Word: gorgon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college are inscrutable orders taken more seriously, nor have they such compelling interest for the world-at-large. At the University of Virginia there is the famed Raven, dedicated to the dark memory of Edgar Allan Poe. At Colgate there are the weird Skull and Scroll, and Gorgon's Head. University of California has its Skull and Key and its Golden Bear. Other famed senior societies: Owl and Serpent (Chicago), Iron Cross (Wisconsin), Skull and Snakes (Leland Stanford), Iron Wedge (Minnesota), Quill and Dagger (Cornell), Innocents (Nebraska), Mystical Seven and Skull and Serpent (Wesleyan...
...Gorgon of Faculty censorship has raised its snaky locks at Ann Arbor: as a result, sixteen members of the Michigan "Sunday Magazine" have resigned. The particulars vary with the point of view. The editors point to a series of faculty interventions which made their positions impossible. A scientific article on gland transference, approved by a professor, roused the final outburst which precipitated their resignations. By the other camp this article is described as intentionally repulsive and disgusting; and the editor of the "Daily", the superior of the "Magazine" is said to have asked the unruly staff of the latter...