Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...denizens as the magnet in the case, is now a regular occurrence.... The causes of this development are numerous and complicated, and the results are almost catastrophic, in my opinion, for the continued good health of undergraduate education at Yale," Thomas C. Mendenhall, Master of Berkeley College and Smith's president-elect, wrote in 1953. "When the student's original academic obligation and his self-imposed extra-curricular demands are added to the mixture, the effects of this weekending are far reaching and, I think, disastrous," he added...
...seven other football games, three went to the House teams. Kirkland beat Trumbull, 16 to 0, Eliot downed Berkeley, 8 to 0, while Adams topped Saybrook, 14 to 6. In three losses, Winthrop was topped by Davenport, 14 to 0, Dudley was beaten by Silliman, 8 to 0, and Leverett was overcome by Timothy Dwight, 17 to 8. Lowell and Pierson rounded out the schedule with...
Other touch football games Friday will pit Houses against their traditional Eli rivals. Dunster, if they lose the championship will face Berkeley; if Winthrop is defeated is is slated to face Davenport...
...large bill like this is going to be a severe jolt to anyone, regardless of financial circumstances," says a neat card prepared by Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif, and handed out last week by doctors to patients or their kin. And with good reason: Cutter was talking about bills for one of the highest-priced medications currently in general use-fibrinogen, a fraction of human blood. Fibrinogen restores the clotting power of blood, which may almost vanish when a woman hemorrhages during labor, or in patients of either sex after major surgery. Average cost of fibrinogen to the patient...
...meditations are beguiling, as when he contemplates "David 0. Selznick, equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha." A hip peg in a square world, Ray meets his oddball twin in Japhy Ryder, a twinkly-eyed Zen Buddhist hobohemian who lives in a shack at Berkeley, Calif. Japhy's remedy for a "sick civilization" is mountain climbing. But before the two buddies hit the trail, Japhy initiates Ray in a nonascetic pastime he calls "yabyum,"*and it makes such fictional standbys as nude mixed bathing seem mid-Victorian. A yabyummy blonde compliantly strips to the buff...