Word: campus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high-school junior, Len latched on to another nonacademic prize: pretty Jacqueline Puzder, a tiny, blue-eyed sophomore who had just moved to town from Cleveland. In the early fall of 1953, shortly after Len entered Purdue, Jackie visited the college campus to watch a football game, came home secretly married. She stayed home long enough to finish high school, but she got to Purdue often. Two weeks before her graduation, she gave birth to a baby girl, Lisa Anne...
...early years of the eighteenth century, Trinity Church acquired 32 acres of farm land on the outskirts of the town of New York and proposed to donate part of the land for the site of a college campus. For years, leading men of the thriving commercial center had been agitating for a college to compete with those already established in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Virginia...
...Hall, Hamilton Hall, the new Bradley Library, and others rise straight up like huge apartment houses, finding space in the air that Columbia does not have on the ground. The farm land on which Lou Gehrig once awaited home runs now supports a small area of grass, the only campus the University can provide. It is about half the size of the Yard and is the most convenient method of distinguishing the University amid the Broadway traffic and tall buildings of that part of New York. The Bicentennial has been the cause for resodding the "campus" and including 116 Street...
...effort to soften the effect of the motion, Secretary Humphrey Fisher '55 offered an amendment explicitly stating that the H.L.U: would retain its independent authority and freedom of action in campus affairs. But after nearly two hours of debate, the membership over-rode the amendment and went on to vote down the original motion by a 16 to 11 margin...
...undergraduate division's requirements for graduation is that students work off-campus for at least thirty weeks during their college careers. A student may work one summer with a business group, the next with a labor organization, and perhaps the third with a governmental agency, earning course credit for his work. Practical experience in the pre-college years is also a definite factor in the School's admissions decisions...