Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commuter Campuses. This fall, practically every college in the U.S., crammed with ex-G.I.s, feels like the old woman who lived in a shoe. But California, whose shoe is the biggest, feels the pinch as badly as any. Last week at Berkeley, the narrow off-campus streets reaching out from the 300-foot Campanile were choked with cars from all over the Bay region...
Electric trains carried other undergrads across the Bay Bridge from San Francis co; thousands more of Berkeley's 21,396 students arrived by bus and streetcar...
...Berkeley's Engineers' Glade was buried under an unsightly array of temporary buildings ; another row of prefabs made a garish contrast with the Italian architecture of U.C.L.A.'s Royce Hall. Even the floor of the men's gym at Berkeley was in use for classes, and regular classrooms ran as late...
...first student to register at Berkeley last week queued up at 3 130 a.m., and was allowed in at 7:45. European History was jammed; so were most engineering, chemistry and physics courses. Those who had heard about a new course in World Affairs, with no exams, waited from one to three hours to sign up; only 1,000 of the 2,500 who applied could be accepted...
...Lonely. In the overflowing, far-flung University of California, just about the only thing its thousands of students have in common is Robert Gordon Sproul. The lonely bigness of Berkeley helps to explain why the Cal rooting section* at football games is not only the world's largest but at times its most raucous. Undergraduates sometimes blow off steam by deluging neighbors with pillow feathers and toilet paper, and loudly counting out the steps as the referee paces off a penalty against Cal, ending up with a thunderous "You Bastard!" When Stanford beat Cal in last year...