Word: campus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ducking stool is altogether too archaic for a college campus, so the University of Detroit is attempting to solve the problem of feminine garrulity by threatening to expel any co-ed who is discovered talking to a man on the campus. The objection of the University authorities is that the inherent conversational abilities of the girls prevents many of the men from attending to their studies...
...battle royal between undergraduates and alumni has set the Cornell campus agog. When a distinguished group of the latter faction recently met in take measures for the regeneration of football at Cornell, they were surprised to find the general sentiment of the student body opposed to their efforts. The Cornell Sun explained the attitude of the students by saying that "the undergraduates don't have any athletic teams any more. They belong to the alumni and the big-salaried coach...
...University of Wisconsin, the dilemma at hand is largely, to be attributed to the shifting of interest in extra-curricular activities during the past generation, which has resulted in a decline in calibre of the candidates competing for staff positions on college literary periodicals. The increasing encroachments by campus newspapers and humorous publications on strictly literary fields have also played their part in creating the present situation...
George Bray Barnard, sculptor extraordinary, is famed for his Gothic cloister in uptown New York City, where medieval sculpture and ornament abound. His works are scattered worldwide, varying in subject from The Descent from the Cross in Paris, to The God Pan on Columbia University's campus. In London stands his gaunt Abraham Lincoln, focus of livid controversy, of which Theodore Roosevelt said: "I have always wished I might...
President Little heard Michigan slurred because of student drinking. Why not, he asked, invite Federal prohibition agents to police the campus and investigate. The slurs stopped...