Columbia University Traditions - First Year March

First Year March

During orientation week before their first classes, first years exit Lerner Hall through its back doors, turn right and enter campus again through the main gates to officially become Columbia students.

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    “In some withdrawn, unpublic mead
    Let me sigh upon a reed,
    Or in the woods, with leafy din,
    Whisper the still evening in:
    Some still work give me to do,—
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    For I’d rather be thy child
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