Word: campus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your story . . . is excellent, primarily because it captures some of the spirit that permeates the campus and student body. Notre Dame has top-drawer material, but so do many other schools; this is one of the few times I have seen it acknowledged in a publication of general circulation that Notre Dame's winning ways are at least partly attributable to an "intangible spirit that seems to make super-players out of ordinary mortals like Johnny Lattner...
...paper mill; it has the world's largest permanent catalogue (10,000 titles), (the largest stock 15 million volumes) and probably the biggest sales (nearly 10 million books a year from the British list alone). The grandfather of all university presses, it has been don, professor, schoolmaster, campus and classroom to millions of scholars and laymen...
Professors who invoke the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution before Congressional committees have no place on a college campus, Samuel P. Sears '17, former president to the Massachusetts Bar Association, told a packed house in Temple Israel's Meetinghouse in Brookline last night...
...alumni for funds. He made speeches, broadcast the name of Pomona across the state. By the end of World War I. Pomona had 750 students and more applicants than it could handle. It was then that Blaisdell made his decision : instead of allowing Pomona to grow into one big campus, he hit on the idea of an Oxford-like association of small colleges. "There are a lot of students," says he. "who profit most by sitting on the other end of a log with a great teacher. But you can't have that in a large school. No college...
Share Alike. Today the four colleges share the same auditorium, the same medical services and the same 270,000-volume library. But though students at one campus may take courses at any other, each college maintains its own character. Scripps has a basic three-year humanities program in which each subject explores the same century at the same time. The graduate school stresses the social sciences ("We want to become in the social sciences," says one official, "what CalTech is in the physical sciences"), and the men's college puts its emphasis on government and economics. Each campus...