Word: columbia
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...higher than any graduate of the University. He was born in New York City October 27, 1858, and prepared for College with private teachers. In the University he became one of the most prominent men in his class. After his graduation in 1880 he studied one year at the Columbia Law School...
Twice Roosevelt was an Overseer to the University: from 1895 to 1901, and again from 1906 to 1910. He received the degree of LL.D. from Columbia (1899), Hope College (1901), Yale (1901), Harvard (1902), Northwestern (1903), California (1903), and University of Pennsylvania (1915). He is the author of many literary works, chiefly on American history, ranch life, and hunting in the west, besides his extensive political writings for magazines and newspapers...
...conjunction with the military training at the various depots throughout the country, a well ordered and thorough course in industrial education which shall afford to men of suitable capacity and inclination an opportunity for self-betterment and advancement. Some such system as that of Professor John Dewey of Columbia deserves co-operation and support at the hands of our legislators...
Reports from Columbia, Cornell, and Annapolis show that these institutions in common with many others throughout the country expect and will prepare for renewed activity in all forms of athletics...
Increased athletic activity, which it is believed will make itself felt at Columbia immediately after the opening of the university for the Spring term in February, has caused the athletic officials to begin to cast about for athletic fields to supplement South Field, which at present is the sole exercising ground of the university. It is felt by some of the men prominent in Columbia sports that it will not be more than a year or two before it will be found necessary to begin work on the long-neglected project to build a stadium on reclaimed ground...