Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eleven years John Gabbert Bowman, Iowa-born chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh, has been building a 535-ft., 42-story skyscraper known to his admiring fellow citizens as the "Cathedral of Learning." During Depression, Pitt had to cut its faculty salaries and staged a Red hunt which got Chancellor Bowman into trouble with the American Association of University Professors. But the Cathedral of Learning kept climbing into the air. Last week, with Pitt's sesquicentennial celebration well under way, the Cathedral of Learning, now 90% complete, was opened to two days of public inspection. Into a vast, four...
Since Pitt's 10,500 students are already at work in the Cathedral's 91 classrooms and 119 laboratories, this ceremony was only Chancellor Bowman's way of spurring wealthy Pittsburgh to further contributions. He has already raised some $22,000,000 for his university and wants $10,000,000 more, is so determined a money-getter that he has become a Pittsburgh legend. He once walked into a meeting of Westinghouse Electric executives, planked a pottery vase down before startled Board Chairman Andrew Wells Robertson, recited Keats's Ode to a Grecian Urn, and walked...
...Famine, Pestilence, Drought. He did not stop until he had preached 88,794 words in 12 hr., 10 min. Robert L. ("Believe It or Not") Ripley publicized Preacher Brown's achievement as an ecclesiastical record. It stood until last fortnight, when in the Negro Monumental Baptist Church in Pittsburgh, Dr. David Buyabuve Mdodana preached in celebration of the 25th anniversary of his pastorate...
...Pittsburgh is famed more for steel than for music. When the Pittsburgh Symphony gave its first concert eleven years ago, it was arrested for breaking the Sabbath. Four years later a home-town boy named Antonio Modarelli began to conduct. Modarelli had studied extensively in Germany, composed there two operas, Hanns Frei and Sakuntala. His Ocean Flight, a ballet-pantomime about Lindbergh helped make him the only American in the Society of German Composers...
...favorites to win the team title were Columbia, which last won the outdoor I. C. 4-A in 1879, and Pittsburgh, which never had won. Mainstays of both colleges were Negroes: Columbia's Captain Benjamin Washington Johnson and Pitt's tall (6 ft. 4 in.) John Y. Woodruff, neither of whom had won an I. C. 4-A title. When fleet little Ben Johnson not only whizzed home first in .the 100-yd. dash and won the broad jump, but also reeled off a 220-yd. semifinal in a near-record 21 sec., Columbia thought the championships already...