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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today, with its stately colonnaded campus, W. & L. is essentially the college Lee planned. Its 1,200 students like it that way. The "minks" (as W. & L. students refer to themselves, with determined superiority-their next-door V.M.I. rivals are known as Brother Rats) affect a high degree of collegiate courtliness, are seldom seen without coat and tie, still abide by the strict honor system Lee set down for them over 80 years ago. Though they come from 39 different states, most are from the South, where W. & L.'s college of arts and sciences and its schools...
Surrounding Tradition. Today, W. & L.'s first gentleman is a suave Southerner named Francis Pendleton Gaines, who arrived 19 years ago from North Carolina's Wake Forest College. President Gaines has done nothing to change the smooth flow of campus life-including the round of fraternity dances leading up to the annual Fancy Dress Ball for Washington's birthday...
Widespread liquor sales to college students under 21 have resulted in a letter of protest to all Western Massachusetts package stores signed jointly by four college presidents. Stressing "the multitude of problems which the unrestricted use of alcoholic beverages brings to every campus," the heads of Smith, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, and the University of Massachusetts asked for full cooperation in keeping liquor away from minors...
...entire delegation will attend the National Student Congress in Urbana, Illinois from August 24 through September 2. This conference, to be held on the campus of the University of Illinois, will be five days longer than last year's at Madison, Wisconsin...
...faculty committee on student organizations banned the Karl Marx Society from the Runter College campus for "conduct unbecoming a chartered club...