Word: lows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bells of St. Paul's Chapel tolled the zero hour (2 p.m.), a 700-man academic task force debouched from Nicholas Murray Butler Library and cut across the campus north to Low Memorial Library. In the procession marched the presidents and representatives of 310 U.S. and 38 foreign universities and colleges, ranged in order of seniority-from the University of Bologna (founded 1088) down to New York State University, which so far exists only on paper. Oxford was represented by British Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks, the University of Pennsylvania by President Harold Stassen, Kansas State College by President Milton...
Under an overcast sky, Ike took his place on the Low Library steps-at the right hand of Frederic K. Coykendall, chairman of Columbia's trustees, who was enthroned on a great horsehair armchair that had once belonged to Ben Franklin. Four times Ike heard his praises (and Columbia's) loudly sung; each time he tipped his gold-tasseled mortarboard to the speaker. Then Chairman Coykendall surrendered to President Eisenhower the university charter, the keys and the horsehair throne. At that instant, as if on cue, the sun smiled through the clouds...
Yankees' Progress. The newest things in U.S. cars were unveiled this week. Nash had spent about $15 million in development work and retooling for its new "Airflyte" line. The new Nash silhouette is long, wide and low, with a racy air-scoop grille. A single "Uniscope" mounted on the steering column holds the speedometer and other gauges normally on the dashboard. The Nash owner can still sleep in his car, but the new beds can be made up (by lowering the bisected front-seat backrest) into either a single or double bed, without disturbing the rear trunk-compartment...
...H.A.A. seems to think low seats are better than high ones--witness this week's set-up whereby seniors are in rows A to J, Section 35, while juniors are in rows K to PP in the same section. We, the undersigned, all seniors in row J or lower, feel that we have the backing of the vast majority of students in our preference for high seats (colonnade excluded) to low ones...
...against God's Law" is probably the most immoral and the most stupid creed over proposed in the history of man. Uncontrolled birth rates must inevitably and rapidly lead to starvation, misery, ignorance, and high death rates. Population growth must be controlled either by high death rates or by low birth rates. There is no alternative. Karl Sax, Professor of Botany