 The building became Columbia's largest dormitory and created more of a college atmosphere for the new campus in Morningside Heights.Well known in society and an avid yachtsman, on July 11, 1906 Dodge took a party of his friends on the "Wakiva I", his large pleasure and cruising yacht, on a month-long tour to the upper waters of the Amazon River, the Orinoco in Venezuela and Colombia, the Guianas