Word: berkeley
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When the University of California regents set out last year to pick a replacement for retiring President Robert Gordon Sproul, they polled the nation's top educators for opinions, got a nearly unanimous consensus: "You already have Clark Kerr at Berkeley.'' This month, slight, balding Labor Economist Kerr, Berkeley's chancellor since 1952, took over the presidency. He found himself saddle-high on a job that is probably the biggest in U.S. education, and is destined to grow a lot bigger. Today California has eight campuses and 42,114 students (the country's second largest...
...Berkeley. With 18,981 students registered last fall and a solid ranking among the top schools in the U.S., Berkeley is the biggest and juiciest chunk of the California orange. Berkeley's trees have had time to grow, and its faculty, mature and luminous, includes six Nobel laureates (among them: Radiation Laboratory Physicists Ernest Lawrence and Edwin McMillan, Chemist Glenn Seaborg). Partisans compare Berkeley, not always defensively, with Harvard, fairly assess their school as stronger in the physical sciences, less impressive in the humanities...
U.C.L.A. Once "not a branch of Berkeley, but a twig," in the recollection of one educator, the University of California at Los Angeles has begun to catch up with Berkeley in capacity (16,081 students last fall). In some areas, U.C.L.A. Chancellor Raymond B. Allen declares, his school surpasses Berkeley in academic excellence. Added to the university in 1919, 46 years after Berkeley started classes, the school has a less finished look, a bigger parking problem and a less famed faculty, jealously compares honors won (1958 Guggenheims: eleven for U.C.L.A., 19 for Berkeley...
Pennsylvania-born President Kerr, 47, spent his undergraduate years at Swarthmore, took his Ph.D. in economics at Berkeley, brought his Quaker's instincts for peacemaking to a series of stints as mediator in West Coast labor-management wars. His most notable effort: a long, painful arbitration during 1946-47 between longshoremen and shipowners. Says the dockers' boss, hard-mouthed Harry Bridges: "The assignment was not an easy one. He performed it with fairness and courage...
...Coming out of the turn, Sprinter Glenn Davis of Ohio State University inched into the lead and whipped across the finish line of the 440-yd. dash in 45.7 sec., to set a new world's record at the N.C.A.A. games in Berkeley, Calif...