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...resent your reference to the University of California campus at Davis as a "cow college." You have to have all your marbles to be an Aggie...
...casual was the takeover process in 1912 that newspapers worried chiefly about the fate of a gift cow, named Pauline, that William Howard Taft had grazing on the White House lawn (Taft sent it back to the donor). President-elect Wilson whisked off on Nov. 9 to Bermuda, where a cable breakdown left him out of touch with the world for five days-to his delight-and about all Wilson asked of Taft was a "candid opinion" of the White House housekeeper...
Since the Roquefort bloodhounds went to work 30 years ago, they have won more than 40 consent decrees against phony Roquefort salad dressings, brought a dozen suits against cow's-milk cheese passing as Roquefort. Two months ago the association won a U.S. district court temporary injunction against an importer's "Roquefort" cheese made in Hungary. Last week it won a satisfying victory: a consent decree and damages of $1,250 from San Francisco's famed Trader Vic restaurant for putting Danish blue cheese into Roquefort dressing. "Trader Vic's can afford it," explains the association...
...will stop at 27,500 each. Berkeley will have more graduate students, an even more luminous faculty. U.C.L.A. will also have more graduates, more dormitories, and solider courses to stave off the encircling "commuter" state colleges. ¶ By 1970: Davis (4,950) will hit 10,000, A changing cow college (cheer: "Bossie. cow cow, honey bee bee, oleomargarine, oleo butterine, alfalfa-hey!"), Davis will soon be a general university on a 3,000-acre farm-campus. Santa Barbara (3,504) will hit 10.500. Riverside (1,633) will hit 7,250. Converted from a citrus experimental station, it aimed...
Southern Baptists responded with renewed evangelical fervor. With Scriptures in their saddlebags, they followed the frontiersmen West, baptized in rivers, creeks and cow ponds, worshiped in barns and shacks, staged hell-raising, Bible-banging revivals in tents and private homes. Clapboard churches, throughout the South and Southwest, became the architectural landmark of the Baptist advance for nearly a century. Any man who heard the call was encouraged to grasp a Bible and summon a crowd...