Word: calif
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco, Calif...
...Angeles. Calif...
...Claremont, Calif., hard by Los Angeles, another Oxford rises. Oxford, at least, is the handiest comparison, for Oxford is a group of autonomous colleges, individually staffed, housed and administered, under a university seal that indicates their federation into a community of learning in which only major facilities, basic policies and an enveloping tradition are held in common...
...Pomona's first neighbor college was founded-Scripps College for Women. This will open next autumn. Up and down the Pacific coast go praise and thanksgiving for the woman who gave the money, Miss Ellen B. Scripps of La Jolla, Calif., "most beloved woman in Southern California...
Died. Barbara La Marr (Reatha Watson), 29, famed cinema actress, daughter of William W. Watson, Portland, Oregon, newspaperman; at Altadena, Calif., of a lingering illness. "More than 120,000 persons" passed her bier as she lay in state at Los Angeles. A crowd of 10,000 broke up the funeral when it was finally held, milled about furiously while two cordons of police vainly attempted to keep them back, burst through the police guard, knocked Bert Lytell, one of the cinema-star pallbearers, against a wheel of the hearse, sent the other pallbearers fleeing for safety. This stampede apparently resulted...