Word: campus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Popular though his daughters may be, Dean Gauss became at once unpopular. The motor-loving young men of Princeton baited him by all means-by roller-skating noisily, by driving horse-and-buggies, by wearing placards. The Princetonian (campus daily) headlined in its burlesque issue: "GAUSS'S SHAME." A senior, George Lambert, sporting scion of Listerine (mouth wash, etc.), inspired university admiration by bringing to town an airplane and droning over the campus in it. Airplanes were not mentioned in the Gaussian edict against motor vehicles...
...Skipper' is only a mongrel dog who loiters about the campus of Furnam University, Greenville, S. C., yet three students have been expelled from the school by vote of the student council because of him. The youths cut off his right ear with a razor, inclosed it in a envelope with a note and slipped it under the door of his master's room...
...Riding-hood's thatched cottage; with the villainous wolf standing on the door-step, touched with an eerie grace by the pen of Louis Reynal. What could a child's paper be without dolls, and here to be sure is a page of cut-outs of Campus...
President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University: "When Mr. & Mrs. William A. Wieboldt of Chicago gave $500,000 for a hall of commerce, the contracts for this and another structure on Northwestern's new 'downtown' campus [in Chicago instead of out in Evanston, Ill.] were given to R. C. Wieboldt & Co. Last week, Raymond C. Wieboldt, son of the donors, returned to the university $153,872 which he had not needed in fulfilling his specifications. Said I: 'The money so honestly and thoughtfully returned will enable the university to complete the campus structures without soliciting...
...Williams met his death was told by an eyewitness. Dr. A. J. Bowen, Chancellor of Nanking University. He said: "I was crossing the campus with our university librarian when we noticed what we thought to be Northern [Shantungese] troops looting and burning the home of Dr. Daniels, also a faculty member...