Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past polls Harvard feelings have not always agreed with the majority of other institutions included in the group. Crimson voters stood side by side with Princeton and Yale against Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, and Russell Sage, of Troy, New York, in opposing old-age pensions when that vital question was the subject of a poll in January...
...foremost scoffer at the gene theory of heredity, England's formidable, bushy-browed Biologist William Bateson, went to the Columbia University laboratories of Thomas Hunt Morgan, examined the data, looked at the jars of fruit flies, stared down the microscopes, announced his conversion. Since then there has been little doubt among geneticists that the chromosomes in the germ cells are the theatres of heredity, that the ultimate agents, called genes, which transmit unit characters, occupy definite and fixed positions along the spindly, crooked chromosomes. Since then fame has come to Dr. Morgan and his flies, and to some...
Born in Schuyler Falls. N. Y. 47 years ago, Bridges found himself some years later in a zoology class at Columbia which Dr. Morgan had agreed to take while the regular professor was away. Dr. Morgan changed the young man's general interest in science to a specific one in genetics. Bridges haunted Dr. Morgan's office, asked if help was not needed with the bottles of flies. Morgan replied gently that trained assistants were what he needed. Undaunted, Bridges kept coming back. One day he spotted a fly with vermilion eyes instead of the normal...
...convention started off unofficially on a Sunday afternoon with a rousing pep meeting staged by a coterie of Left-wing professors, most of whose leaders are from Teachers College, Columbia. Organized this year as the John Dewey Society, these Left-wing professors succeeded in packing the banquet hall of the Hotel Jefferson with 1,500 sympathetic superintendents. Earnest Professor George Sylvester Counts sniped at four notable targets: 1) William Randolph Hearst: "A foe of freedom of assembly, speech and press"; 2) Alfred E. Smith: "Once a friend of Education and the common man, he has sold out to privilege...
...widely abominated teachers' oath law, who was booted out of his job last autumn with the approval of Governor James Michael Curley. With but three dissenting votes, the cheering, clapping convention voted to condemn Villain Curley. Condemned also was the Federal statute forbidding teachers in District of Columbia schools to ''teach or advocate Communism...