Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convicted Cabinet felon in U. S. history. He still owed Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny $100,000 (exclusive of interest) on what he still insists was "a friendly loan" made eight years ago. He owed the U. S. another $100,000-the fine imposed last week after a District of Columbia Supreme Court jury had found the Doheny "loan" corrupt, a bribe. Additional debt to the U. S.: one year of his life in prison. Mr. Fall's assets, both in dollars and years of life, were running...
...association begins a three-day session this morning at the Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. The Association of American Universities will meet jointly with the medical educators tomorrow, and in addition to President Lowell's address. Dr. Burton D. Myers, president of the medical association, will present a report. Other speakers on the same program will be Guy Stanford Ford, dean of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota, and J. C. Metcalf, dean of the University of Virginla's graduate schools...
South: Alabama v. Kentucky at Montgomery; South Carolina v. North Carolina at Columbia; Tulane v. Alabama Poly at New Orleans; Vanderbilt v. Georgia Tech at Nashville; Virginia v. V. P. I. at Charlottesville...
While members of the country's moneyed classes ponder sadly over the safety of financial investments, there seems to be no fear as to the advisability of investment in academical institutions. Columbia University has just announced the receipt of over a million dollars from various gifts and bequests...
That such a large sum of money has been accumulated in such a short time, a matter of a few weeks, reflects the range of interests in which the modern university is dealing. In the case of the Columbia bequests, this tendency towards diversification is brought out in bold relief. There is a gift from the Carnegie Foundation for a School of Library Service, a gift for the study of political prognostication, a bequest for research in food nutrition, for research in sub-tropical medicine, and others of equally diversified nature...