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...Bastion of Jockdom
...Mathews South is to stay ahead of Holworthy. Fred Jewett's bastion of jockdom, it will be necessary to make up for the poor showing in basketball by doing well in wrestling, boxing, or squash...
...Another bastion of conservatism has fallen in the struggle for women's liberation-along with the Administration and the Houses, the University concert band is admitting Cliffies for the first time in its 50-year history...
...Dependent on the cotton crop, it is, like the rest of the state, a land of hill and Delta where traditions are respected and segregation is not just an institution but a way of life. In one important way, however, Yazoo City differs greatly from other communities in this bastion of the Old Confederacy: it has not only accept ed the inevitable and desegregated its schools, but has actually gone out of its way to make integration work. "If it will work anywhere, it will work here," says Norman A. Mott Jr., the third in his family line to edit...
That success has not been without its costs. When Ignatius Loyola founded the "Greg"* in 1551, he conceived of it as an intellectual citadel from which to battle the Reformation, and until 1966 it remained a bastion of authoritarian conservatism. Classes consisted of dry lectures in Latin, with no chance for student participation. Seminarians had virtually no lives of their own. They could leave their residence only in groups, and could never enter a store or restaurant. They could not take secular newspapers. They could not even wear trousers; instead, the members of the more than 200 scattered residential colleges...