Barnard College - Mortarboard Yearbook (New York, NY)

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COLUMBIA THROUGH THE GATE October 1, 1921, marked the dedication of Barnard ' s newest and proudest acquisition, the Helen Hartley Jenkins Memorial Gate. Just beyond its bars the bustling life of Broadway hurries by; just across the way loom the red brick buildings of Columbia. [ Twenty-one]

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MAIN STREET The boardwalk from Students to Milbank is the main-traveled road of Barnard. Many are the students who have trudged this beaten path to knowledge ; many the stray coins and luckless foun- tain pens that have sunk to oblivion between the crevices of malicious planks. Twenty

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In 1754 King ' s College was founded in New York City by royal grant of George II, King of England. The college was re-established in 1784 at the close of the Revolution as Columbia College in honor of the new republic; and in 1912 its corporate name was changed to Columbia University. In 1889 a group of earnestly interested men and women succeeded in obtaining the sanction of the trustees in founding an affiliated women ' s college with similar opportunities and advantages. Because President Barnard of Columbia College had been such an ardent advocate of the admission of women students to Columbia, the founders of the new college gave it his name. Its first site was a rented house at 343 Madison avenue. After the purchase of the present situation in 1896, Milbank, Brincker- hoff and Fiske Halls were built and subsequently occupied. The relation between the college and the university, at first informal, was definitely recognized by agreement in 1900, when Barnard was incor- porated into the educational system of Columbia University. The prominence of Barnard as an insti- tution of learning has steadily increased, until today its students represent practically every state in the Union, as well as many foreign countries. I Twenty-two]