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Shortly before final exams, the War Department announced that it would maintain summer training camps at Gettysburg, Pa., and Monterey, Calif. Apparently there were no salaries, but the CRIMSON announced that expenses would be light and recommended the camps for those who did not have summer plans...
Known by Name. With student cars banned on the campus, some students grumble about their isolation. Most students, however, appreciate the beauty of the rolling, rocky site, which rises from a grassy plain to craggy hills overlooking Monterey Bay. Students ride bikes, wear khakis and Bermuda shorts, enjoy a warm informality with their teachers. "I can walk around here and call half the people by name," says bearded Freshman Harris Freeman, "and that to me is worth more than all the cultural advantages of a big university...
Landing a bit later in Delano, they were met by two priests representing the local bishop, Aloysius Willinger of Monterey-Fresno. They told the flying fathers to stop inciting the strike: "The bishop feels that this is none of your business and asks that you go back to your own diocese." Protested Kenny, later on: "Where the poor are, Christ should...
...laughs at, Gordon figures, he is approaching mastery of the language. For Americans, gaining this kind of mastery in Vietnamese is especially hard. As in Chinese, the same word spoken at five or six different pitches has five or six different meanings. Moreover, Vietnamese has three dialects, of which Monterey teaches two: the classic dialect of Hanoi, with six tones, and that of Saigon, which has five...
...meet the heavy demands of the war, the institute now offers a twelve-week crash program in Vietnamese, in addition to the standard 47-week course. Graduates will have a minimum vocabulary of 1,000 words-including all essential military terms. This year, Monterey will graduate 1,000 men from its Vietnamese classes, compared with 150 five years ago. Some may not live long with their knowledge; a bronze memorial plaque, already inscribed with the names of 25 Monterey graduates, has been placed on the door of the Far East Division building...