Word: columbia
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...event will feature a colloquium with two of America's most distinguished Judaic scholars, Salo W. Baron, professor emeritus of Jewish History at Columbia University, and Saul Lieberman, rector of the Jewish Theological Seminary...
...post at Old Nassau is Navarro's secong gig in the Ivy League. From 1968-1973 he was head coach of Columbia. Navarro first came to Columbia as a graduate student in 1955 and served his coaching apprenticeship with the legendary Lou Little. He soloed as a head coach at Williams from 1963-1967. When the Ephmen went 7-0-1 in 1967, he was voted New England College Coach of the Year. Having returned to Columbia in 1968, Navarro's career reached its zenith in 1971 when the Lions went 6-3, only the third winning Columbia season since...
That year Columbia defeated Yale on a two-point conversion on the last play of the game, overcame powerhouse Dartmouth 31-29, and upset Princeton on a last-second field goal by linebacking immortal Paul Kaliades, who even received a vote for the Heisman trophy...
Often a university will use curricular reforms to bolster a program facing destruction. In the early 1900's Columbia and Chicago were threatened with the possible dissolution of their undergraduate programs under pressure from educators who felt college-aged students should be learning specialties and hurrying out into the world to apply them, instead of dabbling in liberal arts with little practical...
Schmeruk's absence has no connection with the celebration this weekend of the establishment of Harvard's new Center for Jewish Studies. Likewise, two talks scheduled for Sunday are unrelated to this event. Not beginning at 1:30 Sunday afternoon in Science Center C, Salo Baron of Columbia will discuss "Problems of Jewish Identity From an Historical Perspective," and Saul Lieberman, of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, will not follow him with a schpiel on "The Achievements and Aspirations of Modern Jewish Scholarship...