Word: californianism
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Last evening Prof. Royce was greeted by an audience which filled Sever 11 to overflowing. Prof. Royce gave a brief recapitulation of his first lecture and then proceeded to give a sketch of Californian society since the Bear Flag movement. Marshall, who first discovered the gold, was found to be a thoroughly worthless man. The people of the early history of California often descended to a state of semi-barbarism, yet there was always a spirit of manhood and heroism which has brought California to the strength she has today. The miners were allowed to work the mines...
...were quickly dealt with. There was a brief period of a wide-spread, well organized society, yet it did not last, for it was not founded on moral instinct which is a necessary foundation of all stable order. The treason of carelessness was the greatest sin of the early Californian, and for it he was obliged to severely atone...
...affairs began to grow worse, murder, robbery and brawls increased. The Californian camp of '48 was one of men who had no intention of making California their home and only full of a desire to make money. Although heroism and generosity sometimes prevailed, yet there was no stable system. Upon this fragile framework fell the crowd of "forty miners," and the result, as may be imagined, was most disastrous...
...Francisco Occident is disturbed by the gift of $50,000 by a Californian to Yale College, and says that people who have made their money in the new Pacific States should not forget their debt to their Western home and should provide educational advantages there similar to those now enjoyed in the East...
Josiah Royce, the newly appointed instructor in philosophy, who will take Dr. James' place next year, while the latter is in Europe, is a Californian by birth, being thirty years of age. He is a graduate of the University of California, and has held a travelling fellowship from that institution. After graduation he spent one year in Germany in the study of philosophy. Subsequently he spent three years at Johns Hopkins University, where he took the degree of doctor of philosophy with high honors. He has recently been assistant professor of English Literature at the University of California. Dr. Royce...