Word: campus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gateways to the campus of Montana State College (Bozeman) were picketed by young men huddled around fires last week. From the women's dormitory came the wail of "The Prisoner's Song." There had been trouble. Some eyes still smarted from tear gas with which the local constabulary had dispersed a mob of undergraduates who had attempted to enter the university heating plant. Object of entering the heating plant was apparently to blow the whistle, make further disturbance. Cause of this unusual activity: a general student strike, precipitated when Dean of Women Una B. Herrick ruled that...
...Duke University is one of the outstanding schools in the country today. This institution, if you will recall, was old Trinity College. In 1924, Mr. James B. Duke endowed the school with upwards of $40,000,000. This year marks the opening of new Duke with its 5,000 campus. The old campus is occupied entirely by women students who number around 500. There are over 1,800 men students...
...would like to prove to you that our university is by no means "little." There are six distinct schools which include Medicine, Law, Arts and Sciences, Education, Engineering and Religion. The Medical Building with the exception of the Chapel is one of the most outstanding buildings on the new campus. It covers 21 acres, has 1,100 rooms, and cost $7,000,000. The Chapel has not been completed but will be inside the next two years. Its cost is estimated at $2,000,000. The Chapel tower will be 210 feet high with a carillon audible for twelve miles...
...After studying sculpture at the Chicago Art Institute and the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris, he first attracted general attention in the U. S. in 1907 by erecting the Great God Pan, at that time the largest single bronze casting in the country, on the campus of Columbia University. In 1919 the entire nation became Barnard-conscious when a replica of his great gaunt statue of Abraham Lincoln was erected in Manchester, England, to celebrate a century of British-U. S. peace. In 1925 John Davison Rockefeller Jr. bought for $600,000 The Cloisters, the beautifully arranged...
...customs: 1. Only black ties may be worn by Freshmen. This restriction applies only until Washington's birthday. 2. The regulation head-dress for Freshmen is a black skull cap. 3. Freshmen may not walk on the grass. 4. Freshmen may not smoke on the street or on the Campus. 5. Freshmen may not enter Renwick's. 6. Freshmen may not use the walk in front of Nassau Hall or McCosh Walk. 7. Freshmen are not allowed on Prospect Street at any time. 8. Freshmen should get off the walk for every other class, since seniority determines possession...