Word: campus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spectacular in contrast to the drawing-room bargaining of union leaders here is the deep-scated labor war now waging on the Columbia campus...
...great Freshman Class dance. Since Freshman classes now number about 1,000 each year, the Jubilee is always a huge, sprawling affair with two orchestras, usually given in a huge, sprawling building, the Union, near the Yard. (Bear in mind that Harvard has a Yard, not a campus. All within hearing will screech if you call it a campus...
...Baptist minister, announced that Canadian-born Economics Professor Carey K. Ganong was to be dismissed for "inefficiency" and failure to become a naturalized U. S. citizen, as is President Cole. As word of the dismissal spread through the college, indignant students quickly rounded up the band, paraded around the campus, were addressed at a rally by Dr. Ganong, who declared the college officials had given him no opportunity to defend himself. By dawn the 350 students had decided to strike. When Dean Sherwood Gates arrived at Bowen Hall he was turned back by pickets who barred the door to students...
...days no book was cracked, no lecture delivered, and Kalamazoo College was shut tight while campus soapboxers demanded popular Professor Ganong's reinstatement. At the second day's end President Cole withdrew the dismissal notice, promised to discuss the professor's future status with the student senate and leave the final decision to the board of trustees. Thereupon Professor Ganong and students marched back to classes...
...conference had been called to discuss the structure of the various councils represented, to discuss the nature and extent of the authority of these councils, and their relations with campus organizations, such as fraternities, or activities, such as managing, or with the Faculty through the administrative offices...