Word: berkeleys
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Harvard has taken over the national lead in Ph.D. production from the University of California at Berkeley, according to a recent study by the National Academy of Sciences...
...American Council on Education concluded that Berkeley was the nation's "best balanced distinguished university," in a study which stressed quality as evaluated by faculty members and former students. In that study Harvard was ranked number one in the greatest number of fields, but its low showing in engineering eased it out of the top spot overall...
...survey placed Harvard first in six fields--anthropology and archaeology, economics and econometrics, modern foreign languages and literature, classical languages and literature, history, and business administration--in Ph.D. production from 1964 to 1966. Berkeley led in four fields. The University of Wisconsin and New York University led in three...
...board of directors, composed of student leaders from all parts of the country, went to work to assure involvement of as many students on as many campuses as possible. On the board are representatives from the University of California at Berkeley, Kansas State Teachers College, University of Texas, Fordham University, University of Wisconsin, University of Utah, University of Tennessee, Michigan State, Yale, Georgia Institute of Technology, and University of Oregon. They and Harris, who was named executive director of the program, feel strongly that a large vote will be sure proof of the political responsibility and maturity of students...
...Berkeley students insist that the best clue to the existence of a gut is a disproportionate enrollment of "jocks" (athletes), "Freddys" (fraternity men), "Sallys" (sorority sisters) and "mungs" (beatniks). Stanford's jocks are urged by Athletic Director Charles Taylor to take Health Education 400, in which Professor Oliver E. Byrd grades solely on the number of abstracts of articles in medical journals his students turn in -and he tells them how many abstracts will make an A. He has abolished examinations, gives one test that includes multiple-choice items asking, for example, to "name the required textbook in this...