Word: campuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Killian, an old M.I.T. man himself, was taking over one of the foremost technical institutions in the world. It consisted of a student body of 4,500, a faculty of 1,000, and a compact, impressive campus of Roman revival and modern buildings across the Charles River from Boston. M.I.T. had come a long way since its opening classes...
...from the "man of most dreadful appearance" Boswell wrote about, but he spoke in coffee-house prose, and like Johnson, he knew how to command attention. For more than 25 years, Chauncey Brewster Tinker's Yale classroom was one of the two or three most popular on campus...
...himself as retired. He still keeps his old routine, living in his apartment at Yale's Davenport College, surrounded by his books and Boswelliana. He is oddly chipper on foggy days ("It reminds me of London"), but whatever the weather, he still takes his daily stroll across the campus, stopping to chat with the Davenport gatekeeper, and then going on to Yale's great Sterling Memorial Library where he has been keeper of rare books ever since 1931. One of his objects, already far advanced under Tink's supervision: to give Yale's library the finest...
...Wolff, however," Tesreau said, "decided to call Theodore Gaudreau, captain of the campus police. Gaudreau ordered Cirrotta removed to the infirmary from which he was later taken to Mary Hitchcock Hospital, where he died at about 4 a.m. Saturday during an emergency operation on his head...
When fraternity men held a counter-rally, Brown President Henry M. Wriston dropped in. Accusing Brown's fraternities of being "discriminatory, non-democratic and anti-intellectual," Wriston gave them a short, blunt warning: "Either represent a majority of the students-or you will not survive on this campus...