What Makes Columbia Unique?

harrisdw
Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:09:00 +0000

My view of it: classical education offered to liberal student body, highly theoretical university in highly practical city, highly elite (royalist beginnings) and yet highly democratic and accessible (gateway for immigrants), a “European” university in America’s most international city, launching pad for many unusual and extraordinary individuals (from Alexander Hamilton to Barack Obama), a “voice” for the highest intellectual ideals and practices in a country increasingly addicted to commercialism and sensationalism