Cooke recalls dormitory and student life and traditions and how low-cost tuition during the Depression led her and her sisters to the institution. She discusses faculty role models, administrators and chancellors, working at the Columbia University library and her perception of the decrease in prestige of the college after coeducation. Cooke talks about the controversy between Chancellor William Moran and the Alumni Association and the move to Division I athletics. Subjects: Dorm life, the rules, the empty dorms on the Quad due to the Depression, student government, the traditions (class jackets, class rings, daisy chain, and class day), Chancellor Jackson, Harriet Elliott, food at the dining halls, Barbara Parrish, Alumni Association/Chancellor Moran controversy, coeducation.