Word: campus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Discipline was quite rigid when I came," says Alfred Fuerbringer. From Monday through Thursday no one was permitted off the campus after supper, movies were forbidden except on weekends, and the college choir was permitted brief excursions within Nebraska, but no farther. Popular President Fuerbringer soon changed all that. His students now can get overnight leaves and go to the movies any time they want, and the choir is just back from a tour through Texas and Louisiana...
...bird had been foisted on the Russians as the American version of Picas so's peace dove by the Lampoon's rival campus publication, the daily CRIMSON. Gentle spent a half hour explaining the subtleties of American college humor to Tsarapkin at his Park Ave. headquarters...
...event is sponsored each year by the Harvard Outing Club. Following the grueling race there will be a picnic on the Wellesley campus...
...quotes garnered from his students at Beloit College. Drawn from essays on the assigned topic: "Why I Hesitate to be a Christian," the quotes range from doubts of Christ's divinity to condemnation of Christian hypocrisy. The essay topic is effective in bringing out indiotmens gods rule the campus. But I wonder whether it doesn't skirt the attitude towards religion most common among college students simply that of apathy. I think most students have surrendered less to an ism critical of Faith than to a vague or abstract interest in religion hard to distinguish from disinterest...
...Campus Gods on Trial is interesting because of its application of these familiar arguments to specific doubts about Christianity, doubts commonly expressed by people rationalizing a general lack of interest in religion. But if Walsh's writing were less of a burden to his faith and logic, the book would be far more persuasive than...