Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next 10 days Harvard has four Leagne baseball games to play. If the Mitchellmen take all four, they win the League pennant with a record of eight victories, three defeats, and one tie; if they drop one, Columbia nabs the banner. It's the 1934 Varsity's last chance to come out on top, and right now it's a fairly good...
President Conant was among nine men who were yesterday awarded honorary degrees by Columbia University at its 180th annual Commencement Exercises. He was given an honorary degree of Doctor of Science, together with Ernest William Brown, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Yale...
...York University insurance lecturer and an able bacteriologist mother who had four academic degrees of her own, he matriculated in N. Y. U. at 5. At 10 he passed Harvard's entrance examinations, but waited until he was 12 to enter Columbia. He got a Phi Beta Kappa key at 14, an A. B. at 15, an M. A. at 15, a Th. B. (Bachelor of Theology) from General Seminary at 18, a Columbia Ph. D. at 20. Two years ago he was ordained an Episcopal priest, assigned to a small parish in outlying Astoria. His Columbia classmates remember...
...served a long apprenticeship turning out Sunday School stories, detectification, melodrama. When he wrote Teeftallow (1926), a story of his Tennessee hill country, critics first began to notice him. Last April U. S. radio-listeners followed suit, when his radio novel, Conflict, began to be broadcast over the Columbia network. Author Stribling is enthusiastic over radio as a literary medium, says its sound effects free the author "from an immense labor of description," considers it "the most perfect instrument for the artistic imagination yet devised...
...graduated in 1886, Dr. Winter had taught for 12 years at Michigan Military Academy and had served a short term as headmaster of Kenyon Military Academy, Gambier, Ohio. In addition to his work here at College, he gave numerous courses at the different graduate schools and at Radcliffe, Columbia, and the University of California. The graduate schools at which he lectured include the Theological School, the Law School, Andover Theological Seminary, and the Episcopal Theological School. He also taught at the Summer School. He was the author of several books on Public Speaking...