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Perhaps the most confusing aspect of this fragmentation of the University is that it makes it virtually impossible to ascertain exactly how many students are involved in precisely what cliques or even more important, how many students are influenced. Cal is most certainly not of the Mid-western breed--there are no football idols and there is certainly not as much diehard campus spirit. Berkeley is sophisticated enough to avoid such conformity...

Author: By David M. Gordon, | Title: Univ. of California at Berkeley: Cliques and Student Alienation | 2/23/1963 | See Source »

What we are afraid of, "Vellucci continued, "is that a shopping center will property as a parking lot that can't be sneak in that will use most of the taxed." He reported that a "multi-million dollar mid-Western outfit" which runs wild with money when it buys choice land for shopping centers" was interested in bidding on the Yards...

Author: By Lawrence W. Feinberg, | Title: Vellucci Says Yards May Go To University | 12/15/1962 | See Source »

Twelve of the best crews from New England, Middle Atlantic, and mid-Western sailing associations will compete for the prize, generally regarded as the unofficial fall championship, in the two-day regatta...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors to Defend Schell | 11/3/1962 | See Source »

...championship is a "reward" event, and contestants are selected on the basis of winning performances during the regular fall seson. The Crimson sailors will face a major challenge from Coast Guard, but should be able to outmaneuver M.I.T., Cornell, and the mid-Western teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors to Defend Schell | 11/3/1962 | See Source »

President Kennedy's $5.6 billion bill for aid to education came to grief last year because it offered too many targets to too many sharpshooters. Economy-minded Southern Democrats and Mid-western Republicans opposed the whole idea of such sweeping federal aid. Roman Catholics wanted parochial schools included in the bill's $2.3 billion for elementary and high school construction and teachers' salaries. The House Rules Committee locked the bill up, 8-7, and when Kennedy's House lieutenants tried to bypass the committee and bring it directly to the floor last August, the result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Three Priorities | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

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