Word: campus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inaugurated an Alumni Day during the college term set apart for graduates to come back and find out all that the University is doing, has done, and will do. Yale on that date throws its doors wide to every alumnus, invites him to look through every building on the campus, and by official lectures tells him carefully and honestly just how each department is running and why each innovation is being made. This is assuredly a wise and far-sighted policy. Harvard can well afford to take similar pains to bind together graduates, undergraduates, and the University office...
...fourth number has just been published of a magazine called the "American Campus" which proposes to tell briefly what college students are doing and thinking. Judging from its contents, it either continues itself to certain colleges or roams about idiotically in the land or fiction. Whether the sentimental trash it prints is actually gleaned from real campuses, it is impossible to say. Certainly some of the publications of small time colleges show a cheapness of much the same sort. But as for such stuff bring typical of colleges throughout the county, most assuredly...
...homely tunic, who cast terrified glances behind him at faces that leered from entries and windows-agreeable faces enough, but black as tar, with large white teeth, white eyeballs, which that backward-staring boy found inconceivably horrible. John Davison Rockefeller and John Davison Rockefeller Jr. were visiting the campus of Hampton Institute (for Negroes). Naturally the good-natured blackamoors stared at this rich old man and his scrawny, trembling son. Last week, this son made a generous gift. He gave $1,000,000 to Hampton and Tuskegee Institutes "because they provide an education which fits boys and girls...
...Commencement's end, the Chain is taken away by an old gentleman who busies himself with daily removals of debris from the Vassar Campus...
Recently, the voices of these latter have become so loud as to resound on the Vassar Campus. During the past fortnight, Seniors consulted together: "Shall we abolish the Daisy Chain?" they asked. Last week, debate raged. After much pro and con, the issue was decided: the ceremony of the Daisy Chain will not be abolished, but will be held this year as usual...