Word: campus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week sat the Rev. Elliott Speer, 35, headmaster. Like hundreds of other schoolmasters, he was just back from vacation to prepare for another term. A few boys and proctors were back too, but most of them would not arrive until school opened the following week. The 2,500-acre campus, in the hills near Northfield, lay summer quiet. As was his nightly habit, Headmaster Speer sat with notebook in hand planning his next day's schedule...
...music hall. A member of the faculty with a conscience of abnormal development questioned whether it was ethical to accept such a donation from a man whose money "had been squeezed out of the girls." However the College took the gift and built what is now known on the campus as Warner Hall...
...gave Oglethorpe $25,000 and his third son, John, as a student. Grateful Oglethorpe promptly gave Mr. Hearst an LL. D., the only university degree he has ever received. Two years later the grateful publisher gave Oglethorpe a 400-acre wooded tract, valued at $125,000, adjoining its campus. Oglethorpe made him vice president of its Board of Directors. He put himself down for $100,000 on a million dollar pledge list not yet called in. President Jacobs ascribes Publisher Hearst's interest in Oglethorpe to his Southern ancestry, his Atlanta newspapers and the fact that he considers himself...
...very few football games during his several years as the University's Prefect of Religion; but his not seeing more has been motivated by the fine spirit of self-sacrifice that characterizes the man. The real reason for his nonattendance has been that during football games the campus at Notre Dame is always quite barren of students and Father O'Hara has found this to be an ideal time to clear up many difficulties for troubled youths who would hesitate otherwise to approach him in the presence of others. Far from being disinterested Father O'Hara...
Died. Carl Ludwig Weagant, 26, yachtsman, associate editor of Yachting; by his own hand (hanging); in Douglaston, L. I. In 1929 Mr. Weagant sailed a 46-ft. ketch from Ithaca, N. Y. to Ithaca, Greece, presented the Greeks with a stone from the Cornell campus engraved "Cornell Forever...