Word: california
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...prizes, of five hundred dollars and three hundred dollars have just been offered for the best and second best essays, respectively, on "Moral Training in Public Schools." These prizes, are offered by a citizen of California who desires his name withheld. He has appointed Reverend Charles R. Brown '77 of Oakland, California, President David Starr Jordan, of Stanford University and Professor F. B. Dresslar, of the University and Professor F. B. Dresslar, of the University of California, trustees of the fund, and sole judges of the essays submitted...
...Howard Payson Arnold '52, of Pasadena, California, has recently presented as a gift to the University a large oak exhibition case, which has been placed in the Reading Room of the Union. It is intended to have a different exhibtion in the case each week during the year. Last week a set of ancient armor plates from the Spitzer Collection was shown, and this week the case contains an excellent collection of ancient sculpture...
...Peabody Museum has recently acquired a fine collection of Indian relics from the northern coast of America, southern Alaska, British Columbia, and northern California. They are the gift of Mr. L. H. Farlow, brother of Professor W. G. Farlow '66, instructor in the Botanical Department, and include many implements of native manufacture. Mr. Farlow has presented many Indian relics to the Museum during the last three years...
...Rickard was born in Italy and educated in Russia and England, graduating from the Royal School of Mines in London in 1885. After his graduation, he went to Colorado and in two years became superintendent of the Union mine at San Andreas, California. In 1889 he went to Australia and for two years visited and studied most of the important mining districts in New Zealand, Queensland, New South Wales. Victoria and Tasmania. He then returned to Colorado and carried on a general practice as a consulting engineer. In 1895 he was appointed state geologist of Colorado and held-this honorary...
...Crothers has been prominent in the Unitarian Church for a number of years as an author and broad-minded theologian. After graduating from Princeton in 1874 the studied for the ministry at the Union Theological Seminary in New York. He held pastorates in California, Nevada and Vermont, but in 1894 was called to Cambridge. Six years ago the University conferred upon him the honorary degree of S.T.D. Dr. Crothers is the author of "Members of One Body," "Miss Muffet's Christmas Party" and a number of magazine articles...