Word: campus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston paper recently commented in its editorial columns on what the writer considered the deporable fact that the American college campus, of a weekend, is no longer a campus but a "deserted village". The editorial says ominously that "the campus has become for some students merely a place to recuperate during the week from one strenuous round of parties and to plan the next." Yale and Princeton are coyly described as "temptingly near New York," and Harvard men are accused of scattering, presumably on masse, over the entire country. Bryn Mawr, the cathedral of wholesomeness, has girded up its skipants...
...memory of alma matter; but the conception that a university is one happy family, the members of which do the same things with equal enjoyment, went out with pompadours. People who are interested in hiking and hobby clubs will continue to hike; and no amount of artificial on a campus they consider dull...
Chosen for a storehouse was the basement of a fireproof building on the Oglethorpe campus, whose foundations rest on ancient bedrock which is not likely to be visited by earthquakes. This roomy crypt has already been rendered waterproof. In it Dr. Jacobs and the Scientific American, which has promised enthusiastic cooperation, proposed to place a phonograph or sound film record bearing a salutation from the President of the U. S. to the potentates of 8113; recordings of the voices of King Edward, Stalin. Mussolini, Hitler. Emperor Hirohito and President Lin Shen; encyclopedias and newspapers: stainless steel or Monel metal models...
...envelopes that contained their tickets a polite note signed by President Harold W. Dodds, asking them to refrain from drinking in Palmer Stadium. After the game, 7-to-0 for Princeton on a third-quarter, trick-play touchdown by Ken Sandbach, Princeton's impudent, long-nosed, snooping campus police could find only ten empty whiskey bottles, against 500 after the Rutgers game fortnight before...
...taking sophisticated cracks at the newly popular cult of armchair communism, as practiced at intellectual colleges. This one is co-educational; the founder's daughter, a bored post-debutante, returns for more learning after a trip around the world, and falls in love with the arch-radical of the campus. Nothing is too red for her then, until she is kidnapped by one who embodies all radicalism within himself; rescued from his predicament by a trio of splendidly-played burlesque G-men, and returned to the arms of her incredibly rich father, through with bolshevism...