Columbia University Traditions
Columbia University has developed many traditions over its 258 year long existence, most of them associated with its oldest undergraduate division, Columbia College.
Read more about Columbia University Traditions: First Year March, The Varsity Show, Orgo Night, Alma Mater, Primal Scream, 40s On 40, Joyce Kilmer Memorial Annual Bad Poetry Contest, Tree-Lighting and Yule Log Ceremonies, Take Back The Night
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“The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for women’s broader intellectual development I see the great sunburst of the future.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)
“The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for women’s broader intellectual development I see the great sunburst of the future.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)
“The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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They saw reflected in the coming time.
And thus forever with reverted look
The mystic volume of the world they read,
Spelling it backward, like a Hebrew book,
Till life became a Legend of the Dead.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)