Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cover, Thinking about the invitation from the dean of the Yale Law School, the 24-year-old instructor at Columbia University hardly knew what to make of it. Apparently the eminent dean, of whom he had scarcely heard, had taken some interest in an article the instructor had written touching on the law of evidence. Anyhow, it was a chance for a notable meeting that the young philosopher had no intention of missing. Putting on his most sedate black suit and black hat, he set out for New Haven to call on the distinguished gentleman who should, he thought, turn...
...professor. "I'm the president of a great university," Hutchins announced to Adler at lunch. "But I haven't thought about education." "Me either," said Mortimer. "I'm a philosopher." The only thoughts he had about education, he went on to say, had come from Columbia's John Erskine, who had taught a general course in "the great books" of Western civilization. Adler thought Hutchins should begin reading them too. "He broadly hinted," Hutchins said later, "that the president of an educational institution ought to have some education. For two years we discussed these matters...
...Little, Columbia coach: "Yale has a slight edge but breaks will make the game...
...received honorary degrees from Harvard, Princeton, Wesleyan, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Williams, Boston University, University of Hawaii, Western Reserve, Trinity, Rollins, and the University of Lyons, France...
...quarter century ago, with another cast of characters dredged out of mythology, Novelist John Erskine zoomed into bestsellerdom with The Private Life of Helen of Troy, a smooth, sophisticated novel which gave Helen & Co. the immediacy of next-door neighbors. Erskine is now 70 and a professor emeritus of Columbia University, but he appears to have lost little of the confident urbanity and slick malice that became his literary trademarks. Always gallant, his defense of his Venus is both tolerant and graceful: "Her infidelities were only apparent, they were never more than intermittent, and she always went home as soon...