Word: california
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Royce has written for the International Monthly for November, an article on "The Pacific Coast, a Psychological Study of Influence." The article is a discussion of the effect of the topography and climate of California on the character of the people...
...conference of representatives from the athletic committees of the principal American universities, held at Brown College on February 18, 1898, a sub-committee was appointed to investigate and report on general intercollegiate competion. This committee was composed of representatives from Brown, California, Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Harvard. The report recently made states that at present athletics receive a disproportionate amount of attention in many universities. Summer practice is regarded with disfavor and it is suggested that it would be better to give up the two weeks preparatory practice before the regular opening of the colleges. Any communication with athletes...
Five Filipino boys, ranging in age from eleven to sixteen years, have been sent to America to be educated, upon the recommendation of the Philippine Commission. They are under the guardianship of President Wheeler of the University of California and have been placed in Boone's Academy, where they will prepare for the University of California...
...Kuwana, assistant in the Entomology department of Stanford University, California, has just returned from a trip to Japan, his native country, where he has been pursuing successful researches in economic entomology. He has found six varieties of insects, all of which prey upon and eradicate the San Jose scale, America's most dangerous fruit pest...
Doctor of Laws -- Le Baron Russell Briggs '75, Dean of Harvard College; Benjamin Ide Wheeler, President of the University of California; Marcus Perrin Knowlton, Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts; William Henry Welch Professor of Pathology in Johns Hopkins University; Sir Julian Pauncefote, English Ambassador to the United States...