Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building where the Red Cross was giving first aid, milled the building and its 25 occupants into a dirty mass of debris. But despite this shocking catastrophe, 200,000 Californians turned out for the Tournament. What happened in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day when Columbia's football team defeated Stanford 7-to-0 did not raise their spirits...
...made the Bowl a lake, drained just in time for the game by three fire engines pumping all night. Even with a soggy field and wet ball as equalizing factors, Stanford started a 2½-to-1 favorite. Pacific Coast fans had been loud in their contempt of Columbia, derisive of Stanford for ever inviting Columbia to play. Easterners who conceded Columbia a chance were regarded as provincials whose enthusiasm had blinded their judgment. One who was not bothered by such talk was Louis Little, the big-framed, booming-voiced coach who in four years at Columbia had built...
There was nothing in the final statistics to show why Columbia should have won. The play was in Columbia territory most of the time. Stanford outrushed Columbia 242 yd. to 70 yd., made 16 first downs to Columbia's six. But Stanford made eight fumbles and Columbia recovered four of them. The touchdown came in the second period, when Columbia's Halfback Al Barabas cut around Stanford's right end and loped across the line standing up. Center Newt Wilder kicked the extra point. From then on Columbia's job was to dig into the slime...
When Editor Arnold Beichman of Columbia's troublemaking Spectator declared for a free college press, his resolution was snowed under. Several scholarship-holding editors leaped to their feet to defend a college's right, through faculty censorship, to keep "its dirty linen from being washed in public." Similarly swamped was a resolution by Student President Sara Mentschekoff of Hunter that R. 0. T. C. funds be diverted to general educational activities...
Tenor Martini went to the Metropolitan handsomely advertised by Columbia Broadcasting System which for the past year has sponsored his radio performances. But for all his beautiful legs and a smooth, ingratiating voice critics found him short of Metropolitan standards. He was often flat. His loudly-touted top notes were strained. It was the oldtimer who had the week's warmest reception. Soprano Claudia Muzio, who left the Met twelve years ago to sing in Chicago, returned, gave a stirring performance in La Traviata...