Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Broadway Bill (Columbia) concerns a sporting gentleman who, impatient with conventional life in a small town, goes back to the racetracks whence he came, enters his horse, Broadway Bill, in the Derby and sees him win against heavy odds. In outline this is the story the cinema has been telling for a decade. On the screen it is something else again. Gaily adapted by Robert Riskin, ably directed by Frank Capra (It Happened One Night, Lady for a Day), it becomes one of the most wisely amusing and genuinely original comedies of the year, an up-to-date sporting print...
...Columbia dedicated new South Hall, a block-shaped brick-&-limestone library, built with $4,000,000 from Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness, designed as a "working laboratory" for scholars...
...Lord Blesses the Bishop (by Hatcher Hughes; Glen W. McNaughton, producer). Professor Hughes of Columbia University won the 1924 Pulitzer Prize with Hell-bent for Heaven. The Professor's current opus is about a sophisticated artist who wants a baby, while his wife is only interested in amateur theatricals. The artist has the baby by an obliging French girl, an act which his wife takes with thoroughgoing good sportsmanship. Professor Hughes, in all probability, will not win the 1935 Pulitzer Prize with The Lord Blesses the Bishop...
Urging the selection of Lou Little to succeed Eddie Casey as head football coach, Hamilton Fish, Jr. '10, former football captain, and United States Representative, has written the CRIMSON that he advises Harvard to follow the example of Princeton, Columbia, Holy Cross, and Southern California in developing a winning team...
...selection of a type of head football coach such as Fritz Crisler at Princeton. If Lou Little is available for head coach at Harvard I strongly urge his appointment. I am familiar with his work at Georgetown, where he developed some really great teams. His record at Columbia speaks for itself. Harvard needs an experienced and successful coach. If we cannot win some of our major games with graduate coaches, we had better follow the example of Princeton, Columbia. Holy Cross, Southern California, and most other colleges and get the best coaches available...