Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First to be enrolled in the District of Columbia's drive was 90-year-old Mrs. Peter Voorhees Degraw, only living founder, onetime aide to Clara Barton, organizer of the American Red Cross...
...Council, was named Chairman of this committee, to serve for three years, are Robert E. Goodwin '01, of Boston, lawyer, member of the firm of Goodwin, Proctor and Hear; Dr. William B. Parsons '10, of New York, surgeon, Associate Professor of Surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; and John E. Toulmin '25, of Boston, Vice-President of the First National Bank of Boston...
From New Haven comes the report that the Elis 10-7 victory over Columbia was a combination of breaks and the tamest Lion eleven in years. The Yale attack was sluggish, and the traditional passing strength never approached that of the Roscoe, Kelley, and Frank eras. A dogged Blue line and an unspectacular backfield won the game from a fumbling, mediocre Columbia squad...
...doctor the schools' failings, Survey Graphic'?, experts proposed many remedies, from Federal financial aid to more science in education. Most practical was Columbia University's Professor Karl N. Llewellyn, who suggested that educators find mass-production formulas that even mediocre teachers can use. Sample formula (to promote healthy skepticism): Let pupils be taught from the kindergarten to preface every "fact" thus: "My geography book says that Albany is the capital of New York"; "Mr. Smithers says that stealing is naughty"; "The Bugle says Japan is a menace"; "Candidate Loud says that Senator Louder is a liar...
...Columbia University's Nicholas Murray Butler: "[The] world, so far as its professed and constantly extolled ideals are concerned, is in a state of well-nigh total collapse. . . . Modern man has returned ... to the jungle. . . . The great philosophers, men of letters and men of science v.ho dominated the thought ... of the past 200 years are no longer recognized or ever referred to as offering guidance for conduct and for public policy...