Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Varsity nine, now tied with Columbia for first place in the Eastern Intercollegiate baseball league, with four victories and one defeat in league games, will play its ninth contest of the season when it meets a powerful Tufts aggregation at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Soldiers Field. Tomorrow's encounter will be the first of a two-game series between the two colleges, the second contest to be played at Medford on Saturday, June...
...Bryan disclosed their gain of 15 votes in three months, John Garner hastened down the avenue to tell the Squire that the inflationists soon would have the stick in their hands and the throttle pulled back. President Roosevelt had given the Thomas bill to Moley. The No. 1 Columbia Cerebrator reported back that the Thomas plan was sound. The next day it was thrown to the Cabinet. On the day following an emissary told Thomas the Squire would like to see him. Thomas did not hurry. On the second day a Senator told Thomas the President would be glad...
...gold." That was President Roosevelt's first public commitment, since he began his world talks three weeks ago, to an international gold exchange. Minister Jung was feeling so good when he left Washington that he jested with newshawks: "If you print my thoughts on economic subjects some Columbia professor will say I'm crazy." Dr. Schacht was not only agreeable to a tariff truce but also favored a general reduction of tariff levels by all powers. Uppermost in his mind, however, was to gain President Roosevelt's moral support for revision of the Versailles Treaty. Such support...
...Yale Varsity crew: it's first race of the season, for the Blackwell Cup: by two feet, after a sprint in the last 50 yards to overtake Penn. with Columbia third by a boat-length; on the Housatonic River, at Derby, Conn...
...because the university feared losing him to another college, Dr. Conant was made assistant professor six years after taking his A. B. In six years more he became a full professor. His most famed work has been in chlorophyll, the green stuff of life in plants. Last year Columbia University gave Dr. Conant its Chandler Medal, the American Chemical Society (New York section) its William H. Nichols Medal. Dr. Conant is rated a stern taskmaster -and admired for it-by his ablest students. Chemistry is his whole life. Yet he is no absent-minded professor: decade ago he leaped into...