Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than one thousand brain tumors and one of the commonest, most rapidly growing and most immediately fatal types-the spongioblastoma-comprises one-third of his cases. Surgical removal is sometimes effective but there is desperate need of early diagnosis. Last week Dr. Charles Albert Elsberg of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Centre reported a diagnostic technique for brain tumor which he deemed more sensitive than any other currently employed. Dr. Elsberg's way is to test the patient's sense of smell...
Wanda Kirkbridge Farr (in private life Mrs. R. C. Saulwetter) is a shapely, well-dressed, vivacious cytorogist (cell anatomist) who got her master's degree at Columbia, did skin & cancer research in St. Louis, taught botany there, experimented for a time at the Boyce Thompson Institute, is now a government cotton technologist. Dr. Sophia H. Eckerson got her Ph. D. at University of Chicago, is a learned, shy spinster not far from 60. has been at Boyce Thompson for 14 years, is known to colleagues male & female as a clever and learned worker with plants...
Last June Congress passed a law denying pay checks to any District of Columbia public school teacher who should "teach or advocate" Communism. Followed loud arguments as to what "teaching" Communism meant. To William Randolph Hearst the issue was perfectly simple. Explained his New York American: "The word 'teaching' as used in the statutes in conjunction with the word 'advocating' covers the whole field and PROHIBITS INSTRUCTION AS WELL AS ADVOCACY." But to E. Barrett Prettyman, corporation counsel for the District of Columbia, "teaching" meant outright advocacy, did not mean a factual, unbiased treatment...
Eighty-three upperclassmen, representing twenty-three states outside of Massachusetts and New York, as well as the District of Columbia, have been voted scholarships for the current academic year totaling $27,150 from the University Scholarship fund. These scholarships were awarded to men in high scholtic standing by the Corporation, s follows...
Coach Ulen has released the following schedule; December 14, Alumni; January 11, Gardner Swimming Club; January 18, Providence Boys Club; January 25, Boston Y.M.C.A.; February 8, McGill; February 15, Brown; February 23, Springfield (away); February 29, Dartmouth; March 7, Princeton; March 15 Columbia; and on March 19, Yale (away...