Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emory Phillips, Jr. '34, of Washington, District of Columbia, was elected president of the Harvard Debating Council at the annual business meeting and dinner held last night at Eliot House. D. M. Sullivan '33, the retiring president, was toastmaster and A. N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, was speaker of the evening...
...Varsity baseball team will seek revenge for their recent shutout at the hands of Columbia in a game with Brown this afternoon at Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock. The shifted lineup which started the last game will be again used in today's game...
...five hits off Ray White of the Lions, Saturday, will lead off, followed by Johnny Ware, r.f., and with Ham Thacher 3b, and Charley Nevin c., in the clean-up position. Frank Gleason 1b., will bat fifth followed by Jim McCaffrey l.f., who shared batting honors with Adams against Columbia, Phil Hines 2b., and Charles Sargent s.s. Coach Fred Mitchell has not yet made the choice between Harold Taylor and John McJennett to take the mound. Taylor, a lanky right hander pitched the two games against Brown last year in which the Crimson broke even, winning the first game...
...Juilliard School of Music). Schonberg, Paul Hindemith, Bohuslav Martinu, Gustav Strube. The Busch Quartet played a "first any where" of Pizzetti and" a "first in the U. S." of Busch himself. This week Busch & Serkin were to play sonatas together in Washington. Then the Quartet was to play at Columbia, Yale and Harvard Universities before returning to Europe...
Life used to run a series of cartoons called "The Skeptics Society" which showed earnest-looking savants solemnly testing and rejecting such saws as "A watched pot never boils" and " 'Tis an ill wind that blows nobody any good." Last week, after four years of research, a Columbia University pedagog announced that he could disprove nearly all of such adages, superstitions and unfounded beliefs. He is Dr. Otis William Caldwell, 63, director of the Institute of School Experimentation at Teachers College, and he has checked up on superstition with many a questionnaire, many a column of figures. He calculates...