Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pickard seized his chance to join the expanding Columbia Broadcasting System as vice president. Friction within the Radio Commission and uncertainty of its continuance as an administrative body have depreciated the value of his old job, which paid him $10,000 per annum...
...must to all men, Death came to William Cullen Bryant ("Doc") Kemp, 78, A. B., A. M., M. D., LL, M., LL. B., Ph. D., C. E, E. E., Mech. E., E. M., Pharm. Chem., B. S., so-called "perpetual student" of Columbia University; in Manhattan last week. Dr. Kemp was a native of Janesville, Wis. When he was a lazy Columbia freshman, relatives promised him $2,500 for each year he remained at the University. He stayed 60 years. Always he mingled with undergraduates, went to proms, games, etc. Callow classmates gave him the special degree...
Professor Ben D. Wood of the Educational Research Department at Columbia is the originator of the "Cumulative Education Record Forms." He, friend of English Master John A. Lester of The Hill, spoke to him about his forms, how they could help the school, how the college might be aided by them in its annual selection of potential freshmen. Dr. Lester and Headmaster Wendell benefited much from Dr. Wood's "cumulative forms" in devising the Hill method of recording progress and achievement...
...money of the late Adolphus Busch of St. Louis and the late George Ehret of Manhattan poured freely in to establish Deutsches Haus. It was intended to be a focal point of German culture at Columbia and in Manhattan. But German culture, like Wagner operas at the Metro politan Opera House, disappeared from Manhattan during the War. Only last week did this last War-bred taboo disappear from Columbia...
Nicholas Murray Butler has been decorated by a half-dozen foreign countries. Internationally-minded, he sees the advantages, the necessity of internationally-minded education. He would not mind see ing in Columbia a university city like that in Paris where 15 countries will have dormitories to house their Paris students (TIME, Sept. 10). Already on 117th Street beside the Deutsches Haus are a Casa Italiana, a Maison Franchise...