Word: northfield
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...many to bowl that membership in the Woman's International Bowling Congress last year passed the 1,000,000 mark, is expected to increase another 250,000 this year. In many an alley the beer cooler has given way to the bottle warmer. When Cleveland's suburban Northfield Lanes opened last year, it offered housewives three weeks of free bowling, also tossed in lessons, coffee and baby sitting on the house. By following this pattern (often adding closed-circuit TV for mothers to watch their children in the nursery from the lanes), alleys have made it possible...
...following Juniors were elected to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society Thursday: David M. Balabanian, of Kirkland House and Cashmere, Wash., a concentrator in Government; Michael W. B. Freeman, of Eliot House and Detroit, Mich., Romance Languages and Literatures; and Smith Freeman Jr., of Eliot House and Northfield, III., Chemistry and Physics...
Also chosen as vice-president were James F. Collins '61, of Lowell House and Northfield, III.; Michael Hornblow '62, of Thayer Hall and Los Angeles, Calif.; Howard J. Phillips '62, of Dudley House and Brighton; Robert C. Thompson '62, of Grays Hall and Albuquerque, N.M.; and Johanna Watson '61, of McIntire House and North Quincy...
When Carleton College began to instruct the young of Northfield, Minn, in 1867, its faculty consisted wholly of a stout-souled Dartmouth graduate named Horace Goodhue Jr., who taught 14 classes a day. Nine years later and still not overstaffed, the college lost a good man when Treasurer Joseph Heywood tried to prevent an unauthorized withdrawal from the bank he served as cashier-and was gunned down by Jesse James's boys. If the Congregational college's endowment vanished with the Missouri badman, it did not weigh heavily in his saddlebags; at any rate, Carleton-named first...
...anything bothers the students it's that nothing really does bother them." Yet, says History Professor Catherine Boyd. "I've never had students who worked so hard. We have students who come to us as freshmen and are already working toward a Fulbright." Carleton has few distractions; Northfield is sleepily sedate, and the college bans cars, so socializing is mostly of the walk-and-talk kind. Even the occasional big stomp-and-holler has a cloistered flavor; last year Duke Ellington's band was hired, installed in the only building on campus big enough to hold both...