Word: quad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...network, 5 to 1 in favor of Van Doren. When Columbia University "accepted his resignation" as an assistant professor of English, hundreds of students held a rally for him. (But one leaned out of a dorm window and cried, "Hey, Charlie's going to be in the quad tomorrow to give out the answers to the Comparative Lit exam.") Officials of several colleges hinted that they would welcome his job applications. Among them: St. John's, the "great books" college in Annapolis, Md., where he took his B.A. In Manhattan, a new magazine called Leisure asked Van Doren...
Discussing the safety factor, Dean Brown asserted, "This city is not a place for girls out alone after dark." Since single girls would undoubtedly use the facilities, she said, they would have to be escorted when returning to the Radcliffe Quad late at night...
...squad will be a larger, better extension of the Lodge. Depending on "how the trends go," says Lippincott, "we will play it by ear." If enough sophomores in the next five years show interest in the quad plan, three additional dormitories (housing another 270 or more students) and perhaps even a second dining hall--although funds for these Phase II projects are not included in the $53 million program...
...Just as eating clubs have their graduate boards of governors," Lippincott says, "the quad will have the administration as its overseer." But, he adds, the internal planning of social activities at the quad will be up to its members...
According to preliminary plans, the quad rooms will be attractive, and its other facilities equally comfortable. It will not be surprising if a fairly large group of sophomores this spring decide that Bicker is not for them, that they will "go to the quad...