Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remaining four will form the squad from which a team will be chosen to debate against Columbia at Meriden, Connecticut on December tenth. The subject will be, "Resolved: that the private manufacture of munitions be abolished...
...Columbia University Press announced that between 1872 and 1932 its pontifical President Nicholas Murray (''Nicholas Miraculous") Butler wrote 3,200 books, reports, speeches, articles, and introductions. Author Butler's first literary effort : Questions and Answers for Admission to the Paterson (N. J.) High School. His latest: a speech last week at Columbia commemorating the 1,000th anniversary of the birth of Persia's Epic Poet Firdausi...
...University of California had the most needy students-1,898. Princeton put itself down for aid to 275. Columbia listed 595; University of Wisconsin, 884; University of Minnesota, 1,158. Harvard turned the Government's offer down flat. Richest university in the land, it needed no Federal handout. Yale's conscience stuck at the required guarantee that each student aided would have to quit college unless the relief funds were given him. Explained Dean Clarence Whittlesey Mendell: "We felt that in signing this we would possibly be making a dishonest statement...
...showed moving pictures of his ascent of Mt. Foraker, a 17,300 foot peak in the Alaska range, and Henry S. Hall '19, who explained and showed photographs of his four attempts to climb Mt. Waddington, a 13,000 foot peak in the Coast Range of British Columbia. The evening was concluded with a brief account by Bradford Washburn '31. President of the club, of the conquest last summer, of Mt. Crillon by a Harvard-Dartmouth expedition under his leadership...
...culmination of 20 years of hate" drove Playwright Elmer Rice (Between Two Worlds, Judgment Day, Counsellor-at-Law, Street Scene) to turn a lecture at Columbia University into a lambasting of Broadway dramatic critics. After declaring that he would never write another play for Manhattan's "over-commercialized" theatre, Mr. Rice raged: "There is not a dramatic critic in New York City who knows anything about the problems of acting and directing. You can call them all ticket grabbers. That's what they are? ticket grabbers . . . jaded . . . bored . . . illiterate . . . stupid . . . animal-like . . . scum of the earth...