Jack Kerouac - Revision history

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‎On Columbia housing

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 ==On Columbia housing==
-Kerouac moved from [[Hartley]] to [[Wallach Hall]] (then Livingston), which he much preferred, due to its superior view of [[Butler]] and its comparative lack of cockroaches. In his autobiography ''Vanity of Duluoz'' he expressed his hatred for Hartley:
+Kerouac moved from [[Hartley]] to [[Wallach Hall]] (then Livingston), which he much preferred, due to its superior view of [[Butler Library]] and its comparative lack of cockroaches. In his autobiography ''Vanity of Duluoz'' he expressed his hatred for Hartley:
 :"Here we stood in this sort of drear room overlooking [[Amsterdam Avenue]], a wooden desk, bed, chairs, bare walls, and one huge cockroach suddenly rushing off."
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 ...and his satisfaction with the move to Livingston (now Wallach):
-:"One great move I made was to switch my dormitory room from [[Hartley Hall]] to [[Livingston Hall]] where there were no cockroaches and where b'God I had a room all to myself, on the second floor, overlooking the beautiful trees and walkways of the campus and overlooking, to my greatest delight, besides the [[Van Am Quadrangle]], the [[Butler Library|library itself, the new one]], with its stone frieze running around entire with the names engraved in stone forever: 'Goethe ... Voltaire ... Shakespeare ... Molière ... Dante.' That was more like it. Lighting my fragrant pipe at 8 P.M., I'd open the pages of my homework, turn on station WQXR for the continual classical music, and sit there, in the golden glow of my lamp, in a sweater, sight and say, 'Well, now I'm a real collegian at last.'" <ref>Kerouac, Jack, ''Vanity of Duluoz'', p.66</ref>
+:"One great move I made was to switch my dormitory room from [[Hartley Hall]] to [[Livingston Hall]] where there were no cockroaches and where b'God I had a room all to myself, on the second floor, overlooking the beautiful trees and walkways of the campus and overlooking, to my greatest delight, besides the [[Van Am Quadrangle]], the [[Butler Library|library itself, the new one]], with its stone frieze running around entire with the names engraved in stone forever: 'Goethe... Voltaire... Shakespeare... Molière... [[Dante]].' That was more like it. Lighting my fragrant pipe at 8 P.M., I'd open the pages of my homework, turn on station WQXR for the continual classical music, and sit there, in the golden glow of my lamp, in a sweater, sight and say, 'Well, now I'm a real collegian at last.'" <ref>Kerouac, Jack, ''Vanity of Duluoz'', p.66</ref>
 ==On hanging out in Morningside Heights==

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 Ostensibly, he came to Columbia on a [[football]] scholarship. In reality, though, he had been recruited by more football-friendly [[Boston College]], and chose Columbia for its New York literary connections instead. He turned fully to writing after a broken leg in [[1940]], his first year.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/nyregion/thecity/15kero.html?ref=thecity]</ref> He enjoyed Professors [[Mark Van Doren]] and [[Raymond Weaver]], and got an A in Van Doren's Shakespeare class (while flunking chemistry).<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=-nt1xVR4SrAC&lpg=PA7&ots=r_eXPXbf4T&dq=columbia%20%22lived%20in%20livingston%22&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false The Beat Generation in NY, p. 5]</ref>
-Because he'd quit football, once his leg healed, Kerouac was forced to work as a waiter in [[John Jay Dining Hall]] to pay for his meal plan.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=-nt1xVR4SrAC&lpg=PA7&ots=r_eXPXbf4T&dq=columbia%20%22lived%20in%20livingston%22&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false The Beat Generation in NY, p. 7]</ref>
+Because he'd quit football, once his leg healed, Kerouac was forced to work as a waiter in [[John Jay Dining Hall]] to pay for his meal plan.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=-nt1xVR4SrAC&lpg=PA7&ots=r_eXPXbf4T&dq=columbia%20%22lived%20in%20livingston%22&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false The Beat Generation in NY, p. 7]</ref> Kerouac tended to prefer the [[Lion's Den]] (now [[JJ's Place]]) in the John Jay basement, though, where he ate steak and ice cream to his heart's content.
 The product of a working-class background, Kerouac was reportedly intimidated by other Columbia students' wealth and sophistication.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=-nt1xVR4SrAC&lpg=PA7&ots=r_eXPXbf4T&dq=columbia%20%22lived%20in%20livingston%22&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false The Beat Generation in NY, p. 2]</ref> While at Columbia, Kerouac also did some sportswriting for the ''[[Spec]]'', and had a weird relationship with [[Allen Ginsberg]]. He was also a member of [[Phi Gamma Delta]].  During these years, Kerouac was an avid sports fan; it has been recently been discovered that while here, he devised an [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/16/books/16kero.html?_r=2 elaborate fantasy sports system].

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 '''Jack Kerouac''' is known as the [[Beat Generation]] author who wrote ''On the Road''.
-Ostensibly, he came to Columbia on a [[football]] scholarship. In reality, though, he had been recruited by more football-friendly [[Boston College]], and chose Columbia for its New York literary connections instead. He turned fully to writing after a broken leg his first year. <ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/nyregion/thecity/15kero.html?ref=thecity]</ref> He enjoyed Professors [[Mark Van Doren]] and [[Raymond Weaver]], and got an A in Van Doren's Shakespeare class (while flunking chemistry).<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=-nt1xVR4SrAC&lpg=PA7&ots=r_eXPXbf4T&dq=columbia%20%22lived%20in%20livingston%22&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false The Beat Generation in NY, p. 5]</ref>
+Ostensibly, he came to Columbia on a [[football]] scholarship. In reality, though, he had been recruited by more football-friendly [[Boston College]], and chose Columbia for its New York literary connections instead. He turned fully to writing after a broken leg in [[1940]], his first year.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/nyregion/thecity/15kero.html?ref=thecity]</ref> He enjoyed Professors [[Mark Van Doren]] and [[Raymond Weaver]], and got an A in Van Doren's Shakespeare class (while flunking chemistry).<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=-nt1xVR4SrAC&lpg=PA7&ots=r_eXPXbf4T&dq=columbia%20%22lived%20in%20livingston%22&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false The Beat Generation in NY, p. 5]</ref>
 Because he'd quit football, once his leg healed, Kerouac was forced to work as a waiter in [[John Jay Dining Hall]] to pay for his meal plan.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=-nt1xVR4SrAC&lpg=PA7&ots=r_eXPXbf4T&dq=columbia%20%22lived%20in%20livingston%22&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false The Beat Generation in NY, p. 7]</ref>

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	Ostensibly, he came to Columbia on a [[football]] scholarship. In reality, though, he had been recruited by more football-friendly [[Boston College]], and chose Columbia for its New York literary connections instead. He turned fully to writing after a broken leg his first year. <ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/nyregion/thecity/15kero.html?ref=thecity]</ref> He enjoyed Professors [[Mark Van Doren]] and [[Raymond Weaver]], and got an A in Van Doren's Shakespeare class (while flunking chemistry).<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=-nt1xVR4SrAC&lpg=PA7&ots=r_eXPXbf4T&dq=columbia%20%22lived%20in%20livingston%22&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false The Beat Generation in NY, p. 5]</ref>		Ostensibly, he came to Columbia on a [[football]] scholarship. In reality, though, he had been recruited by more football-friendly [[Boston College]], and chose Columbia for its New York literary connections instead. He turned fully to writing after a broken leg his first year. <ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/nyregion/thecity/15kero.html?ref=thecity]</ref> He enjoyed Professors [[Mark Van Doren]] and [[Raymond Weaver]], and got an A in Van Doren's Shakespeare class (while flunking chemistry).<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=-nt1xVR4SrAC&lpg=PA7&ots=r_eXPXbf4T&dq=columbia%20%22lived%20in%20livingston%22&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false The Beat Generation in NY, p. 5]</ref>
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		+	Because he'd quit football, once his leg healed, Kerouac was forced to work as a waiter in [[John Jay Dining Hall]] to pay for his meal plan.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=-nt1xVR4SrAC&lpg=PA7&ots=r_eXPXbf4T&dq=columbia%20%22lived%20in%20livingston%22&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false The Beat Generation in NY, p. 7]</ref>

	The product of a working-class background, Kerouac was reportedly intimidated by other Columbia students' wealth and sophistication.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=-nt1xVR4SrAC&lpg=PA7&ots=r_eXPXbf4T&dq=columbia%20%22lived%20in%20livingston%22&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false The Beat Generation in NY, p. 2]</ref> While at Columbia, Kerouac also did some sportswriting for the ''[[Spec]]'', and had a weird relationship with [[Allen Ginsberg]]. He was also a member of [[Phi Gamma Delta]]. During these years, Kerouac was an avid sports fan; it has been recently been discovered that while here, he devised an [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/16/books/16kero.html?_r=2 elaborate fantasy sports system].		The product of a working-class background, Kerouac was reportedly intimidated by other Columbia students' wealth and sophistication.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=-nt1xVR4SrAC&lpg=PA7&ots=r_eXPXbf4T&dq=columbia%20%22lived%20in%20livingston%22&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false The Beat Generation in NY, p. 2]</ref> While at Columbia, Kerouac also did some sportswriting for the ''[[Spec]]'', and had a weird relationship with [[Allen Ginsberg]]. He was also a member of [[Phi Gamma Delta]]. During these years, Kerouac was an avid sports fan; it has been recently been discovered that while here, he devised an [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/16/books/16kero.html?_r=2 elaborate fantasy sports system].

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-'''Jack Kerouac''' came to Columbia on a [[football]] scholarship, but went literary after a broken leg his first year. <ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/nyregion/thecity/15kero.html?ref=thecity]</ref> He's now known as the [[Beat Generation]] author who wrote ''On the Road''. While at Columbia, Kerouac also did some sportswriting for the ''[[Spec]]'', and had a weird relationship with [[Allen Ginsberg]]. He was also a member of [[Phi Gamma Delta]].  During his Columbia years, Kerouac was an avid sports fan; it has been recently been discovered that while here, he devised an [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/16/books/16kero.html?_r=2 elaborate fantasy sports system].
+'''Jack Kerouac''' is known as the [[Beat Generation]] author who wrote ''On the Road''.
 ==On Columbia housing==

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