Word: campus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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True to his promise, Investigator Atherton refused to make his findings public, but presented them this year to the annual fence-mending meeting of Conference delegates. His imposing document contained nothing really new to anyone within whiffing distance of any football-minded campus in the land. But along the Pacific, the cumulative effect of this 2,000,000-word arraignment was electric. Because of it, contrite Pacific Conference turned over the most simon-pure set of new leaves in the picaresque annals of U. S. football...
...promised to swear off: 1) recruiting of prep and high-school athletes (sometimes carried on in California with brass bands); 2) athletic scholarships; 3) phantom or sinecure campus jobs; 4) alumni or student organization handouts; 5) scalping of football tickets by squadsmen; 6) other "bad practices." To administer these bans, the Conference engaged wordy Mr. Atherton for three more years as its "commissioner," a post promptly dubbed "Tsar of West Coast Football...
...Campus. Ohio State's nondescript buildings, sprawling around a horseshoe-shaped campus, are barren of ivy and Gothic furbelows. But its undergraduates have some traditions, some fun. Ohio State's Orton Hall sounds the Westminster chimes each quarter-hour. Ohioans cheer lustily for their championship football, basketball, swimming teams. Their 60 fraternities, 20 sororities (enrolling a third of the student body, who can live in them for $5 a month more than in a rooming house) give frequent dances. Each after noon undergraduates gather in Hennick's, across High Street, for sodas and 3.2 beer. Other customs...
...Campus on the Air, the new collegiate radio program sponsored by the New England Town Hall of the air and the Columbia Broadcasting Company, will be changed from 5:30 to 5 o'clock on Saturdays beginning tomorrow over WEEI. This week part of the Amherst Glee Club and the Wellesley Madrigal Group will be featured...
...appeal Gottlieb stated: "It is our duty to disprove or to prove that idea--that we are tied to the Soviet apron strings. The present situation is intolerable on the Harvard campus where despite the former sympathetic reaction we received it is now a question of condemnation of the Soviet Union, disaffiliation with the American Student Union, or a rapid death. This situation is the same in innumerable American Student Union chapters throughout the country...