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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that abolished Queen Anne's wine gallon (231 cu. in.) and the ale gallon (282) in favor of the present imperial gallon (277.4). The government bill abolishes entirely the linear measurement, beloved of school textbooks, known as rod, pole or perch, a 5 ½yd. unit based originally on the combined length of the left feet of 16 men. The government also lengthens the yard* and lightens the pound to conform to international standards, and in five years it will also abolish pennyweight, scruple and drachm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Requiem for a Pennyweight | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

Dean E. McHenry, chancellor of the new campus, expressed interest in the Houses last year while interviewing several Harvard undergraduates. Twenty small liberal arts colleges will built at Santa Cruz, each with an independent administration. Between 250 and 1000 students will live in each unit. In his talk with students, McHenry was especially impressed with both the tutorial system and the Masters. Santa Cruz will have a campus-wide faculty, but like Harvard will have ten to twelve faculty members living in each college. The first to be built, Cowell College, will include a residence for the dean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New University of California Campus Will Be Set Up Like Harvard Houses | 11/20/1962 | See Source »

Although Harvard University is a unit in every legal and public sense, its members cannot generally meet each other at meals without additional expense beyond their board bill; often they cannot eat together at all in University dining halls, which are as complicated and mutually restrictive as the customs system of the German states before the Zollverein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harmonious Feast | 11/20/1962 | See Source »

Dunda will have to pass early and often against a stacked defense if Brown is to stay in the game. The Bruins will also be depending on a sophomore riddled first unit that has made "costly mistakes" in other contests...

Author: By Robert A. Ferguson, | Title: Crimson Eyes 4th Ivy Win | 11/17/1962 | See Source »

...location will incorporate itself, elect a mayor, and become a city on its own. The ingredients are all there-stores, restaurants, banks, a post office (one center outside Manhattan has its own hospital). And it would be only logical. For the shopping center is the first and only urban unit to be devised specifically and exclusively to accommodate that bugaboo of older cities, the automobile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suburbia: Movies on the Mall | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

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