Word: campus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their parents with grave apprehensions about sending them there. Having sought in vain for another theme which would capitalize the furor he had made, the author has gone back to the adventures of the wild Cynthia and the experimentative Carl Peters, whom readers will recall as leaving the campus under rather a cloud. In the new book they are presented five years after...
...last week. In Tucson, Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin angrily resigned as president of the University of Arizona. Four members of the board of regents resigned with him. In Albuquerque, Dr. David Spence Hill quietly resigned as president of the University of New Mexico. Both had been accused of disrupting campus morale; of being high-handed. Dr. Hill's ejection, an issue more broadly political than Dr. Marvin's, had necessitated the appointment of a new board of regents by a new Governor after an old board and Governor had taken his part. Dr Marvin's downfall was more picturesque...
...left the thriving campus where he had expended much fruitful energy in the past four years, Dr. Marvin must have had to pinch himself to believe he was really going. It was almost ludicrous. Here he was, a planner of big things and a doer of them, a substantial, efficient person who left nothing to chance, actually tripped and frustrated by an obstacle which had seemed microscopic only yesterday. He was a lion laid low by a mouse, a pilgrim to El Dorado who had stepped on a dust adder...
When the young gentlemen of Harvard University returned to Cambridge last week, weary of vacation and longing to resume their studies, one of the first things many of them did was to visit the Coop (campus co-operative store) or Dunster House or Amee's bookshop, and buy a volume that had been published during the holidays. It was rather an expensive book. Much that it contained was already on the shelves of boys who read anything at all outside of the cinema magazines. Nevertheless it was a peculiarly desirable book. It was part of a legend...
...hymn books, veiled in handkerchiefs, courteously concealed by immobility and cupped fingers, rose a sound. "H-s-s-ssss." Dr. Wark paid no attention. Ear- lier in the morning a janitor had cut down a straw effigy, bearing a distant resemblance to Dr. Wark, from the bough of a campus tree...