Word: campus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson" and is absolutely death on the tutoring schools. After three ales he kept mumbling something about sticking to his ideals and keeping away from the "wolf" even if it means flunking out next semester. I tried to be sympathetic, but then deliberately referred to the "yard" as the "campus" when I found out he'd already invited a date for the Yale game. --Escort
...cross section of University of Chicago students, participating in a campus magazine poll, yesterday voted in favor of the return of the Maroons to big-time football, but not at too much expense to the institution's scholastic standards...
...Arbor campus, Tom Harmon, a gregarious, lantern-jawed six-footer with a Tarzan physique and a yen for swing music, was promptly nicknamed Terrible Tommy, or The Hoosier Hammer. As a freshman he got a D in English (he is studying for a radio career-probably sportcasting) but won the University trophy as the best allround athlete in intramural sports. Sophomore year he was tapped by Sphinx (junior honor society) and elected Pharaoh. Last week diverse sports enthusiasts named a baby and a racehorse after...
...afraid is he of being considered high-hat that he waves to everyone he meets on campus, never misses football practice, belittles his own talents, bends over backward to praise his teammates. After he scored all 27 points in the Iowa game three weeks ago, he said: "Anybody could have done it with that Evashevski [200-pounder who once said he didn't want to-play football if he couldn't "crack 'em"] and those others in there blocking like that. They don't make them any better than that Evashevski...
...triumphantly that authorities were beginning a quiet and efficient drive against "red" groups in the University. The story turned out to be almost completely false. Just a few days later when unimpeachable sources reported that a new "ism"-- the Yale Imperialist Association--had long been burrowing beneath the Yale Campus, "The Times" refused to touch it. Only the courageous "Yale News" dared print that undergraduates "tossed off their vodka, smashed their glasses against the wall, and pledged their White Russian honor to the Romanoffs...