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...Manhattan on the night of March 12 Jesus de Galindez wound up his lecture in Hispanic-American civilization at Columbia University's Hamilton Hall, dismissed the students, started down a dark walk toward the subway station at Broadway and 116th Street and vanished. This week, despite a continuing search by New York detectives and a lookout by the cops of 13 states, Galindez was still missing...
There on the site of the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum, Low Memorial Library was built looking out over a muddy 116th Street to the farm land beyond. Today Low Library still sands, but faces onto those buildings that have come to typify Columbia University to the outside world. John Jay Hall, Hamilton Hall, the new Bradley Library, and others rise straight up like huge apartment houses, finding space in the air that Columbia does not have on the ground. The farm land on which Lou Gehrig once awaited home runs now supports a small area of grass, the only campus...
...government, staged conferences last Spring, have only really met the Bicentennial through reports of conferences last Spring, have only really met the Bicentennial through reports of conferences in the Spectator. Perhaps as anything has come to making this year stand out over any other has been the sodding of 116th Street with the grass from a New Jersey polo field...
...celebration of its bicentennial, the City, for a nominal thousand dollars, has presented Columbia with 116th Street, which had long run through the middle of its campus. The University has closed the street to traffic, moved in earth, and planted trees and grass in an effort to close out the dirt and noise of a pressing New York. With these trees, a new quiet, and even higher respectability, a great University begins its third hundred years...
Lights in Sever and Emerson will begin burning until late in the night once again this week as the University opens its 116th series of Extension Courses. The courses are given under the sponsorship of the Lowell Institute and in conjunction with all Boston schools of higher learning, though the majority of instructors and all classrooms are Harvard...