Word: campus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost every college has its campus character?a decrepit newsboy, perhaps, or a blowzy charlady, an eccentric professor. Cornell University's character is Romeyn (pronounced Roe-mine) Berry, graduate manager of athletics. Usually taken for granted, he made news at Ithaca last week by losing his most famed possession, a brown tweed hat with a grouse feather in the band. He put a notice in the Cornell Daily Sun: "I value the hat highly and will pay for its return a reward of $10?just twice the cost of the thing. ... No questions asked. ... If the finder...
...Daily Sun editorialized in the next day's issue: "Rym Berry . . . deserves, and should get without further ado, a resounding cheer from the undergraduates, a pat on the back from the faculty, and at least a Gideon bible from the graduate students. . . . What would the campus be without the spectacle of Mr. Berry making a weekly pilgrimage to his laundress? . . . What would the Sun's advertising columns be without Mr. Berry's frequent full-page contributions? . . . Mr. Berry belongs to Cornell. Mr. Berry's hat is just as much a part of its owner as his glasses with the heavy...
...therefore take pleasure in welcoming a Harvard team to the Princeton campus once more. As the Harvard CRIMSON recently said, "relations are now on the soundest principle--friendship founded on mutual respect." We hope that they may continue so in the future and that eventually both universities will forget entirely the unfortunate discord of 1926. --The Daily Princetonian. *Saturday, March...
Since Sewanee and Vanderbilt University, pioneers in Southern college sports, have played football it has been a tradition that each week preceding the Thanksgiving football game of the years that Sewanee defeats her old rival, a "baby" has been heard to cry somewhere on the campus each night exactly at midnight...
Yale fraternity leaders, two days after Alumni Day, signed a pledge rigorously to abstain from "packing"?i. e. signing up their prospective members before the annual official calling week?a perennial campus scandal. The Yale Daily News pointed out that the fraternities did well to sign a pledge: one false step might "consign them to unenviable and irreconcilable doom...