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  2. Anna Schwartz - Wikipedia

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    Schwartz was born Anna Jacobson on November 11, 1915, in New York City to Pauline (née Shainmark) and Hillel Jacobson. [9]She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Barnard College [10] at 18 and gained her master's degree in economics from Columbia University in 1935, at 19.

  3. Joe Brandt - Wikipedia

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    Brandt died of lymphoma on February 22, 1939. Brandt's son and grandson also worked in the film industry. Brandt's son and grandson also worked in the film industry. Jerrold T. Brandt was a film producer, most notable for the production of the Scattergood Baines film series in the early 1940s, [ 10 ] [ 11 ] and Jerrold T. Brandt Jr., Joe Brandt ...

  4. List of Columbia University alumni and attendees - Wikipedia

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    See also: above at Nobel Laureates (Alumni) for separate listing of more than 43 academics and theorists, Notable alumni at Columbia College of Columbia University (Academicians), Columbia Law School (Academia: University presidents and Legal Academia), and Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Economists-Natural Scientists, Social ...

  5. History of Columbia University - Wikipedia

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    Columbia College first admitted women in the fall of 1983, after a decade of failed negotiations with Barnard College, an all female institution affiliated with the University, to merge the two schools. Barnard College still remains affiliated with Columbia, and all Barnard graduates are issued diplomas authorized by both Columbia University ...

  6. Columbia University - Wikipedia

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    Columbia University received 60,551 applications for the class of 2025 (entering 2021) and a total of around 2,218 were admitted to the two schools for an overall acceptance rate of 3.66%. [154] Columbia is a racially diverse school, with approximately 52% of all students identifying themselves as persons of color.

  7. Franklin D. Roosevelt - Wikipedia

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    He graduated from Harvard in three years in 1903 with an A.B. in history. [22] He remained there for a fourth year, taking graduate courses. [23] Like his cousin Theodore, he was a member of The Explorers Club. [24] Roosevelt entered Columbia Law School in 1904, but dropped out in 1907 after passing the New York bar examination.

  8. Robert Thurman - Wikipedia

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    He was the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, before retiring in June 2019. [1] He was the first endowed chair in Buddhist Studies in the West. [1] He also is the co-founder and president of the Tibet House US New York. He translated the Vimalakirti Sutra from the Tibetan Kanjur into English.

  9. Allen Ginsberg - Wikipedia

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    Irwin Allen Ginsberg (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ n z b ɜːr ɡ /; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer.As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation.