Word: california
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From the point of view of the extensiveness of its war preparations, the University of California probably leads other academic institutions. The university has spent more than $160,000 for such equipment as a large school of military aeronautics, which graduates approximately 60 men every eight weeks. The university has also sent 2,500 students and faculty members into active service, while the entire institution has been mobilized and all its resources offered to the Government...
...arranging an intercollegiate meet for freshmen, but the matter is under consideration. Other important items of business included the election of the University of Pittsburgh to membership in the association, and the decision of the Pittsburgh delegates to send a team to the intercollegiate games. Although the representative from California and Leland Stanford asked that, in consideration of war conditions and the distance of those universities from Philadelphia, the rule providing for the exclusion from membership of colleges which are not represented by a team for two years consecutively be suspended, it was voted that no change in the constitution...
...institutions represented by the largest numbers who volunteered for the Ambulance Service are listed below: Harvard, 311 Yale, 192 Princeton, 190 Dartmouth, 122 Cornell, 107 California, 66 Stanford, 56 Columbia, 49 Mass. I. T. 39 Chicago...
...pound, as it did in the Napoleonic wars. If this seems too historically remote to be consoling it is worth reflecting that sugar is from 15 to 20 cents a pound in Europe today, and much more scarcely obtainable than it is here. We have sugar from California, Colorado, Idaho, Michigan and Ohio; from the Louisiana and Texas cane fields and mills, from Porto Rico and from Hawaii, as well as Cuba; with the result that there is no month in the entire year in which American-grown sugar is not being harvested and moved to market...
...California Society. Conant...