Word: campus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extent of destruction done by the hurricane has brought about the decision that the Amherst campus grading and terracing are to be started again and are to be fully completed this time, as they were not originally. A committee of the Alumni Council, headed by Richardson Pratt '15, is planning to raise the entire sum necessary for the completion of this project...
...small office two blocks from the University of Chicago campus, shiny-pated. khaki-clad Count Alfred Korzybski toys with an odd little implement. He calls it the "structural differential." It consists of a series of plates punched full of holes (see cut). Like scientists who make models of atomic structures, Count Alfred, who is head of the Institute of General Semantics, expects important developments from his implement. With it and the theory it illustrates, he hopes to wipe out mankind's time-worn thinking habits, revolutionize its educational systems, create a sane new world. Last week he reported progress...
Irwin Edman was 21 when he began teaching philosophy at Columbia University. On the campus one day shortly afterwards he met his old professor, Felix Adler. "What are you doing now?" inquired the professor. "Teaching," said Edman. "Teaching what?" "Philosophy," said Edman. The old man patted the open-faced, blond youth on the back. "How cute!" he said...
...applied for Wigglesworth and have a hall bedroom in Apley Court. I haven't yet met any of the important people on the campus. When ever I try to sec a Dean, his secretaries give me a deadpan or a freezcout...
...their campus,--the most beautiful in America, bar none--Virginians take their education in small doses. On the side, they learn a lot about guns and dogs and horses and history and co-eds. They find time to be in the vanguard of those who popularize such dance madnesses as the Big Apple and the Shag, which later ooze northward to fame. They learn how to talk general culture in a drawling, modulated voice that makes what they say sound authoritative. They learn that Richmond is the real hub of the universe. They learn that amatory adventures in parked cars...