Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quintet will face Columbia tonight in New York City and then fly north to Ithaca to challenge Cornell on Saturday...
BIGGEST BOND ISSUE for a public utility in history of Pacific Northwest is making splash on Wall Street. The $250 million issue, floated by 140-firm investment syndicate for Washington's 775,000 kw. Rocky Reach Dam on Columbia River, was oversubscribed in advance despite tight money...
...that early course grew Harvard's famous "case-method" system for business, in which executives grapple with actual problems drawn from the business world. Today Harvard offers a solid fare of executive courses, and many other universities have followed its lead with top management programs, notably M.I.T., Columbia, Stanford, Michigan State, and Rutgers. For his excursion into the halls of ivy, the corporate Big Man on Campus costs his firm anywhere from $25 for a week-long conference to $3,000 for a full academic year of residence on campus-plus his regular salary...
...little complaints-false heart attacks, failing appetite-things like that. The night before we went home, all hell broke loose, and men 40 and 50 years old marched through the dorms yelling, singing, beating pans." Says Clarence A. Dauber, engineering director of Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co., who attended Columbia's course last summer at a mountain-top campus 50 miles north of New York City: "The strain gets progressively worse as weeks go on. About the second or third week men are hanging around bars and nightclubs more and more. It's a reaction against being confined...
...Admirable Crichton (Columbia) seemed a fine piece of social satire to an age that was concerned with keeping the servants in their place. Much of the humor is inevitably lost on a generation that can't get servants in the first place. But somehow, despite the ravages of time and more than 50 years of amateur performances, this British adaptation of Sir James Barrie's play is well worth watching as a pretty lesson in the minor art of monocle farce...