Word: campus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that she took child roles with Selig. From Pathe she graduated to wearing silver wigs in Cecil B. De Mille's period pictures. Lately, in her 40th to 49th pictures inclusive, she has been uniformily a slightly madcap but inherently sensible heroine whose activities whether in college (The Campus Flirt), a newspaper office (Hot News), a bathing suit (Swim, Girl, Swim, The Palm Beach Girl), or more esoteric backgrounds (A Kiss in a Taxi, Lovers in Quarantine, Senorita), embodied a gaiety only faintly flavored with sentiment. Bebe Daniels had a good time and seldom took a holiday...
Many of the customs are in the form of restrictions placed upon the "plebes." There are restrictions in the mess hall, in barracks, and on the campus. In the mess hall a plebe sits at attention while he eats. His eyes may not wander farther than the perimeter of a circle of radius seven inches, whose center is at the center of his plate; and he must see that all of the upperclassmen at his table are properly supplied with food. In barracks a plebe always removes his hat before entering the room of an upperclassman. He is restricted from...
Probably there will be no exodus from Princeton as a result of an interview with Floyd L. Carlisle, a New York banker, in The Daily Princetonian. He tells his college audience that, except possibly for courses in debating, four years on the campus is a four-year handicap for men intending to enter business; that college training is useful only for law, engineering and science. The start which one entering business at 18 has over one entering at 22, even with his college degree, is usually too great to be overtaken, in his opinion...
...presence of Harvard men on the Vassar Campus evidently has such an avatarish note that it is not surprising the girls should tend to overemphasize the physical part of their pastimes. No wonder the shy visitors are frightened off, Perhaps more stress laid on intellectual amusements would make the guests feel more at home, but, after all, what are girls' colleges...
Yesterday autos were here, today they have gone; thus in a week is exemplified the change which the edict of the trustees accomplished in a year in 1927. But there is this significant difference: that two years ago a great shout was raised against what the campus was pleased to call paternalism; but this year there is silence and compliance...