Word: campus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American college environment is the shrine of mob worship of molded standards. Its heroes are individuals who are still of the campus. Its inflexible axiom lets those who deviate suffer in the pillory of mob spite. In such an atmosphere confirmed anglophiles are only pitiful...
Asked whether he thought that college men of today take less Interest in religion than they did 20 years ago, Dr. Fosdick answered that even if men went to chapel less often than they did in his day, religious problems were being discussed on the campus with much more interest at present. "I have inquired frequently what subjects are usually discussed in what we used to call bull sessions among students. The answer was generally 'sex and religion.' I am convinced that a man's real conception of and attitude towards his position in the universe, his religion, and other...
...Oval yesterday leaned far out of crowded windows, watched with interest Latin Instructor G. M. Harper boot a football with classic toe, followed its course with eager eyes, saw the ball land amid flying glass upon an electric light globe, noted the miscreant flee before the arrival of a campus...
Jurists remembered that an old law, still operative, gives to Hungarian undergraduates the right of "self government," and prohibits the municipal police from entering university property. Only the national army police may make. arrests on a Hungarian campus; and they were not ordered out last week by Count Bethlen, a cold, closelipped, bony statesman inclined to let Conservatives and anti-Semities have loose rein...
...president of the U. S., as many of them have, but no longer can he be captain of a team at the Ohio State University. The Athletic Board has abolished captains. Henceforth the team (in any sport) will have a field leader, appointed by the coach before the game. Campus politics so tangled themselves in the election of team captains by the team members (after the custom of most colleges) that Ohio teams were weakened. The Athletic Board decided there should be less strife & feeling in electioneering; more strife & feeling against opponents on the playing field...