Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...race. Five minutes later, when the crews were paddling back up the river and the crowd had started to disperse, the judges posted the correct results. California, in lane No. 1, had won, with Cornell 1/3 of a second behind. Washington was third, with Navy, Syracuse, Penn, Columbia strung out in that order up the river...
...ever coached, patched up a new varsity around a nucleus of last year's. Of the Eastern shells, Navy's had the best rating. Penn was a sprint crew. Syracuse, coached by 83-year-old Jim Ten Eyck, had a chance and so did Cornell. Columbia was clearly...
Following the pattern of President Conant's roving professor plan, the Corporation yesterday appointed Elmor Drew Merrill, professor of Botany at Columbia and world-famous botanist to the post of Professor of Botany at and Administrator of Botanical Collections...
...prove the power of mind over matter, and equally anxious--in the interests of science, of course--to disprove the learned Columbia professor's theory that one would refuse to eat a worm for a thousand dollars Dudley N. Hartt, Jr. '37 gave a demonstration in the Dunster House Dining Hall yesterday evening which showed conclusively that given a certain amount of stimulation one can eat even more gastrically fatal things than a nice fresh worm. Before a roomful of awed waitresses and a horrified steward, who took the act to be a personal insult, the talented Sophomore casually emptied...
Participation of the Harvard track and field team in the second annual Heptagonal Games to be held May 9, 1936 was announced at the same time. The competing colleges will be Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale. The situs of these games for 1936 will be determined later...