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Colleges & Universities Columbia University
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<p>Columbia Campuses

  1. Park Place (1760-1857), 1 three story hall, between murray church and barclay streets, about a block and a half west of city hall. (<a href=“http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/cuhis3057/04Folder/KingsBuilding_files/image014.jpg[/url]”>http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/cuhis3057/04Folder/KingsBuilding_files/image014.jpg&lt;/a&gt;)</p>

<p>2) 49th and Madison (1857-1897), after selling the lower estate (the trustees were more interested in real estate management than running a school at this point in history) they realized they needed to move the college somewhere. So they bought the New York State Institution for Deaf Mutes, and housed Columbia there for 40 years, on the block between 49th and 50th and Park and Madison, directly opposite what is now the Waldorf Astoria, and on the other side of the block with Saks 5th Ave and St Patricks Cathedral, i.e. one block east of Columbia’s midtown land holdings which would become Rockefeller Center. Back then it wasn’t much of a draw.</p>

<p>3) Morningside Heights (1897-Present), The mini campus in midtown was far too small Columbias new found ambitions to be a major university, and so the blocks from 116th to 120th street between amsterdam and broadway were bought and slowly built on over time. Low Plaza was supposed to be an open vista inviting the city in, but developement kinda ended that idea, so COlumbia snapped up the remaining land from 116th to 114th st (South Lawn) a few years later. </p>

<p>I’m pretty sure the mussolini association is a bit of a legend, although the building is associated with the italian government so there may have been a connection, but no great secret columbia-facist-conspiracy.</p>

<p>Columbias Top Dropouts:</p>

<p>-Alexander Hamilton: Dropped out to join Washington’s Continental Army and never recieved his degree. The story goes that when a mob arrived at the college on Park Place in search of King’s College’s loyalist president, Hamilton awoke the president and then held off the crowd through masterful oratory long enough for Myles Cooper to escape to british ships.</p>

<p>-Jack Kerouac: The famed beat writer of “On the Road” came to Columbia on a football scholarship. Injury ended his football playing and Kerouac eventually dropped out.</p>

<p>-Langston Hughes: Hughes was a student at the School of Mines (SEAS Pride!) at the bidding of his father, but he left after a year and joined the Navy instead, and became world famous for his writings.</p>

<p>-Lou Gehrig: The Iron Horse played baseball for Columbia for two years before being signed away by the Yankees. The fact that Gehrig didn’t have any particular fondness for Alma Mater where he felt uncomfortable amidst snobbery and ridicule, coming from a poor immigrant background himself.</p>

<p>-Eudora Welty: The famed southern writer spent a year at the Columbia Business School, staying in the only female dorm at the time, Johnson Hall (now Wien Hall). She moved back south after her father died. </p>

<p>-Alicia Keys- After graduating early from HS, Keys spent a short while enrolled at Columbia before dropping out to focus on her music.</p>

<p>-Lauryn Hill- More or less the same as above.</p>

<p>Isamu Noguchi- A renowned sculptor, Noguchi enrolled at Columbia in 1922 to pursue premed studies, but left after 2 years to pursue his art full time. <a href=“http://www.noguchi.org/[/url]”>http://www.noguchi.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Jos</p>