Word: campus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pails, beating upon them. He was numbered among janitors who waddle through the hallways of innumerable college dormitories. To alumni a legend of competence, to faculty members a jovial rock of propriety, to students a genial but unyielding tyrant, he had spent 54 years of his life upon the campus of the College of the City of New York. As his father had done when Michael Bonney was only a small, destructive hobbledehoy, he gave his time to tidying bedrooms and fixing lamps, sweeping up broken bottles, locking doors and reading magazines which he found in baskets. Last week...
Rockefeller Sons. At college last week, two sons of John Davison Rockefeller Jr., guarded since infancy from vanity of wealth, kept their modesty as they earned campus distinctions...
...tremendous number of the proletariat are commanding thirteen dollars a day for laying red brick on top of another as the erection of the new $1,000,000 library nears completion. The structure is at the north end of the campus, and is the most imposing and expensive of Dartmouth's buildings. The million dollars was forth-coming from George F. Baker, the New York philanthropist, who contributed towards the Harvard Business School. The work is going on steadily, the superstructure being almost complete. Parts of the library will be ready for occupancy at the close of the present semester...
Tomorrow will be Friday morning at Dartmouth, Friday before the Harvard game. The early morning fog rolls off the campus and the sun warms the crisp, clear air. Dartmouth in all her autumn beauty reveals herself. The age old hills in the background sparkle in the early morning sunshine. The trees with leaves in every color of the rainbow give her a festive dress. the whitewashed front of "Dartmouth Row" stands as a symbol of the old Dartmouth. The new library, the new Biology building and the new dormitory, half-finished, bear tangible evidence of the growth...
...bell in the tower rings for the first class. Young men pour in every direction over the campus to their various classes. But every one moves faster than usual. There is a hustle and a bustle and an under-current of excitement. Today at 1 o'clock classes stop and the college, in toto, will "peerade," as they call it, to Boston for the Harvard game. Students clad in coon-skin coats will leave in big cars. Boys in sweatshirts and sweaters will drive down in ramshackle Fords. Many will go on the special trains. A few will work their...