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Research for my senior thesis led me to three states and through countless folios, but no matter how far I wandered and how much I tried, I could never get away from Columbia.

Sorry, You Can’t Pick Your Classmates

I am so very bored with the 1968 unpleasantness, which people have been talking about more or less incessantly for the last 40 years—but dues have to be paid. This week: praise.

Columbia by all rights ought to be a great, world-renowned institution, yet it continually settles for mere excellence.

Anyone who has walked around Columbia in heels knows that women were not part of the equation when the Morningside campus was built. This is perhaps understandable.

There are Columbia professors, and there are Columbia institutions. Jacques Barzun is the latter.

TV quiz shows are neither very cool nor very difficult.