Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as if millions of distracted mothers did not already know, a young woman at Columbia University set out two years ago to discover What Children Talk About. Dr. Mary Shattuck Fisher selected 72 youngsters between the ages of 2 and 6. For three days, from arrival at nursery school until afternoon nap, stenographers tagged after the children taking down everything they said. In the case of. one garrulous 4-year-old, that meant 1,728 remarks. The most bashful 2-year-old contented himself with 200. Last week, having pored long over the stenographic transcripts, Dr. Fisher finally knew...
...Everett Ross Clinchy, tall, quiet Presbyterian. Schooled at Yale, Columbia, Union Theological Seminary and Wesleyan, he specialized in sociology. In his late 30's, he is popular among students...
More crudely painted, yet more important historically was George Caleb Bingham's Martial Law (Order No. 11). The original remained in Columbia, Mo. last week, was represented at the Modern Museum only by a hand-colored engraving...
...good effect. To the old-time classical curriculum, so beloved of the Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamars, Lee, who had spent four years defending the planters' leisure-class culture, soon added vulgar practical courses of agriculture, commerce and applied chemistry, thus anticipating Nicholas Murray Butler's Columbia by some decades...
...successful murder, one attempted, two court trials, and headlines, headlines--they call it "White Lies." Walter Connally has been fraudulently (I hope) inveigled into this production of which Columbia should be ashamed. But go: Whiting and Mayfair will help make you forget the provinces...