Research Catalog

Title

University on the heights / Edited by Wesley First.

Publication

Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, [1969]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• First, Wesley.
• Durst, Seymour B., 1913-1995

Description

xiii, 199 p.; 22 cm

Summary

Collection of 33 essays by Columbia University graduates and professors, dedicated to the idea of an academic institution as a free community of scholars.

Subjects

• History
• Columbia University History
• Columbia University
• New York (NY) Columbia University
• Insertions (Provenance)

Genre/Form

• History.
• Insertions (Provenance)

Note

• Avery Classics (Offsite) copy: Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
• Avery Classics (Offsite) copy: Has Seymour B. Durst's bookplate.
• Avery Classics (Offsite) copy: Includes inscribed business card of essay contributor M. Lincoln Schuster laid in.

Contents

Nathaniel Peffer / by Mark Van Doren -- A recollection of Raymond Weaver / by Lionel Trilling -- Early Columbia reminiscences / by Hugh Auchincloss Brown -- The army that never ran away / by David Cort -- Ideas and poetry / by Louis Simpson -- Of Van Doren and Butler / by Carlos P. Romulo -- Memoirs of a galley slave / by Paul Gallico -- A stranger to the law / by William O. Douglas -- Three and a half years at Columbia / by John Berryman -- Some recollections of great teachers / by Clifton Fadiman -- The unloosened mind / by Paul H. Douglas -- T.C. in the thirties / by Norman Cousins -- The Jester and the Times / by Corey Ford -- A doubled magic / by Herman Wouk -- As we were / by Jacques Barzun -- The Woodberry years / by Melville Cane -- Francis J. Ryan / by Joshua Lederberg -- The extracurricular grind / by Richard Rodgers -- The golden day / by M. Halsey Thomas -- An authentic past / by Theodore Caplow -- Low memorial indeed / by Max Frankel -- I am introduced to civilization / by Lloyd Frankenberg -- Memories of Goatville days / by H.R. Steeves -- Thoreau, Columbia, and the world / by Joseph Wood Krutch -- The first of the great / by Richard B. Snow -- Politics and football / by James A. Wechsler -- Forty-three years of Columbia / by Paul R. Hays -- Four historic years / by M. Lincoln Schuster -- A student was one who studied / by Herbert Brucker -- Town and gown / by H.L. Jacobson -- The Columbia I remember / by Alfred A. Knopf -- Learning to live / by Thomas Merton.

LCCN

68029645

OCLC

• ocm00001966
• 1966

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries