Word: campus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...awarded veterans' scholarships--Polecast fought against the U.S. Army and Joe fought against Polecat in the Indian wars--and went to Harvard. On the way north, they stopped at New Haven, and shouting "Us Harvards hates Yo'-Yales," let their monster loose; the lizard completely demolished the entire Yale campus...
...book moves as plotlessly as a dream. Tom is an upper Bohemian who lives on "infusions" from a trust fund and beds down off-campus with a girl named Lila, who frets about being half-Jewish but whose physique is as firm as her psyche is wobbly. Lila is one of the zombi women who people modern fiction; she exists to do Tom's will. Tom himself plays zombi to Chris Hunt, a kind of ex-G.I. Dorian Gray who "tinkers with machines and people" and usually cracks up both...
...larger sense, it might be wise not to undertake lengthy trips, if game conditions at the host campus are at all uncertain. We are not sure, from our relatively uninformed vantage-point, just what the answer to all this is: but we would be very surprised if there were no answer...
...street-shadows assault was even more brutal because it was luck-of-the-draw. As police put the thing together, the gang decided to roll a passer-by for money. In Ho Oh, in shirtsleeves, had slipped out of his uncle's apartment close by the Penn campus to mail a letter a block away, was attacked as he was doubling back. Two boys shackled the Korean's arms, others knocked off his glasses, hammered him to the ground, dragged his body behind a parked automobile and frisked pockets and socks for money that wasn't there...
Within 42 hours, police, swarming into the integrated area around the Penn campus, collared all eleven of the junior-grade thugs, aged 15 to 19. In municipal court a pursed-lipped judge quickly ruled they must be tried for murder as adults. Philadelphia, its brotherly love strained like many another U.S. city's by the mounting onslaught of teen-age warfare (TIME, April 7), was patently disgusted with sociological explanations, was angry enough for a hard approach to juvenile delinquency. Urged the Philadelphia Bulletin: "A soft policy toward the owners of hands dripping with blood is a frightful mistake...