![]() ![]() The Eagle was floated as a more patriotic alternative, in line with the university's patriotic renaming following American independence: "For Kings College, the Lion, but the Eagle for Columbia". As the Lion, which was named "Leo Columbiae", was chosen in connection with Columbia's other royal imagery, a product of Columbia's colonial past, some considered it a symbol of excessively conservative and a symbol of "servility to British Royalty". Its adoption was not uncontroversial, however. The idea of having a lion as the mascot of Columbia was first proposed at the April 5, 1910, meeting of the university Alumni Association by alumnus George Brokaw Compton. ![]() The image was trimmed around the edges in the process of archiving. The Columbia Lion, as drawn by Ad Reinhardt for the Jester in 1933. ![]()
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