When I arrived at Morningside Heights in the autumn of 1966, the civil rights movement was in full bloom and discontent with the war in Vietnam was escalating. Keylor, one of Barzun's last doctoral students, to reflect on his relationship with his mentor during that tumultuous period in the history of the country and the University. Now living in San Antonio, Barzun was awarded the 59th annual Great Teacher Award by the Society of Columbia Graduates on October 18.Ĭolumbia magazine asked William R. Forty-five years later, as University Professor, he stood as one of the pillars of reason during America's most notorious campus uprising. This academic year, Columbia commemorates two anniversaries: the 100th birthday of the great Columbia intellectual scholar Jacques Barzun '27CC, '32GSAS and the 40th anniversary of the events that disrupted and closed the University for a week in 1968.īorn on November 30, 1907, Barzun came to Morningside Heights as a freshman in 1923.
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