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...Columbia makes the trip north with losses to Brown, Rutgers, and Army, plus wins over Hofstra, 17 to 11, and Brooklyn College, 28 to 10, while the Crimson has lost only to powerful Cornell, generally rated toughest in the Ivy League, and has wins against Amherst and M.I.T...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Wrestlers To Meet Columbia | 2/4/1956 | See Source »

Yale has compiled a seasonal record of ten wins and two losses, one to a strong Hofstra team and one to Princeton, 7 to 6. The varsity has won four, tied one, and lost...

Author: By Winthrop P. Smith, | Title: Lacrosse Players Will Engage Blue | 5/20/1955 | See Source »

...assistant, Alan K. Campbell, instructor in Government and assistant director of the Summer School, leaves the University at the end of the fall term. He will accept the chairmanship of the department of Political Science at Hofstra College, serving as an associate professor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Will Lose Burr Tutor, Aide To Other Schools | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

...study by Hofstra College of 1,000 high school students in Nassau County, N.Y. (pop. 672,765) showed that 90% of the students over 16 drink alcoholic beverages. But most are "temperate" drinkers; only 2% to 5% fitted the tag of "heavy drinkers." Interesting statistic: drinking among high-schoolers reaches its peak at 16, falls off sharply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High, Tight & Drunk | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...Hofstra College in Hempstead, L.I., the Crown and Lance fraternity planned its "Hell Week" hazing with care. After a nod of approval from their faculty sponsor, the fun-loving brothers daubed the heads and bellies of seven blindfolded pledges with a noxious mixture of ketchup, mustard, egg yolk and water. The pledges promptly broke out in skin blisters ; one got a badly burned eye. Suspecting that heavyhanded undergraduates had fouled up the recipe with lye or turpentine, the interfraternity council decreed that Hofstra will hereafter have no hazing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

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