Word: campus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Hunter must provide wider vocational training. Hunter girls are serious-minded. Hurdling fairly stiff entrance requirements, they are in college not for fun but for hard work. They play basketball and join sororities, societies or Menorah (Jewish cultural society) but Hunter's airs are not of the campus. Around the main building, an antiquated affair uptown between Park and Lexington Avenues, there is no campus to speak...
...attain distinction so far as social and extra-curricular activities are concerned, it he goes to a college where prep school men have even a slight numerical majority. On the other hand, where he predominates, the public school man seems to have every change for preferment socially and in campus activities. Indeed, the experience at Dartmouth indicates that where the prep school man is in the ascendant, it is not from any inherent superiority but simply by virtue of the fact that he is one of a prep school group...
Last Thursday Yale's campus was empty of juniors. Obeying a brief announcement in the Daily News, they were waiting in their rooms. The 60 seniors went directly, unobtrusively for the men they wanted. Initiations in the societies' "tombs" were held that night as usual. If the change in Tap Day caused any grumbles or heartaches they were not public. The News said nothing. The Alumni Weekly was pleased, having long called Tap Day "barbarous...
...Vassar College sees Yalemen about his campus every weekend. Interviewed by a Yale Newsman, said he: "We are now faced by the grave problem of extensive lack of manners in regard to liquor, and I dread the approach of beer for that reason. I resent unmannerly actions resulting from liquor, and I can neither forgive nor forget them. . . . Drinking is an art, and while in France it may be productive of good conversation, in Germany of music, and in England of social living, here it makes fools out of gentlemen. . . . We have arrived at a point where a decided stand...
...William Seaver Woods, minister's son, onetime editor of the Wesleyan Literary Monthly, became editor of the Literary Digest. In the same year Arthur Stimson Draper was graduated from New York University, where he had been campus correspondent for the New York Tribune. Mr. Draper put aside his engineer's degree, went downtown and to work as a Tribune cub. For the next 28 years Editor Woods and Newshawk Draper served their respective publications. Last week Editor Woods, 60, erudite, kindly, somewhat deaf, resigned from the Literary Digest, planned to travel, write books; and Arthur Draper, 50, quit...