Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cornell delegates were present from Colgate, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Pennsylvannia, Penn State, Princeton, Syracuse. Yale was invited but sent no delegate as there is no student Council now at Yale. Francis Keppel '38 represented Harvard...
...Columbia University's Teachers College in Manhattan last week a corps of researchers, up to their elbows in statistical reports, was busy proving Bill Smith wrong. Famed Psychologist Edward Lee Thorndike and his staff were weighing not Zenith's food or its storefronts but its quality as a place to live...
...Thorny" Thorndike began to study the instincts of chicks in his college lodgings in 1896. His landlady ousted his incubator as a fire hazard. So he moved it to the basement in the house of his teacher, a certain professor named William James. Next year the lad arrived at Columbia University to study under famed Psychologist J. McKean Cattell. Carrying two cages with the "most educated hens in the world," he sat down to rest on the steps of Seth Low Hall. A porter chased him away...
...rolling stone who has picked up considerable polish as he revolved through a number of phases of the publishing business, Paul Gallico was born to an Italian musician in a boarding house. He worked his way through Columbia University as a North River stevedore, Metropolitan Opera usher, gym teacher and German tutor. In his spare hours he played baseball, football, was acting captain of the 1921 Columbia crew after a two-year hitch in the Navy. Somehow he found plenty of time to turn out pulp magazine stories and short newspaper fiction...
Barely out of Columbia, he married red-headed Alva Taylor. Because he was the son-in-law of a famed Chicago Tribune columnist, the late Bert Leston Taylor, Gallico was made welcome on the Tribune's New York cousin, lusty Daily News. Hired to review movies, he was soon kicked downstairs to the sports department where he reigned as editor and columnist for 14 years, including a brief spell when he was also assistant managing editor. He painfully learned skiing, flying and other sports he wrote about. It made good copy...