Word: columbia
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...public educational system. Though the University, established in 1784, is the oldest continuous educational agency in the U. S., it did not receive its present broad powers until 1904. Before then it looked after higher education alone, having been founded primarily to rehabilitate King's College (now Columbia University) which had been suspended during the Revolution. New York State's University sometimes forgets its humdrum job and dons academic garb. It did so last week to celebrate, a bit ahead of time, its 150th birthday. Meeting in Chancellors' Hall in Albany in their 69th convocation, the Regents...
...baccarat casino in Nice to a French syndicate for 2,500,000 francs ($150,000). Because the French Government has decided to legalize roulette, long forbidden in France, he did not lease his smaller casino at Juan-les-Pins, will run it himself. In Brooklyn Federal Court, Columbia University's portly President Nicholas Murray Butler* impassively heard attorneys argue his case to recover $325,000 in securities from the Harriman National Bank & Trust Co., whose onetime President Joseph Wright Harriman, now awaiting trial for falsification of his books, is Dr. Butler's good friend. In January...
...song as simple and unadorned as any piece of folk music set U. S. commercial records last week. Billy Hill's "Last Round-Up'' was played 24 times over major radio networks. It led the phonograph-record sales for Victor, Columbia and Brunswick. A sheet-music estimate was taken: in six weeks 200,000 copies had been sold, better than any song since 1929. And all this had happened not because of a publisher's plugging. The publishers of "The Last Round-Up" knowing now that they have a big song, have prayed that it will...
From 1783 to 1788, The Independent Journal helped make U. S. history. Published twice a week, its most famed feature was a column called "The Federalist." which contained editorials written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay. Last week in Manhattan, the Columbia School of Journalism revived The Independent Journal. Printed on four sheets of rough paper, the new edition copied the make-up of the old as closely as possible...
Same superior knowledge shows other scores: Yale 14 Brown 7 Dartmouth 7 Pennsylvania 7 Michigan 10 Ohio State 7 Princeton 14 Columbia 7 Illinois 13 Army 7 Notre Dame 13 Carnegie Tech 12 Pittsburgh 13 Minnesota 7 Purdue 19 Chicago 6 S. California 20 Oregon State...