Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yesterday was Benjamin's day. The Crimson captain had won every race of the dual and triangular season, beating such Ivy League stalwarts as Nat Cravener of Cornell, Penn's Dick Tracy, Columbia's Jose Iglesias, and Bob Lowe of Brown. His "refusal to be beaten" had become one of the sure things in a cross-country season of uncertain depth and unpredictable performances...
...beat are Army's Healy and Green, Columbia's Jose Iglesias, Penn's sophomore Dick Tracy, Cornell's Nat Cravener, and Brown's Bob Lowe...
Under the plan, the Barnard Gilbert & Sullivan Society will sponsor a Harvard production of 'Yeoman of the Guard' at Columbia University in January...
Chamberlain's choice is clear: the first alternative is "wholly legitimate and undoubtedly attainable. There is no reason to believe that Columbia cannot follow this course and prosper." But the second, he states bluntly, offers Columbia "the opportunity of becoming the most distinctive and, if successful, the most distinguished undergraduate college in the United States." Screening would be harsh; only the top half of the 2,400 students now in the college would qualify for admission under the proposed system. Says Educator Chamberlain: "Preference should be given to the applicant who has completed, prior to entrance, four years...
...admission to the better colleges, including Columbia, came to be limited to students whose secondary-school preparation included these stepped-up requirements, it would not be very long until schools, parents and students accepted and adjusted to them. College work could then begin at a genuinely 'higher educational' level, with corresponding upgrading throughout the entire four years...