Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry Fitts, diver, received a crushing blow when he banged his head on the springboard at the Columbia trials. He is back now, fully recovered...
Wheat of the District of Columbia's Supreme Court, he may well have feared that he had lost another bout with his favorite adversary, the U.S. Senate. If so, he was mistaken...
...fencers under Captain Philip Lilienthal have defeated M.I.T., Princeton, and the New York Fencer's Club losing only to the Columbia Lions. Although the Freshmen will conclude their season Saturday, the Varsity will go to New York for the Intercollegiates March...
Last week Rector Groh's invitations had reached the U. S. Officially Cornell, Columbia, Harvard accepted without controversy. But the Heidelberg invitations soon raised a full-sized rumpus among undergraduates, alumni, faculty members. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, cruising in the Caribbean, heard that liberal students were up in arms against Columbia's acceptance. In the Cornell Sim Historian Hendrik Willem Van Loon, "a 101% Aryan," looked into his Alma Mater's past, doubted "that Hitler's bright boys would care to associate with representatives of a university founded by that eminently broad-minded Quaker...
Week before the sea lion, having quit the Pacific for the Columbia River, ar rived rollicking in the tributary Willamette River off Oregon City, was stopped there by the falls. Chasing carp and salmon, it delighted State Police by fouling the gill nets of salmon poachers, was christened Sergeant Finnegan. Prevented from getting any rest by Oregon City crowds, it humped itself onto a fisherman's house boat, peered in a window and got three charges of buckshot in the face and neck, blinding one eye. It finally climbed a fish ladder beside the falls, roistered...