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Even in 1851, Chicago was too toddling for the stern, teetotaling Methodists who founded Northwestern University. So they located their new school to the north, and then secured its purity by forbidding the sale of liquor within a four-mile radius of the campus. Evanston, the town that grew up around the university, thus became so dry that the Woman's Christian Temperance Union felt safe enough to make Evanston its national headquarters...
...Pritzker School of Medicine are forcing a reorganization of the lying-in clinic system at the university's Billings Hospital. Patients at the clinic are now segregated according to their ability to pay, leaving one wing white and the other black. The school is planning to integrate them. Northwestern University is initiating a two-year program to prepare members of minority groups for entrance to medical school. Conducted in Chicago's South Side ghetto rather than the leafy Evanston campus, the program gives qualified students preliminary scientific training and exposure to patients. It also seeks to encourage them...
...succeed, they must overcome twin prejudices, and that takes courage, persistence and no small measure of competence. By displaying all of these, Barbara Edwards, 31, who was a secretary in California's Northwestern Title Co. eight years ago, has risen to vice president and head of the escrow firm's branch in Berkeley. "I never felt that being black held me back," she says. "It just made me work harder." Similarly, Victoria Lynn Sanders, 27, studied fashion design and retailing before she saw a better opportunity in the financial world. Starting as a research assistant...
...president of the American College of Trial Lawyers (1969-70), president of the American Bar Foundation (1969-71). As head of the A.B.A., he was credited with efforts to speed courtroom procedures and to provide legal aid to the needy. All in all, says Professor Jon R. Waltz of Northwestern, Powell is "a very fine lawyer, justified to sit in the seat of John Harlan. For the first time in a long, long while, the court will have a new man who has demonstrated he can work with the law, and that he can do it superbly...
...Evanston, Ill., Northwestern University raised the price of its football programs from 50� to 75� this season. Irate fans cried illegal procedure, and last week the IRS threw Northwestern for a loss: the programs have dropped back to 50?...