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(The institutional racism is well documented not his trouble with problem sets. The poem was written 30 years later and is about a City College student not Columbia.)
 
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'''Langston Hughes''' is a famous [[w:Harlem Renaissance|Harlem Renaissance]] poet who attended the School of Mines (now [[SEAS]]) at the urging of his father, an engineer, for the [[1921]]-[[1922]] year. Needless to say, poetry does not go well with problem sets, and he dropped out, though the [[Office of Undergraduate Admissions|admissions department]] likes to tout him as an alum.<ref>[http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/university/ Undergraduate Admissions - Intro to Columbia]</ref> Oh yeah, and his departure may have had something to do with institutional racism too.
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'''Langston Hughes''' is a famous [[w:Harlem Renaissance|Harlem Renaissance]] poet who attended the School of Mines (now [[SEAS]]) at the urging of his father, an engineer, for the [[1921]]-[[1922]] year, during which he lived in [[Hartley Hall]]<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=-nt1xVR4SrAC&lpg=PA7&ots=r_eXPXbf4T&dq=columbia%20%22lived%20in%20livingston%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q&f=false The Beat Generation in NY, p. 6]</ref>. He dropped out, though the [[Office of Undergraduate Admissions|admissions department]] likes to tout him as an alum.<ref>[http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/university/ Undergraduate Admissions - Intro to Columbia]</ref> His departure may have had something to do with institutional racism.
His famous poem "Theme for English B" was written for a required course at Columbia:
 
"The instructor said,
 
Go home and write
 
a page tonight.
 
And let that page come out of you---
 
Then, it will be true.
 
I wonder if it's that simple?
 
I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem.
 
I went to school there, then Durham, then here
 
to this college on the hill above Harlem.
 
I am the only colored student in my class."
 
  
  

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Langston Hughes
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Langston Hughes is a famous Harlem Renaissance poet who attended the School of Mines (now SEAS) at the urging of his father, an engineer, for the 1921-1922 year, during which he lived in Hartley Hall[1]. He dropped out, though the admissions department likes to tout him as an alum.[2] His departure may have had something to do with institutional racism.


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