Word: campus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Until the last two decades, the college president was as important a part of undergraduate life as the campus fence. Not to have sat frequently on, or been sat on by, one or the other was not to have been to college. "Prexy" knew most of the students by name, invited them to his house for tea. He preached to them in chapel and, in smaller colleges, he often had a lecture course. Fame was achieved by the student who could best imitate "Prexy's" peculiarities. The college president of last century was a Campus Character...
When the Middlebury Campus views with severe alarm and stoic horror the erection of such a dormitory as the proposed Varsity, now planned for the Mount Auburn regions, it ignores the havoc wrought by time and neglect. Such lavishness may at first appear too Roman for a New England college but experience has shown that the saviour of youthful virility lies in the fact that eventually the "porters" will dwindle into a lone and not over magnificent janitor; that the "maids and bellboys", if such there be, will fade into legend: that the pomp of circumstance will prove disappointingly evanescent...
...college or university to permit the erection of a "hotel" to be used by students is surely outstepping the original and fundamental purpose of education. The Middlebury Campus...
...Senior ballots have finally burst on an expectant Campus and true to form most of the old standbys have repeated, Biology, Professor Hall, the Princetonian, Phi Beta Kappa, and other notable Campus institutions. There is always, however, sufficient variety to cause interest, and not a few surprises...
Appleby Hollisheimer '27, son of Overseer Follinsby Hollisheimer '87, stepped out from his gilded dormitory into the "Yard", as Harvard lads affectionately dub their campus...