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The Return of the College

The Return of the College. Lecture # 15 March 11, 2014 Alma Mater/Spring 2014. Edward Harkness (1879-1940), Yale 1899, Columbia Law School; benefactor of elite educational institutions in interwar period, including residences at Yale, Harvard; also Butler Library .

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The Return of the College

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  1. The Return of the College

    Lecture # 15March 11, 2014Alma Mater/Spring 2014
  2. Edward Harkness(1879-1940), Yale 1899, Columbia Law School; benefactor of elite educational institutions in interwar period, including residences at Yale, Harvard; also Butler Library
  3. Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943), Harvard president, 1909-1933; critic of research university model and PhD
  4. Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977), Oberlin College, Yale Law School; head of University of Chicago, 1929-1950
  5. Columbia College Henley Regatta winners, 1878
  6. Eddie Collins, CC 1907, major league baseball player with Athletics and White Sox, 1906-1930.
  7. Lou Gehrig, Columbia Baseball team, playing on South Field, 1923
  8. Lou Gehrig, Columbia, two-sport athleteat Columbia, 1923, 1924
  9. Ben Johnson (CC 1933-35, 1936-38), Track star, world record holder in 60 yard dash, greeting Olympian Jesse Owens, 1937
  10. Columbia basketball team, 1930-31, included Captain George Gregory, ‘31 and Lou Bender, 32’ Law ‘35, All-American 1931.
  11. Columbia vs. NYU, South Field, 1920
  12. Baker Field, opened in 1923, renovated in 1982 [Robert Kraft Field at Lawrence Wien Stadium]
  13. Lou Little (1893- 1979) Columbia football coach, 193-1956
  14. Sid Luckman, CC 1939, All Americanquarterback for Chicago Bears in 1940s

  15. Columbia’s Coremen

  16. George E. Woodberry, Columbia English Department, 1891-1904, early critic of professorial professionalization
  17. John Erskine (1879-1951)Columbia English professor, 1909-1935godfather of “Great Books” curriculum
  18. John J. “Colonel” Coss, Director of Contemporary Civilization Program, 1919-1940
  19. Jacques Barzun (1907-2012), CC 1927;Columbia cultural historian, 1930-1969taught “Colloquium on Important Books” with Lionel Trilling
  20. Lionel Trilling (1905-1975), CC 1925, PhD 1932Columbia English Department, 1934-1975,taught “Colloquium on Important Books” with Jacques Barzun
  21. Theodore Wm. De Bary(1919-), CC 1941Columbia East Asian East Asian scholar, 1953-Helped create Oriental Civilzations course in 1950s
  22. Andrew Delbanco(1952-), Columbia Professor of American Literature (with unidentified Columbia graduate)
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