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'''Whittaker Chambers''', a [[Columbia College]] student from [[1921]] to [[1924]], became a Soviet spy. His abandonment of communism during Stalin's purges led to his willingness to testify against the espionage activities of fellow Columbian [[Alger Hiss]], among others.

Chambers entered Columbia in [[1921]], and his classmates at the time included [[Meyer Schapiro]], [[Lionel Trilling]], and [[Louis Zukofsky]]. Trilling later made him the main character in his novel ''Middle of the Journey''.

Sam Tannenhaus' biography of Chambers discussed his affinity for Columbia's campus:

"Physically Columbia was much more to Chambers' liking than Williams, a distinctively urban campus with tall peaked-roofed buildings linked by crowded walks. There were pastoral spaces as well, with statuary and plantings, and a great stretch of lawn where student soldiers had drilled in formation in [[1917]]-[[1918|18]]. Beyond the borders of the terraced campus were the diverse attractions of [[Manhattan]]'s [[Upper West Side]], the busy commercial streets, including Broadway with its cheap restaurants. To the west ran [[Riverside Drive]], where grand apartment houses, some of them modeled on Tuscan villas, jutted out from bluffs overlooking the [[Hudson River]]; to the east was [[Morningside Park]], a high ridge that rose up steeply from the valley of Harlem. The 1920's were a glorious decade for Columbia. Long a prestigious local institution, it had recently become, under President [[Nicholas Murray Butler]], the model of a twentieth-century urban university."<ref>Sam Tannenhaus' biography of Chambers, p. 22</ref>

Chambers' professors and classmates found him brilliant and believed he had a future as a major poet or novelist. However, upon publishing a "blasphemous" and "atheistic" dramatic work entitled "A Play for Puppets" in the now-defunct Columbia literary magazine ''The Morningside'', Chambers left Columbia. It is unclear whether he left on his own accord or was expelled.

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-:"Physically Columbia was much more to Chambers' liking than Williams, a distinctively urban campus with tall peaked-roofed buildings linked by crowded walks. There were pastoral spaces as well, with statuary and plantings, and a great stretch of lawn where student soldiers had drilled in formation in [[1917]]-[[1918|18]]. Beyond the borders of the terraced campus were the diverse attractions of [[Manhattan]]'s [[Upper West Side]], the busy commercial streets, including Broadway with its cheap restaurants. To the west ran [[Riverside Drive]], where grand apartment houses, some of them modeled on Tuscan villas, jutted out from bluffs overlooking the [[Hudson River]]; to the east was [[Morningside Park]], a high ridge that rose up steeply from the valley of Harlem. The 1920's were a glorious decade for Columbia. Long a prestigious local institution, it had recently become, under President [[Nicholas Murray Butler]], the model of a twentieth-century urban university."<ref>Sam Tannenhaus' biography of Chambers, p. 22</ref>
+:"Physically Columbia was much more to Chambers' liking than [[Williams]], a distinctively urban campus with tall peaked-roofed buildings linked by crowded walks. There were pastoral spaces as well, with statuary and plantings, and a great stretch of lawn where student soldiers had drilled in formation in [[1917]]-[[1918|18]]. Beyond the borders of the terraced campus were the diverse attractions of [[Manhattan]]'s [[Upper West Side]], the busy commercial streets, including Broadway with its cheap restaurants. To the west ran [[Riverside Drive]], where grand apartment houses, some of them modeled on Tuscan villas, jutted out from bluffs overlooking the [[Hudson River]]; to the east was [[Morningside Park]], a high ridge that rose up steeply from the valley of Harlem. The 1920's were a glorious decade for Columbia. Long a prestigious local institution, it had recently become, under President [[Nicholas Murray Butler]], the model of a twentieth-century urban university."<ref>Sam Tannenhaus' biography of Chambers, p. 22</ref>
 Chambers' professors and classmates found him brilliant and believed he had a future as a major poet or novelist. However, upon publishing a "blasphemous" and "atheistic" dramatic work entitled "A Play for Puppets" in the now-defunct Columbia literary magazine ''The Morningside'', Chambers left Columbia. It is unclear whether he left on his own accord or was expelled.

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-'''Whittaker Chambers''', a [[Columbia College]] student from [[1921]] to [[1924]], became a Soviet spy. His abandonment of communism during Stalin's purges led to his willingness to testify against the espionage activities of fellow Columbian [[Alger Hiss]], among others.
+'''Whittaker Chambers''', a [[Columbia College]] student in the early 1920s, became a Soviet spy. His abandonment of communism during Stalin's purges led to his willingness to testify against the espionage activities of fellow Columbian [[Alger Hiss]], among others.
 Chambers entered Columbia in [[1921]], and his classmates at the time included [[Meyer Schapiro]], [[Lionel Trilling]], and [[Louis Zukofsky]]. Trilling later made him the main character in his novel ''Middle of the Journey''.