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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where Are You Going? López Mateos climbed the slippery slopes of politics with the aid of a fine baritone speaking voice, a gift for oratory, a quick wit, and a knack for making close and lasting friendships. At college in Toluca, he was an ardent campus politician and belonged to the Socialist coalition, which at that time was the major opposition to the government's National Revolutionary Party, now the all-dominant Revolutionary Institutional Party (P.R.I.). In 1929 Colonel Carlos Riva Palacio, head of the government party, came to Toluca for a party convention...
...Administration has not yet determined which dorm or off-campus house will be made available. A $20 fee will be charged for residence during the holiday period or any fraction of it, and meals will not be served. Students who want a room must notify their dormitory head resident and see one of the deans before...
With the lessened emphasis on studying comes a correspondingly greater stress upon extracurricular activities. Professor Key notes that "at Yale the boys seemed to take the secret societies very seriously." It is, according to many, a bit easier to become a Big Man On Campus at Yale, although a Yale professor points out that "the emphasis on extracurricular activities here has lessened...
...classrooms of Harvard there was a spirit of independent thinking unlike anything I had met before... The whole atmosphere was electric with the sparks of competitive argument. On the other hand, there was little of the corporate class spirit and democratic energy which was so visible on the Yale campus...
...House bells ring spasmodically, and there is the sun-dial in back of Lamont. You may not have known about the sun-dial, because, like all of the time reminders owned and operated by the University, it is fairly unobtrusive. And all are hushed as night steals across the campus. In general, the situation is satisfactory...