Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Came Friday morning and Citizen Roosevelt awoke from the sleep of the elected to hear that 22 states and the District of Columbia were in the depths of banking restrictions and moratoria...
...something about the radio programs to which their children listen. They had no new kind of program to suggest but they bitterly declared that present programs "shatter nerves, stimulate emotions of horror, and teach bad grammar." They put their case before that great pedagogical clearing house, Teachers College at Columbia University. They got the United Parents Association to put mental hygienists on the subject. They voted, and took votes among their children, on their preferences among radio-broadcasts aired between...
Resigned, Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, warden for the past 13 years of St. Stephen's College (Annandale-on-Hudson, N. Y.), Episcopal offspring of Columbia University; because of budget reductions and a proposed change in educational policy. Beetle-browed and peppery, Dr. Bell had sponsored a tutorial system at St. Stephen's, plumped for academic atmosphere, thundered publicly at the "untrained cubs" in most U. S. colleges...
East, When Princeton beat Columbia 35 to 24 last week, it became nearly certain that the Eastern Intercollegiate League championship would be decided by a play-off between Princeton and Yale, which last week completed its schedule by beating Cornell, 46 to 22. There have been five play-offs since the league was formed in 1902; Princeton has been in all of them. Last year an underrated Princeton team thrashed Columbia for the title. Experts have not underrated Coach Fritz Crisler's long lean forwards, Ken Fairman and John Seibert, this season. They are the high scorers...
Ambitious in its proportions and Notre Dameish in the variety and range of high-powered opponents is Yale's newly announced 1934 football schedule. The season begins with Columbia and down to the final encounter with Harvard there is a fine array of glamorous opponents including Army, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Dartmouth, without a single game on the roster which might be termed a "breather." This action is a radical reversal of the sedate athletic policy recently heralded at Yale, providing for a definite emphasis on intramural athletics...