Word: campus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Along the twelve-mile ride from the Charleston airfield to the campus, the President stood in the back of an open convertible, waving his left, nonpitching arm to the South Carolinians who lined the route. He remarked to General Clark "This looks like campaign time...
Life during the later twenties helped to clarify his protest. He writes of his experience in 1927 as an instructor at Smith College: "This was the middle twenties, and the spirit of the period was handsomely embodied on the Smith campus. Among certain conspicuous members of the faculty a pattern of ideas and values was accepted and promulgated that seems to me now the very essence of the decade. They all subscribed to at least three articles of faith. They believed first that science would prove the salvation of humanity, and they had unlimited confidence in the ability...
...notable in this sort of agitation is, however, a myth. In his book, The Age of Suspicion, James Wechsler describes a mass strike at Columbia lasting several days, when the editor of Spectator was expelled for writing communist editorials. A large percentage of the student newspaper staff and many campus leaders at Columbia were, according to Wechsler's description, members of the party or close fellow travelers...
...students to cut their eleven o'clock classes on April 13, 1934, in order "to promote the cause of peace." The demonstrators were to attend a mammoth anti-war meeting on the steps of Widener. On the same day, however, the large and prominent right-wing elements of the campus organized under the leadership of the conservative CRIMSON. They called an extraordinary meeting of the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Society of Upper Plympton Street to be held at the same time and place as the communist meeting. Warned of the coming battle between the two groups, the entire student...
...dean Richard A. Waite, who fired the six executives of the weekly "Rensselaer Polytechnic," explained that the students "took the story seriously, causing considerable confusion and temporarily disrupting telephone facilities on the campus and in local hospitals...