Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Documentation of their charges suggests some clear-and clearly controversial-answers to a question put by Columbia Dean Jacques Barzun in the foreword: "Why has the American college and university so little connection with Intellect?" In language that is often witty and only occasionally typical of sociology's bread-pudding prose, Professors Caplow (University of Minnesota) and McGee (University of Texas) list academe's hurtful mores and petty machinations. Some of the worst...
...sent him from the great universities: "We took him on the basis of the enthusiastic support of an outstanding professor at Harvard. That's very important. If Princeton pushes a man, I know it means I'll have to look somewhere else. I don't trust Columbia either, or Chicago. With one or two exceptions in each department, those bastards are shysters; they'll say anything about anyone to get a man placed." Say the authors: "We have no desire to expose, only to analyze...
...final 1957-58 Ivy League percentage standings, based on all sports played, are: Harvard, .676; Dartmouth, .640; Yale, .615; Cornell, .577; Princeton, .532; Brown, .482; Penn, .462; Columbia...
...Both Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania offer study of the American short story. An institution founded so late that it has no roots whatever in American literary history, such as the University of California, can offer three times the number of courses that Harvard does. Stanford's American literary catalogue reads this way: three survey courses--beginning to 1850, 1850 to 1900, 1900 to present; Hawthorne and Melville; Emerson and Thoreau; Narrative Prose; Chief American Poets; Rise of Realism in American Fiction; Contemporary American Fiction...
...record, the Columbia University Student Council which approves Harvard's withdrawal is a graduate organization, not comparable to Harvard Student Council and not to be confused with the Columbia Undergraduate Council, an active member...