Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...colleges, however, would seem to indicate certain definite developments. Primarily it is the large universities and technical schools which have benefited most by this new-found popularity of higher education. Take, for instance, the enrolment statistics of 11 of the representative big city or state universities -- Boston University, Columbia, Cornell, New York University, Northwestern, Syracuse, and the universities of California, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Their total registration today is 90,947, compared with 53,316 in 1918 and 72,646 in 1916. Here is a gain of 55 per cent. over last year and of 25 per cent. over...
...Columbia's Influence Widest...
...racing and is the first college organization in the country to do so. Later an Intercollegiate Aero League will be formed, which will determine the rules under which the air racing will be conducted. Other colleges in the country have been invited to join this league, Yale and Columbia being the first two to take the plans under consideration...
Cornell is following the lead of other Eastern universities in the formation of an Aero Club, consisting of all undergraduates who were qualified pilots in the air service of the Allies. The organization of the club follows closely upon that of Harvard, Yale, and Columbia, with whom Cornell hopes to join in some form of aviation league...
...second step, a challenge to Yale, followed in 1875, and Yale accepted. The game was played at New Haven with Harvard the victor. The result of this game was the assembling of a second convention, attended by Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia, in 1876, which formed the Intercollegiate Football Association, and adopted with a few modifications the Rugby Union rules. They also arranged a mutual schedule of games...