Word: campus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they feel a need for religion, but that religion does not carry over to guide their important secular decisions, that they are dutifully responsive towards government, and that they set great stock by college in general and their own college in particular. "For the most part," he concludes, "a campus 'norm' of values prevails in the 1950's, coast to coast, at state university or denominational college, for the Ivy Leaguer or the city college commuter...
Whatever his motivation, the student today has expressed himself, perhaps not very effectively, on educational questions previously reserved for faculty meetings and academic associations. At the University during the past year, for example, groups as divergent as the campus politicoes and the literary avantgarde have concerned themselves with weighty issues of educational policy. Moreover, student concern has coincided with an evident willingness on the part of the Faculty to re-examine traditional methods in favor of such innovations as independent study, course reduction, and a general questioning of the course-grade system...
...goldfish swallowing, the ukuleles, 'coon coats, and straw hats were standard gear in every college town from Des Moines of Hanover. But it was a standard of abnormally, and that was what made it delightful. The personality, the character, the eccentric were warmly welcomed in every group, on every campus. Novelty was pursued with feverish intensity; if you could discover a new way of spending time, flagpole sitting for instance, your reputation was immediately established. And, while girls were flapping and boys were growing bigger and better moustaches, the generation found itself pregnant with off-beat geniuses. In the sordid...
...portray the University of Texas Negro coed as an innocent lamb shorn of her wool. Ten to one she was a plant, and the campus Commies and associates worked diligently to plant her there...
Also accepting an appointment to the University of California is Clorinda V. Ferruolo, Instructor in Italian, who will head the Italian Department at the Berkeley campus. Ferruolo's instructorship expires this month...