Word: campus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petition the theatre manager canceled his contract, left Hearstlings fantastically fuming that Williams' President Tyler Dennett had instigated the petition to get publicity for his college. Quickly the boycott spread. Last fortnight the Amherst, Mass., theatre gave in at first appearance of a petition on the Amherst College campus. At Princeton, the Princetonian started a petition, got over 1,000 names. "Metrotone Newsreels," charged Editor William Arthur Carlile Jr., lifting a Hearstian phrase, "spread subversive, un-American propaganda." Last week, as agitation sprang up at Harvard, Dartmouth, Vassar and Wesleyan, Princeton's Garden Theatre broke its Metrotone contract...
...Wisconsin had used up all its expense money on an investigation of free love among the faculty without so much as starting the Red-hunt. Last week the committee was waiting for a new appropriation when a group of undergraduate athletes and fraternity men became annoyed at charges of campus radicalism. Breaking up a meeting of the pinko League for Industrial Democracy one warm, moonlight night, they grabbed the leaders, dragged them down to Lake Mendota. "For God's sake, fellows," remonstrated a professor who happened upon the scene, "think of the University." Plop! Plop! Plop! Into chilly Lake...
Radiant Copper. Dr. Ernest Orlando Lawrence, 33, wears octagonal spectacles and harries the atom with an 85-ton electromagnet in a ramshackle old building on the University of California's campus. Dr. Lawrence and his associates have done the most intensive work in the U.S. on artificial radioactivity. Lately the young physicist succeeded in inducing radioactivity in sodium. Since common salt contains sodium, the prospect immediately arose of injecting harmless but radioactive saline solutions into the human body as a cancer remedy. Few weeks ago Dr. Lawrence was appointed a research consultant of Columbia University's Crocker Institute...
...Moines, in addition to hordes of schoolboys, the Drake carnival had a Queen: Nona Kenneaster, brunette senior at Fresno State College, selected from 28 nominees of competing colleges by the editors of the Drake year book, for her "poise, personality, beauty and intelligence." Queen Kenneaster toured the campus, presided over a Queen's Ball, received a crown from Drake President Daniel Webster Morehouse, was guest of honor at a "D" Club dance and accepted an invitation from Huey Long to have breakfast in his hotel suite. That afternoon, when he turned up at the field, Huey Long was roundly...
...them an oasis in a desert of hardship and struggle. While we all agree that these years of undergraduate life should be as pleasurable as possible we feel that college has failed in its primary purpose if a majority of its graduates are unable to look upon their campus lives as anything but a four-year summer camp...