Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Kennedy rescues the sixteenth child from some catastrophe along the campaign route, the trivia and little human interest stories which made such interesting copy for the newspapers last spring become pretty boring. "On the final Sunday, Kennedy spent several hours back in the District of Columbia, which also was to vote the next Tuesday in a direct Kennedy-Humphrey test. The triumphal hour was saddened when a lead car struck the dog of a twelve-year-old girl. As the child stood numbly next to her pet at the sidewalk curb, Kennedy jumped from his car, stroked the animal...
Harvard's light-weight wrestlers, who overcame Columbia's strength in the lower weight classes in last Saturday's 20-14 victory in New York, will face Springfield's toughest trio in the 130, 152, and 160-pound matches...
Panoff, filling in for Howie Freedman, has been plagued throughout the season with knee injuries. Imrie will be seeking to regain his winning touch, which had kept him undefeated during his Harvard career until last week's fluke defeat against Columbia. Leading his opponent 16-7, Imrie was pinned in the last 15 seconds...
...might be worth speculating--an academic question, one might say--how former Dean Barzun would have treated last April's disturbances at Columbia. In a postscript dated May 3, he explains: "The completed typescript of this book was in the hands of the publisher six weeks before the student outbreaks of April 23-30 that disrupted the work of Columbia University. I have since found no reason to change or add to what I had written months earlier." Since the book was written in "a feeling of communion. . . with the chief officers of Grayson Kirk's administration," it might...
THOUGH MR. BARZUN answers that Columbia and other American universities are worth saving, at least he asks the question. Not even the New Left surpasses for depth or length his attacks on the wasteful process of a Ph.D., the petrified curriculum, and the shabby teaching which disfigure higher education. For the most part, he suggests, the student's presence in school has no other purpose than a ritual one. The teaching university has become the training university, and, in its attempt to be modern, has lost the cohesion of a real institution. Bureaucracy and angling for promotion has replaced amiable...