Word: california
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nearly all of them, of course, because they have to, a few because they want to. When a man picks out his college, one of the most important factors in his choice is the presence of opportunities for earning money. In most cases the State universities, from Michigan to California, provide all the opportunities for self-support that one can expect, and they emphasize this in their literature. A boy graduating from high school in Illinois knows that it will be comparatively easy for him to make his own way at the University of Chicago or at the State university...
Harvard led the United States with 155; Yale had 83; Columbia, 52; Michigan, 44; Cornell, 36; Pennsylvania, 36; Princeton, 34; Wisconsin, 28; Stanford, 28; Technology, 28; Johns Hopkins, 26; Chicago, 26, and California, 25. Various combinations could be made showing that the University has graduated since about 1890 as many distinguished men as a number of other institutions added together. Harvard has nearly twice at many as its nearest competitor and three times as many as the third institution...
...yard dash, H. L. Smith, Michigan; 220-yard dash, A. E. Ward, Chicago; 440-yard dash, J. E. Meredith, Pennsylvania; 880-yard run, L. Campbell, Chicago; 1-mile run, I. D. Mackenzie, Princeton; 2-mile run, D. F. Potter, Cornell; 120-yard hurdles, W. F. Kelly, Southern California; 220-yard hurdles, F. Murray, Stanford; broad-jump, H. T. Worthington, Dartmouth; high jump, W. M. Oler, Jr., Yale; pole-vault, F. K. Foss, Cornell; shot-put, A. W. Mucks, Wisconsin; hammer-throw, H. P. Bailey, Maine; cross-country, J. W. Overton, Yale...
...calendar was presented to every guest. President Lowell's annual reading from the Bible of the story of the first Christmas was followed by "Bob Cratchett's Christmas Dinner," read by Professor Copeland, and readings from the poems of Kipling by Professor Henry Morse Stevens, of the University of California. Refreshments were served later in the evening. The guests included Dean and Mrs. Briggs, Dr. and Mrs. Albert Parker Fitch, Dean Hurlburt, Arthur Beane '11, and Professor R. B. Merriman...
...honorable Frank Sherwin Streeter is being discussed by Dartmouth men as a prominent candidate to succeed President B. F. Nichols as president of Dartmouth College. General Streeter, who is now in California, was graduated from Dartmouth in 1874, and has been a trustee of the college since...