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'''Fritz Stern''' [[Columbia College|CC]] '[[1946|46]] [[PhD]] '[[1953|53]], now retired, was the [[Seth Low Professor of History]]. | '''Fritz Stern''' [[Columbia College|CC]] '[[1946|46]] [[PhD]] '[[1953|53]], now retired, was the [[Seth Low Professor of History]]. | ||
| − | While a student at the College, Stern was friends with [[Allen Ginsberg]]. The two served as debate partners on the College Debate Council, of which Stern was president. They also founded the Roosevelt for President club together in 1944. Ginsberg also persuaded Stern to take classes with [[Lionel Trilling]] and [[Jacques Barzun]], which Stern found "humbling and life-transforming". He quit his pre-med track and became a history major, reporting on current affairs for the then-college radio station [[CURC]]. After staying on to complete his graduate studies in history, Stern was named a full professor in [[1963]]. | + | While a student at the College, Stern was friends with [[Allen Ginsberg]]. The two served as debate partners on the [[College Debate Council]], of which Stern was president. They also founded the Roosevelt for President club together in [[1944]]. Ginsberg also persuaded Stern to take classes with [[Lionel Trilling]] and [[Jacques Barzun]], which Stern found "humbling and life-transforming". He quit his pre-med track and became a history major, reporting on current affairs for the then-college radio station [[CURC]]. After staying on to complete his graduate studies in history, Stern was named a full professor in [[1963]]. |
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Fritz Stern CC '46 PhD '53, now retired, was the Seth Low Professor of History.
While a student at the College, Stern was friends with Allen Ginsberg. The two served as debate partners on the College Debate Council, of which Stern was president. They also founded the Roosevelt for President club together in 1944. Ginsberg also persuaded Stern to take classes with Lionel Trilling and Jacques Barzun, which Stern found "humbling and life-transforming". He quit his pre-med track and became a history major, reporting on current affairs for the then-college radio station CURC. After staying on to complete his graduate studies in history, Stern was named a full professor in 1963.
