Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tentative Varsity schedule announced by Manager Elwood K. Salls '34 includes the following matches: M. I. T. on December 16, Tufts on January 13, Springfield on February 9, Navy on February 10, Columbia on February 16, at New York, Princeton on February 17 at Princeton, Brown on February 24, and Yale on March...
...Wednesday, December 13 with Boston University with the hope of revenging a slim 22-19 defeat at the hands of the Bostonians last year. This season's schedule includes two games with each of the member teams in the Eastern Intercollegiate League: Yale Princeton, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Cornell, and Columbia. Yale won the league title last year...
...show, because it seems the truest. Financially, Radio City is a thumping flop. The precise size of the deficit is unknown, but there is no doubt that the thump lands squarely on the Rockefeller pocketbook. Most of the land beneath the enterprise is owned (tax free) by Columbia University and for it Son John pays some $3,000,000 annually. For the buildings he guaranteed $100,000,000 from his own pocket, plus $65,000,000 which he got from Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in return for 5% bonds to be amortized over 20 years...
...much as he does playing the piano. His father is Professor of Medieval & Modern Greek at the University of Munich; an uncle is a Manhattan braid manufacturer. He has visited the U. S. twice, went home the first time by way of Japan. On one of his visits a Columbia physicist complimented him gracefully on the contrast between his youth and his achievements. Replied Dr. Heisenberg: "You know what they call the new physics in Germany? They call it the 'Boy Physics.' " Werner Heisenberg at 21 had distinguished himself by studies on the Zeeman effect (splitting of spectrum...
...years ago Professor Harold Clayton Urey of Columbia and Dr. Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde of the U. S. Bureau of Standards discovered a heavy hydrogen in liquid hydrogen distilled at 466° below zero Fahrenheit. Its atomic weight was 2.0136. Later Dean of Chemistry Gilbert Newton Lewis of the University of California following a method devised by the Bureau of Standards' Dr. Edward Wight Washburn, produced 99.5% pure heavy hydrogen. Water containing this heavy hydrogen kills guppy fish, tadpoles, worms. Probably it is poisonous...