Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides Harvard are enrolled Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia, Penn, and Navy. Meets will begin during the season...
...Columbia's fat and famed Thorndike asked me my price for spitting on a picture of Washington or for eating an angleworm I wouldn't give the silly answer the question deserved but would call for a paddy wagon...
...Annapolis Harbor. In the afternoon, President Roosevelt snuggled down into the referee's launch, streaked up the river from Annapolis to watch three crews, two of them the ablest in the East, race 1¾ miles down the Severn for the Adams Cup. Pennsylvania had beaten Princeton, Yale, Columbia. Navy had beaten Cornell and Columbia. The regatta, in which a Harvard shell was also entered, climaxed the season of sprint races in the East. Because the Washington Sophomores who nosed out California by 2 yd. (TIME, April 22) at the start of the season have lately been so sluggish...
...universities, such as Columbia and Tulane, employment directors were gloomy but elsewhere early placements were running from 10 to 100% above last year. At the University of California employment prospects were reported up to the 1927-28 level, at Harvard up to 1930, at the University of Chicago up to 1929. Scouts from the big corporations were seen on campuses for the first time since 1930. Employers like General Electric, Firestone, Goodyear were looking for men to fill their training schools. The Government was in the market for civil and agricultural engineers, economics and business graduates, CCC camp teachers. Best...
Meanwhile, the Harvard 150-pound crew was also faring badly at Philadelphia in the annual Henley regatta. Princeton's light eight won in a driving finish that was so close that there was only a scant length between the Tiger boat, and the shell from Penn. Columbia and Navy fought it out for third place with only a boat deck separating the two crews. Harvard never challenged seriously, and finished three lengths behind...