Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, his late spinster Sister Eliza left $2,000 "in recognition of his unfailing generous and constantly loving care during my entire life and in token of the deep affection which I have...
Progressive education as practised at the University of Chicago and at Bennington challenges Harvard in more ways than one. It is not merely that its academic freedom is fully as complete. Far more fundamental is the fact that Bennington (and also Columbia's Bard College) are approaching education from a creative point of view, while Harvard's attitude is in the main scholarly. Bennington, as far as is possible, has made creative and individual work an integral part of every subject. Harvard has not, and must soon face the issue of whether it is providing a complete education. Recent criticisms...
Died, Eliza Rhees Butler, 62, executive secretary of the women's committee on college contacts at Columbia University, sister of Columbia's President Nicholas Murray Butler; of heart disease, in Manhattan...
Coaches of the Houses are: Kirkland, Bernard D. White '32; Eliot, Charles R. Huldart, Dartmouth '34; Winthrop, Robert S. Brookings '35; Dunster, Robert M. Bilder, Williams '33; Adams, Donald L. Hassenfratz, Columbia '34; Leverett, Arthur D. Baker, Pennsylvania '34; Lowell, Donald K. McIntosh; Dudley Hall, Charles E. Pettee...
Died. Dr. Charles Norris, 67, famed, sardonic, goat-bearded, public-spirited Chief Medical Examiner of New York City; of coronary cirrhosis following acute dysentery; in Manhattan. Hoboken-born, educated at Yale "Sheff," Columbia, Kiel, Göttingen, Berlin and Vienna, he taught pathology, became director of the Bellevue Hospital laboratories, was appointed Chief Medical Examiner by Mayor Hylan in 1918. He battled for pure food laws, fought against quack doctors, Prohibition, insanitary restaurants, pronounced on many a suicide and murder that perplexed police, made his name and detective work known in medico-legal circles the world over. Underpaid...