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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cornell began the season as one of the weaker teams, suffering four consecutive defeats. But the Red and White turned the tables, won its last two events, and now stands fourth in the league. Saturday, the Ithacans edged Columbia, 30-29, and Monday they downed Yale...

Author: By G. V. Goulder, | Title: CORNELL CAGERS FACE STRONG TEAM TOMORROW | 2/21/1934 | See Source »

...years Columbia's Dean Herbert Edwin Hawkes has dangled this poser before his freshman class in mathematics. Prize for solution, by solid geometry only, was an automatic A in the course. Fifteen flights of freshmen were baffled until this term when one Herman Gewirtz of Brooklyn slapped down a solution complete in 50 steps, plus drawings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dean's Problems | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

...problem he could not ignore confronted Dean Hawkes when, after months of quiet sleuthing, Editor Arnold Beichman of Columbia's Spectator and another senior presented him with evidence of "financial irregularities" in the management of two student dances. Object of the charges was their classmate Robert M. Tierney, editor-in-chief of the Columbian (yearbook), senior member of the Student Board of Representatives, last year's president of his class. Last week Dean Hawkes announced that he had asked Senior Tierney "not to register for the spring session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dean's Problems | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

Staging late come-backs in both meets, the Varsity wrestlers were defeated by a close score by the Columbia University matmen last Friday night, and tied a strong Princeton team on its first road trip of the year on Saturday evening. The Columbia team scored a 16-14 victory while the Princeton meet resulted in a 14-14 dead-lock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOST MINOR, 1937 WEEKEND GAMES GO TO CRIMSON TEAMS | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

...Columbia 16, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOST MINOR, 1937 WEEKEND GAMES GO TO CRIMSON TEAMS | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

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