Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Columbus campus of Ohio State University, which will enroll more than 35,000 students this fall, a random selection of about 200 freshmen in the College of Arts and Sciences will be housed in two dormitories (separated by sex), attend English, history and arts courses together. All the freshmen at Stanford will attend English and history courses with students from their own residential units...
...President corralled three Republican Congressmen to join his party of 100, picked up others along the way. In Buffalo, he also met New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and they both took a look at sewage-contaminated water. In Syracuse, the crowd of 100,000 in Columbus Square listened to Johnson's review of the cities' plight, but really stirred only when New York's Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Jacob K. Javits arrived. Bobby evoked shrieks, was still shaking hands as the President climbed back into his limousine. Johnson spent the night...
When Ervin Kotowski was installed recently as grand knight of Milwaukee's largest Knights of Columbus Council, he got a telegram of congratulations from Circuit Judge Claire Voss, imperial potentate of the city's big Tripoli Masonic Shrine. Exclaimed Kotowski: "Imagine the Shriners congratulating me!" A lot of brotherly things that would have been hard to imagine a few years ago are happening today be tween the Roman Catholic Knights and their longtime antagonists, the predominantly Protestant Masons...
...brotherhood committee rep resenting a combined membership of 100,000. Says Supreme Knight John W. McDevitt, national head of the Catholic organization: "It's high time for the dissipation of any recriminations, disaffections or petty jealousies that may have formed a barrier be tween the Knights of Columbus and the Masonic Order...
Largely because bias excluded Catholics from many social clubs, the Knights of Columbus was started in 1882, and since then has often taken a militant attitude toward non-Catholics. This old-fashioned militancy has gradually been cooling off on both sides, but the real impetus toward cooperation came from Vatican...