Word: campus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picturesque campus incident has brought to light a widespread complaint on the part of British "university men" against the Americanization of Canada's colleges. They point, for example, to the Greek letter fraternities, which in the last 20 years have enjoyed a mushroom growth at Toronto, McGill, etc. Oxford and Cambridge afford no precedents for such silly, bourgeois performances, say the university men. In fact, the whole of Canadian university life, they say, is unpleasantly infected with the American extra-curriculum...
Ralph Adams Cram, famed architect: "I proposed the erection of a suitable memorial on the Princeton campus to the onetime President of Princeton, Woodrow Wilson, 79. Also, memorials to James Madison, Class of 1771, and John Witherspoon, President of Princeton...
...council will be made up of members of the faculty, the corporation, and the undergraduate body. It will decide upon such questions as abolishing daily chapel and allowing undergraduates to attend church outside of the Yale campus. It will have general oversight of religious and moral life...
...Geneva is the world-center of Calvinism, so Princeton is the shrine of Presbyterianism in America. For a century the Princeton Theological Seminary has been the fountainhead of its theology. A stone's-throw from the campus stands the First Presbyterian Church, where the Presidents of Princeton have worshipped. Of late, one pew has been rented by the Rev. Professor van Dyke, and occupied by him except when he was away preaching. But last week Dr. van Dyke wrote this letter: Howard E. Eldridge, Treasurer...
Recent reports that stills had been discovered in dormitories on the campus at Yale are not without their precedents at the University, as a full-fledged brewery was among one of the earliest buildings in the College Yard. Although it has been impossible to find exact records of the date of the construction of this building, it can be clearly seen in some of the earliest pictures of the Yard now in the print collection at Widener Library. One pictures, an engraving made by F. Hill for a number of the Massachusetts Magazine in March 1790, shows the brewery...