Constitution; and Robert R. Livingston, a member of the five-man committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence. The college reopened in with a new name—Columbia—that embodied the patriotic fervor that had inspired the nation's quest for independence. The revitalized institution was recognizable as the descendant of its colonial ancestor, thanks to its inclination toward Anglicanism and the needs of an urban population, but there were important differences: Columbia College reflected the legacy of the Revolution in the greater economic, denominational, and geographic diversity of its new students and leaders.
Cloistered campus life gave way to the more common phenomenon of day students who lived at home or lodged in the city. In , the College moved from Park Place, near the present site of city hall, to Forty-ninth Street and Madison Avenue, where it remained for the next forty years. During the last half of the nineteenth century, Columbia rapidly assumed the shape of a modern university.
The Columbia School of Law was founded in The country's first mining school, a precursor of today's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science , was established in and awarded the first Columbia Ph. When Seth Low became Columbia's president in , he vigorously promoted the university ideal for the College, placing the fragmented federation of autonomous and competing schools under a central administration that stressed cooperation and shared resources.
Barnard College for women had become affiliated with Columbia in ; the medical school came under the aegis of the University in , followed by Teachers College in The development of graduate faculties in political science, philosophy, and pure science established Columbia as one of the nation's earliest centers for graduate education. In , the trustees officially authorized the use of yet another new name, Columbia University, and today the institution is officially known as Columbia University in the City of New York.
Low's greatest accomplishment, however, was moving the university from Forty-ninth Street to the more spacious Morningside Heights campus, designed as an urban academic village by McKim, Mead, and White, the renowned turn-of-the-century architectural firm.
The University continued to prosper after its move uptown in During the presidency of Nicholas Murray Butler — , Columbia emerged as a preeminent national center for educational innovation and scholarly achievement. The School of Journalism was established by bequest of Joseph Pulitzer in John Erskine taught the first Great Books Honors Seminar at Columbia College in , making the study of original masterworks the foundation of undergraduate education, and in the same year, a course on war and peace studies originated the College's influential Core Curriculum.
Columbia became, in the words of College alumnus Herman Wouk, a place of "doubled magic," where "the best things of the moment were outside the rectangle of Columbia; the best things of all human history and thought were inside the rectangle. The study of the sciences flourished along with the liberal arts. Franz Boas founded the modern science of anthropology here in the early decades of the twentieth century, even as Thomas Hunt Morgan set the course for modern genetics.
In , Columbia—Presbyterian Medical Center, the first such center to combine teaching, research, and patient care, was officially opened as a joint project between the medical school and The Presbyterian Hospital. Rabi, to name just a few of the great minds of the Morningside campus. Research into the atom by faculty members I. The founding of the School of International Affairs now the School of International and Public Affairs in marked the beginning of intensive growth in international relations as a major scholarly focus of the University.
The oral-history movement in the United States was launched at Columbia in Richard Anderson of Kentucky was named U. Minister to Colombia on January 27, , and he presented his credentials to the Colombian Government on December 16, , thus establishing the U. Mission in Colombia. The U. Legation in Colombia was raised to the rank of Embassy in Spruille Braden became the first U.
Ambassador to Colombia. The first commercial treaty between the United States and the Republic of Colombia then comprising present-day Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, and Venezuela was signed in and ratified and proclaimed in It expired in But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you. Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault.
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