Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Historian Louis Hacker of Columbia University, the current college generation is a trifle depressing. "I find no political interest any more," says he. "There's no cultivation of heterogeneity. We're not looking for the maverick." But Yale's Dean William De Vane says: "I see no danger in the degree of conformity among students. Indeed, I do not believe that they conform as readily as my college generation 40 years ago." Both a puzzle and a fascination to their professors, today's college students have earned a new nickname. See EDUCATION. The No-Nonsense Kids...
...darkened his childhood raging about him again, he eagerly grabbed at a British rescue mission's offer of a lecturer's post at London University. Two years later he moved on to the U.S. to take up a physics professor's duties at the District of Columbia's George Washington University...
Teller did not know it then, but the trip to Peconic Bay was a turning point in his life-the start of his deep involvement in weaponry, war and politics. When he went to Columbia to work with Szilard on an atomic-energy project, Teller intended to go back to George Washington some day and resume his pure-science investigations into the minute structure of matter. That day never came. In 1943 he found himself heading to New Mexico to work at the Los Alamos A-bomb lab. Recalls Teller: "I was then on leave of absence from the Chicago...
Their most notable triumph was over Yale, early in the season; but this victory has been more than offset by losses to Columbia and Dartmouth, and most recently, to Princeton and Cornell...
...Crimson's league games are scheduled in the same order as this year, but with road trips to Cornell, Columbia, and Princeton...