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Absentminded: /* Honorable Mentions */

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‎Honorable Mentions

Absentminded at 09:48, 10 November 2010

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Absentminded at 09:48, 10 November 2010

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160.39.169.106: /* Honorable Mentions */

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‎Honorable Mentions

160.39.169.106 at 15:57, 10 March 2010

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SteveMcP: Proper punctuation is a good thing.

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Proper punctuation is a good thing.

Absentminded at 05:07, 6 April 2009

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Nateoxford at 03:17, 8 March 2009

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Absentminded at 22:47, 31 January 2009

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Iaura at 02:09, 6 August 2008

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 * [[Benjamin Cardozo]] - dropped out of the Law School after graduating from the College
 * [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] - dropped out of the Law School after graduating from the College
+* [[Charles Henry Wharton]] - resigned as [[President of Columbia University|president of Columbia]] in [[1801]] without ever having actually shown up for the job after his appointment.
 [[Category:Drop outs|*]]
 [[Category:Traditions]]

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 '''Dropouts''' are some (okay, maybe most) of Columbia's most famous students. That's right, a Columbia education is SO good that you don't even need a full 4 years to take the world by storm! Making it to [[Commencement]] is clearly overrated. Columbia is so proud of its long history of great dropouts, it printed a [http://books.google.com/books?id=Z8BBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5#v=onepage&q&f=false full length catalogue] of students who had failed to graduate, from [[1758]] through the date of publication in [[1897]].
+==Notable Dropouts==
 * [[Alexander Hamilton]] (joined the Revolutionary War)
 * [[Lou Gehrig]] (signed a contract with the Yankees and bolted)

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-'''Dropouts''' are some (okay, maybe most) of Columbia's most famous students. That's right, a Columbia education is SO good that you don't even need a full 4 years to take the world by storm! Making it to [[Commencement]] is clearly overrated.
+'''Dropouts''' are some (okay, maybe most) of Columbia's most famous students. That's right, a Columbia education is SO good that you don't even need a full 4 years to take the world by storm! Making it to [[Commencement]] is clearly overrated. Columbia is so proud of its long history of great dropouts, it printed a [http://books.google.com/books?id=Z8BBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP5#v=onepage&q&f=false full length catalogue] of students who had failed to graduate, from [[1758]] through the date of publication in [[1897]].
 * [[Alexander Hamilton]] (joined the Revolutionary War)
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 * [[Amelia Earhart]]
 * [[James Cagney]], dropped out after one semester in [[1918]] when his father died in the [[w:1918 flu pandemic|1918 flu pandemic]]
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 ==Honorable Mentions==
 * [[Benjamin Cardozo]] - dropped out of the Law School after graduating from the College

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 * [[Benjamin Cardozo]] - dropped out of the Law School after graduating from the College
 * [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] - dropped out of the Law School after graduating from the College
-* [[Allen Ginsberg]] was expelled
 [[Category:Drop outs|*]]
 [[Category:Traditions]]

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 * [[Benjamin Cardozo]] - dropped out of the Law School after graduating from the College
 * [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] - dropped out of the Law School after graduating from the College
 [[Category:Drop outs|*]]
 [[Category:Traditions]]

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-'''Dropouts''' are some, (okay, maybe most) of Columbia's most famous students. That's right, a Columbia education is SO good, that you don't even need a full 4 years to take the world by storm! Making it to [[Commencement]] is clearly overrated.
+'''Dropouts''' are some (okay, maybe most) of Columbia's most famous students. That's right, a Columbia education is SO good that you don't even need a full 4 years to take the world by storm! Making it to [[Commencement]] is clearly overrated.
 * [[Alexander Hamilton]] (joined the Revolutionary War)
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 * [[w:Isamu Noguchi|Isamu Noguchi]] (dropped out of CC's premed program to sculpt full-time)
 * [[w:José Raúl Capablanca|José Raúl Capablanca]] (World Chess Champion, 1921-1927; dropped out of the School of Mines after one semester because he spent too much time playing chess)
-* [[Mortimer J. Adler]] (spread the gospel of the [[Core Curriculum]] to the [[University of Chicago]] and [[St. John's College]] in Annapolis. He didn't bother to take the [[Swim Test]], and came back to teach Core classes with [[John Erskine]].)
+* [[Mortimer J. Adler]] (spread the gospel of the [[Core Curriculum]] to the [[University of Chicago]] and [[St. John's College]] in Annapolis. He didn't bother to take the [[Swim Test]], and came back to teach Core classes with [[John Erskine]])
 * [[Theodore Roosevelt]] (from the [[Law School]], after being elected to State Assembly)
 * [[Franklin Roosevelt]] (from the Law School, after passing the Bar)

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 * [[w:Utada Hikaru|Utada Hikaru]]
 *[[John Parke Custis]], [[George Washington]]'s stepson
 ==Honorable Mentions==

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 * [[Langston Hughes]] (from the [[School of Mines]] - that's right, one of the great American poets was a [[SEAS]] drop-out...)
 * [[w:Eudora Welty|Eudora Welty]] (from the [[Business School]], perhaps for obvious reasons)
-* [[Jack Kerouac]]
+* [[Jack Kerouac]] (CC)
 * [[Alicia Keys]]
 * [[Lauryn Hill]]
 * [[Joseph Gordon-Levitt]] (GS)
-* [[Jake Gyllenhaal]]
+* [[Jake Gyllenhaal]] (CC)
 * [[w:Isamu Noguchi|Isamu Noguchi]] (dropped out of CC's premed program to sculpt full-time)
 * [[w:José Raúl Capablanca|José Raúl Capablanca]] (World Chess Champion, 1921-1927; dropped out of the School of Mines after one semester because he spent too much time playing chess)