Word: campus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...introduction of these elements into American higher education has occupied nearly a century. The increase in the number and the power of colleges, the immense sums raised for their maintenance, the overwhelming tide of students, the rapid turn in Faculty personnel, the incessantly expanding campus, the extending of the idea of going, to college to all classes of the commonwealth these and other improvements have made education a rather perplexing thing. Standards have been built up with enormous difficulty Weathering financial and other perils, the college has made its President a captain at the helm with complete power over...
...separate educational body, holding a charter for educational purposes granted them by the grants of the University of the State of New York. They maintain a hall of abidance with rooms for study and commence entirely managed by them, although the building is on the property and on the campus of Vassar College. bring to their sessions leaders of who add greatly to the academic . The graduate, particularly in his day, must be recognized at something to contribute to the American college; and the Faculty has appeal. Indeed, the graduate movement is a more powerful movement will modify academic tradition...
...face to face by their professors with world currents in polities, economics and religion, they have discovered that their own playthings were somewhat immature. It was much more fun playing with the tools of grown-up men. They responded with avidity. Free speech in the classroom and on the campus, for which the professors had been fighting in their university association, became in turn the rallying cry of the student. The right of a radical professor to retain his collegiate chair became in turn the right of the radical college organization to university toleration. The casting off of the narrower...
These and other equally irreverent rejoinders are now being heard on the college campus. They constitute the real student movement in America today. To the present writer the movement seems wholly good if the professor recognizes the situation in time. The student's questioning of the value of religion in daily life is equally to the good if church leaders recognize the situation in time. All these revolts and objections are evidences of keen intellectual enthusiasm, of the discovery that participation in the real life of the world is much more fun than playing with the ephemeral ideals...
...afternoon last week a familiar U. S. scene was enacted for the 94th annual time. The Juniors of Yale College gathered on their inner campus and among them prowled the members of the secret senior honor societies. Hushed with excitement, doubt, hope, anticipation, the candidates stood in strained groups until, singly, the messengers found their men, smote them on the back and uttered the accolade's famed salutation...