Word: campus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paraded. Only song was All Hail with which all University meetings are closed. The many police present proved unnecessary as the strike was conducted along orderly parliamentary lines. Only through a misunderstanding due largely to the absence of President Robert G. Sproul was the demonstration held just off the campus instead of in the university gym. The overwhelming support that the occasion was given by a heretofore notoriously archconservative, socially unconscious, radical-baiting student body is highly significant...
...said: "Lady, I think you're wonderful. We've never had a prizefight that lasted more than two rounds up here and I think you lasted about nine with that horn!" When not trumpeting Mrs. East runs a bookstore on the University of California's campus...
Past students and teachers who had excitedly poured from their classrooms bounded John P. Weller. Reaching the campus, he plunged into a clump of bushes, fired two more shots. His protruding legs stiffened starkly. When physicians arrived, they treated Dr. Kurz for a wrist wound, found Instructor Weller dead with a bullet in his heart...
...progressive ideas. To Antioch in 1920 went tall, baldish President Arthur Ernest Morgan with ideas even newer. President Morgan split the college's students into two groups, shipped one off for five-or-ten weeks of work in offices or factories while the other studied on the campus. No professional educator but an engineer who helped harness the turbulent Mi ami River after the Dayton flood of 1913, President Morgan was released on leave from Antioch three years ago to serve as chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority Last week Antioch's trustees an nounced that their loan...
...college he had managed a student laundry and a newspaper agency. He had flunked German and English in the entrance exams, and didn't write off a con in English until his senior year. But this ponderous and solumn Iowan had introduced a scheme for handling athletic, social, and campus organization funds that eliminated waste and graft to a "T". Few people noticed that he was also a wizard with a slide rule and geology maps...