Word: campus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finds the sayings of Shaw monotonous as are any sayings too often repeated, turns to new fields those of football. What charm have a few "Charming People" when Mr. Erlanger promises a hundred histrionic collegians and a brass band? For six scenes he will lead his audience through the campus comics of a university day. Before their eyes cheerleaders and cheered will battle for Craven and Rice University. Crafty Mr. Craven, refreshing Mr. Rice. Touchdown, Broadway...
...Freshman. The advent of Harold Lloyd is always a major matter in the movies. His latest scenario goes back to the ever reliable college campus, and attempts to make merry with the ever reliable boob who becomes the college hero. Possibly Mr. Lloyd was too well aware of the reliability of his material. He did not seem to strive as usual for novelty. It would be madness to say that The Freshman is not funny. Mr. Lloyd could be funny playing an undisturbed mummy. Simply this: The Freshman is not so funny as earlier of the comedian's adventures...
...line with the general congestion of Yale's historic quadrangle, Dean Jones further suggested, "as a bare possibility", the erection of a 20-story skyscraper, similar to the University of Pittsburgh's much-discussed "Cathedral of Learning" (TIME, Nov. 17). Placed in the middle of the old campus, this structure would have rapid elevator service, class rooms, living quarters, swimming pools, libraries, dining rooms...
...hear of the revolt of youth. ... It must be perfectly evident that we are becoming more and more dependent upon things, upon conveniences -falsely socalled. Motor cars are used to such a degree that millions of human legs have become almost atrophied. Students have to be transported across the campus lest they should arrive at their classes in a state of physical exhaustion. I was at an institution of learning some months ago where the boys turned on the victrola to dress by. A young man who cannot put on his shirt without being entertained can hardly be said...
...saying goes. Architectural monstrosities are not entirely unheard of at New Haven, and we are painfully conscious of a certain synthetic symmetry not a hundred miles from Plympton Street. But we have a feeling that there would be bloodshed at New Haven before the foundations of a campus skyscraper could be laid and, we would be tempted to assist at a little sniping among the structural steel workers ourselves if ever the construction rose above the third floor...