Word: campus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the raucous wail of an air-raid siren, spring came all of a sudden last week to Princeton, NJ. Lights flickered off in dormitory windows, and students poured outdoors into the practice blackout. Tentatively, someone touched off a few firecrackers. "We want Joe Sugar!" chanted a few campus politicians as they tried to turn the excitement into a rally for Joseph A. Sugar of Bexley, Ohio, Ivy Club member and candidate for president of the senior class...
...Mount Holyoke College dance. (After a bit of careless navigation, he overshot the dance and crashed in a New Hampshire cornfield.) More misadventures with an unauthorized car, including a trip to Florida, led to his expulsion. Only a few days before the riot, he had buzzed the campus in his plane and sprinkled it with empty beer cans...
...Despite a timely warning from President Gilbert F. White, who told them to stay out of trouble or "rot in jail," Haverford students invaded the neighboring Bryn Mawr campus. Failing to tear down decorated poles set up for Bryn Mawr's May Day celebration, the Haverfordmen poured gasoline on the lawn and ignited it to form a pretty, blazing H. After a night of rotting in jail, they were set free. "It was just spring fever," said the tolerant Merion, Pa. justice of the peace...
...freshman coeds serenaded a boys' dormitory. The lads responded by dousing the girls with water. A few of the girls even managed to get pulled into the boys' shower, from which late bathers were forced to beat a hasty retreat. Other girls "were dragged across the campus, given long and generous "mudpack" treatments at convenient puddles. Swarthmore police were interested but inactive spectators...
...Dartmouth, nine students stood by, watching with idle curiosity, while a couple of freshmen fed an eight-year-old boy playing around their dormitory enough applejack and rye whisky to get him drunk. Editorialized the Dartmouth paper: "It is the job of every man on the campus to give battle to that fatuous stereotype of the hard-drinking, hard-fighting, hard-cursing Dartmouth...