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Things Barnard Could Not Have Heard

By Bwog Staff on Jan 28, 2014 12 Comments

So we all knew that Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard revitalized Columbia’s School of Mines, but did you know that he also founded Columbia’s School of Mimes? Just kidding, not really, but he was actually deaf. According to Professor James C Egbert, who knew him when he was President of Columbia: He was very deaf, and […]

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