Campus Legends.Campus Legends Elizabeth Tucker Greenwood Greenwood. 1 City (1990 pop. 26,265), Johnson co., central Ind.; settled 1822, inc. as a city 1960. A residential suburb of Indianapolis, Greenwood is in a retail shopping area. Manufactures include motor vehicle parts and metal products. Press 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881 0313332851, $55.00 www.greenwood.com Students have told stories about their daily university lives and often created legends surrounding campus experiences: unique and intriguing in·trigue n. 1. a. A secret or underhand scheme; a plot. b. The practice of or involvement in such schemes. 2. A clandestine love affair. v. is CAMPUS LEGENDS: A HANDBOOK, which surveys legends ranging from pure fantasy to theories of professor relationships, pranks, rituals and other folklore folklore, the body of customs, legends, beliefs, and superstitions passed on by oral tradition. It includes folk dances, folk songs, folk medicine (the use of magical charms and herbs), and folktales (myths, rhymes, and proverbs). . While it may prove an unusual handbook for the general collection, any college-level collection strong in folktales will find it refreshingly re·fresh·ing adj. 1. Serving to refresh. 2. Pleasantly fresh and different: "common sense of a most refreshing sort" William Raspberry. different and worthy of acquisition. |
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