Word: berkeley
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...brother is now a freshman at Berkeley. In his last year in high school, he invested the $500 he had inherited from my grandmother and made a couple thousand dollars in the stock market...
...Smith, of Berkeley, Calif., and Dunster House (Linguisties): Max well D. Solet, of Arlington, Va., and Eliot House (Government); Nathaniel I. Spiller, of Cambridge and Winthrop House (Government); Thomas A. Stewart, of Glencoe, I?., and Adams House (English): Henry A, Tanz, of Tueson. Ariz., and Quindy House (Physics): Allan B. Taylor, of North Haven, Conn., and Leverett House (Social Studies): Robert T. Teske, of Milwaukee. Wise., and Quincy House (Folklore and Mythology): Warren T. Treadgold, of Seattle. Wash., and Eliot House (History and Literature); B, Ko-Young Tung, of Tokyo. Japan, and Quincy House (Physics): Bruce C. Vladek...
Madly Christian. Cobb faults modern philosophy for drawing too sharp a metaphysical distinction between man and his environment. Descartes, Berkeley, Kant, Hegel, Emerson, Sartre-none has granted the subhuman world "a reality such that it can be the object of man's concern," he writes. Theology has followed suit. A weak faith in the value of creation tends to undermine belief in the Creator, and vice versa. Man is left only with his self-interest, which, however enlightened, will not provide sufficient motivation for ecological survival...
Until recently, student protest seemed to be a bizarre happening confined to a few unusual campuses−Berkeley, say, or Cornell, or Columbia. But in the post-Cambodia climate, some of the sleepiest campuses have suddenly been stirred to varying degrees of anger and demands for change. Almost everywhere, more and more students are voicing unsuspected concern. But despite their newfound willingness to join demonstrations and their often abusive language, the new activists are still basically against violence, which is why they are being called "aggressive moderates...
Even with better men and training, campus police forces may still be overwhelmed by the task of patrolling what amounts to a massive urban community. Then they must ask for outside help. At relatively quiet campuses the problems usually remain manageable. But at Berkeley, Beall and his 87-man force must resort to the most ingenious means to keep order. Two recent examples...