Columbia University graduation
One hundred years ago today … Columbia University held its 165th annual commencement, on its Morningside Heights campus between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, between 114th and 120th Streets.
The graduates were to muster in Earl Hall, the subject of this ca. 1920 postcard image:
1920 postcard of Earl Hall and the Columbia School of Engineering. Pinterest; Courtesy user Donzuka.
The weekly Columbia Daily Spectator outlined the graduation plans.
Columbia Daily Spectator, 28 May 1920, p. 1.
The Daily News also previewed the events, though it missed the part about how non-seniors were (according to the Spectator) not invited.
The Daily News, 1 June 1920, p. 26. Newspapers.com.
(Note: we previously featured Columbia when reporting on activities of students at its all-women college, Barnard, for our February 6 post.)
These three postcards of Columbia University buildings, dated 1920, were printed by “the Pictorial Company,” 40 Flatbush Avenue Extension, Brooklyn.
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. The New York Public Library. "Teachers College Columbia University." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1920.
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Union Theological Seminary." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1920.
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Whittier Hall Columbia University" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1920.
WRITTEN BY JONATHAN GOLDMAN, JUNE 2, 2020.
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