Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tribune; by leaping from the Southampton-bound Berengaria off the Isle of Wight. With the Tribune and Herald Tribune since 1920, he had been recalled to Manhattan to write editorials, had resigned instead to free-lance in London. Died. Dr. Dorothy Scarborough, 58, author, associate professor of English at Columbia University where she conducted a popular course in novel and short-story writing; after brief illness; in Manhattan. Among her onetime pupils: Authors Tess Slesinger (The Unpossessed), Myron Brinig (This Man Is My Brother). Died. Rev. William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, 72, famed evangelist; of heart disease; in Chicago...
...Philip, married Ruth Owen Meeker, daughter of Ruth Bryan Owen, collects Italian primitives, plays occasionally on the Greentree and Sands Point polo teams with Tommy Hitchcock. John Milton Hancock, long-distance runner at the University of North Dakota, Wartime Naval Commander and supply-purchaser, hunts mountain sheep in British Columbia. He specializes in the affairs of Lehman Bros, clients such as Sears. Loose-Wiles, Jewel Tea, other national merchandise distributors. Mr. Hancock rehabilitated Jewel when the chainstore seemed headed for the rocks. Paul Mazur looks after department store clients-Gimbels, Hahn's, Associated Dry Goods. He wrote The Crisis...
Perhaps a modern team would like to face the 1881 Harvard schedule, a part of which read: Saturday! October 12. Brittania at Montreal; Monday October 21, Michigan at Boston; Wednesday, November 2, Pennsylvania at New York; Saturday, November 5, Columbia at Cambridge...
...winter of 1873 Harvard declined an invitation to jon Yale, Columbia, Rutgers, and Princeton in forming an Intercollegiate Association. The reason being that the other four were playing a form of Rugby with slight variations at each college, but a game totally different from the one developed at Cambridge, and Harvard was satisfied with its own game. As usual Harvard was accused of "high hatting" the other institutions...
...Eugene Hillhouse Pool, teacherish president of the Academy, opened the lecture course, then ducked out on 750 out-of-towners who signed up ($3 each) for the course. Manhattan manners were forgiven, however, when Dr. Pool, long-time professor of clinical surgery at Columbia University, reappeared at San Francisco to be elected 1936 president of the American College of Surgeons...