Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three years is George V. Denny Jr., director of the League for Political Education which founded Town Hall and the Town Meeting of the Air. Showman Denny had managed the Carolina Playmakers at University of North Carolina, been an actor on Broadway, managed a lecture bureau and directed Columbia University's Institute of Arts and Sciences before he arrived at Town Hall in 1930. The League, founded by a group of women suffragists, had for 40 years provided a platform for civic reformers, outstanding Americans from William Jennings Bryan to Will Rogers, and music concerts. But George Denny conceived...
Despite the loss of Captain Johnny Vruwink, the Orange and Black has shown strength enough to battle both Cornell and Columbia on even terms, losing to the former 41-40 in the second overtime and to the latter 32-28 after leading at the half...
...Columbia Professor Arthur David Gayer: "Those who find the source of all the trouble in Government spending and unbalanced budgets as such are spending too much time barking up the wrong tree...
...Kiangsi in southeast China. When Chiang Kai-shek's army took Juichin, its capital, in 1934, Soviet China disappeared, only to pop up a year later in the northwest. A comparable feat would have been for Mexican revolutionists, defeated in Yucatan, to move their capital to British Columbia-except that the Mexicans would have far better roads for their anabasis...
...college to be educated nor are they educated there. Following up this dogmatic assertion, he is convinced they go for a degree, which he calls "a passport to economic success," and to participate in activities. In general agreement are Presidents Wriston of Lawrence, Angell of Yale, and Butler of Columbia--who feel that the majority enter college for social and vocational purposes. Like President Hutchins, Mr. Foerster complains that the university has become a buge department store in which every kind of ware is offered to every type of buyer. As may be expected, the solution to these evils...