Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbia University...
Ford Foundation experiments with early admission at Chicago and Columbia were not a rousing success. High school students encouraged to advance to college met the idea for the most part with apathy. Counselors advised that many would prove emotionally unequipped for college years...
Other colleges, faced with the same problem, have attempted to use separate faculties at the College and at the graduate schools. The results have generally been disasterous. At Chicago and Columbia the teachers at the college level were considered second-rate by the university-level professors and by the better students. The morale of the faculty and the students, not to mention the quality of the teaching, suffered measurably...
These departures in the department will be partly filled by new appointments. Yale professor Erich Auerbach, author of Mimesis, has been appointed a visiting professor to teach Singleton's former course, Italian 120, "Dante's Divina Comedia." A specialist in Renaissance literature from Columbia has been named to the instructorship vacated by Perella...
...Garment Jungle (Columbia) exposes the bare facts of life in the dress business. As the film begins, a wealthy dress manufacturer (Lee J. Cobb) leaps at a shapely model and rips the frock off her back, seam by seam, until she stands there looking downcast in her uplift. "Look at all these operations!'' he screams at his partner. "If we ran a union shop . . . we'd go broke making this dress." By paying his workers less than the contract minimum, Boss Cobb maintains what garment gamesmen call "The Edge''-a margin of profit that...