Word: campus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Economist Mitchell was disturbed by what the late James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke created with his tobacco millions on the campus at Durham, N. C., he must have purpled at the thought of what "Buck" Duke had left up North. At Somerville,N. J. was Mr. Duke's 5,000-acre estate with its statues, its fountains, its 35 miles of paved road. At Newport was Mr. Duke's summer place. In Manhattan, at No. i East 78th St., was the classic marble palace "Buck" Duke built for his wife 25 years ago, with its tapestry-hung salons, winding...
...happenings on the calendar of U. S. winter sports. There were dances, two nights in a row. At each of the fraternity houses, where nearly 1,000 girls who had come up for the week-end were staying, three chaperones tried to keep track of what was happening. The campus was decorated with statues made of ice and snowmen twelve feet high. The first night of the Carnival, the Outing Club gave its pageant-"Jottunheimer Eiskorneval"-a preposterous affair about Norwegian snow gods and a fancy-skating maiden. A committee chose Pauline Webster of Detroit, a pretty blonde girl...
...afternoon when a street car rattled out Atlanta's Peachtree Street, stopped at the rolling campus which William Randolph Hearst gave to Oglethorpe (TIME, Aug. 6). The slender young man who stepped off was Nathan Yagol, instructor in Chemistry at neighboring Emory University. Instructor Yagol started across the campus toward the auditorium. Invited to address the International Relations Club, he had small idea how the rest of Oglethorpe felt when he trod the campus. Two things are hated by all good Oglethorpe men and Instructor Yagol represented both of them. One is Emory University, which Oglethorpe's ebullient...
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...footballers formed a block about the trembling instructor, rushed him to the edge of the campus. A trolley car was hailed and Nathan Yagol scrambled gladly aboard. Then the Oglethorpe University football squad trotted off to Hermance Stadium to resume spring practice...