Word: campus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perspiring Governor Earl Long, with the January primary election on his mind, was certain they could think of plenty. And this week began on a weird note: it appeared certain that valuable oil deposits had been struck on the newly seeded campus...
...more than 3,000 women students, and in the social service school they outnumber men two to one. Founded in 1916, the School of Social Service is now a fulltime, professional graduate school to which only holders of bachelors' degrees are admitted for the two-year course. Its campus is the eighth floor of Manhattan's Woolworth Building...
That title is now in jeopardy. Dr. Smith installed himself & family in a campus mansion (built & paid for by the university), bought a $3,000 car in a year when faculty salaries were in arrears. No man to stop the fun was Huey's political heir, Governor Richard Webster Leche (rhymes with "flesh"). "I swore to uphold the Constitution of Louisiana and the United States, but I did not take any vows of poverty," Dick Leche used to say. One of L. S. U.'s new buildings is Leche Hall...
...made one of the most esteemed teachers' colleges in the U. S. To kick Fisher out of his job became Sefrit's ambition. With other enemies of Fisher he formed a committee, which filed charges that the college seldom displayed the U. S. flag on the campus, had invited subversive speakers to talk to its students. (Among President Fisher's speakers were Burton Holmes, U. S. Senator-Robert La Follette, Lincoln Steffens, Elmer Rice, George E. Sokolsky...
...Dutch Patroon Stephen Van Rensselaer. Rensselaer, self-styled "birthplace of technology," is fanatically devoted to "practical" learning. Its students (now numbering 1,500) go to their first classes at 8 a.m., rarely knock off before 4:30 p.m. They are too busy for drinking, dancing, big-time athletics or campus chitchat (only one-third live in dormitories). Offering no snap courses, Rensselaer strips down even English and Philosophy to their utilitarian bones. English is studied by Rensselaer men primarily as a tool for writing business reports and selling their ideas. Almost their only un-antlike activity is stamp collecting, favorite...