Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hammered hardest at ex-AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss (now Secretary of Commerce) and ex-AEC Consultant Edward Teller. Strauss and Teller, said the Science Advisory Committee spokesman, are "radicals . . . extremists of one viewpoint." He stressed the point that the Science Advisory Committee's now dominant voices, e.g., Killian, Columbia University's Dr. I. I. Rabi, base their stop-the-tests stand on purely technical, nonpolitical grounds. But he went on to say that Science Advisory Committee members feel that test stoppage, all science aside, will bring the "reduction of tensions," and "hope of a world that does...
...Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Yale...
...some horrendous beatings when they ventured out of the family. This season Pennsylvania suffered fearsome lickings at the hands of Penn State (43-0) and Navy (50-8), Cornell was dismembered by Syracuse 55-0, and Princeton got bombed by Rutgers 28-0. Even the University of Buffalo beat Columbia and Harvard...
Happiness. Says famed Teacher Mark Van Doren of Columbia University: "The college teacher is devoted to the search for truth, and as such he is the envy of all those in our society who are paid to obscure or distort it. He is the only one who is paid to be as honest, as simple, and as serious as he can . . . The work is indeed hard, as it must be since its purpose is to transform a child into a man; but there is no work that makes so happy those who do it well . . . The best teacher is willing...
...team was Harold Anderson, varsity guard. The first two squads were dominated by Dartmouth and Princeton, both with five men. Following in second place were Brown and Cornell, with four players apiece while Pennsylvania and Harvard had two each. However, the seventh and eighth Ivy League teams, Yale and Columbia, had no representatives...