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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each morning Uncle Charles would ask how Lucille, a healthy, buxom girl of 18, was getting on at college. After breakfast Lucille would pick up her books, ride with him as far as the campus on the Midway where the World's Fair of 1893 was held. In the evening she would be back and next morning Uncle Charles would ask about her work again. Soon Lucille did not need to be asked. She talked at length of the things she learned. To Charles Rudolph Walgreen those things sounded dangerously like Communism...
What, Mr. Walgreen wondered, did they teach in government courses? That night he slept little and next morning he delivered an ultimatum: Lucille must leave the University. Short while later, when he dropped his niece at the campus, she had instructions to go at once to Cobb Hall, tell the Dean all about...
That radicalism is a real issue at the University, few Chicagoans deny. But real evidence of radicalism is scant. The Tribune, hunting campus Reds last winter, found only two pinko organizations (National Student League and League for Industrial Democracy), one that was hardly pinko (League Against War and Fascism). Their total membership, out of a student body of 6,000, was between...
...campus of the university at Durham, N. C., which "Buck" Duke endowed with his name and fortune, students gazed disapprovingly last week at a huge, empty pedestal, set squarely in front of Duke's $1,000,000 Gothic Chapel. The pedestal will be capped, next Commencement, with the Duke statue. Last month the Archive, Duke's literary magazine, placed the statue in its Hall of Infamy "because it is in extremely bad taste, because the cigar in his hand is the keynote to its vulgarity, because it will be an object of ridicule...
...Conservatism has too long been the sacred cow of the campus," proclaims the "Record." ". . . an emphatic farewell to political conservatism," shouted the Yale "News" only two months ago. These statements are actually pictures of the new trend in undergraduate journalism. They are pictures which cannot but call a word of approval from all papers which have long struggled for a vigorous, opinionated expression of the new student thought...