The materials consist of catalogs of course offerings available at the Midpeninsula Free University, as well as its newsletter, The Free You, from 1966-1970. Also included are some Stanford University student publications from the same era.

The Midpeninsula Free University (MFU) was a free university, operating primarily between 1966 and 1971 on the San Francisco Midpeninsula. The MFU offered an open curriculum; anyone who paid the nominal membership fee of $10 could offer a course in any subject. Courses were publicized in illustrated catalogs, issued quarterly and widely distributed. The MFU had no campus; classes were taught in homes and storefronts. Its magazine-style, illustrated newsletter, The Free You, published articles, features, fiction, poetry, and reviews contributed by both members and nonmembers. The MFU sponsored, be-ins, street concerts, a restaurant, a store, and was actively involved in every aspect of the flourishing counterculture on the Midpeninsula, including the anti-war movement at Stanford University. The MFU was eventually disbanded in July of 1971.

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