Word: campus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aestheticism, popularly conceived, is supposed to result in snobbery. Athleticism, if we may call it such, is believed by too many to necessitate boorishness. The representatives of both extremes on the campus are wrong...
...Professor Bangs was jostled a little, but he says not much. He bears no traces of his being brushed aside by the march of the Freshmen as they paraded the Oval, either on his person or in his feelings. The damage done to the campus property was small...
...small-town colleges. Harvard's much-touted "individuality" has left its mark on students for nearly three centuries. But if it is now to yield so readily to the onslaughts of provincial collegians, the Student Council might just as well declare it at an end, rechristen the Yard, the Campus, and make the Freshmen start wearing skull caps...
...curious reader (I use the singular advisedly), are thoroughly familiar with the external aspects of your college. With the exception of the Geology Museum there is no building on your campus into which the inquisitive Freshman has not poked his eager nose by the first of October. You know every hole in the sidewalks of Spring Street. You call the open-handed shopkeepers by their first names. You say, "Hi, Toughey!" to every one you pass on the street. You know all the professors at least by name. You have definite places to eat your meals...
...find some hitherto unnoticed building filling up half the block and what is more, no one can ever tell us what it is or why it is there. Some genii could drop a new building, possibly a "School for Making Better Piano Keys", into the midst of the scattered campus, and the Freshman of today would scarcely have learned of its existence by his Senior year...