Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high-ranked U.C.L.A. An improvised two-point conversion pass from Quarterback Jim Traficant to Fullback Rick Leeson provided the margin of victory. The week saw more than its share of upsets: Colgate stunned undefeated Princeton, 16-15, Auburn downed Georgia Tech, 17-14, Oklahoma beat Kansas, 13-7, and Northwestern spotted Ohio State a 14-0 lead, stormed back...
Hughes said he had been encouraged by the response he and other speakers had received at a conference on the "ideologically moribund" Northwestern University campus. "Speakers who stressed peace, anti-discrimination and the growth of a new American left got the greatest response," he declared. "If that could happen at Northwestern, something was clearly happening in the country." Two weeks after the conference decided...
Judy Long, 22, is a pretty June graduate of Northwestern University who enlisted 57 other students to tutor school dropouts (rate: up to 75%) in Chicago's heavily Negro Lawndale area, stomping ground for gangs. One of the students, 19-year-old Elaine Stevens, works 20 hours a week as a summer research assistant in psychology at Northwestern, also coaches a Lawndale teen-age girls' softball team called the Lady Racketeers. Along with batting practice, Elaine teaches baby care−her13-year-old third baseman is five months pregnant, and children of other teen-age players...
...Northwestern is about the same size as Harvard, and has the same kind of nebulous, sprawling campus. One thing that does make Northwestern different, however -- at least from the point of view of the professor of Education -- is the undergraduate education program. In this program a student concentrates in some regular academic discipline but also takes a series of half courses in education...
Successful Sample. Son of a Belgian immigrant house painter, Stans grew up in Shakopee, Minn., then went off to Chicago, where he spent his nights studying accounting at Northwestern University; he worked days as clerk for a sausage-casing importer. Without finishing college, he joined a small firm of accountants, became a partner in three years, sole owner in 18. When he sold out in 1955 (to avoid possible conflict of interest with Government duties), his firm stood among the top accounting houses...