Word: campus
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hands, and then there would be enough left so he could eat in an emergency." If the Niagara Index should see this statement, it would try to prove that higher education tends to cannibalism as well as suicide. The Montpelierian gives the following charming picture: "Our campus, out of study hours, is covered with base-ball players and croquet matches, and our reverend Professors even join in the exercise...
...once as "Sanders's Theatre," and once as the "Theatrum." The first name would lead one to suppose that it was a place of public entertainment, where the performances were presumably of a variety character; the last that the word theatre was unknown in our language, pretty much as campus suggests the idea that its pedantic inventors were ignorant of the good old English yard. The facts of the case are, that Mr. Charles Sanders, of Cambridge, left a large sum to the College to go toward the building of an Alumni Hall, that the money was employed...
...mildly remind the Faculty of two facts: 1st, That they once passed a law which prohibits playing of musical instruments on the campus, except during certain fixed hours; 2d, That a church organ is a musical instrument...
...pecuniary - in base-ball; it praises the heroism of Amherst students at some recent fires in the town, where the fire department appears to have been almost as inefficient as our own; and, finally, it vehemently attacks some of the same students for a nocturnal disturbance in the campus, which seems to have been like the "flare-ups" with which our Cambridge wags occasionally amuse...
...Juniors are making rapid progress in Physics this term. We heard one a few evenings ago, while crossing the campus, remark that the "amount of profanity varied directly as the square of the depth of the mind...