Word: berkeley
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...Amherst College, at least 60% of the student body now belong to the school's 13 fraternities. The University of California at Berkeley is considering applications from ten new fraternities, which will send the total number up to 38, about as many as 20 years ago. At the University of Maryland, the number of students pledging fraternities is up 50% since 1970. After a sharp decline at Syracuse University, where 14 houses shut down during the past decade, three new fraternities have applied for charters...
...John Berkeley...
Harvard dominated the ratings. Four of its schools-Business, Law, Medicine and Theology-led the ratings in their fields; three others-Architecture, Education and Public Health -were ranked among the top five. The universities of Chicago, Michigan and California at Berkeley each boasted six schools that were ranked among the top five. Columbia had five; Stanford, Ohio State and Illinois each rated four. Yale, however, had only three...
Ammons came late to poetry. The son of a North Carolina farmer, he studied science at Wake Forest but did not have enough money to complete graduate work at Berkeley in English. He spent ten years selling glass medical gadgetry for a New Jersey firm; characteristically, he did it so well that he ended up as an executive vice president. But like Wallace Stevens at that Hartford insurance company, Ammons wrote poetry in his spare time, published some of it and waited. Then in 1964 he gave a reading at Cornell, and someone asked why he did not teach...
...hour later when, during his speech in a room of the Harvard Club, chants of "Viva Allende" were clearly audible from the 200 protesters on the pavement outside. "Your opinion groups are being led by foreign ideologies. Some words they are saying I've heard in San Francisco, Princeton, Berkeley, Europe, the Middle East, everywhere there are groups saying the same thing...