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19250204-01.2.6 "Trustees Decide To Build Students Hall As Soon As Weather Conditions Permits; Will Raise University Tuition Fee in July"], Columbia Spectator, 4 February 1925</ref>

== Location ==
It appears that Pell Hall was initially intended to be a dormitory constructed immediately south of [[Furnald Hall]] - a [[Wallach Hall|Wallach]] to Furnald's [[Hartley Hall| Hartley]].<ref>The clearest references to location are with respect to a proposed building for the Philolexian Society, which multiple reports described as to be built between Furnald Hall and the anticipated Pell Hall. The Philolexian building was never completed. [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19150531-01.2.15 "Two Generations at Philolexian Dinner"], Columbia Spectator, 31 May 1915; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19160313-01.2.6 "Philolexian Holds Annual Banquet"], Columbia Spectator, 13 March 1916; [https://books.google.com/books?id=DY0hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA744#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 7, No. 24, Pg. 744, 17, March 1916; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19160511-01.2.8 "Launch Campaign for Philo House"], Columbia Spectator, 11 May 1916</ref> However, no permanent structure was erected south of Furnald until [[Ferris Booth Hall]]. At least one source, describing a proposal for [[Van Amringe Memorial Quadrangle]] in 1916, noted that the as-of-yet unbuilt structure opposite [[Hamilton Hall]] might one day be Pell Hall.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=DY0hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA983&lpg=PA983#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 7 No. 34, Pg. 983, 26 May 1916</ref> Of course, when [[John Jay Hall|a dormitory]] finally rose in that location in 1927, it was ultimately named after John Jay.

==References==
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[[Category: Unbuilt buildings]]

Columbia Lion

2018-08-10T21:33:12Z

Absentminded: /* History */

[[Image:AthleticsLion.jpg|thumb|240px|Athletics Lion Logo]]
[[Image:LeoColumbiae.jpg|thumb|240px|The 1909 ''Leo Columbiae'' banner, as featured on the cover of the May 30, 1924 ''[[Columbia Alumni News]]'']]
[[Image:BakerLion.jpg|thumb|240px|The Baker Field Lion]]
[[Image:lion.jpg|thumb|240px|The [[Scholar's Lion]]]]
[[Image:Football1947.gif|thumb|240px|The Columbia Lion statue at Baker Field can be seen in its original location in the background of the 1947 Football Team Photo ([http://www.flickr.com/photos/jag9889/2066757734/ Current Location])]]

The '''Columbia Lion''' is the university mascot, and was adopted in [[1910]].

==History==
The idea was originally suggested by George Brokaw Compton (CC [[1909]]). <ref>http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/documents/stoz.asp</ref> Interestingly, the Lion motif had been around campus from before, appearing for example on the roofs of [[Low Library]] (built in [[1895]]) and other buildings.

The idea was first proposed at the April 5, 1910 meeting of the Alumni Association, where it was enthusiastically endorsed. The resolution by Compton (who explained 'we have the King's Crown, let us have the Lion,') was accompanied by the presentation of a blue and white banner emblazoned with a [[w:Lion (heraldry)|lion rampant]] and the motto "Leo Columbiae" by the [[Society of the Early Eighties]].<ref>"Leo Columbia", Columbia Alumni News, 6 April 1910, Vol. 1 No. 28. Additionally, an 8x10 black and white photograph of this banner can be found in the "Columbia Lion" Subject File in the [[University Archives]].</ref>

As might be expected at Columbia, the resolution was the focus of some controversy, carried mostly in the form of a furious month-long exchange of letters and editorials published in the [[Spectator]] and alumni publications. Some argued that the lion was too royalist and that the eagle was a more appropriate symbol. Others lobbied for the adoption of [[Matilda the Harlem Goat]] as the school mascot. The [[Spectator]], of course, also weighed in with its opposition to the Lion, coming down on the wrong side of history. But by May 4, the [[Student Board]] had approved the lion mascot.

However, the mascot initially proved to be a dud. This may have been a result of the school's ban on football. Anyway, with the opening of [[Baker Field]], the Class of 1899 decided to grace the field with a bronze lion for its 25th anniversary year. The Lion was sculpted by [[w:Frederick Roth|Frederick G. R. Roth]], and placed on a plinth with three quotes from scripture. The Lion was originally located atop a rocky ledge overlooking the football practice field from the east side of the complex. In 1962, the sculpture and plinth were moved 80 yards to just outside [[Christie Field House]] to make way for the baseball and soccer fields.<ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/jag9889/2066757734/ Roth's Columbia Lion at Baker Athletic Complex]</ref>

In [[1928]], the Columbia mascot took on a more visible position as the logo for Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, and subsequently MGM after the studio's merger. MGM's lion, "Leo", was the creation of Howard Dietz (CC [[1917]], J '?), who created it for Goldwyn Pictures while working for the Philip Goodman Advertising Agency<ref>http://www.tvacres.com/adanimals_leolion.htm</ref>. It is said that he was inspired by Columbia's fight song, [[School songs#Roar, Lion, Roar|"Roar, Lion, Roar"]].

Other appearances of the lion around campus include "[[The Scholar's Lion]]," a sculpture by Greg Wyatt CC 1971 outside [[Havemeyer]] facing the [[Business School]] which was gifted to the university in [[2004]], the "[[Teaching Lion]]" by Stanley Wyatt CC '43 in the Rosencrans Reading Room on the ground floor of Butler Library, and the bronze Lions head sculptures at the end of [[Butler Plaza]] flanking the steps in front of the Library among other places.

== The Lion Mascot ==
On October 15, [[2005]] Columbia debuted its revamped college mascot, [[Roar-ee]]. The name "Roar-ee" was selected in an internet vote, beating out four other finalists: Hamilton, Hudson, K.C. and J.J.. The athletics department received over 200 submissions in the initial round of its "Name the Mascot" contest that had begun in September.

<gallery>
Image:Roaree2.jpg|Roar-ee
Image:LionMascot.jpg|Roar-ee's unnamed predecessor who bears a suspicious resemblance to Disney's character [[w:Beast (Disney character)|The Beast]].
</gallery>

== The Lion Logo ==
Like any school logo, the Columbia's lion logo has had many forms.

The most recent form of the logo was first adopted in [[1999]]. Then-[[AD]] [[John Reeves]] wanted to replace a collection of between six and ten different logos, including the [[w:Detroit Lions|Detroit Lions]] logo, and a series of designs that had earned the derogatory nicknames "lettucehead"<ref>[http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/feb00/feb00_feature_athletes3.html Columbia Unleashes New Lion], Columbia College Today, February 2000</ref> and "cabbage-head."<ref>
The Lion Enters Slick New Era, Columbia Spectator, Nov. 11, 1999</ref> The logo featured a front profile of a lion with paw extended, and appeared either with or without the [[New York City]] skyline in the background. According to Reeves, he was looking for a new logo that "kinda had a kind face, but [was] also capable of attacking, because we want teams to think of us as a kind, sportsmanlike people but not to take us for granted." The logo was created by Kim White, Emily Johnson, and Junie Lee under the guidance of art director Sandy Kaufman of public affairs. The logo cost $2,000 to create, but Reeves considered it a bargain, noting that other ivy league schools had spent between $40,000 and $60,000 to do the same. As part of the logo design process, the department had to settle on a definition of [[School Colors|Columbia Blue]], choosing Pantone 292.<ref>Within 10 years, the University would determine that Pantone 290 was the [[School Colors|color]] instead. It's unclear if they changed their mind or simply didnt know what had been done 10 years previously.</ref> The logo redesign was accompanied by the introduction of a new lion mascot costume on February 12, 2000, thanks to the generosity of Robert Berne CC '60 B '62, who had been the mascot in his time as a student.

In [[2005]], as part of a re-branding effort by new [[AD]] [[M. Diane Murphy]] that also included the introduction of [[Roar-ee]], the logo's colors were lightened, and the skyline and lion's tail were dropped.<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol31/vol31_iss4/page11.pdf]</ref> The following year the entire body was scrapped, leaving only the lion's roaring head under the school's name. However, the bookstore uses all iterations of the logo indiscriminately on merchandise and apparel (as it also does with the [[Columbia Crown]]).

<gallery>
Image:Columbia1930.gif|An AIM Buddy Icon claiming to be a Columbia logo ca. 1930<ref>[http://www.coolbuddy.com/icon/college_logos/ico_logos_03.htm]</ref>
Image:ColumbiaLion2000.gif|The logo unveiled in 2000
Image:ColumbiaLion2000nocity.jpg|The 2000 logo without skyline
Image:ColumbiaLion2000notail.gif|The 2005 update of the logo
Image:AthleticsLion.png|The current athletics Lion logo
Image:LionsDenLogo.jpg|Lion Logo used by the [[Lion's Den]] in [[Ferris Booth Hall]] based on the original 'Lion Rampant' shape
Image:ArtDecoLion.gif|An '[[w:Art Deco|art deco]]' rendition of the 'Rampant Lion' shape on the original banner presented in 1910<ref NAME="sportslogo">Taken from [http://www.sportslogos.net/team.php?id=649 Sportslogos.net]</ref>
Image:LineArtLion.gif|An old athletics graphic<ref NAME="sportslogo" />
Image:LionwithC.gif|Another old athletics graphic<ref NAME="sportslogo" />
Image:Image-Lettucehead.gif|"Lettucehead" (I think.) <ref NAME="sportslogo" />
Image:DetroitLion.gif|The Detroit Lions based logo <ref NAME="sportslogo" />
</gallery>

==Lion Sculptures==
There are many sculptures of lions around Columbia's campuses. Notable are the Class of 1899 Lion at [[Baker Athletic Complex]], and the newer [[The Scholar's Lion|Scholar's Lion]] outside [[Havemeyer Hall]].

<gallery>
Image:BakerLion.jpg|The Baker Field Lion
Image:BakerLionProfile.jpg|The Baker Field Lion, in profile
Image:lion.jpg|The [[Scholar's Lion]]
Image:ButlerLion.jpg|One of two Lion's head sculptures flanking the stairs leading from [[Butler Plaza]] to [[Butler Library]]
</gallery>

==Other manifestations of the lion==

<gallery>
Image:Jesterlion.jpg|Lion by abstract expressionist [[Ad Reinhardt]] CC'35 on the cover of the ''[[Jester]]'' (top left)
</gallery>

== External links ==
* [http://www.columbiauniversitycampus.com/#/sports-complex/Baker-3881/ Baker Field Lion]

== References ==
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[[Category:Symbols]]
[[Category:Animals]]

Armstrong Hall

2018-08-02T17:17:20Z

Absentminded:

'''Armstrong Hall''' is the building located on the northeast corner of the 112th street and Broadway intersection, i.e. the building above [[Tom's Restaurant]]. It was designed by Neville and Bagge and built in [[1900]]. Armstrong houses the NASA [[Goddard Institute for Space Studies]], the [[Center for Climate Systems Research]], as well as offices for the [[Business School]]'s Executive Education program. Philosopher [[John Dewey]] once had an apartment in the building.

According to [[Andrew Dolkart]]'s "Morningside Heights", the building was originally known as the Ostend Apartments and later as the Oxford Residence Hotel. It was acquired by Columbia in 1965 and in 1966 renamed Armstrong Hall in honor of [[Edwin Armstrong]].<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19660303-01.2.5 Rename 6 Buildings to Honor CU Men], Columbia Spectator, 3 March 1966.</ref>

== References==
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[[Category:Buildings]]
[[Category:Morningside Heights campus]]

University Registrar

2017-06-15T07:00:13Z

Absentminded:

{{Infobox administration
|Name=Registrar
|Head=[[Barry Kane]]
|Location=205 [[Kent Hall]]
|Phone=212-854-4330
|Hours=M-F 9-5
|Website=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/registrar/
|}}

The '''University Registrar'''

* Sets the calendar.
* Sets timetables.
* Sets course room assignments.
* Handles course registration.
* Keeps track of your grades.
* Prints and mails transcripts.

In the past, the people in the registrar's office were arbitrarily cruel and spiteful. Recently, they seem to have lightened up a bit, after a million dollar re-education program.<ref>[http://spc.columbiaspectator.com/2006/09/12/cutting-columbias-red-tape Cutting Columbia's Red Tape - The Spectator 9-12-2006]</ref>

Coming soon, a guide to hacking into the registrar's computers. Just kidding.

== References ==
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[[Category:Registrar|*]]
[[Category:Student Services]]

Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science

2017-05-05T18:40:17Z

Absentminded:

The '''Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science''' was established in [[1889]] by the will of [[university president]] [[Frederick A. P. Barnard]], and has been awarded by Columbia, based on recommendations by the [[w:National Academy of Science|National Academy of Science]], every 5 years since [[1895]]. If you win a Barnard Medal, you either already have, or will earn a [[w:Nobel prize|Nobel prize]] too (in fact, the Barnard Medal pre-dates the Nobel prizes.) Not to be confused with the [[Barnard Medal of Distinction]].

== Winners ==
* 1895 - [[w:John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh|Lord Rayleigh]], [[w:William Ramsay|William Ramsay]]
* 1900 - [[w:Wilhelm Röntgen|Wilhelm Röntgen]]
* 1905 - [[w:Henri Becquerel|Henri Becquerel]]
* 1910 - [[w:Ernest Rutherford|Ernest Rutherford]]
* 1915 - [[w:William Henry Bragg|William Henry Bragg]], [[w:William Lawrence Bragg|William Lawrence Bragg]]
* 1920 - [[w:Albert Einstein|Albert Einstein]]
* 1925 - [[w:Niels Bohr|Niels Bohr]]
* 1930 - [[w:Werner Heisenberg|Werner Heisenberg]]
* 1935 - [[w:Edwin Hubble|Edwin Hubble]]
* 1940 - [[w:Frédéric Joliot-Curie|Frédéric Joliot-Curie]], [[w:Irène Joliot-Curie|Irène Joliot-Curie]]
* 1945 - No award<ref>The NAS's Barnard Medal Committee unanimously recommended that no award be made in 1945, owing to the fact that World War 2 had "blanketed much of the evidence which should be considered" for the award. [http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll7/id/3338 Letter of Barnard Medal Committee Chairman Edwin Hubble to the Secretary of the National Academy of Science, April 11, 1945].</ref><ref>No award recipient for 1945 is listed in list of medal recipients in the [http://books.google.com/books?id=30QrAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA152&ots=0LEGVr_D5l&pg=RA2-PA203#v=onepage&f=false Annual Report of the National Academy of Sciences for 1960 (pg. 203)].</ref>
* 1950 - [[Enrico Fermi]]
* 1955 - [[w:Merle Tuve|Merle Tuve]]
* 1960 - [[I. I. Rabi]]
* 1965 - [[w:William Alfred Fowler|William Alfred Fowler]]
* 1970 -
* 1975 -
* 1985 - [[w:Benoit Mandelbrot|Benoit Mandelbrot]]
* 1990 -
* 1995 -
* 2000 -
* 2005 -
* 2010 -

==References==
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[[Category:Awards administered by Columbia]]

Enhancing the Undergraduate Experience

2017-05-05T17:37:51Z

Absentminded:

[[Image:PhiloClassSizeExpansionDebate1996.jpg|thumb|160x|Students didn't think this was such a great idea.]]
'''Enhancing the Undergraduate Experience at Columbia''' was a report issued by the administration in February of [[1996]] describing planned changes and enhancements to [[Columbia College]] as part of then-President [[George Rupp]]'s avowed goal to place the College at the center of the University. Of course "enhancements" is a euphemism for increasing enrollment in the College from 3,500 to 4,000 over a 5 year period. This continued a long tradition of expansion recommendations, such as one made by faculty 35 years earlier in 1960 at the direction of then-Dean [[John Gorham Palfrey]].

The general findings presented in the report were initially presented before the Executive Committee and Chairs of the [[Arts and Sciences]] on December 19, [[1995]]. A request for a written report with greater detail resulted in this report 2 months later.

Over 13 years later Columbia would release another report on undergraduate education, "An Agenda for the Future", the product of the [[Task Force on Undergraduate Education]], the centerpiece of which was to once again call for the expansion of Columbia College's enrollment. In 2011, undergraduate education would be a central issue in the [[McKinsey Arts and Sciences Report]].

==External links==
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss16/record2116.30.html Text of Provost Jonathan Cole's Letter to the Columbia Community on the report]
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss16/record2116.31.html Text of Enhancing the Undergraduate Experience with accompanying Tables and Figures]

[[Category:Reports]]

John Gorham Palfrey

2017-05-05T17:36:07Z

Absentminded:

[[Image:JohnPalfrey.jpg|thumb|John Gorham Palfrey]]

'''John Gorham Palfrey''' was a [[Columbia Law School]] professor and subsequently [[Dean of Columbia College]]. He left after being appointed by President Kennedy to the Atomic Energy Commission.

In 1960 Palfrey appointed a faculty committee to examine expanding the enrollment of Columbia College to between 3,500 to 4,000 students. The committee reported back in the affirmative, conditioned on an expansion and rehabilitation of facilities to handle the increased class size. The commission's rationale was that the College had become too small relative to the rest of the University, and the College's interests where thus overlooked by the administration. This was a more aggressive recommendation than the one made three years earlier by the McMahon Committee (which recommended expanding enrollment to 2,900 students over a 15 year period), and a direct reversal of the Everett Committee's 1956 recommendation not to expand enrollment owing to the dearth of qualified candidates.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19600531-01.2.6 Faculty Report Asks Expansion of College], Columbia Spectator, 31 May 1960.</ref>

{{succession|office=Dean of Columbia College|years=[[1958]]-[[1962]]|preceded=[[Lawrence H. Chamberlain]]|succeeded=[[John W. Alexander]] (acting)}}

== References ==
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[[Category:Deans of Columbia College|Palfrey, John Gorham]]
[[Category:Law professors|Palfrey]]
[[Category:Former professors|Palfrey]]

Enhancing the Undergraduate Experience

2017-05-05T17:25:58Z

Absentminded:

[[Image:PhiloClassSizeExpansionDebate1996.jpg|thumb|160x|Students didn't think this was such a great idea.]]
'''Enhancing the Undergraduate Experience at Columbia''' was a report issued by the administration in February of [[1996]] describing planned changes and enhancements to [[Columbia College]] as part of then-President [[George Rupp]]'s avowed goal to place the College at the center of the University. Of course "enhancements" is a euphemism for increasing enrollment in the College from 3,500 to 4,000 over a 5 year period. This echoed a similar report issued by faculty 35 years earlier in 1960 at the direction of then-Dean [[John Gorham Palfrey]].

The general findings presented in the report were initially presented before the Executive Committee and Chairs of the [[Arts and Sciences]] on December 19, [[1995]]. A request for a written report with greater detail resulted in this report 2 months later.

Over 13 years later Columbia would release another report on undergraduate education, "An Agenda for the Future", the product of the [[Task Force on Undergraduate Education]], the centerpiece of which was to once again call for the expansion of Columbia College's enrollment. In 2011, undergraduate education would be a central issue in the [[McKinsey Arts and Sciences Report]].

==External links==
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss16/record2116.30.html Text of Provost Jonathan Cole's Letter to the Columbia Community on the report]
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss16/record2116.31.html Text of Enhancing the Undergraduate Experience with accompanying Tables and Figures]

[[Category:Reports]]

King’s Crown Leadership Awards

2016-08-08T05:32:05Z

Absentminded:

The annual '''King’s Crown Leadership Excellence Awards''' are given to [[CC]] and [[SEAS]] students who have "offered outstanding leadership to their communities with exemplary commitment and energy." Put another way, they are given to students who either did a good job running a student group, did the administration's bidding, or sometimes both. Since 2013 awards have been granted in eight categories, with no more than ten students recognized in each category.

The awards were in the shape of [[King's Crown (symbol)|King's Crowns]] and were first given out in September [[1904]] for the [[1903]]-[[1904]] school year, and then in May[[1905]] for that school year by the [[King's Crown (group)|King's Crown student organization]]. For some reason Columbia lists the official establishment date for the awards as [[1916]] in official literature, such as school [[bulletin|bulletins]].

== Benefits ==
There is an annual dinner in late April or early May for all recipients, which is held in the [[Low Library#The Rotunda|Low Library Rotunda]] and is in fact quite nice. A few of the annual [[prizes]] given to students on the basis of alumni gifts with very specific instructions are presented at this event instead of [[Class Day]]. Depending on the nature of the award, recipients also receive a pin, money, a certificate, or some combination of these.

== Selection ==
There's a selection committee made up of some of the members of student councils and headed by an administrator from SDA. They vote on individuals after a nomination period. Not all awards are based on nominations from students; those that are not are presumably based on nominations from administrators.

== The Awards ==
There are multiple award types and categories.

=== Award Categories ===

*Principled Action
*Community Building
*Columbia Spirit
*Civic Responsibility
*Innovation & Enhancement
*Inclusion & Advocacy
*Indelible Mark
*Health & Wellness

== Old Award Structure ==
Prior to 2013, King's Crown Leadership Awards were structured differently.

===Crown Leadership Awards===
Individual student leaders received recognition based on their contributions to their respective organizations, and in a grade reflecting their tenure with the organization. Awards were granted in ''Gold'', ''Silver'', ''Bronze'', and ''Copper'' grades, with winners receiving pins in color of their award grade. One stand-out student leader in each grade of award other than Gold would be given ''Horizon'' award recognition.

=== Organization Achievement ===
In addition to individual awards, student groups were eligible for organization-wide awards, including the ''Impact Award'', ''Alma Mater Award'', ''Intergroup Award'', ''Promise Award'', and the ''Best Program Award''. The organization award process included interviews by student government leaders and student affairs administrators. For winning organizations, one members could attend the dinner as a representative.

=== Leadership Legend ===
Finally, graduating seniors were eligible for "Leadership Legend" awards, with between 5-12 seniors being recognized in the ''Pioneer'', ''Bridge Builder'', and ''Indelible Mark'' categories.

In 2009, the''Community Builder Award'' for an individual student was founded.

== External Links ==
*[https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/awards/descriptions Current Awards Description]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120423022216/http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/awards/kingscrown Old Award Structure]
*[http://www.kingscrown.info kingcrown.info - dead-end link that used to host information about the awards, that apparently got taken over by a payday loan website for a while]

[[Category: Student awards]]
[[Category:Annual events]]

Pell Hall

2016-07-24T17:52:01Z

Absentminded:

'''Pell Hall''' was a building designated to be built with funds from a bequest by Mary Bogert Pell, widow of John H. Pell Class of 1852. Although the bequest was reported in 1913, and the money was possibly received in 1928, no building was ever erected.

== Pell Bequest==
Mary Bogert Pell passed away in May 1913. Her will provided for gifts to be made to the Dutch Reformed Church, Columbia, and [[Rutgers]].<ref>The text of the bequest: [http://books.google.com/books?id=PTc4AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA607 "Charters, Acts of the Legislature, Official Documents and Records"], Pgs. 607-608. Compiled by John B. Pine in 1920.</ref><ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2249&dat=19140519&id=SGknAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EQQGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3025,3737871 "LARGE BEQUESTS TO COLLEGES - Columbia and Rutgers Given Nearly Half a Million in Pell Will"], Boston Evening Transcript, 19 May 1914.</ref><ref>[http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/New%20York%20NY%20Press/New%20York%20NY%20Press%201914/New%20York%20NY%20Press%201914%20-%200082.pdf "Nearly $400,000,000 In Benefactions Is American Record For Year 1913"], The New York Magazine, Part VII, 4 January 1914.</ref> Initial reports valued the bequests at between $500,000 and $1,000,000 per institution.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8RFLAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA939#v=onepage&q&f=false Science], Vol. 37, No. 964, Pg. 939, 20 June 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=2VpGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA494#v=onepage&q&f=false Nature], Vol. 91, Pg. 493, 10 July 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=Yx4BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA513#v=onepage&q&f=false The American Education Review], Vol. 34, No. 10, Pg. 513, July 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=oDQoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia University Quarterly], Vol. 16, No. 1, Pg. 82</ref> Subsequent estimates would revise the value of the bequest to Columbia down to approximately $272,000.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19140520-01.2.4 "Columbia Beneficiary Under Pell Will"], Columbia Spectator, 20 May 1914</ref> The gift was among the largest the school had received, and the first gift specifically for the construction of a building since [[Joseph Pultizer]]'s gift to establish the [[School of Journalism]] and erect [[Pulitzer Hall]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lIohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA758#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 5, No. 36, Pg. 758, 10 July 1914</ref><ref>Ironically, much like Columbia never built Pell Hall, Columbia also ignored the fact that Pulitzer's bequest required that the building bear his name for almost 100 years.</ref>

The gifts to Rutgers and the Reformed Church were intended for buildings honoring Pell's father, Wessel Wessels, while the gift to Columbia was intended to honor her late husband and Columbia alumnus, John Henry Pell, Class of 1852. The bequest was tied up in real estate investments subject to [[w:Life estate|life estates]], presumably with the beneficiaries as [[w:Remainderman|remainderman]], so they did not immediately come into the money. It's unclear whether the Reformed Church constructed their memorial to Wessels.<ref>There is a reference to the completion of a "Wessel s Memorial Building" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=oxkOdII1eU4C&pg=PA190#v=onepage&q&f=false "A Digest and Index of the Minutes of of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America"], Pg. 190</ref> Rutgers erected Wessels Hall, a dormitory, with Pell's gift by 1930, and also named a companion dormitory after Pell herself.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100706104712/http://housing.rutgers.edu/ie/index.php?page=content/Common/Halls/CollegeAve/Pell.php Pell Hall]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100706095340/http://housing.rutgers.edu/ie/index.php?page=content/Common/Halls/CollegeAve/Wessels.php Wessels Hall]</ref><ref>[http://rumaps.rutgers.edu/location.jsp?id=C137419 RUMaps - Pell Hall]</ref><ref>[http://rumaps.rutgers.edu/location.jsp?id=C137418 RUMaps - Wessels Hall]</ref>

Columbia on the other hand, never built Pell Hall. Curiously, in his [[Annual Reports of the President to the Trustees|annual report]] delivered to the [[Trustees]] in January of 1929, [[President]] [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] listed a gift of $258,185.82 from the estate of Mary B. Pell as among the major additions to the general endowment in the prior year.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19290107-01.2.20 "Butler Report Shows Prospect of Deficit; Cites List of Achievements of Past Year"], Columbia Spectator, 7 Jan 1929</ref> One possibility is that by 1928, the gift was insufficient to fund a building - [[Furnald Hall]], whose cornerstone was laid in December 1912, was funded by a $300,000 gift, and [[John Jay Hall]], constructed between 1925-1927, was funded by the University itself to the tune of approximately $1.8 million.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O4ohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA201#v=onepage&q&f=false "Furnald Cornerstone Laid"], Columbia Alumni News, Vol. 4, No. 14, Pg. 201, 13 December 1913; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19250204-01.2.6 "Trustees Decide To Build Students Hall As Soon As Weather Conditions Permits; Will Raise University Tuition Fee in July"], Columbia Spectator, 4 February 1925</ref>

== Location ==
It appears that Pell Hall was initially intended to be a dormitory constructed immediately south of [[Furnald Hall]] - a [[Wallach Hall|Wallach]] to Furnald's [[Hartley Hall| Hartley]].<ref>The clearest references to location are with respect to a proposed building for the Philolexian Society, which multiple reports described as to be built between Furnald Hall and the anticipated Pell Hall. The Philolexian building was never completed. [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19150531-01.2.15 "Two Generations at Philolexian Dinner"], Columbia Spectator, 31 May 1915; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19160313-01.2.6 "Philolexian Holds Annual Banquet"], Columbia Spectator, 13 March 1916; [https://books.google.com/books?id=DY0hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA744#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 7, No. 24, Pg. 744, 17, March 1916; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19160511-01.2.8 "Launch Campaign for Philo House"], Columbia Spectator, 11 May 1916</ref> However, no permanent structure was erected south of Furnald until [[Ferris Booth Hall]]. At least one source, describing a proposal for [[Van Amringe Memorial Quadrangle]] in 1916, noted that the as-of-yet unbuilt structure opposite [[Hamilton Hall]] might one day be Pell Hall.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=DY0hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA983&lpg=PA983#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 7 No. 34, Pg. 983, 26 May 1916</ref> Of course, when [[John Jay Hall|a dormitory]] finally rose in that location in 1927, it was ultimately named after John Jay.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category: Unbuilt buildings]]

Pell Hall

2016-07-24T17:13:14Z

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'''Pell Hall''' was a building designated to be built with funds from a bequest by Mary Bogert Pell, widow of John H. Pell Class of 1852. Although the bequest was reported in 1913, and the money was possibly received in 1928, no building was ever erected.

== Pell Bequest==
Mary Bogert Pell passed away in May 1913. Her will provided for gifts to be made to the Dutch Reformed Church, Columbia, and [[Rutgers]].<ref>The text of the bequest: [http://books.google.com/books?id=PTc4AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA607 "Charters, Acts of the Legislature, Official Documents and Records"], Pgs. 607-608. Compiled by John B. Pine in 1920.</ref><ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2249&dat=19140519&id=SGknAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EQQGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3025,3737871 "LARGE BEQUESTS TO COLLEGES - Columbia and Rutgers Given Nearly Half a Million in Pell Will"], Boston Evening Transcript, 19 May 1914.</ref><ref>[http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/New%20York%20NY%20Press/New%20York%20NY%20Press%201914/New%20York%20NY%20Press%201914%20-%200082.pdf "Nearly $400,000,000 In Benefactions Is American Record For Year 1913"], The New York Magazine, Part VII, 4 January 1914.</ref> Initial reports valued the bequests at between $500,000 and $1,000,000 per institution.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8RFLAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA939#v=onepage&q&f=false Science], Vol. 37, No. 964, Pg. 939, 20 June 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=2VpGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA494#v=onepage&q&f=false Nature], Vol. 91, Pg. 493, 10 July 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=Yx4BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA513#v=onepage&q&f=false The American Education Review], Vol. 34, No. 10, Pg. 513, July 1913; [https://books.google.com/books?id=oDQoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia University Quarterly], Vol. 16, No. 1, Pg. 82</ref> Subsequent estimates would revise the value of the bequest to Columbia down to approximately $272,000.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19140520-01.2.4 "Columbia Beneficiary Under Pell Will"], Columbia Spectator, 20 May 1914</ref> The gift was among the largest the school had received, and the first gift specifically for the construction of a building since [[Joseph Pultizer]]'s gift to establish the [[School of Journalism]] and erect [[Pulitzer Hall]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lIohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA758#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 5, No. 36, Pg. 758, 10 July 1914</ref><ref>Ironically, much like Columbia never built Pell Hall, Columbia also ignored the fact that Pulitzer's bequest required that the building bear his name for almost 100 years.</ref>

The gifts to Rutgers and the Reformed Church were intended for buildings honoring Pell's father, Wessel Wessels, while the gift to Columbia was intended to honor her late husband and Columbia alumnus, John Henry Pell, Class of 1852. The bequest was tied up in real estate investments subject to [[w:Life estate|life estates]], presumably with the beneficiaries as [[w:Remainderman|remainderman]], so they did not immediately come into the money. It's unclear whether the Reformed Church constructed their memorial to Wessels.<ref>There is a reference to the completion of a "Wessel s Memorial Building" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=oxkOdII1eU4C&pg=PA190#v=onepage&q&f=false "A Digest and Index of the Minutes of of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America"], Pg. 190</ref> Rutgers erected Wessels Hall, a dormitory, with Pell's gift by 1930, and also named a companion dormitory after Pell herself.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100706104712/http://housing.rutgers.edu/ie/index.php?page=content/Common/Halls/CollegeAve/Pell.php Pell Hall]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100706095340/http://housing.rutgers.edu/ie/index.php?page=content/Common/Halls/CollegeAve/Wessels.php Wessels Hall]</ref><ref>[http://rumaps.rutgers.edu/location.jsp?id=C137419 RUMaps - Pell Hall]</ref><ref>[http://rumaps.rutgers.edu/location.jsp?id=C137418 RUMaps - Wessels Hall]</ref>

Columbia on the other hand, never built Pell Hall. Curiously, in his [[Annual Reports of the President to the Trustees|annual report]] delivered to the [[Trustees]] in January of 1929, [[President]] [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] listed a gift of $258,185.82 from the estate of Mary B. Pell as among the major additions to the general endowment in the prior year.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19290107-01.2.20 "Butler Report Shows Prospect of Deficit; Cites List of Achievements of Past Year"], Columbia Spectator, 7 Jan 1929</ref> One possibility is that by 1928, the gift was insufficient to fund a building - [[Furnald Hall]], whose cornerstone was laid in December 1912, was funded by a $300,000 gift, and [[John Jay Hall]], constructed between 1925-1927, was funded by the University itself to the tune of approximately $1.8 million.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O4ohAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA201#v=onepage&q&f=false "Furnald Cornerstone Laid"], Columbia Alumni News, Vol. 4, No. 14, Pg. 201, 13 December 1913; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19250204-01.2.6 "Trustees Decide To Build Students Hall As Soon As Weather Conditions Permits; Will Raise University Tuition Fee in July"], Columbia Spectator, 4 February 1925</ref>

== Location ==
It appears that Pell Hall was initially intended to be a dormitory constructed immediately south of [[Furnald Hall]] - a [[Wallach Hall|Wallach]] to Furnald's [[Hartley Hall| Hartley]].<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19150531-01.2.15 "Two Generations at Philolexian Dinner"], Columbia Spectator, 31 May 1915; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19160313-01.2.6 "Philolexian Holds Annual Banquet"], Columbia Spectator, 13 March 1916; [https://books.google.com/books?id=DY0hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA744#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 7, No. 24, Pg. 744, 17, March 1916; [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19160511-01.2.8 "Launch Campaign for Philo House"], Columbia Spectator, 11 May 1916</ref> However, no permanent structure was erected south of Furnald until [[Ferris Booth Hall]]. At least one source, describing a proposal for [[Van Amringe Memorial Quadrangle]] in 1916, noted that the as-of-yet unbuilt structure opposite [[Hamilton Hall]] might one day be Pell Hall.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=DY0hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA983&lpg=PA983#v=onepage&q&f=false Columbia Alumni News], Vol. 7 No. 34, Pg. 983, 26 May 1916</ref> Of course, when [[John Jay Hall|a dormitory]] finally rose in that location in 1927, it was ultimately named after John Jay.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category: Unbuilt buildings]]

School colors

2016-05-05T18:54:13Z

Absentminded: /* History of the Blue and White at Columbia */

[[Image:CCFlag.jpg|thumb|200px|The Blue and White (Mark Holden C '09)]]

Columbia's official '''School Colors''' are "Columbia Blue" and white. Both colors were originally drawn from the two literary societies that were at the heart of student life in the 19th century: blue from the [[Philolexian Society]], and white from the [[Peithologian Society]].

== Definition ==
Columbia Blue is defined by the [[Office of University Publications]] as [[w:Pantone|Pantone]] 290 under the Pantone Matching System. White is defined as... white. What did you expect?

The decision to define an official color (and the choice of color) was made by Sandy Kaufman, a member of the office, during the early 2000s in order to provide guidance to other members of the University community during a period of time that featured a number of branding initiatives, such as [[Columbia 250]], and the launch of the [[Columbia Alumni Association]]. The determination has since been codified in a visual identity guide first published in 2009, and then updated in 2011.<ref>blue290 A Practical Guide to Columbia’s Standards of Visual Identity [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/identityguidelines/blue290.pdf (May 2009)]; [http://www.columbia.edu/files/columbia/content/blue290.pdf May 2011]</ref><ref>Although the decision originated with Kaufman in the Publications office, the guidance appears to have been formalized for the first time by Columbia College, which created a visual identity guideline in 2008: [http://www.wikicu.com/images/0/05/Cc_visualidguide_final.pdf Columbia College Visual Identity Guide]. (The PDF Document Properties indicate that the guide was created in August 2008.) Note that the College guide offered yet another contrasting blue option (Pantone 295), in addition to a more colorful palette generally.</ref>

For all its merits, PMS 290 presents a number of difficulties for graphic designers, primarily that reading text in PMS 290 on a light background is extremely difficult. To that end the guide recommends using PMS 280 or 286, or in the case of 4-color Process printing C: 100 M: 72 Y: 0 K, (all three of which are dark blues), black, or gray (60% black) on light backgrounds. It recommends using Columbia Blue itself (PMS 290) only on darker backgrounds, or, in the alternative, the very similar PMS 291, or PMS 284 (another light blue).

Although not included in the guide itself, preferred web-colors for each PMS color have been identified on a "Web & Identity Guidelines" page as follows: Pantone 290 (#c4d8e2)<ref>In its no-longer-circulated 2008 guide, Columbia College identified #a6b7c8 as its preferred web-color interpretation of Pantone 290. Unsurprisingly this is the web-color they've incorporated into their wbesite as of May 2013.</ref>, Pantone 291 (#A8cee2), Pantone 284 (#75aadb), Pantone 280 (#002b7f), Pantone 286 (#0038a8), black (#000000), gray (60% black; #999999).<ref name=webidentity>[http://www.columbia.edu/content/logo.html The University Identity: Logo]</ref> Curiously, the same site offers 32 suggested color palettes for use in designing web pages; PMS 290 (as defined in web color) is not incorporated into a single one of them.<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/files/columbia/content/color-palettes.pdf Color Pallettes]</ref>

In final bit of confusion, the University specifies PMS 294 (without further definition), a color mentioned neither in the blue290 guide, or the Web & Identity Guidelines page, for letterhead and business cards.<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/content/letterhead-business-cards.html Letterhead & Business Cards</ref>

=== Athletics Colors ===
[[Columbia Athletics]] has used the similar but darker Pantone 292 for Columbia Blue on its uniforms and logo, because of the readability issue, since 1999.<ref>The Lion Enters Slick New Era, Columbia Spectator, Nov. 11, 1999. While the article suggests that the choice of Pantone 292 was determinative of Columbia Blue itself, it was actually a design-related decision to opt for a darker blue for Athletics purposes.</ref> In addition, for the purposes of [[Club Sports]] usage, the department specifies Pantone 291 (given a 4-color Process specification of C: 27 M: 0 Y: 0 K: 0) as 'Columbia Light Blue.'<ref>The [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/clubsports/forms/Club%20Sports%20Style%20Guide.pdf Columbia University Club Sports Visual Identity Style Guide] mandates that club sports teams use Pantone 291 as 'Columbia Light Blue.' Whether this was meant to distinguish club teams from varsity teams (using Pantone 292), as many of the guidelines in the guide are meant to do, is unclear.</ref> The Club Sports style guide also identifies Pantone 2955 (C: 100 M: 56 Y: 0 K: 34) as 'Columbia Dark Blue', Pantone Process Black (C: 0 M: 0 Y: 0 K: 100) as 'Columbia Black', and Pantone Process Black (20%) (C: 0 M: 0 Y: 0 K: 20) as 'Columbia Gray.'

== History of the Blue and White at Columbia ==
The history of the Blue and White dates back to at least [[1852]], when the Philolexian and Peithologian Societies each reduced their palette of society colors from two apiece (Blue and Silver for Philo, White and Gold for Peitho) to one apiece.<ref>It is unclear when precisely Philolexian and Peithologian first adopted light blue and white as society colors, but it can be inferred that it happened sometime before 1852.</ref> While the colors entered into general usage by students during the 19th century, they first came into prominent use by the school in [[1873]] "at the boat race at Springfield" according to Dean [[John Howard Van Amringe]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=iowhAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA248#v=onepage&q&f=false The Colors of Columbia"], Columbia Alumni News, Vol. 6, No. 16, Pgs. 248-249, 15 Jan 1915. Van Amringe may have been referring to the July 17, 1873 regatta at Springfield, Massachusetts. According to the lengthy NY Times report of the event "The majority of the drivers <nowiki>[of vehicles travelling to the boat race site on the morning of the event]</nowiki> had ribbons on their horses to declare their favorites, and the big teams, that took twenty people at a time, were festooned with ribbons of every possible hue, including colors of the whole eleven competing colleges. If one might judge from the signs of the road, Yale runs very popular... The green of Dartmouth, and the purple and white of Amherst, and the blue and white of Columbia, and the maroon and white of the "Aggies," were also very prominent. So also was Harvard, but to a less degree, which seems surprising considering their popularity." [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9401E3D61539EF34BC4052DFB1668388669FDE A Victory for Yale], The New York Times, 17 July 1873. Though the results aren't clear, it appears that Columbia finished no higher than 7th.</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs18800210-01.2.12# College Colors], Columbia Daily Spectator, 10 Feb 1880.</ref>

The Philolexian Society maintains to this day, in mock indignation, the position that the school colors are in fact stolen. In [[1986]], one member of the society wrote a letter to the President of the University demanding $1 million in restitution.<ref> [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/philo/legacy_content/content/archives/sovern/ Letter to President Sovern], 2 May 1986.</ref>

== Past Attempts to Define ==
"Columbia Blue" had been a hard color to pin down historically. A column in the February [[1949]] [[Columbia Alumni News]] lamented the lack of a properly defined color, and set about to investigate. The magazine noted that it used a shade of turquoise for its cover, that the University had adopted a shade called azure for the [[University Shield]], and that on top of that "there are the variegated blues of programs, announcements, and invitations. There is no single Columbia blue."

In the same column the curator of [[Columbiana]] described the color as "the blue of the sky close to the horizon on a clear day," but confessed that "Oh, I just tear off the a piece of the cover of the University catalogue" when requesting the color from printers, and [[Columbia University Press]]'s printing office simply stated that "why, we just ask for Columbia blue."<ref>Columbia Alumni News Vol. XL No. 5, February 1949</ref>

It's worth noting that the historical range of Columbia Blue in its various uses has run from [[w:Cyan|Cyan]] to [[w:Azure (color)|Azure]], to more subdued shades of [[w:Cornflower blue|Cornflower blue]].

== List of colors and uses ==
Because of the ways colors are defined, displaying them here can be difficult. For example, while the Visual Identity Guide identifies a specific color using the [[w:Pantone|Pantone Matching System]], the guide doesn't offer guidance on the preferred definitions for printing in Process Color (i.e. CMYK), or Spot Color, or web colors (which are defined by hex codes).<ref>By contrast, compare to Yale's extremely detailed guides on "Yale Blue" and other marks: [http://www.yale.edu/printer/identity/yaleblue.html#yaleblue Yale University Identity Guidelines]; [http://www.yale.edu/web/styleguide/colors/index.html Yale Web Style Color Guidelines]; [http://www.yale.edu/licensing/pdf/TheYaleBrand.pdf "The Yale Brand", Yale Trademark Licensing Program]; [http://www.yale.edu/licensing/trademark.html Yale Trademark Licensing]; [http://www.yale.edu/licensing/sample.html Yale Licensing - Sample Artwork]</ref><ref>Ironically, the Guide ''does'' provide a Process Color definition of Pantone 286, a recommended royal blue secondary color.</ref>

Below are attempts to create a visualization of the varied palette of Columbia Blue in recent use. Where hex codes were not given, [http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/ ColorPic] was used in an attempt to identify the color in question.

==="Official" Versions of Columbia Blue===
{|
|- style="background:#DDDDDD;"
| '''Color'''
| '''Name'''
| '''Source'''
|-
| bgcolor="#c4d8e2" |
| Columbia Blue
| Columbia Blue (PMS 290) preferred web color as defined by the Web & Identity Guidelines page<ref name=webidentity /> (Hex: C4D8E2)
|-
| bgcolor="#A6B7C8" |
| Columbia Blue
| Columbia Blue (PMS 290) preferred web color as defined by the [[Columbia College]] Visual Identity Guide (Hex: A6B7C8)
|-
| bgcolor="#76B3DF" |
| Columbia Blue
| Columbia Blue as defined by the [[Athletics Department]] in 1999 as PMS 292
|-
| bgcolor="#B3E4FA" |
| Columbia Light Blue
| Columbia Light Blue as defined by the [[Athletics Department]] for [[Club Sports]] as PMS 291 (C: 27 M: 0 Y: 0 K: 0)

|}

===Other Versions of Columbia Blue===
{|
|- style="background:#DDDDDD;"
| '''Color'''
| '''Name'''
| '''Source'''
|-
| bgcolor="#76B3DF" |
| Columbia Blue 3
| Previously registered by Columbia at trademarx.com
|-
| bgcolor="#A8CEE2" |
| Columbia Blue 2
| Previously registered by Columbia at trademarx.com
|-
| bgcolor="#99CCFF" |
|
| Blue used on [[Columbia.edu]] from 1999-2003
|-
| bgcolor="#B5CEFF" |
|
| Blue used on subpages of [[Columbia.edu]] from 1996-1999
|-
| bgcolor="#9BDDFF" |
| Columbia blue
| [[w:Columbia blue|Wikipedia]]'s definition of Columbia Blue, derived from a [[:Image:CUShield.png|gif]] of the [[University Shield]]
|}

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Symbols]]

School colors

2016-05-05T18:34:18Z

Absentminded: /* History of the Blue and White at Columbia */

[[Image:CCFlag.jpg|thumb|200px|The Blue and White (Mark Holden C '09)]]

Columbia's official '''School Colors''' are "Columbia Blue" and white. Both colors were originally drawn from the two literary societies that were at the heart of student life in the 19th century: blue from the [[Philolexian Society]], and white from the [[Peithologian Society]].

== Definition ==
Columbia Blue is defined by the [[Office of University Publications]] as [[w:Pantone|Pantone]] 290 under the Pantone Matching System. White is defined as... white. What did you expect?

The decision to define an official color (and the choice of color) was made by Sandy Kaufman, a member of the office, during the early 2000s in order to provide guidance to other members of the University community during a period of time that featured a number of branding initiatives, such as [[Columbia 250]], and the launch of the [[Columbia Alumni Association]]. The determination has since been codified in a visual identity guide first published in 2009, and then updated in 2011.<ref>blue290 A Practical Guide to Columbia’s Standards of Visual Identity [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/identityguidelines/blue290.pdf (May 2009)]; [http://www.columbia.edu/files/columbia/content/blue290.pdf May 2011]</ref><ref>Although the decision originated with Kaufman in the Publications office, the guidance appears to have been formalized for the first time by Columbia College, which created a visual identity guideline in 2008: [http://www.wikicu.com/images/0/05/Cc_visualidguide_final.pdf Columbia College Visual Identity Guide]. (The PDF Document Properties indicate that the guide was created in August 2008.) Note that the College guide offered yet another contrasting blue option (Pantone 295), in addition to a more colorful palette generally.</ref>

For all its merits, PMS 290 presents a number of difficulties for graphic designers, primarily that reading text in PMS 290 on a light background is extremely difficult. To that end the guide recommends using PMS 280 or 286, or in the case of 4-color Process printing C: 100 M: 72 Y: 0 K, (all three of which are dark blues), black, or gray (60% black) on light backgrounds. It recommends using Columbia Blue itself (PMS 290) only on darker backgrounds, or, in the alternative, the very similar PMS 291, or PMS 284 (another light blue).

Although not included in the guide itself, preferred web-colors for each PMS color have been identified on a "Web & Identity Guidelines" page as follows: Pantone 290 (#c4d8e2)<ref>In its no-longer-circulated 2008 guide, Columbia College identified #a6b7c8 as its preferred web-color interpretation of Pantone 290. Unsurprisingly this is the web-color they've incorporated into their wbesite as of May 2013.</ref>, Pantone 291 (#A8cee2), Pantone 284 (#75aadb), Pantone 280 (#002b7f), Pantone 286 (#0038a8), black (#000000), gray (60% black; #999999).<ref name=webidentity>[http://www.columbia.edu/content/logo.html The University Identity: Logo]</ref> Curiously, the same site offers 32 suggested color palettes for use in designing web pages; PMS 290 (as defined in web color) is not incorporated into a single one of them.<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/files/columbia/content/color-palettes.pdf Color Pallettes]</ref>

In final bit of confusion, the University specifies PMS 294 (without further definition), a color mentioned neither in the blue290 guide, or the Web & Identity Guidelines page, for letterhead and business cards.<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/content/letterhead-business-cards.html Letterhead & Business Cards</ref>

=== Athletics Colors ===
[[Columbia Athletics]] has used the similar but darker Pantone 292 for Columbia Blue on its uniforms and logo, because of the readability issue, since 1999.<ref>The Lion Enters Slick New Era, Columbia Spectator, Nov. 11, 1999. While the article suggests that the choice of Pantone 292 was determinative of Columbia Blue itself, it was actually a design-related decision to opt for a darker blue for Athletics purposes.</ref> In addition, for the purposes of [[Club Sports]] usage, the department specifies Pantone 291 (given a 4-color Process specification of C: 27 M: 0 Y: 0 K: 0) as 'Columbia Light Blue.'<ref>The [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/clubsports/forms/Club%20Sports%20Style%20Guide.pdf Columbia University Club Sports Visual Identity Style Guide] mandates that club sports teams use Pantone 291 as 'Columbia Light Blue.' Whether this was meant to distinguish club teams from varsity teams (using Pantone 292), as many of the guidelines in the guide are meant to do, is unclear.</ref> The Club Sports style guide also identifies Pantone 2955 (C: 100 M: 56 Y: 0 K: 34) as 'Columbia Dark Blue', Pantone Process Black (C: 0 M: 0 Y: 0 K: 100) as 'Columbia Black', and Pantone Process Black (20%) (C: 0 M: 0 Y: 0 K: 20) as 'Columbia Gray.'

== History of the Blue and White at Columbia ==
The history of the Blue and White dates back to at least [[1852]], when the Philolexian and Peithologian Societies each reduced their palette of society colors from two apiece (Blue and Silver for Philo, White and Gold for Peitho) to one apiece.<ref>It is unclear when precisely Philolexian and Peithologian first adopted light blue and white as society colors, but it can be inferred that it happened sometime before 1852.</ref> While the colors entered into general usage by students during the 19th century, they first came into prominent use by the school in [[1873]] "at the boat race at Springfield" according to Dean [[John Howard Van Amringe]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=iowhAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA248#v=onepage&q&f=false The Colors of Columbia"], Columbia Alumni News, Vol. 6, No. 16, Pgs. 248-249, 15 Jan 1915.</ref><ref>Van Amringe may have been referring to the July 17, 1873 regatta at Springfield, Massachusetts. According to the lengthy NY Times report of the event "The majority of the drivers <nowiki>[of vehicles travelling to the boat race site on the morning of the event]</nowiki> had ribbons on their horses to declare their favorites, and the big teams, that took twenty people at a time, were festooned with ribbons of every possible hue, including colors of the whole eleven competing colleges. If one might judge from the signs of the road, Yale runs very popular... The green of Dartmouth, and the purple and white of Amherst, and the blue and white of Columbia, and the maroon and white of the "Aggies," were also very prominent. So also was Harvard, but to a less degree, which seems surprising considering their popularity." [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9401E3D61539EF34BC4052DFB1668388669FDE A Victory for Yale], The New York Times, 17 July 1873. Though the results aren't clear, it appears that Columbia finished no higher than 7th.</ref>

The Philolexian Society maintains to this day, in mock indignation, the position that the school colors are in fact stolen. In [[1986]], one member of the society wrote a letter to the President of the University demanding $1 million in restitution.<ref> [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/philo/legacy_content/content/archives/sovern/ Letter to President Sovern], 2 May 1986.</ref>

== Past Attempts to Define ==
"Columbia Blue" had been a hard color to pin down historically. A column in the February [[1949]] [[Columbia Alumni News]] lamented the lack of a properly defined color, and set about to investigate. The magazine noted that it used a shade of turquoise for its cover, that the University had adopted a shade called azure for the [[University Shield]], and that on top of that "there are the variegated blues of programs, announcements, and invitations. There is no single Columbia blue."

In the same column the curator of [[Columbiana]] described the color as "the blue of the sky close to the horizon on a clear day," but confessed that "Oh, I just tear off the a piece of the cover of the University catalogue" when requesting the color from printers, and [[Columbia University Press]]'s printing office simply stated that "why, we just ask for Columbia blue."<ref>Columbia Alumni News Vol. XL No. 5, February 1949</ref>

It's worth noting that the historical range of Columbia Blue in its various uses has run from [[w:Cyan|Cyan]] to [[w:Azure (color)|Azure]], to more subdued shades of [[w:Cornflower blue|Cornflower blue]].

== List of colors and uses ==
Because of the ways colors are defined, displaying them here can be difficult. For example, while the Visual Identity Guide identifies a specific color using the [[w:Pantone|Pantone Matching System]], the guide doesn't offer guidance on the preferred definitions for printing in Process Color (i.e. CMYK), or Spot Color, or web colors (which are defined by hex codes).<ref>By contrast, compare to Yale's extremely detailed guides on "Yale Blue" and other marks: [http://www.yale.edu/printer/identity/yaleblue.html#yaleblue Yale University Identity Guidelines]; [http://www.yale.edu/web/styleguide/colors/index.html Yale Web Style Color Guidelines]; [http://www.yale.edu/licensing/pdf/TheYaleBrand.pdf "The Yale Brand", Yale Trademark Licensing Program]; [http://www.yale.edu/licensing/trademark.html Yale Trademark Licensing]; [http://www.yale.edu/licensing/sample.html Yale Licensing - Sample Artwork]</ref><ref>Ironically, the Guide ''does'' provide a Process Color definition of Pantone 286, a recommended royal blue secondary color.</ref>

Below are attempts to create a visualization of the varied palette of Columbia Blue in recent use. Where hex codes were not given, [http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/ ColorPic] was used in an attempt to identify the color in question.

==="Official" Versions of Columbia Blue===
{|
|- style="background:#DDDDDD;"
| '''Color'''
| '''Name'''
| '''Source'''
|-
| bgcolor="#c4d8e2" |
| Columbia Blue
| Columbia Blue (PMS 290) preferred web color as defined by the Web & Identity Guidelines page<ref name=webidentity /> (Hex: C4D8E2)
|-
| bgcolor="#A6B7C8" |
| Columbia Blue
| Columbia Blue (PMS 290) preferred web color as defined by the [[Columbia College]] Visual Identity Guide (Hex: A6B7C8)
|-
| bgcolor="#76B3DF" |
| Columbia Blue
| Columbia Blue as defined by the [[Athletics Department]] in 1999 as PMS 292
|-
| bgcolor="#B3E4FA" |
| Columbia Light Blue
| Columbia Light Blue as defined by the [[Athletics Department]] for [[Club Sports]] as PMS 291 (C: 27 M: 0 Y: 0 K: 0)

|}

===Other Versions of Columbia Blue===
{|
|- style="background:#DDDDDD;"
| '''Color'''
| '''Name'''
| '''Source'''
|-
| bgcolor="#76B3DF" |
| Columbia Blue 3
| Previously registered by Columbia at trademarx.com
|-
| bgcolor="#A8CEE2" |
| Columbia Blue 2
| Previously registered by Columbia at trademarx.com
|-
| bgcolor="#99CCFF" |
|
| Blue used on [[Columbia.edu]] from 1999-2003
|-
| bgcolor="#B5CEFF" |
|
| Blue used on subpages of [[Columbia.edu]] from 1996-1999
|-
| bgcolor="#9BDDFF" |
| Columbia blue
| [[w:Columbia blue|Wikipedia]]'s definition of Columbia Blue, derived from a [[:Image:CUShield.png|gif]] of the [[University Shield]]
|}

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Symbols]]