Three Years Later

Another spring had arrived. New York City, USA, Morningside Heights in Manhattan, by the Hudson River. Columbia University. As one of the five oldest universities in American history, and one of the institutions that had produced the most Nobel Prize winners, it undoubtedly gathered the so-called chosen elite. The winter ice and snow had only recently melted. With spring just beginning, an air of culture and warmth flowed through the campus. A young white man carrying a backpack entered the university.