Word: mendota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students had arrived by stagecoach, farm wagon and shanks' mare. Board, reported the chancellor, "need not exceed 80? per week." They ate mostly bread and milk, an occasional fish from Lake Mendota, and, as a "rare treat," roast potatoes. A room in North Hall, the dormitory "on the hill," cost $5 a term; furniture "new from the store," another $8. Students had to draw and fetch their own water from the university well, chop down campus trees for firewood, and raid nearby farms for straw for their mattresses. Daily chapel was compulsory; so were six hours of daily attendance...
...sessions in Madison's Memorial Union Building along Lake Mendota brought together more than 1000 delegates and observers from some 500 educational institutions in the United States...
Friday's stormy caucus evidently brought the split to a head. The sun was already shining over lake Mendota, literally if not figuratively, when the session reported out the nominations of Paul L. Wright '49, Houghteling, and William Tracy of Springfield college. Jaffa was not eligible for the office on Friday night because he was running for national office on for national office on Saturday morning...
...once-beaten crew won the Eastern Championship over nine rivals and thus boosted its chances of becoming the U.S. Olympic choice. Yale, ahead until the final few yards, was second. Harvard's big rival is now unbeaten Cornell. Cornell had kept a date with unbeaten Wisconsin on Lake Mendota, won by half a boat length...
Next day Lieut. Governor Oscar Rennebohm, 57, was sworn in as acting governor. A wealthy, self-made man who built a bankrupt drug store into a prosperous chain, he is a political neophyte. He owns a palatial, 14-room house overlooking Lake Mendota, during the summer spends most of his spare time on his 175-acre dairy farm. He is closely associated with the G.O.P. machine. Said Boss Coleman: "He will serve the state very well...