Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buell has been on leave of absence from the Foreign Policy Association in order to complete a book on "The Caribbean Policy of the United States." He obtained his doctoral degree at Princeton, and during the last ten years he has given special lectures on international problems at Yale, Columbia, and the University of California. He is the author of several books, among the best known of which are "The Native Problem in Africa," and "Europe in the Last Decade...
...which make a wearing drudgery out of school, it is surely plain that the swing to the opposite extreme has been excessive. Education in the humanistic sense has become an anachronism in the American school. The chief reason for this state of affairs must rest with Teachers College of Columbia University and its disciples; it is a powerful directive force, and its main tenet is that the child should learn by "expressing himself" rather than by submitting to an academic discipline. For this purpose vast sums have been spent on schools replete with all the paraphernalia of the New Education...
Fantastic monsters unknown to natural science seem to have a predilection for the waters of British Columbia. Thence, with almost convincing regularity, have come tales of Okanagan Lake's "Ogopogo"-a mighty serpent "with the face of a sheep, the head of a bulldog" (TIME, Aug. 15, 1932). And thence last week came two descriptions of a phantasmagoric sea serpent big enough to dwarf the 30-foot Ogopogo...
...Kemp, a member of the provincial archives staff, said he and his family sighted the beast last year, but kept it a secret for fear of not being believed. When Major W. H. Langley, clerk of British Columbia's Legislature, told last week of having seen the beast too, Archivist Kemp told his story as follows...
Selected as vice-presidents of the Association were: Samuel A. Welldon '04, vice-president of the First National Bank of New York, Dr. Eugene H. Poole '95, professor of Clinical Surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia. Henry C. Clark '11 was re-elected general secretary and treasurer...