Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Announcement was made last night by William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, in conjunction with the athletic directors of Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale that the Ivy League conference had failed to reach any concrete solution whatsoever...
...During the past few weeks the formation of an heptagonal league in football, as advanced in your editorial of December 3, has been the subject of several discussions by athletic representatives of Columbia-Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale. As these institutions have for some time been allied in associations in baseball, basketball and track, there already exist a community of interests and a basis of friendship that have made possible very frank and extended conversations...
...while Harvard has been pre-eminent for many decades for the excellence of her legal instruction, she can no longer lay claim to a position of unrivalled superiority. Both Yale and Columbia have made justifiable names for themselves, too, and several colleges in the west are fast coming into prominence in this respect. Ardent adherents may exclaim that Harvard's law training is as fine today as ever and that the years of tradition should in no whit be changed, but such sentiments are equivalent to virtual reaction. With the inception of a new housekeeper comes the obvious time...
...They shared in common an enthusiasm for Ohio State's football team of that year. Now Joan is the heroine of "Renfrew of the Mounted" on a national radio hookup and is rescued over and over again. John Weigel has pushed his way forward, too, and is now a Columbia announcer out of the Chicago studios...
...Teaching of Controversial Subjects" will be the topic of a free, public lecture tomorrow night by Professor Edward L. Therndike, of Columbia University speaking in the New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock...