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Dates: during 1920-1929
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University 7600! Where is the switchboard located, and how many lines does it include? After calling various offices of the University, always under this same number, undergraduates are curious as to the answers of these and similar questions. Contrary to popular belief, the switchboard is not located in the University information office, but is installed in a private office on the top floor of Lehman Hall designated as the University switchboard room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Switchboard Handles 2000 Calls a Day on 314 Party Lines--Amusing Requests for Information Received | 1/10/1929 | See Source »

Trustees of Columbia University last week received the annual report of Columbia's president, Nicholas Murray Butler. Increases in faculty salaries, accomplishments of faculty members, gifts to the University-these and similar academic matters were included in Dr. Butler's report. More important to Dr. Butler, who is as much the publicist as the pedagog, was a disquisition on the Law, particularly the Law in its lack of majesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Ass, A Idiot | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...Similar was the famed function of those ancient Roman slaves assigned to crouch in the chariot of each Conquering Proconsul as he enjoyed his Triumph. "Remember," the slave would whisper, "Remember thou art mortal!" Thus were swelled heads and rash, prideful deeds averted by an art now all but lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Remember thou art Mortal! | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...departments took up a lot of space. Under the caption "Life Abroad" there were several columns of news briefs from all around the world, with a waggish commentary appended to each. The other department, of a similar nature, came out as Life at Home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Life, New Laughs | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...school he purchased a 350-acre farm where a $500,000 building will stand. A similar sum will be given for endowment. The purpose of the school: frankly to emphasize the religious element in education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: du Pont School | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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