Mark Twain | Ludwig van Beethoven | Vincent van Gogh | Mark | Van Morrison | Van Halen | Mark Wahlberg | Gus Van Sant | Anthony van Dyck | Ellen van Dijk | Mark Knopfler | Van Diemen's Land | Mark Zuckerberg | Mark Rothko | Mark Antony | Van | Martin Van Buren | Mark the Evangelist | Gospel of Mark | Eddie Van Halen | Mark Ronson | Melvin Van Peebles | Jean-Claude Van Damme | Jan van Eyck | Armin van Buuren | Mark Spitz | Van Cliburn | Mark Foley | Townes Van Zandt | Mark Murphy (singer) |
Like others teaching at Columbia at this time – Lionel Trilling, Mark Van Doren, Eric Bentley, Ernest Nagel – Gilbert Highet conceived of his work as the fostering of a tradition.
Over the years the building has been home to such notable faculty members as philosophers John Dewey, Frederick J. E. Woodbridge and Ernest Nagel, Guadeloupean novelist Maryse Condé, French literary scholar Michael Riffaterre, poet Kenneth Koch and English literary scholars Lionel Trilling, Edward Said, Carolyn Heilbrun, Quentin Anderson, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Mark Van Doren.