Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francis Everett Townsend's day as economic savior of the nation is past virtually everywhere but in Chelan, Wash. Chelan, a Main-Street town of 2,000 population, is perched high above the Columbia River, some 90 miles northeast of Grand Coulee Dam. Chelanites depend for their livelihood on seasonal occupation in the fine apple orchards of broad Chelan Valley. In the winter, when there is little work for them in the snow-covered orchards, they are hard pressed. Naturally enough, they readily subscribed to the ideas of Dr. Townsend, formed a Townsend Club soon after his something...
...Louis Brownlow, 57, stubby, highbrowed, oldtime newspaperman who has held many a civic planning post, is now a University of Chicago lecturer on government and director of a coordinating agency called Public Administration Clearing House. Other members were University of Chicago's famed Political Scientist Charles Edward Merriam, Columbia's Professor of Municipal Science Luther Halsey Gulick. After lengthy palaver and much questionnairing in Washington, the Committee produced a thoughtful and persuasive report which of itself was no more significant than a thousand other more or less Utopian schemes concocted by academicians in the past. It took...
...intelligence but prove nothing because all marking systems are riddled with radical discrepancies due to the variations of mood and personality among examiners. Deciding to survey the broad question of "Examinations and Their Substitutes," the Carnegie Foundation inaugurated in 1931 an international inquiry, assigned Dr. Isaac Leon Kandel of Columbia's Teachers College as its U. S. investigator. Last week one section of Investigator Kandel's 175-page examination of examiners contained much salve for wounded Hunkers...
...study of a comparison of entrance grades with subsequent records in Columbia University, initiated 30 years ago, prompted famed Psychologist Edward Lee Thorndike to declare entrance examination estimates of future undergraduate success wrong 47 times out of 50 times. He judged the correlation between real student accomplishment and course ratings 60% as erroneous as if the examination marks had been assigned by lottery...
...Eastern Swimming League is almost entirely an Ivy proposition, including: Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia, Navy, and Penn. Although the team will take water against several other colleges, it is within the sacred ranks of this League that all attention will be centered; and the League Championship which will necessarily include an Eli scalp, is the Lotus Isle toward which these mermen will be swimming all season...