Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Doctor From Columbia...
Professor Haines graduated from Ursinus College, and then took his doctorate at Columbia in 1909, returning to his home college to teach history and political science...
When, in March 1911, Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler dismissed "J. E." as chairman of Columbia's Division of Modern Languages and Literatures, he claimed that fiery young Professor Spingarn was unable to work smoothly with his colleagues. Professor Spingarn always believed that his real offense was his valiant and tactless championship of a Columbia scholar who had been cashiered six months before...
...full generation of students when, in the summer of 1910, he wrote a bundle of impetuous letters to an obscure stenographer named Esther Quinn. Esther Quinn sued him sensationally for breach of promise. He was deserted by his wife and friends, espelled from his clubs, finally dismissed from his Columbia professorship. At a faculty meeting Professor Spingarn got himself in scholastic hot water by defending his friend Peck. Independently rich, Spingarn refused to resign when President Butler suggested it, sharpened the issue by making Columbia fire...
...Columbia's Victor Shertzinger writes songs (his bestseller: Marcheta) and directs Grace Moore's pictures. He began his musical career as a boy violinist, toured with Nordica, Sembrich, Calve. As a director he made 21 of the old Charles Ray comedies. But composing was more to his liking. He does most of his work on his pipe organ at home, tries his tunes out on his daughter Paula...