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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, during which he lived in [[Hartley Hall]]<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=-nt1xVR4SrAC&lpg=PA7&ots=r_eXPXbf4T&dq=columbia%20%22lived%20in%20livingston%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q&f=false The Beat Generation in NY, p. 6]</ref>. 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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to this college on the hill above Harlem. <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." | ||
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Revision as of 21:05, 2 August 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, during which he lived in Hartley Hall[1]. 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.[2] 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."
