In the fall of 1926, Dana Glass Fairchild, a twenty-five year old young woman, left her home in Lufkin, Texas and traveled to New Orleans. There, she embarked on the S.S. Momus for New York City to work on a Master of Arts degree at the Teachers College of Columbia University. The journal that follows is a travel and personal diary that Dana kept that year at Columbia during the academic school year of 1926-27.