Word: campus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Being a large university, Harvard has many young professors anxious to gain an audience for their research reports. At Dartmouth, the professor are more concerned with teaching than research, and consequently President Conant's plan is hardly suitable for this campus. But The Dartmouth believes that general weekly discussions by members of the local faculty would do much to re-kindle in the Dartmouth student body interest in the history-making events taking place in the world today...
...longer need the periodically recurring "sex question" plague the unimaginative and unitiated Freshman, so newly arrived from the prep school campus, since the recently published "Guide Book," prepared by men supposedly well versed in worldly matters, will endeavor to supply the young neophytes with confidential information concerning all the "proper" rendezvous and careful analyses of the local college women. But already rising in righteous indignation the college women of Boston and the environs have hurried vindictive cries of derision upon the all-knowing authors and the wary Freshman will do well to consider their caustic criticism...
Restraint, notes Mr. Edgar, is now characteristic of our leading institutions as loud and glorified boorishness was in the last decade, and there are definite signs of a growing sense of dignity and self-respect on the nation's campus...
...Edgar, who has had a fairly wide experience in writing stories of campus life, mentions one fact of more than passing significance, namely that most editors and readers prefer to have their undergraduate characters "amiably lampooned, treated as butts for comedy rather than as intelligent human beings." The reason behind this is no deep mystery. It follows naturally from the great American college custom of playing at life, of being absorbed more in the petty ripples of campus society, and in some cases campus politics, than in the really significant events which are moving the world at large...
...intellect is Bryn Mawr. Youngest and smallest of the sister colleges, it is the only one which grants the Ph.D. degree, is proud of a faculty capable of such advanced instruction. Twelve miles out on Philadelphia's socialite Main Line, Bryn Mawr's prim, cloister-like campus last week lay nearly deserted. This year's session of its famed Summer School for Women Workers in Industry ended last July, and the college was not to open until Oct. 1. Then officials expected about the usual number of students-300-odd undergraduates, 100-odd postgraduates. Of the undergraduates...