Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Driving one evening from his office in the Capitol to his home at Berwyn Heights, Md., he recollected that he had an errand at a grocery store. At his request the automobile was stopped at Cottage City, a mile beyond the District of Columbia boundary. Orel Leen, a member of his office staff, guided the sightless Senator across the street to a store. They were on their way back when another car came zipping out of the dark, ran them down. Smash! Broken glass littered the pavement as Driver Lester G. Humphries stopped his car, was arrested for reckless driving...
Last autumn Columbia's President Nicholas Murray Butler surveyed the intricacies of modern education, thought of his own simple school days in Elizabeth, N. J., emitted a nostalgic lament: "It has become customary to abuse and sneer at the little red schoolhouse of two generations ago, but if that little red schoolhouse was presided over by a teacher of rich and warm personality ... it was an almost ideal educational instrumentality...
Then to John Henry Hoeppel, who in the Congressional Directory claims to be a "graduate of the University of Hard Knocks," came a still harder knock: Son Charles flunked the entrance examination at West Point. Last week a jury in a District of Columbia courtroom, where the Hoeppels, father & son, were on trial for conspiracy to solicit a bribe, heard what became of the West Point appointment. James W. Ives, a handsome Olympic athlete from Baltimore, who had played football at Johns Hopkins, took the stand and swore as follows...
Then he was cast as the young man Grace Moore gave up recently in Love Me Forever. In the opening snow sports scenes, Bob felt much at home, having been prominent in Dartmouth winter carnival of five years ago. Now he has a Columbia contract and will be seen in Guard That Girl; the girl, Florence Rice, Bob Allen, ex-Dartmouth football man, doing the guarding...
...lecturer on Brief Making and Preparation of Cases at the Law School, Hugh D. McLellan, judge of the United States District Court of Massachusetts, has been named, to hold the position until September 1, 1936. Judge McLellan graduated from Colby in 1895, and took his LL.B. at Columbia after which he practiced law in Boston until 1932 when he received his post on the bench...