Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...open-air Hearst Greek Theater at Berkeley, Calif, one day last week, 8,000 new students sat waiting. As the warm sun beat down on them, the band blared out Hail to California. A huge, hearty figure strode on stage. The yell leader called for a "Six." The big man stood listening to the cheer with a big smile. Then he called for another chorus of Hail to California; he helped out with his bathtub baritone. Then silence fell. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the nation's largest university (41,451 full-time students), began to speak. As everybody...
...Berkeley, Calif...
...matched the numbers. In San Francisco, 2,500 stood in the streets outside the packed Opera House to listen to the sound trucks. When University of California officials refused to let Wallace speak in any university building, 10,000 students left their classes to hear him talk from a Berkeley curbstone near the campus gates. In Chicago his audience chanted: "We want Wallace! Wallace in '48!" In Los Angeles he was introduced, to wild applause...
...Kroeber, generally recognized as the leading social anthropologist in the country, has been appointed as visiting professor at the University for 1947-48, Talcott Parscus, Chairman of the Department of Sociology, disclosed yesterday. Kroeber is at the present time professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley...
Frost has just returned from Berkeley, where the University of California conferred an honorary degree upon him. He is at present George B. Tichnor Fellow in the Humanities at Dartmouth...