Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of California, with 41,598 students; University of Minnesota. 35,852; New York University, 31,068; State University of New York (see below), 29,787 students, not counting those at the agricultural and technical institutes; City College of the City of New York. 29,883; Columbia University, 26,787; University of Michigan. 26,370; University of Illinois. 25,920; University of Wisconsin, 24,873; Ohio State University...
...Beat of My Heart (Tony Bennett, vocalist; Chico Hamilton, Art Blakey, Jo Jones, Billy Exiner, Candido, Sabu on drums; Columbia). Abetted chiefly by some wonderfully complex naked drum accompaniments, Singer Bennett launches his husky, finely pitched voice into an assortment of old favorites, makes them sound as strange and freshly minted as though they were written yesterday. The nervous, shifty-tempoed title song alone makes this one of the most intriguing vocal albums in months...
...Physicist Hofstadter did turn up some fundamental knowledge about the neutron that could only please his audience: the radius of the neutron is about 7 X 10 -14 centimeters, or roughly one 40,000,000,000,000th of an inch. Cried Columbia's Nobel Prizewinner Dr. I. I. Rabi: "Hofstadter has found the size of the primary building block of ourselves and our environment, the primordial particle. It is a finding of immense interest, importance, and even beauty...
...Columbia University, months before Sputnik, Dean John Dunning of the School of Engineering confided a pet peeve to Dean Edward W. Barrett of the Graduate School of Journalism. Said Dunning: because most reporters assigned to science stories-and nearly all scientists-are ill-equipped to describe them in dramatic, comprehensible style, the public frequently fails to grasp the importance of scientific developments, such as Columbia's radically new omnirange digital radar (TIME...
After promises of cooperation from several nearby industrial laboratories and the National Association of Science Writers, as well as from Columbia's top scientific and engineering brains, ex-Assistant Secretary of State, ex-editorial director of Newsweek, Teacher Barrett got a $70,000 initial grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a program to improve coverage of science. Barrett's program, announced last week: a series of fellowships that will give selected newsmen one free year at Columbia (plus $550 cash monthly) to broaden their knowledge and sharpen their reporting of the subject. Limited at first...