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'''Langston Hughes''' is a famous [[w:Harlem Renaissance|Harlem Renaissance]] poet who attended the School of Mines (now [[SEAS]]) at the urging of his father, an engineer, for the [[1921]]-[[1922]] year. Needless to say, poetry does not go well with problem sets, and he dropped out, though the [[Office of Undergraduate Admissions|admissions department]] likes to tout him as an alum.<ref>[http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/university/ Undergraduate Admissions - Intro to Columbia]</ref> Oh yeah, and his departure may have had something to do with institutional racism too. | '''Langston Hughes''' is a famous [[w:Harlem Renaissance|Harlem Renaissance]] poet who attended the School of Mines (now [[SEAS]]) at the urging of his father, an engineer, for the [[1921]]-[[1922]] year. Needless to say, poetry does not go well with problem sets, and he dropped out, though the [[Office of Undergraduate Admissions|admissions department]] likes to tout him as an alum.<ref>[http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/university/ Undergraduate Admissions - Intro to Columbia]</ref> Oh yeah, and his departure may have had something to do with institutional racism too. | ||
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His famous poem "Theme for English B" was written for a required course at Columbia: | His famous poem "Theme for English B" was written for a required course at Columbia: | ||
| − | "The instructor said, | + | |
| − | Go home and write | + | "The instructor said,<br> |
| − | a page tonight. | + | Go home and write<br> |
| − | And let that page come out of you--- | + | a page tonight. <br> |
| − | Then, it will be true. | + | And let that page come out of you--- <br> |
| − | I wonder if it's that simple? | + | Then, it will be true. <br> |
| − | I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. | + | I wonder if it's that simple? <br> |
| − | I went to school there, then Durham, then here | + | I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. <br> |
| − | to this college on the hill above Harlem. | + | I went to school there, then Durham, then here <br> |
| + | to this college on the hill above Harlem. <br> | ||
I am the only colored student in my class." | I am the only colored student in my class." | ||
Revision as of 17:03, 23 July 2010
Langston Hughes is a famous Harlem Renaissance poet who attended the School of Mines (now SEAS) at the urging of his father, an engineer, for the 1921-1922 year. Needless to say, poetry does not go well with problem sets, and he dropped out, though the admissions department likes to tout him as an alum.[1] Oh yeah, and his departure may have had something to do with institutional racism too.
His famous poem "Theme for English B" was written for a required course at Columbia:
"The instructor said,
Go home and write
a page tonight.
And let that page come out of you---
Then, it will be true.
I wonder if it's that simple?
I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem.
I went to school there, then Durham, then here
to this college on the hill above Harlem.
I am the only colored student in my class."
