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...weak heart ended his military and athletic ambitions at the same time, but he discovered satisfactory compensations. At Virginia Military Institute, where he had been a drummer & bugler, he instituted boxing classes, taught them for 13 years. Twenty years ago he opened his poolroom near the university campus and began to lecture all his patrons on the satisfactions of his favorite sport. Undergraduates whose only thoughts of recreation had been inseparably associated with the whiskey jug found themselves being wheedled into the belief that boxing was a pastime fit for gentlemen and sportsmen. By 1922 Johnny La Rowe was assistant...
Washington College, in 1865, was a hollow shell. David Hunter's Yankee raiders had passed that way in 1864, and its library had been gutted, its laboratory equipment smashed or looted. When Lee took charge at Washington, part of the campus was being used for farm land. Although not a first-rate "academic beggar," Lee administered what money he had to good effect. To the old-time classical curriculum, so beloved of the Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamars, Lee, who had spent four years defending the planters' leisure-class culture, soon added vulgar practical courses of agriculture, commerce...
This is a very melancholy occasion. The Campus wears an air of desolation. The robins on the green have suspended their animation and are belatedly scurrying from the deluge. Mournful ejaculations of "well-a-day" and "alack" ascend from the midnight cloister. Even the "A" men are trembling in their boots. It is all rather...
Last October one of the four, Brooke Alexander, had the idea of creating a high-pressure organization to mould campus opinion for national advertisers. To help him he took in three classmates, John Harlow, Robert Burrows and Reo Kelly. First problem was to get a client. They sold the idea to Philip Morris & Co. The next was to build the organization. In 39 Eastern colleges they acquired agents, all of them prominent students and most of them on college papers...
Philip Morris & Co. paid young Alexander some $400 a month for the service and he divided it among his associates and agents. Soon Campus Publicity Service began to get new accounts. It began also to get outside attention. The New Republic branded it a whispering bureau. The four owners were reported to be planning a poll of student preferences with the results guaranteed to be favorable to the advertisers who sponsored it. Last week the owners hotly denied that they harbored any such plan, pointed out that their work was all open & aboveboard, that college authorities had given their approval...