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Columbia University was founded in 1754 as King's College
by royal charter of King George II of England. It is the
oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New
York and the fifth oldest in the United States.

Controversy preceded the founding of the College, with
various groups competing to determine its location and
religious affiliation. Advocates of New York City met with
success on the first point, while the Anglicans prevailed
on the latter. However, all constituencies agreed to
commit themselves to principles of religious liberty in
establishing the policies of the College.

In July 1754, Samuel Johnson held the first classes in a
new schoolhouse adjoining Trinity Church, located on what
is now lower Broadway in Manhattan. There were eight
students in the class. At King's College, the future
leaders of colonial society could receive an education
designed to "enlarge the Mind, improve the Understanding,
polish the whole Man, and qualify them to support the
brightest Characters in all the elevated stations in
life. One early manifestation of the institution's lofty
goals was the establishment in 1767 of the first American
medical school to grant the MD degree.

The American Revolution brought the growth of the College
to a halt, forcing a suspension of instruction in 1776
that lasted for eight years. However, the institution
continued to exert a significant influence on American
life through the people associated with it. Among the
earliest students and Trustees of King's College were John
Jay, the first Chief Justice of the United States;
Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury;
Gouverneur Morris, the author of the final draft of the
U.S. Constitution; and Robert R. Livingston, a member of
the five-man committee that drafted the Declaration of
Independence.

The College reopened in 1784 with a new nameColumbiathat
embodied the patriotic fervor which 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 1849, the College moved from Park Place, near the
present site of City Hall, to 49th Street and Madison
Avenue, where it remained for the next fifty years. During
the last half of the nineteenth century, Columbia rapidly
assumed the shape of a modern university. The Law School
was founded in 1858, and the country's first mining
school, a precursor of today's School of Engineering and
Applied Science, was established in 1864.

When Seth Low became Columbia's president in 1890, 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 1889; the
medical school came under the aegis of the University in
1891, followed by Teachers College in 1893. 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 1896, 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 49th Street to Morningside Heights and a
more spacious campus designed as an urban academic village
by McKim, Mead & White, the renowned turn-of-the-century
architectural firm. Architect Charles Follen McKim
provided Columbia with stately buildings patterned after
those of the Italian Renaissance. The University continued
to prosper after its move uptown.

During the presidency of Nicholas Murray Butler (1902-
1945), Columbia emerged as a preeminent national center
for educational innovation and scholarly achievement.
John Erskine taught the first Great Books Honors Seminar
at Columbia College in 1919, making the study of original
masterworks the foundation of undergraduate education.
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, and in 1928, 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.

By the late 1930s, a Columbia student could study with the
likes of Jacques Barzun, Paul Lazarsfeld, Mark Van Doren,
Lionel Trilling, and I.I. Rabi, to name just a few of the
great minds of the Morningside campus. The University's
graduates during this time were equally accomplishedfor
example, two alumni of Columbia's Law School, Charles
Evans Hughes and Harlan Fiske Stone (who also held the
position of Law School dean), served successively as Chief
Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Research into the atom by faculty members I.I. Rabi,
Enrico Fermi, and Polykarp Kusch placed Columbia's Physics
Department in the international spotlight in the 1940s,
and the founding of the School of International Affairs
(now the School of International and Public Affairs) in
1946 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 1948.

Columbia celebrated its Bicentennial in 1954 during a
period of steady expansion. This growth mandated a major
campus building program in the 1960s, and, by the end of
the decade, five of the University's schools were housed
in new buildings.

The revival of spirit and energy on Columbia's campus in
recent years has been even more sweeping. The 1980s saw
the completion of over $145 million worth of new
construction, including two residence halls, a computer
science center, the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, a
chemistry building, the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art
Gallery, Lawrence A. Wien Stadium, and much more. The
quality of student life on campus has been a primary
concern, and the opening of Morris A. Schapiro Hall in
1988 enabled Columbia College to achieve its long-held
goal of offering four years of housing to all
undergraduate students. A second gift from this farsighted
benefactor led to the opening in 1992 of the Morris A.
Schapiro Center for Engineering and Physical Science
Research, which is helping to secure Columbia's leadership
in telecommunications and high-tech research.

On the Health Sciences campus, a generous commitment from
the Sherman Fairchild Foundation has lent impetus to the
development of the Audubon Biomedical Science and
Technology Park by providing funds for construction of the
Center for Disease Prevention. In addition to securing
Columbia's place at the forefront of medical research,
this project will help spur the growth of the
biotechnology industry in New York City, forge vital new
links between Columbia and the local community, and help
to revitalize the area around the medical center.

Thanks to concerted efforts to place the University on the
strongest possible foundations, Columbia is approaching
the twenty-first century with a firm sense of the
importance of what has been accomplished in the past and
confidence in what it can achieve in the years to come.

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