Word: campus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, now materializing a scheme," declared M. Maurois, "modelled on your colleges and the English ones. This is the Cite Universitaire, or 'university town', an adjunct to the Sorbonne in the form of dormifories, clubhouses, and campus, now being constructed on the outskirts of Paris...
...unthinkable that Oxford should resent the arrival on the campus of the men with the cameras and the flaring breeches and the intention of "acquainting mankind with what Oxford stands for; to set forth in moving pictures the essential spirit of Oxford." Yet the Oxford "Isis" demands in a familiar style why "we should allow ourselves to be depicted as the trumpery actors in a roseate spectacle for colonial nincompoops...
...hope," said Williams, "that the young man in college today will use a sort of trinity of tools for his education--first book knowledge that is derived from campus and quadrangle; second, overalls in vacation work which will help the student to get the feel of modern business and industries; and third, steamships by which, in vacations either by working his passage or by other methods, the student can get the feel of Latin-America or Europe...
...THOSE OF the fairer SEX but nevertheless WELL ENOUGH known to THE LESS deadly of the SPECIES, plus the APPEARANCE in a supposedly RATIONAL sheet in the SOMEWHAT LESS rational MIDDLE WEST of a STATEMENT to the effect that HARVARD MEN are the worst DRESSED MEN on any college CAMPUS the floor for DEBATE and a heated. DISCUSSION of the general QUESTION of men's APPAREL is thrown wide OPEN...
...SCENTED remark as TO the good men of CAMBRIDGE being the worst dressed ON ANY CAMPUS FALLS into self-imposed OBLIVION when the old SAW ABOUT there being NO CAMPUS but a YARD is dusted off and LED FORTH...