Word: california
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Peabody Museum has received a set of old Indian basketwork from Mr. Alfred M. Tozzer, a student in the anthropological department, who collected them among the Indians of North California. The baskets are made extremely carefully and are often the result of two or more years' work. The various designs in the straw are symbolic and show the coat of arms, as it were, of the family. Although unintelligible to the European eye, to the Indian they represent collections of arrow heads, tracks of various animals, quail crests and other significant symbols...
...purchased them, unaware of the theft. The present professor will probably turn them over to the Museum. Important work among the Indians has been done by Miss Alice C. Fletcher, who studied the of the Pawnees, in Oklahoma, and by Dr. Frans Russell, in Arizona. Professor Putnam visited California and collected specimens of gravel in the region or where the famous Calaveras skull was found in order to decided the disputed question of its precise source and age by comparing these gravel with the gravel take from the skull...
...Lapsley '93, instructor in history, and Mr. J. P. Warren '96, assistant in government, have recently resigned their positions on the Faculty and are now on their way to California to take the positions of acting assistant professors of history at Leland Stanford University...
...years, may be permanently established. The entire value of the equipment both in Cambridge and at the Arequipa station in Peru amounts only to $134,000, as compared with a corresponding value of $500,000 on the equipment at the Lick and Yerkes observatories more recently established in California. In addition to this handicap in financial matters, the department is much in need of a fire-proof Library building for the safe keeping of the valuable astronomical library. There are also buildings at the Cambridge and Blue Hill stations in need of immediate repair...
...College, $10,000; Berea College, $110,000; Brown University, $1,000,000; Barnard College, $15,000; Bowdoin College, $200,000; Beloit College, $230,000; Carnegie Institute, $3,600,000; Cooper Union, $800,000; Columbia College, $192,000; University of Chicago, $2,675,400; Cornell College, $110,000; University of California, $135,000; Colorado College, $50,000; Clark University, $2,350,000; Drake University, $532,500; Dartmouth College, $5,000; Harvard College, $710,500; Hampton Institute, $101,000; Illinois College, $60,000; Lake Forrest University, $79,000; University of Michigan, $27,500; New York University, $125,000; Northwestern University...