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Dean's List percentages were four percent higher last spring than in the best pre-war year, 1940-41, Bender announced. In 1940-41, Bender added, five percent of the College had "connections severed" for all causes, but last year only two percent were in this category...
...single wing was not the same machine that it is now. "We just went out there on Saturday and said, 'Here we come--what are you going to do about it?'" The pre-war edition of the Crisier system featured a minimum of spinners and a maximum of straight power...
Despite popular misconceptions of the "Colossus on the Hudson," undergraduate enrollment totals only 2,000--up from a pre-war norm of 1,750. But because of the confusion between small Columbia College and huge Columbia University, and because of the college's pre-eminent position in the world's largest city, people have come to expect big things of the institution which once turned out such graduates as Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Robert Livingston, and Gouverneur Morris...
Grew, United States pre-war Ambassador to Japan and earlier to Turkey, started his career with the State Department two years after graduation in 1902. He entered retirement in 1944 after serving as Under Secretary of State upon returning from the Orient...
...Jayvees back into the scheme," Bingham added, "I shall. The question is simply a financial one. We are still suffering from the suspension of athletics during the war; the football schedule still is not back to a pre-war level...