Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anxious to win its first league scalp from Columbia, the weakest of the Crimson's rivals in the Eastern Intercollegiate League, Feslor's men board the train this morning for New York to engage in a return game with the Lions tonight...
...Columbia researchers gave standard vocational-prediction tests of intelligence, clerical ability and mechanical adroitness to 2,500 schoolchildren, aged about 14. Careers of more than 2,000 were followed, their occupational success at ages 20 to 22 measured by: 1) earnings; 2) occupational level; 3) contentment with jobs...
...Vocational guidance is not fortune telling," declared Dr. Harry Dexter Kitson, director of Columbia's Teachers College vocational guidance department...
...presidents more gracefully than St. John's. Meeting in Manhattan, Union's Board of Trustees allowed Acting President Dr. Edward Ellery to go back to his old job as head of the chemistry department and faculty chairman. Then the Board announced that Dr. Dixon Ryan Fox, 46, Columbia University history professor (Decline of Aristocracy in the Politics of New York; An Outline of Early American History) would be inaugurated in June as Union's 12th president. Union, founded in 1795 as the first non- sectarian college in the U. S., is currently excited about its new Plan...
...George was easily admitted. The profane and scornful old parvenu Cornelius Vander Bilt was unthinkable in a parlor: but his grandson William K. Vanderbilt would see all doors open to him in time," The Author. In 35 years, Matthew Josephson has done a variety of things. Brooklyn-born (1899), Columbia-educated, after a year as financial and literary editor of the Newark Ledger he joined the post-War literary exiles in Paris, wrote for transition, helped edit Broom. Two years on Wall Street as a customer's man turned his eyes from surrealiste poetry to Coolidge finance. Married, with...