Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point. The point is that whenever students stage demonstrations, rallies, or reviews on a large scale, the word of it goes out over the nation. And the old people in the hills of West Virginia realize that the young men of Harvard or of Yale or of Columbia and the young men of the United States are for peace or war or whatever they are for. When you poke fun at peace demonstrations, remember that. Remember that the student, whatever scorn or contumely be at times levelled at him, is in the minds of the mass of the citizenry most...
...championship, Coach Fred Mitchell's 1937 baseball nine went into an early slump and remains the mystery team of the League. By dint of three victories and one defeat, the Crimson has climbed to second position in the league standings and in the opinion of Andy Coakley, coach at Columbia will wind up in first place at the end of the current season...
...Varsity has not tasted strong opposition, holding one win over Columbia and two over Cornell, while bowing to a mediocre Princeton nine. Erratic and woefully weak at bat, the Mitchellmen have only been able to break even in all their games, marking up six victories to the same number of setbacks. Rained out in their scheduled encounter with Dartmouth last Saturday at Hanover, the Crimson should be able to raise their percentage when they play the stumbling Penn nine here Saturday afternoon...
...Most elaborate was the 14th National Music Week (May 2-9). Endorsed by all 48 governors, the Week was observed locally by 2,000 towns and cities, nationally by National Broadcasting Company and Columbia Broadcasting System. Schools, churches and clubs helped carry out this year's slogan: ''Foster Local Music Talent." Radio broadcasts included concerts by the New England Conservatory and the Boston Symphony, the entire Smetana Opera The Bartered Bride sung by the Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan, concerts by the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, the Musical Arts Chorus of Easton, Pa., the Lincoln Cathedral Choir...
...German Consul in Manhattan begged his good friend, Dr. George Winthrop Fish, Park Avenue urologist, to get special help for Captains Pruss and Sammt who seemed to be dying at Lakewood. Dr. Fish immediately enlisted Dr. Allen Old-father Whipple, Columbia University's Persia-born professor of surgery. Professor Whipple immediately arranged for the transfer of Captains Pruss and Sammt to Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Centre where every resource of modern medicine was promptly mobilized to save them...