Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of his intellectual snobbishness, is shy, cynical and inclined to be inarticulate in company. His vocabulary sometimes exceeds his ability to express himself. Senators felt obliged to ask him what he meant by: "Chance has substituted itself for the anthropomorphic interpretation of history as a casual sequence." Columbia & Campaign. Not his personal characteristics but his social ideas were what made Dr. Tugwell an issue with the Senate. All his life he has been a voluble liberal. Senator Dickinson last week quoted to the Senate some Whitmanesque Tugwelliana, written by the young professor when he was 24. It began...
...statement, reporting a treasury deficit of $557-757 as of May 31. Still uncancelled was $80,250 lent the Brown Derby by John J. Raskob in 1928. Still unpaid were some bills incurred during the 1932 campaign which put Franklin D. Roosevelt into the White House: $47,650 to Columbia Broadcasting System; $170,571 to National Broadcasting Company; $13,565 to Western Union; $14,122 to Postal Telegraph; $18,067 to Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel for campaign headquarters...
...results of the poll in fourteen colleges are as follows: Yes No Total Brown 319 219 538 Columbia College 207 89 296 Cornell 1,287 842 2,120 Dartmouth 738 298 1,036 Harvard 2,103 1,130 3,233 New York Univ. 310 133 443 Univ. of Illinois 358 265 623 Univ. of Michigan 420 205 625 Univ. of Minnesota 449 260 709 Univ. of Virginia 343 181 524 Univ. of Wisconsin 855 332 1,187 Vassar 24 11 35 Wellesley 23 15 38 Yale 1,366 872 2,238 Totals...
Besides being vital to the success of reunion week, two victories over Yale will put Harvard into second place in the Eastern. Intercollegiate Baseball League. It's impossible for the Crimson to reach the top place now occupied by Columbia, because of the tie with Princeton, which can not be played off this year. The twin bill with the Elis will finish up the League season for all colleges...
...standings of the League are: Won Lost Tied Pct. Columbia 8 4 0 .667 Cornell 7 5 0 .583 Harvard 5 4 1 .556 Dartmouth 6 6 0 .500 Pennsylvania 6 6 0 .500 Yale 4 6 0 .400 Princeton...