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unusual facts about Columbia College of Columbia University



Austin E. Quigley

Austin Edmund Quigley (born December 31, 1942) was Dean of Columbia College of Columbia University, Lucy G. Moses Professor, and Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature at Columbia University, in New York City, and the recipient of the 2008 Alexander Hamilton Medal, Columbia College's highest honor.

Johan Jørgen Holst

Holst was educated at Columbia College of Columbia University, where he obtained his A.B. in 1960, and which honored him with its John Jay Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement shortly after his death—the first time the prize had been given posthumously.

Leon Davidson

Leon was a graduate of Columbia College (BS) and Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science (MA, PhD), majoring in Chemical Engineering, a career he selected at the age of 13 while a student at Stuyvesant High School in New York City.

Looted art

In July 1862, Francis Lieber, a professor at Columbia College, who had worked with Halleck on guidelines for guerrilla warfare, was asked by Halleck, now General-in-Chief of armies of the Union, to develop a code of conduct for the armed forces.

Paul Spike

He was educated at Columbia College, where he served as editor of the Columbia Review in 1970, and at St Catherine's College, Oxford.

Roy H. McVicker

Born in Edgewater, Colorado, Mcvicker was educated at South Denver High School, Denver University, Columbia College, and graduated from Columbia Law School in 1950.

Thomas Phoenix

Phoenix graduated A.B. from Columbia College in 1795.

University of the Philippines School of Library and Information Studies

The School can trace its roots back to 1914, thirty years after Melvil Dewey established the first School of Library Economy in Columbia College.

William Hallock

He graduated from Columbia College in 1879, and received the degree of Ph.D. from Würzburg, Germany in 1881.


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