Word: berkeley
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...University of California at Berkeley, with 16 winners, is the only institution with more fellows than Harvard...
After college at Macalester and the University of California at Berkeley, Wallace began his first venture into what might be called minimal publishing: a booklet that summarized hundreds of free pamphlets for farmers. He was seriously wounded during World War I, but instead of loafing during his four-month convalescence, he sharpened his editor's shears, tightening magazine articles. By 1920 he had prepared a sample copy of the Reader's Digest...
Stanford thought enough of the young breaststroker to offer him only the second full swimming scholarship given in the school's history. A graduate of Cupertino High School, Hencken, whose early years in the sport were supervised by Tatto Yamashita at the Berkeley YMCA before the family moved to Snata Clara, followed in the foot-steps of Brian Job, another of Haines' proteges. Job, also a breaststroker, received that first full swimming scholarship given by Stanford...
Women currently within the coaching profession, such as Karen Moe Thorton, women's swim coach at the University of California at Berkeley, point to the fact that coaching opportunities for women really only opened up with the advent of scholarships at the collegiate level less than 15 years ago. Previously, Thornton believes a certain stigma was attached to the title "female athlete" and women were often channeled into instructor positions...
...last holdout of ill-will towards the military is right here in this town and maybe at Berkeley." Major Steven I., Orton, assistant professor of aerospace studies at MIT's Air Force ROTC detachment, says, adding. "In this area nobody cares. If we went away they probably wouldn't notice...