Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Pasteur medal was awarded to Paul Lombard Sayre '16, of Chicago, Ill., in the finals of the seventeenth annual debate, held in Emerson D last evening. Sayre supported the affirmative side of the subject: "Resolved, That the French claims to Alsace are paramount." The other speakers were M. L. Levine '18 C. A. Trafford '16, L. Brentano '18, B. E. Carter '16, P. P. Cohen '16, A. Cooper '17, and L. C. Hennin '15. Mr. E. L. Raiche, of the French department, presided, and the judges were Dr. R. L. Hawkins, of the French department; Assistant Professor W. G. Howard...
...seventeenth annual intercollegiate gymnastic meet will be held in the Columbia gymnasium tonight at 7.30 o'clock. The University team, composed of D. Campbell '17, W. Campbell '16, Captain M. F. Gates '15, and R. G. McPhail '15 will leave for New York on the 10.05 train this morning. Nine other colleges--Amherst, Brown, Columbia, New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Rutgers, and Yale--are entered in the meet, and the result will probably be very close. New York University was the winner last year with Pennsylvania second...
...Cyrano de Bergerac," a four-act drama of Gascony in the seventeenth century will be presented at the Colonial Theatre this afternoon, for the Belgian Relief and Unemployed Funds. The production is under the direction of Mr. Edward Vroom, who directed the Shakespeare performances given for the Belgian Relief Fund at the Hollis Theatre last December. The cast of seventy-five includes the following University men: R. S. K. Irvin '18, W. H. Russell '18, A. Shortt '17, E. C. Wilkins '16, E. F. Woodruff '16, W. A. Williams '15, R. W. Hoskier '18, C. G. Paulding...
...though it is really more, since one thought of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, possibly including Columbia, Cornell, or Pennsylvania, as the "big" universities of the country, meaning in numbers. Now we may perceive that in the reckoning by numbers alone Harvard is sixth down the list, Yale is seventeenth, and Princeton twenty-sixth in the list, while Columbia has not only attained the front rank, but got so far ahead of it that there seems almost to be a vacancy in the second place. Of the universities which come next, California now impressive with 8,180 students, and Chicago with...
...time of the German onslaught, little accurate information could be obtained as to the amount of damage done to the valuable collection of rare old books and manuscripts kept there since the early part of the seventeenth century. Now, however, the details of this destruction are known, and the following article by the Bishop of Salford, which appeared a short time ago in the Manchester Guardian, gives an idea of the treasures which have been lost...