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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sure way to rile an alumnus of Antioch College is to call his alma mater a trade school. Every Antioch student alternates work and study. For five to ten weeks he plugs at a liberal arts curriculum on the campus at Yellow Springs, Ohio. Then for an equal period he works in an office, store, factory, newspaper or at any job which appeals to him. Antioch's President Arthur Ernest Morgan (now on leave as chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority) thinks of the work periods as a preparation for a full life and a substitute for the farm chores...
...Portland, Ore., Japanese girls strutted about the campus of Reed College, chuckling over a great private joke. As delegates to the second annual Japan-U. S. Student Conference, they had been asked to appear in kimonos. Since most of them wear Western dresses at home, they had spent a good part of their trip across the Pacific learning, for the first time in their lives, to tie the big, brocaded sashes which traditionally girdle Japanese kimonos...
...Rhythm (RKO). The conception of a college campus as a place where young men and women spend their time in making animal sounds to imitate saxophones or dabbling, in rumble seats, with the tentative aspects of sex became obsolete in 1929. The fact that most
...thousands of New Yorkers who on summer nights go to the Mall in Central Park, to the campus of New York University or to Prospect Park in Brooklyn to listen to Edwin Franko Goldman's band, no tune is more familiar than his march, On the Mall. Well do they know its words, its lively chorus with breaks during which they whistle and sing la-la-la-la. One night last week the Goldman Band launched into On the Mall, but for once not under the baton of white-mopped Bandmaster Goldman. On the podium stood a dark, chunky...
Frantically popular is Adolf Hitler with millions of Germans but not with the aristocratic Student Korps. These correspond at German universities to the superior English youths who have been to Eton. Last week a proud array of Old Heidelberg's primest campus snobs, the Saxo-Borussian Korps, trembled before a State prosecutor who charged them with the following high misdemeanors...