Word: campus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspaper had fixed its disapproving glance on a Halloween rag at the University of Toronto in which undergraduates staged a mock lynching and burned U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy in effigy. Shrouded in bedsheet hoods, hundreds of students swarmed across the campus chanting, "Burn McCarthy!" and "Down with Joe!" After the dummy guest of honor had been hanged from a scaffold and put to the torch, speakers denounced McCarthy's "terror tactics." An outgrowth of days of bull sessions on "McCarthyism." the demonstration evoked mixed reactions even on the campus. When the student newspaper Varsity took a favorable stand. News...
...campus of the University of Texas at Austin last week, collegians braced themselves for an invasion from Waco. The strength of the invaders was fully documented: Baylor University's football team, made up of a jumbo line and backfield of brilliant performers, was unbeaten in six games, rated No. 3 in the whole U.S. Baptist Baylor, the experts agreed, had its finest chance in 29 years to win the championship of the Southwest Conference. Texas U. buffs were not dismayed. They passed the word: "Get out the red candles...
...broke an 18-year jinx by beating A.&M. on the enemy's home field. In 1950, Texas broke out the red candles for the second time, and upset Southern Methodist, the nation's No. 1 team. And once more, last week, the red candles burned in campus store windows, dormitories, classrooms and even in a few faculty offices...
...Plan of the week : a Pope Pius XII memorial library, containing in microfilm the 50,000 manuscript volumes of the Vatican, to be built at a cost of between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 on the campus of St. Louis University...
...Brown student council--The Camarion Club--works to offset this split. Drawing its membership largely from the independents, the C.C. has a strong influence on the Brown campus. All organizations must submit constitutions to the club before they organize and the faculty is eager to listen to C.C. recomendations. Recently, after a two year absence, keg beer was returned to College Hill at the council's petition. The Camarion is now considering a plan to place Brown under an honor system. Side by side with the student council, the independent, commutor, and fraternity councils attempt to weld the college into...