All memories from graduates in the 1940s.
You asked for a favorite beauty spot on the campus. They are all gone! On my last visit, the beauty spots of my Columbia days are now covered with buildings.
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science 1940
As I remember it, my Columbia tuition in 1935 was $300. I appreciated what inflation meant when I paid $500 for my 50th reunion in 1985 at Harriman House!
Columbia College 1939, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science 1940
The dorms were full of midshipmen and v-12ers, and I lived in Hempstead, whence I commuted every day, running for the 7:20 train on the LIRR, then fighting my way into the B’way train that...
Columbia College 1945
In regards to my social life while at Columbia: With the name Wasserman, I was the talk (if not the laugh) of my class because I dated a Barnard student named...
Columbia College 1947
One of my most favorite stories involves my very first class on the very first day attending Columbia back in September of 1941.
Not surprisingly, my first class was in the Humanities. What was surprising to me,...
Fresh out of West Virginia for the first time in my life, I was a twenty-two year old library school student at the School of Library Service, Columbia University, in the winter of...
School of Library Service 1947
My father and family went to every football game for years and years. A very good friend of Lou Little, my dad was swimming coach at Columbia. Dad never sat in his seats on the 50-yard...
Columbia College 1948
Karl Llewelen, jurisprudence prof, left class after his point was made. 30 mins, 20 mins or whatever time it took.
“Law to layman is a person walking down the street who looks up to see marble...
School of Law 1948
You don’t know me. I was an invisible student, one of many who worked their way through Columbia. As the lights came on in the dorms, I left for my job as usher at Radio City...
Columbia College 1947, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1948
Coming to New York City at the age of 17 from Memphis was a great challenge - one that my mother said ruined me for life - but in my opinion it made my life....
Graduating high school in early June 1944, I entered Columbia College to begin my freshman year the 2nd week of June.
We freshman were on the fourth floor of the dorm,...
Columbia College 1949
