Seth Low Junior College

Seth Low Junior College, located at 375 Pearl Street in Brooklyn, New York, was founded in 1928 by Columbia University, as "one of Columbia’s many attempts to deal with a changing student population that they felt was contaminating its pristine, Protestant campus." It was named for Seth Low, former President of Columbia University (1890–1901), who had been Mayor of Brooklyn (1881–1885) and of New York (1902–1903). Faced with competition from tuition-free Brooklyn College, founded in 1930, and affected by the Great Depression, it closed its Brooklyn campus and ceased admitting new students in 1936. (Existing students completed their studies on the Morningside Heights campus; all activities ended in 1938.) It is little known today; Isaac Asimov, who had never heard of it when referred there, remarked that for the rest of his life, he "never heard of anyone who has ever heard of it—unless he, too, had been a student there."