Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even to a nation which is becoming accustomed to news of campus unrest, it was a week to be worried about. In addition to the turmoil at Harvard, there were sit-ins or strikes at Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Atlanta, Kent State in Ohio, Queens College in New York, Mount St. Mary's in Maryland, Albright College in Pennsylvania, Southern University in Louisiana. The potential dangers from continuing disorders at U.S. schools was brought into sharp relief when the American Council on Education, which represents 1,500 institutions and associations of higher learning, issued a stern four-page warning...
...lost on the American Bar Association, which endorsed the new degree with uncharacteristic haste. J.D.s have proliferated ever since. Without fanfare, more than 109 of the 150 accredited law schools in the U.S. have now switched. Last month Harvard made the change, and last week so did Columbia...
...will begin printing in London this month to serve its 7,000 British readers more promptly. In the rock-music world, its influence is immense: recent praise of an unknown Texas blues guitarist named Johnny Winter impressed Columbia Records, which, after hearing him, gave him a $600,000 contract. Most of Stone's ad revenue ($70,000 last year, and rapidly rising) comes from record companies, but its reviewers have felt free to knock such hot-selling performers as Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin and The Doors...
...years, Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia recorded exclusively for Columbia Records. Last May, when the orchestra's contract came up for renewal, RCA, which had recorded it from 1917 to 1943, grabbed the ensemble off by outbidding Columbia. Even though RCA now has exclusive rights to the Philadelphia, Columbia has been acting all along as though it had never lost the orchestra at all. As of March, Columbia had issued ten new releases, and this month it released four more, with a $65,000 promotion and advertising campaign to back it up. These were all items recorded by Columbia...
...tennis team faces Columbia next Friday in a match that should be a rout. The Crimson has never lost to the Columbia tennis team in a series that stretches back to the roaring twenties...