Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beach. Always, indoors or out, she wears a veil over her eyes. Her doctor-father and medical consultants* believe that Edwina Booth suffers from some little-known African ailment contracted "on location." They also believe that the doctors of the U. S. schools of tropical medicine (Tulane, Harvard, Columbia) know less about such things than do the staff of London's School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who are regularly in touch with cases from Great Britain's African possessions. Last week Edwina Booth's plea to the New York Supreme Court to speed up her damage...
...with Time Clock, Chesapeake Stakes and Kentucky Derby with Cavalcade, Wood Memorial and Preakness with High Quest, Toboggan with Okapi. Winnings for 1933-34: $232,605. This more than covers Mrs. Sloane's racing expenses, since she maintains no breeding farm, winters her horses in public quarters at Columbia...
...Studebaker got a Columbia M.A. and his superintendency in 1920. Thin, wiry, bespectacled, he makes his subordinates enjoy being slave-driven. Many a U. S. school has copied his system of paying teachers' salaries on the basis of individual ability, rather than for the job held. Not content with educating Des Moines children, he wangled a tentative $120,000 from Carnegie Corporation in 1933 for a five-year experiment in adult education. In two years he has received $45,000, kept a Public Forum humming with lectures on current affairs. He is a Methodist, Mason, Shriner, Rotarian. Time left...
...Harvard's place in the Eastern Intercollegiate League as well as the traditional Crimson-Blue championship. The only change in the League on Saturday was Cornell's removal from first place thanks to a 3-1 win by Dartmouth. That puts Pennsylvania at the top with .625, Cornell and Columbia next with 600 each, Harvard fourth with .571, Dartmouth fifth with .428, and then Yale with...
Forty students of high rank in their respective colleges applied for the fellowship. Among the institutions represented were Williams, Amherst, Bowdoin, Wisconsin, Duke, Antioch, Oberlin, Columbia, Cornell, Wesleyan, and the U. S. Naval Academy. Fifteen applicants were from Harvard...