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---
created: 2026-10-15
updated: 2026-10-15
updated: 2026-10-26
title: Columbia University
aliases:
- Columbia
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start: 1947
end: 1949
fn: 13
- type: employed_by
with: "[[Donald Barr]]"
reverse: true
end: 1964
role: "instructor in English, then assistant to the dean and assistant dean, School of Engineering; director, Science Honors Program"
fn: 62
---
Columbia University is a private research university in [[New York City]]. It was founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of King George II, took the name Columbia in 1784, and moved to its [[Morningside Heights]] campus in 1897.[^1] Its laboratories, institutes, clinicians and graduates recur in the documented record of the [[Manhattan Project]], CIA-sponsored behavioral research, Army-contracted drug testing, Cold War area studies, parapsychology and the analysis staff of the wartime [[Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service]].
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Irving Langmuir's colloquium on "pathological science," given at the Knolls Research Laboratory on December 18, 1953, was transcribed and edited for the CIA. The transcript records that on April 23, 1920 "Professor Bergen Davis from Columbia University" gave a colloquium in Langmuir's laboratory, and that Langmuir never published his own investigation of the Davis-Barnes effect.[^55] The psychologist [[Arthur Jensen]] received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1956.[^56]
### Science Honors Program and the School of Engineering
The School of Engineering announced the Science Honors Program on June 10, 1958: sixty selected high-school students would attend Saturday classes taught by university faculty, under the Joint Program for Technical Education, funded since 1956 by the [[Hebrew Technical Institute]], which gave an additional $25,000. [[Donald Barr]] was director, and the advisory board included [[Margaret Mead]]. By September 1959 the program had 150 students after the [[Fund for the Advancement of Education]] matched the grant.[^60][^61] Barr taught English at Columbia after his OSS service, received a master's degree in 1950, and in 1955 was asked by the Engineering School to oversee its search for promising science students. He became assistant dean of the Engineering faculty in 1959 and from 1963 administered the [[National Science Foundation]]'s Cooperative College-School Program until he left for the [[Dalton School]] in 1964.[^62] An article by Barr, "Sex, Love, and Modern Education," appeared in [[Columbia College Today]] in fall 1967.[^63]
### The 1968 disturbances and the Institute for Defense Analyses
The fact-finding commission appointed to investigate the April and May 1968 disturbances at Columbia was chaired by [[Archibald Cox]] of Harvard. Its report states that Columbia became an institutional member of the [[Institute for Defense Analyses]] (IDA), a body created to give the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff access to university research on weapons systems and warfare, and that Kirk and the Columbia trustee [[William A. M. Burden]] served on the IDA board of trustees.[^57] The report records that in January 1968 Kirk appointed a faculty committee under Professor Louis Henkin to study Columbia's external relations, that in early April the trustees approved ending formal institutional sponsorship of IDA while having IDA appoint one member of the university community as an individual trustee, and that critics took this as an attempt to claim severance while keeping the relationship. It reports that the leaders of Students for a Democratic Society cultivated the IDA issue, and that six students faced discipline for the March 27 IDA demonstration.[^58] The commission treats the planned gymnasium in Morningside Park as a second source of the protest.[^59]
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[^58]: *Crisis at Columbia*, sections on the IDA affiliation and the March 27, 1968 IDA demonstration, and the Commission's appraisal of the IDA issue.
[^59]: *Crisis at Columbia*, section "The Gymnasium in Morningside Park."
[^60]: "College Science Courses for Gifted Secondary Pupils," *School and Society* 86, no. 2141 (November 22, 1958), p. 422. https://archive.org/details/sim_usa-today_1958-11-22_86_2141
[^61]: Marjorie Oden, "Field Notes," *Consulting Engineer* 13, no. 3 (September 1959). https://archive.org/details/sim_consulting-engineer_1959-09_13_3
[^62]: "Obituaries," *Columbia College Today,* May 2004. https://web.archive.org/web/20190905000723/https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/may04/obituaries1.html
[^63]: Dalton School Archives, agent record "Barr, Donald." https://daltonarchives.libraryhost.com/agents/people/276