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1 The Return of the College Lecture # 15 March 11, 2014 Alma 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 athlete at 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

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13 Baker Field, opened in 1923, renovated in 1982 [Robert Kraft Field at Lawrence Wien Stadium]

14 Lou Little (1893- 1979) Columbia football coach, 193-1956

15 Sid Luckman, CC 1939, All American quarterback for Chicago Bears in 1940s

16 Columbia’s Coremen

17 George E. Woodberry, Columbia English Department, 1891- 1904, early critic of professorial professionalization

18 John Erskine (1879-1951) Columbia English professor, 1909-1935 godfather of “Great Books” curriculum

19 John J. “Colonel” Coss, Director of Contemporary Civilization Program, 1919-1940

20 Jacques Barzun (1907-2012), CC 1927; Columbia cultural historian, 1930-1969 taught “Colloquium on Important Books” with Lionel Trilling

21 Lionel Trilling (1905-1975), CC 1925, PhD 1932 Columbia English Department, 1934-1975, taught “Colloquium on Important Books” with Jacques Barzun

22 Theodore Wm. De Bary (1919-), CC 1941 Columbia East Asian East Asian scholar, 1953- Helped create Oriental Civilzations course in 1950s

23 Andrew Delbanco (1952-), Columbia Professor of American Literature (with unidentified Columbia graduate)


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