Lionel Trilling (sep 7, 1921 – oct 22, 1974)

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Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)
Critic
entered Columbia 1921, from Queens, when the Erskine experimentation was beginning

Columbia College B.A. 1925, PhD 1938
Faculty 1927–74

Student of Matthew Arnold

http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/lionel_trilling.html
"At Columbia, Trilling was also recognized as a gifted and dedicated teacher with a special commitment to undergraduate education....He began teaching general education courses in the 1930s, when he co-taught a section of the Colloquium on Important Books with Jacques Barzun. Later, Trilling became a mainstay of Humanities A."

Essays appealed to both scholar and general readers