Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onetime President Florence Hale. "The teacher in the new deal must not be timid!" declared President Herman Lee Donovan of Eastern Kentucky State Teachers' College. "He should participate in politics ... as the champion of great and fundamental issues. . . ." Getting down to cases. Professor John Kelley Norton of Columbia's Teacher's College beat a dead horse when he flayed the banker who was supposed to evade taxes and starve education. Retiring Presi dent Joseph Rosier let fly at the R. F. C. for refusing loans to schools while lending millions to insurance and railroad companies. Almost...
...Columbia University suffered a similar drop in their summer school enrollment with a 26 per cent decline. The University of Wisconsin was off 18 per cent, and the University oI Illinois, 22 per cent. Last year throughout the country there were 102,457 students doing summer work. From the results so far it appears there will be a decrease...
...Porter was born in Stamford, Connecticut, February 6, 1883, and was graduated from Yale in 1904. He received his bachelor of fine arts degree in 1917 in New Haven. After work in architecture at Columbia he travelled extensively in France and Italy. In 1915 he started lecturing on fine arts at Yale and was appointed full professor in 1920. He has been William Dorr Boardman Professor here since...
...their city's extra-legal government. To complete their education the City Affairs Committee, a non-partisan reform organization, last week offered a heedless Board of Education a new textbook that was all about Tammany. It was called New York & The Sea bury Investigation. It was edited by Columbia's Professor John Dewey, famed philosopher and unselfish friend, of every reform. In satirically simple language it described the city's "boss system" in terms of the spiciest testimony from last year's scandal hunt, let ex-Mayor "Jimmy" Walker damn himself out of his own mouth...
...University of Wisconsin anticipated a larger decrease. Last year there were 3,760 students attending. The registration, however, has exceeded early expectations with 3,112 graduates and undergraduates taking courses, a loss of about 18 per cent. Columbia University which starts its summer school today also expects less students...