Word: berkeleys
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Harvard alumni have a record of high participation in the Peace Corps, providing more volunteers than any other university except Berkeley. One of the first Peace Corps training programs was held here...
Kirkland House Junior Common Room to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the noted philosopher, poet, and Harvard professor. Members of the panel of speakers include Henry L. Alken, professor of Philosophy, Irving Singer of the M.I.T, Humanities Department, Henry May of the University of California at Berkeley History Department, and Marshall Cohen of the University of Chicago Philosophy Department...
...Central Valley flatlands near Sacramento, Davis aims to be something more: a first-rate university with a vast campus of 3,710 acres. Already it has 4,900 students and 300,000 books; soon it will triple both, becoming the rural rival of Cal's urban jewels, Berkeley and U.C.L.A...
...Aggie Spirit." Davis began in 1905 as Berkeley's farm. Ag students went up there, 60 miles north, to practice planting and harvesting. As mass-farming grew, Davis trained managers and technicians; to broaden their education, it opened a liberal arts college in 1951. Then in 1959, to help accommodate California's burgeoning college population, Davis was spun off entirely from Berkeley to become a general university campus...
...Aggie spirit"-corn-fed coeds, boys in cowboy boots, and an honored honor system-rural Davis seems almost anachronistic in the age of urban universities. That is precisely its pitch. "Our isolation is important," says genial Chancellor Emil Mrak, 62, a noted food technologist who used to teach at Berkeley. To justify his $10 million-a-year building program, Mrak has only to point at California's jammed cities and freeways. Davis appeals as an oasis-part farm, part suburbia-where everyone still knows everyone else. Cars are disdained in favor of bicycles, a 700-lb. pig snuffles outside...