Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...order to arouse an interest in the study of topics relating to commerce and industry, and to stimulate an examination of the value of college training for business men, a committee, composed of Professor J. Lawrence Laughlin, University of Chicago, chairman, Professor J. B. Clark, Columbia University, Professor Henry C. Adams, University of Michigan, Horace White, Esq., of New York City, and Hon. Carroll D. Wright, Clark University, has been enabled, through the generosity of a business firm of Chicago, to offer again in 1908 four prizes for the best studies on any one of the following subjects...
Despite the proximity of the date of the Harvard-Columbia race, the composition of the Columbia university crew is in as unsettled a condition as that of the Harvard eight. Coach Rice has had his crew squad rowing since early in February, but the work on the water has been hampered to a large degree by inclement weather. Nevertheless, the practice of the three eights on the Columbia squad has been gradually made harder and harder as the season has progressed, and last week the coach started to "quicken up" his university crew in preparation for the race with Harvard...
...Friday last, the Columbia eight covered about three miles in short stretches on the Harlem river; and on Saturday the men were given a long four-mile pull. Friday the eight started out from their boathouse on Waterman's Creek and rowed downstream for the first mile at a slow stroke, about 24 to the minute. Then they increased the speed for the last half-mile downstream, and on the trip back to the boathouse had seven racing starts against their second crew. With the slow stroke the eight did not row well together; their boat rocked continually...
Yale 7, Amherst 3; Pennsylvania 2, Columbia 0; Dartmouth 4, Amherst Agricultural College 0; Williams 12, Union 2; Holy Cross 7, Wesleyan 0; Cornell 4, Lafayette 2; Brown 9, Tufts...
...grand stand, overlooking the finish of the University crew race with Columbia on May 11, is to be erected on Back street, between Otter and Berkeley streets, Boston, on the same site as the stand that was erected last year. A limited number of tickets for reserved seats at $2 and $1.50 each are on sale at Leavitt & Peirce's, Amee's, and Herrick's in Boston...