Word: california
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is in California a large tree named "Harvard." An admirer of Yale seeing this thought Yale should be represented, and a tree fifteen feet in diameter and two hundred and eighty feet high was named "Yale" at her request...
...obscure member of the senior class has received the following despatch from his father in California: "Heard of the small-pox to-day. Come home at once...
...supporting colleges have withdrawn from the financial support of the school, - the University of California and the University of Pennsylvania. These universities have not, however, withdrawn their interest. Six new colleges have been invited to join, Boston University, Kenyon College, Lafayette College, Rochester University, Tufts College and the University of Vermont...
...recent visit to the workshop of the famous lens makers, Alvin Clark & Sons, Cambridgeport, furnishes some interesting facts concerning the objective for the great telescope of the Lick Observatory in California. It being impossible to get the glasses cast satisfactorily in this country, the Clarks sent to Paris after them soon after receiving the order from the trustees of the Observatory. Considerable time was spent before the first glass, the flint, was successfully cast, and this did not reach Mr. Clark until about three years ago. A very much longer delay accompanied the casting of the crown glass, which...
Massachusetts sends by far the largest number of students, more than half the number in the academical department. The eight states which send the largest number are Massachusetts, 591; New York, 150; Pennsylvania, 48; Illinois, 30; Ohio, 29; California, 24; New Hampshire, 18; New Jersey, 15. The relative rank of these States was the same last year when they sent respectively, 543, 149, 40, 30, 30, 26, 20 and 19 students...