Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Typical of the years just before the Revolution is the long roof-topping balustrade seen in both old points. In both the cupolo seems especially spindly and graceless. It shown has too few accents of gables and portals to enliven its front, Columbia has too many where Browns middle is marked by an exaggerated Princeton, Columbia, lacking it, is without a unifying center of interest...
Soil out is original grounds, Brown is not seriously pressed for space, although the President's House (demolished in August) had to be removed from the campus come years ago. Columbia has felt the space problem more acutely than any other of our Colonial colleges. When the old print was made it had already moved 9in 1756) from near Trinity Church to the outskirts what is now Park Place. The outskirts to which the college moved in 1857 was the region around Madison Avenue and 40th Street...
Since 1892 Columbia has stood on her fourth site, where her new domed Roman magnificence stands in vivid contrast both to here unpretentious Colonial beginnings and the modern motorized millieu...
Things still look bad, both as regards the hanging and the race, until someone has the happy idea of throwing rum-jugs into the furnace, Columbia of fire pour from the stacks and the ship leaps ahead like a wild thing. (Shot nephew mounting scaffold.) Shot of entire personnel of the Marie Lou hurling rum-jugs. One wonders who's steering the boat.) Whistles blowing, bands playing, people cheering...
...others: Columbia University-Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell University-New York Hospital, New York University-Bellevue Hospital...