Word: campus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of the State of New York has no campus, faculty or student body. It consists merely of a Board of Regents who appoint a Commissioner of Education and administer the State's public educational system. Though the University, established in 1784, is the oldest continuous educational agency in the U. S., it did not receive its present broad powers until 1904. Before then it looked after higher education alone, having been founded primarily to rehabilitate King's College (now Columbia University) which had been suspended during the Revolution. New York State's University sometimes forgets...
...offered promiscuously to anyone who can help most expenses. The fact that many man have not the means to join not only increases the non-members, but makes the financial burden exorbitant for the chosen few. Thus the position of the so-called "barbarians" on the average college campus has suffered a paradoxical change. No longer a mere aesthetic menace, a fringe of outcasts condescendingly tolerated, they have come to be regarded as heretics who must be lured or snatched back into the fraternal fold...
...rules against all night parking are really bothering you," Budd volunteered, "don't bicker words with the authorities. Just put some plauks up the staircases of your Houses and drive the cars into your rooms at night; then the students can go stand in the gutter or about the campus and nothing can be done about...
...shaded hillside near Haverford College campus, in the heart of Philadelphia's "Main Line" district, a large white tent was set up last week. Into it shuffled an academic procession of delegates from 112 institutions, ranked by seniority all the way from Oxford and Cambridge down through Juniata College (founded 1876) to Reed College (founded 1911). The delegates, among them 50-odd college presidents, had come to help Haverford celebrate its 100th birthday...
...English gardener who landscaped Haverford's trim campus So years ago introduced cricket, still the favorite spring sport. Haverford calls freshmen "Rhinies" (as does Lawrenceville School). An annual custom is dressing in odd costumes for the last Ethics lecture of the year by Professor Rufus Matthew Jones, Haverford's most respected and oldest active teacher, 'Quaker theologian and member of the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry. The costume custom was nearly abandoned when a student appeared on a Kiddie Kar in long woolen underwear as Lady Godiva. Among Haverford's younger teachers are Leslie Hotson...