Word: campus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrived in Manhattan, refused to be interviewed, refused to express any opinion at all of America, refused to give his address in Manhattan. This, of course, was not playing the game which so many Britishers have overplayed. The Victorian poet, beloved of Masefield, master technician, comes to grace the campus of Ann Arbor as visiting lecturer, patron saint, what you will; a post which was previously occupied by our own poet, Robert Frost. It has 'been rumored that at Oxford, near which he lives, the elderly poet finds time and takes pleasure in the company of young English versifiers...
Freshmen should not smoke on the street or on the Campus...
Playing football or baseball on the Campus is forbidden to Freshmen. This restriction does not apply to Brokaw Field...
...conversations in that community, with a view to comparing them with the records of conversations heard on Broadway, Manhattan, where Dr. Moore made his observations. They listened in on conversations in restaurants, at basketball games, in theatre lobbies, in front of store windows, as well as on the University campus, in barber shops, churches, and on streets. The conversations were classified under ten headings: Business and money, men, women, clothes and decoration, sports, other amusements, college work, health, self, weather...
...window. As the game progresses details are added. Trying to break the lights on the opposite side of the Oval with a piece of kindling wood or a bottle is an absorbing pastime. It is a huge joke on the janitors. If one can drop a chair on a campus policeman it counts six, a chair and a book-case eight, and the joke is on the policeman. Setting fire to the round-house wins the game. Thus all the teeming youth, the splendid young manhood of the Freshman class is liberated. The silly season, as it has been called...