Inspired by the post our esteemed blogger Thomas Rhiel wrote last week, we dug into the Spectator archives to see what we could uncover about Columbia in the 19th century. Despite the many changes Columbia has undergone, apparently some things are so distinctly Columbia that they've been a part of our campus culture for over a hundred years. The evidence, from 1893:

SEAS jokes from the time of Miners

School spirit of the athletic variety has been lacking from the start