Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Right v. Wrong. Having received his orders to surrender his command, General Hagood last week wired the War Department, got permission to remain a month in San Antonio to wind up his personal affairs before retiring like a bad schoolboy to his home at Columbia, S. C. In Washington Senator Byrnes and Representative McSwain, head of the House Military Affairs Committee, both of South Carolina, protested vigorously but in vain to Secretary Dern. So did Representative Blanton who got General Hagood permission to testify "freely." Republicans in the Senate made a political holiday of the case. Senator Metcalf called...
...HOWLING school lad and burly truck drives alike there exists a common fear, that of the dentist drill rasping through dentine in seeming horrible search for the nerve. No lean scholar is Dr. LeRoy L. Hartman of Columbia's dental school, yet from his laboratory he has come forth with a discovery that entailed twenty years of research. As a consequence, the dental bogey man, pain, is now gone, and dentists everywhere are polishing tools for emergence out of the depression. Dr. Hartman has developed a chemical which, applied to the tooth, almost instantly kills its entire capacity for feeling...
Graduate of Northwestern University's dental school in 1913, Dr. Hartman interrupted private practice in Seattle to go to war. On his return be assailed dental pain. Now ready for general use, his "desensitizer" will be made available to the unmonied through patent control by Columbia University. In the gallery of benefactors of humankind, Northwestern's and Columbia's Dr. Hartman's portrait will look out with a bluff twinkle that for once does not give the dentist's false assurance...
...short while ago Harvard University for the second time rejected an offer of a German scholarship from Ernst Hanfstaengl, or "Putzy" as the Columbia Spectator prefers to call the Nazi Press Chief, who has become renowned as the musician who soothes the worried Hitler to sleep...
Chief concern among medical educators of late has been the rapid growth of specialization. As the result of statistics already on hand, the powers-that-be have decided, according to Columbia University's Medical Dean Willard Cole Rappleye, that "beginning in 1938 no physician will be listed as a specialist who does not possess a certificate from a board in his particular branch of practice." Consonant with that idea, the A. M. A. Journal last week published a list of reliable x-ray specialists. The list was surprising, for it contained only 1,274 names for the entire country...