Word: campus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years went by and winter sports continued to hold a popular place among other campus activities, it became the custom each year for a certain period to be set aside during the winter for the holding of winter athletics of all kinds...
...faculty men discussed ways and means for getting the college out of doors in winter; and a public meeting shortly afterwards, gave birth to the Dartmouth Outing Club, with 50 or 60 enthusiastic members. On successive Saturdays this primeval flock of snowshoera waddled noisily forth from the campus behind a few lively skiers to climb hills in the vicinity of Hanover, Etna, or Norwich, their odd clothing and clumsy gait provoking more derision than enthusiasm in college circles...
...gala occasion the campus is decorated as it is at no other time during the year. A large, well-sculptured statue of ice, generally of some revered son of Dartmouth, stands at a prominent spot on the campus. The fraternities also take great pains to brighten their thresholds with ice and snow sculptures, many of which are electrically illuminated, so that in general a holiday air prevails...
Last fortnight Dr. Hall resigned to become director of the Brookings Institute of Economics in Washington, D. C. He surprised no one. Under the new unification program, Oregon's system is to be headed by a chancellor who, aloof from campus connections and responsible to the state board, will supervise the work of five college presidents and 15 deans. During heated electioneering, the Oregon State faction urged that the state board appoint their President Kerr, as an able, unbiased man of 25 years' experience. University supporters held that a new man, an outsider, should get the job. Lately...
Major General John Archer Lejeune, U. S. M. C. retired, 65, superintendent of Virginia Military Institute, walked down an embankment on the institution's campus, suddenly found himself running, leaped a retaining wall, fell, broke his arm and fractured his skull...