Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gentleman with whom Mrs. Roosevelt chatted was Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Halvdan Koht, who is visiting the U. S. to confer with Secretary of State Cordell Hull about a new trade treaty with his fatherland, and to give a series of lectures at Harvard and Columbia. A kindly, wire-haired Socialist of 64, Dr. Koht lectured at Harvard seven years ago, predicted much earlier, in a book, Capital and Labor in America, that the U. S. was drifting toward Socialism. Said Dr. Koht last week before his visit to the President: "And so today do I think...
There are 29,000,000 U. S. public schoolchildren, but the Speyer School is the only U. S. public school for children mentally gifted.* It was created in Manhattan in February 1936 by the city's Board of Education and Columbia's Teachers College, and since that time grey-haired, motherly Professor Leta Stetter Hollingworth has carefully guarded her brood from the adulatory and meddlesome attentions of the public. But this week, entranced by the educational message in a series of unposed candid-camera pictures of her 8 t011-year-old charges taken during the past few months...
...Speyer group, aged 7 to 9 and taken from grades 1A to 6B, has worked well together. The children come to school in a building on Columbia's Morningside Heights from all parts of the city, eat lunch together. Even 8-year-olds travel alone on the subway between home and school...
...most important, are the members of the powerful banking House of Coleman: flighty, spoiled Dowager Fanny Coleman; her children: square-faced, ruthless Christopher, executive head of the business, who engineers his mother into an asylum; Greg, a notorious playboy; Corinne, sexually inhibited divorcee; Gay, a liberal professor at Columbia University. Considering each of the Colemans as a main stream of his story, Author Rice feeds into them as many tributaries as he can trace down. Thus Christopher's story is fed by his beautiful artists' model, his frigid, hypochondriac wife, his board of directors, particularly by a multimillionaire...
This was no easy task. But the performance of the team against Clemson and Columbia showed how well it had been done, as Army triumphed 21-6 and 21-18. The team slumped against Yale to lose 15-7, but came back a week later to overwhelm Washington University of St. Louis 46-7, and went on to down Virginia Military Institute...