Word: campus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm. He is helped by the fact that the university gives advanced degrees-including a doctorate-in creative writing. Armed with this selling point, Engle recruits fledgling poets with the zeal of a Big Ten football coach wooing a high-school halfback. He gets them jobs on campus, finds them apartments, has even supplied pots and pans for their wives...
...quickly became a familiar figure on campus-a small, slight man with precise, courtly manners who was almost always smoking a pipe and wearing a Tyrolean hat. Students soon got used to meeting him out for a solitary walk as late as 2 a.m., or having him show up unannounced to watch an R.O.T.C. drill or a track meet. By last week, as he completed his four-month stay as writer-in-residence, famed Novelist William Faulkner seemed as much a fixture at the University of Virginia as the maples that line the campus...
...month-old grandson Paul Summers (his daughter Jill is married to a third-year law student at the university). He also toured nearby Civil War battlefields in a battered station wagon. He and his wife lived in a Georgian house just a 15-minute walk from the rolling campus that Thomas Jefferson picked for the university he designed and started to build. Normally shy, Faulkner delighted school officials by accepting outside speaking invitations...
...objection at all when a college ballplayer is so good that he is assured of a career in the majors. Texas has sent some, including Dodger Innelder Randy Jackson and Boston Manager Pinky Higgins, and Bibb himself went to the Chicago White Sox directly from the Texas campus in 1920. A keg-shaped, hard-hitting outfielder, he stayed in the majors for twelve years, averaged .312 at bat. But today, says Bibb, many boys with too little talent are tempted to sign baseball contracts and quit school. The Kansas City Athletics, for example, have signed 322 collegians since...
...strict regulations on tender of aid, the colleges and the athletes are placed under many other regulations, which carry penalties of possible loss of eligibility or loss of scholarship aid. Coaches and athletic staff members are not allowed to discuss matters of financial aid with applicants except in campus interviews or in correspondence. Between the time the tender of aid is sent out and the time the student accepts it in writing, no coach or other college employee is allowed to have any contact with him. And any falsification in filling out the Financial aid forms may lead to both...