Word: campus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee has just completed a nine-month study of campus housing needs, and has recommended the immediate construction of dormitory accommodations for a minimum of 300 students...
...philosophers, from former teachers and old classmates, even from his landlady while he was a student at Cambridge University and a poker-playing Army buddy, now an advertising man in Huntington, W. Va. While Contributing Editor James Atwater tracked down other sources in suburban Connecticut, on the Columbia campus and in Greenwich Village, Researcher Audrey Blodgett and Associate Editor Lester Bernstein, who wrote the cover story, quizzed Van Doren himself. During the interview, Bernstein and Van Doren quickly discovered that they had one thing in common: both are former TIME correspondents in England, the former as a staffer...
...Caudill et al. built their school, there would be no more set schedules for classes, no separate grades for different age groups, no barriers between subjects. Nor would there be any definite dividing line between the school and the home. Their ideal campus is in the shape of an octopus whose tentacles stretch out from the Center into the residential areas, providing pupils and adults alike with "tennis courts, baseball, football, soccer fields, skating rinks, as well as bird sanctuaries, botanical gardens and nature-study groves...
...colleges and universities will hit a record high of 3,250,000. This record comes at a time when the college-age population, which in 1955 sank to its lowest point in 25 years, is still made up mostly of Depression babies. The crisis that the U.S. campus is now bracing for is the coming invasion of war babies...
...colleges are bound to keep rising. But to Headmaster Lloyd M. Clark of Pennsylvania's Kis kiminetas Springs School, the big competition for education is not a crisis but a cause for rejoicing. "This change at the admissions office," says he, "has altered the atmosphere all over the campus. In the classrooms the professors can insist on high achievement levels and dismiss the loafer . . . The time has come when the college student must really produce . . . How the educators love this...