Word: campus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of California at Los Angeles 1,500 students gathered, in a vacant lot off the campus, watched pacifist speakers and antipacifist hog-callers try to outshout each other. A few miles away, at Los Angeles Junior College, 25 peace demonstrators mounted the library steps, started to harangue a few hundred followers. College officers first tried to drown them out by roaring into microphones of the campus public address system. Next Director Roscoe...
...whistle until he was red in the face. Unavailing, he advanced on the library with a burly "Red squad" of policemen. When the students swarmed around them, the flustered policemen swung nightsticks, knocked out two girl., students. Finally Director Ingalls turned on the sprinkler system, cleared the campus in two minutes...
...sharply divided on the merits of the vocational type of education it offers. Booker Washington founded the Institute "to put brains and skill into the common occupations of life." Raw, gangling black boys go to Tuskegee from all over the South. They work on and around the campus to pay for their keep and the small tuition: $31 for students in the high school department, $52 for those in the college. When they leave Tuskegee they know how to run a farm, lay bricks, print a newspaper, make a suit of clothes or cook a dinner. Few win fame...
...what its founder made it. "I have managed," Dr. Moton tells friends, "to wobble around in Mr. Washington's shoes." Impartial Negroes deny that Dr. Moton has ever wobbled, agree that the imprint of the founder's shoes is stamped firmly on Tuskegee's 132 acre campus, its cornfields, cattle range, poultry yards, machine shops...
...place in any history of Art: Adam & Eve, now on the John D. Rockefeller estate at Pocantico Hills; the gaunt standing Lincoln intended for Westminster Abbey, now in Manchester, England; the nude reclining Pan, once the largest single bronze ever cast in the U. S., on the Columbia University campus...