If you enjoy big band music, you should listen to the Columbia Blue Lions. C. Ogden Beresford, or Oggie, was a member of the Columbia College Class of 1943. A trumpet player, Beresford joined the University Band, played in the Symphony Orchestra, and was a member of the dance band, the Columbia Blue Lions, which […]
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Summer travels with the University Archives
Now that Commencement has passed and the campus has calmed, are you thinking summer about travel plans? Here’s some inspiration from the University Archives: three travel diaries from three very different writers and from very different times and circumstances. […]
CU summer housing: Lorca slept here
Welcome to the start of Columbia’s 2018 summer session! We recently processed a collection of Columbia Men’s Residence Hall Registers and Ledger Books. The registers served as a directory of residents for each of the earliest dorms on the Morningside campus. Organized by last name and first initial, the books list the room number, mail […]
Kent State shootings reverberated on Columbia’s campus
On May 3, the editors of the college newspapers at Brown, Bryn Mawr, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Haverford, Princeton, Rutgers, Sarah Lawrence, and the University of Pennsylvania agreed to publish a joint editorial condemning the American invasion of Cambodia and calling for a nationwide university strike to demand “an immediate withdrawal of all American troops […]
The Grateful Dead were here at Columbia
In May ’68, responding to a request from student protest organizers, fusion rock band The Grateful Dead played a free concert on Low Plaza. Band member Mickey Hart writes: Always up for an adventure, we of course, went right along. Since the police and guards were closing off access to the majority of the campus – […]