Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION. Dinner at the Hotel Sheraton, 91 Bay State Road, Boston, at 7.00 o'clock. Reservations may be made at $2.00 each. Professor Donald B. Durrell will act as toastmaster. Speakers will include William H. Kilpatrick, Professor of the Philosophy of Education at Columbia; Dr. Payson Smith, former Massachusetts State Commissioner of Education; Henry W. Holmes, Dean of the Graduate School of Education; Robert Ulich, professor of Philosophy at Dresden; and Paul H. Hanus, professor of History and the Art of Teaching, Emeritus...
...have not had Wade Hampton's equal in the executive mansion recently, though we did have Richard I. Manning for our World War governor. Just visit the campus of the University in Columbia, the College of Charleston or the Citadel, if you want to see the present aristocracy of a great little State...
Professor Edward Kasner of Columbia University announced that he had measured and bisected the "horn angle" - the angle between two curves tangent to each other. The ancient Greeks decided that the horn angle was a zero, could therefore be neither measured nor bisected; Isaac Newton and his successors, having no luck with the problem, were constrained to agree. Dr. Kasner solved the problem with four unreal numbers. When the angle is bisected in his geometrical system, the sum of the halves is greater than the whole. And if one of the curves is considered to be a straight line, each...
...convention and announced that they favor swearing, public surprise would not have been much greater than it was last week when 49 of the safest and most cautious U. S. motorists held a convention and announced that they favor speeding. One from each State and the District of Columbia, the 49 were selected in local contests open only to persons who had driven at least 50,000 miles in ten years without accident or conviction of a traffic violation. Driving to Manhattan in their own cars at the expense of the American Automobile Association and the Commercial Investment Trust Safety...
...varies from one individual to another, a lucky fit is necessary for contact lenses to be worn for long periods without irritation. Hence although they have been known for 80 years, only about 3,000 have been successfully worn. For six years Dr. William Feinbloom, research fellow of Columbia University, labored on the problem of a lens made to fit any given eye perfectly. Last week he told how he solved it. Wax was molded roughly to the shape of the eye, to which it was then applied, left for ten minutes. Body heat and eye movements softened...