Word: california
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Antonio Lubo, right tackle, is 22 years old, weighs 168 pounds and is 5 feet 10 inches in height. He is a Mission Indian from California...
Professor Putnam, Curator of the Peabody Museum, has just returned from an extensive trip in the West, where he has been engaged in research, and advisory work. Most of the time he has been in California carrying on investigations of the question of the antiquity...
While engaged in his work in California, Professor Putnam was invited by President Wheeler, of the University of California, and by Mrs. P. A. Hearst, one of the regents, to organize a department of Anthropology in the University. Mrs. Hearst has donated 850,000 a year for five years for research in Anthropology, and Professor Putnam is chairman of the committee in charge of the research. Some portion of the fund will be devoted to the exhaustive study of geological deposits, to try to ascertain when man first appeared in California, and some will be used to study the great...
...matches will be played during the year, the most important being that one with Yale, to be held in Cambridge on the night before the Harvard-Yale football game. There will also be the intercollegiate and international matches, and, in all probability, a telegraphic match with the University of California. In addition to these matches there will be weekly or fortnightly matches in the Boston Chess League, in which ten men from the club will be entered...
...special opportunities will be offered to anyone who shows promise of becoming a good player. The four men getting the highest average in the fall tournament will represent the University in the intercollegiate tournament; and the first ten men will be representatives in the matches with Yale, University of California, and the less important matches. The last man of these ten may at any time be challenged by another member of the club, and, if beaten, must resign his place to his opponent...