Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father's dabbling in real estate turned out well enough to send him to college in return for a promise to become a lawyer. At the university in Berkeley he was a steady but not brilliant student (he flunked second year Greek), was too wild to pitch on the baseball team, became a gregarious member of a club named La Junta (later Sigma Phi). After law school and three years of private practice in Oakland, he jumped into World War I as an infantry private at Camp Lewis, Wash. He was sent to the Central Infantry Officers' Training...
...great cyclotron at Berkeley is just barely strong enough. Dr. Eugene Gardner, 35, and Brazilian-born Dr. C.M.G. Lattes, 23, put a thin carbon target in a beam of alpha particles (helium nuclei) in the cyclotron chamber. Figuring that the alpha particles had enough power (380 million electron volts) to knock mesons out of the carbon atoms, Gardner & Lattes put a stack of special photographic plates at the spot where the mesons should hit. Then they turned on the cyclotron. When they developed the plates, they found the characteristic wavy tracks of negative mesons. Some of them ended in "stars...
...them all. Last week, the Strayer report urged California to start three new four-year colleges, eight new junior colleges (present total: 55), expand courses at two of the eight University of California campuses, but set a limit of 20,000 students apiece on the two big ones (Berkeley and Los Angeles). President Robert Gordon Sproul, the big man on all eight campuses, had his way on one important point. The commission told the little colleges to leave advanced and professional education...
...studios that knuckle under to the slightest pressure from any of many varied religious, political, business, or other groups, thus selling freedom of expression down the river, deserve the patronage and support of the, as yet, free people of the United States? STANLEY ERLE BROWN Berkeley, Calif...
Stanford and Berkeley colleges will initiate a joint seminar in Europe in 1949. M.I.T. is currently reversing the procedure and bringing 80 foreign students to Cambridge to study...