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Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity is up there on the hill where St. Luke’s was in 1900. (St. Luke’s is still on Ams­ter­dam, just not so promi­nent.) But, three-quarters of a cen­tury later, the bucolic vista had turned into a dark, tan­gled park of vio­lence and intrigue that was bor­dered on its west side by a tow­er­ing wall that was like some bor­der of a medieval fortress.