Oral history interview with Spencer Tara, 2006.

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Oral history interview with Spencer Tara, 2006.

Background: born, New Orleans, Louisiana, childhood, Texas and New Jersey, undergraduate studies, Princeton University, shift of focus from law career to academia, M.A., Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University; Kluge Scholars Program: hired as graduate assistant, Columbia University Scholars Program, 2003, promotion to assistant director, 2005, opportunities offered to scholars by program, guest speakers' close relationships with Kluge scholars, sense of family within program, scholars' engagement with larger community, emphasis on student volunteer work.

transcript: 23 p.sound recording 1 sound cassette (37 min.) : digital)

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

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