Stanford vs. Berkeley
Date: May 23rd, 2007 Category; Uncategorized
Did you know that Athena Mentor sends out a weekly (weakly weekly) admissions quiz? The answers are posted here on the blog. In fact, this post answers the quiz question, "Which Tower is Which?" You blog-only readers tend to get the answers before you get the question. Why not add some suspense to your life and sign up for the newsletter at:
Of course, the blog contains the quiz and more, because all of life cannot be fit into the quiz genre–except perhaps on Judgment Day, when we will all face the Big Question: "Why were you so . . . inadequate?"
For now, let’s stick to a question that can be answered: "Which Tower is Which?"
Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley are located on opposite sides of San Francisco Bay.
Stanford’s Hoover Tower (left) is the crowning glory of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. “Its largest bell is inscribed, ‘For Peace Alone Do I Ring.’”
http://www.stanford.edu/home/welcome/campus/hoover.html
The University of California at Berkeley’s Sather Tower (right) houses The Class of 1928 Carillon. It is a full concert carillon with sixty-one bells. If you are looking for a break from your studies at Berkeley, you can apply for free carillon lessons. No, really!
