Word: campus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...owners; the CCC for taking thousands of the land's youth off city streets and out of the alums to healthy country air to lead a normal, healthy life and at the same time earn a little money; for the NYA which is aiding 1650 students on our own campus in their quest for an education...
Napkins were the chief point of controversy on the Wellesley campus just before the holidays. The old system under which students supplied their own was pleasing no one. The College shied away from an extensive outlay for new linen napkins and at one time considered upping the tuition to cover the expense. An all-afternoon conference of College officials and student representatives led to the posting of the following notice...
...panoramic introduction Mr. Wechsler draws a concise picture of the American campus as it was beset first by war and then by an almost equally damaging peace and prosperity. He brings into bold relief the wholesale prostitution of the colleges first for the war and then for the peace which denied the glory of that war. He shows us professorial chairs being stuffed with industrial moneys, unorthodox belief being roughly wiped out by college officials under pressure from above. The whole era of Mencken, Babbitt, the hip flask and the Charleston is seen with as great a clarity as that...
...describe "The Revolt" Mr. Wechsler is bucking heavier odds but his analysis, is generally credible. There is a tendency to draw lines a bit too sharply and to exaggerate student playfulness into political activity but in general Mr. Wechsler seems to have gotten the spirit of the American campus. Though it displeases him very much is appears to this reviewer that indifference, annoying as it can be, is preferable to half-baked activity and student organization such as is seen today in the middle and west of Europe. Indifference may not be good preparation for citizenship but it is better...
...presentation of facts and figures which bear upon the political thought and activity of colleges in the various sections of the country. This material is well presented and affords an interesting insight into the methods by which officials and students maintain the balance of "normal orthodoxy" on the campus. To this column the revolt on the campus hardly deserves the name, at least at present, unless an enforced but gradual awakening to realistic issues can be called a revolt...