Word: campus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Try. Narvesen's three-month-old "People's University" had 2,615 enthusiastic students, 71 teachers. The students paid nothing for their schooling and the teachers received nothing for their instruction. Founder Narvesen had just added a twenty-first building to his rent-free campus and ten more courses, each complete with a slogan, to the 58 he started last October. Lansingites were proud as peacocks and Michigan's State Department of Instruction was forming a special division to promote the Lansing plan throughout the State...
...around the campus are strong on 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes' and 'Carioca,' at present. The last piece is now sweeping New York, and will probably have an immediate success in Cambridge...
Some of the bounding campus figures here at Yale, completely lost in the bustle of one activity after another, might find spiritual solace during a year spent in the quarter, more sophisticated atmosphere of our Cambridge contemporaries. So with a few of the Harvard ultra-sophisticates, with their superficial scorn of any display of enthusiasm, their dilettante idealization of "culture" -- for them a year in the more normal and possibly more sincere New Haven air would do a world of good...
...University of South Dakota Yukithi Yoshida, student, who appears daily on the campus as a Japanese prince in uniform and sword, was made the victim of a practical joke. In princely rage Yukithi Yoshida drew a pistol, shot the jokester through the hand...
However much he mixed in Iowa politics, President Jessup, a good Methodist with Quaker upbringing, has always kept clear of campus squabbles. He reads widely and quickly, keeps two secretaries on the run, lets up only for fishing trips...