The Return of the College

Lecture # 15March 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

Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943), Harvard president, 1909-1933; critic of research university model and PhD

Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977), Oberlin College, Yale Law School; head of University of Chicago, 1929-1950

Columbia College Henley Regatta winners, 1878

Eddie Collins, CC 1907, major league baseball player with Athletics and White Sox, 1906-1930.

Lou Gehrig, Columbia Baseball team, playing on South Field, 1923

Lou Gehrig, Columbia, two-sport athleteat Columbia, 1923, 1924

Ben Johnson (CC 1933-35, 1936-38), Track star, world record holder in 60 yard dash, greeting Olympian Jesse Owens, 1937

Columbia basketball team, 1930-31, included Captain George Gregory, ‘31 and Lou Bender, 32’ Law ‘35,

All-American 1931.

Columbia vs. NYU, South Field, 1920

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

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

Sid Luckman, CC 1939, All Americanquarterback for Chicago Bears in 1940s

Columbia’s Coremen

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

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

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

Jacques Barzun (1907-2012), CC 1927;Columbia cultural historian, 1930-1969

taught “Colloquium on Important Books” with Lionel Trilling

Lionel Trilling (1905-1975), CC 1925, PhD 1932Columbia English Department, 1934-1975,

taught “Colloquium on Important Books” with Jacques Barzun

Theodore Wm. De Bary (1919-), CC 1941Columbia East Asian East Asian scholar, 1953-

Helped create Oriental Civilzations course in 1950s

Andrew Delbanco (1952-), Columbia Professor of American Literature

(with unidentified Columbia graduate)