Word: california
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...CRIMSON has a base-ball nine.- California Occident...
...faculty of Princeton have assigned commencement parts to the seniors of that college. Hugh T. Dobbins of California has been assigned the Latin salutatory; Edwin M. Hopkins of New York the English salutatory; Winthrop M. Daniels of Ohio, the valedictory. Honorary orations, on philosophy, political economy, modern languages, classics, the sciences and literature were assigned to nineteen other seniors...
...Lick Observatory has been formally transferred by the representatives of the Lick trust to the trustees of the University of California. Not more than $90,000 remain of the fund of $700,000 for astronomical purposes which had been increased to about $1,000,000 by the accumulation of interest. The balance in the hands of the trustees will yield not more than enough to pay the salary of the director. An appeal is to be made to the state authorities for a sufficient appropriation to give the institution funds to cover the annual expenses...
...deer and on the St. Lawrence River, or "Magnus Fluvius Novi Belgae" as the Atlas calls it, a couple of pelicans stand gazing at each other in mute admiration. The author describes North America as being divided into "New France, New Spain, Virginia, Florida, New Granada and California, which are inhabited by copper-colored barbarians of horrid mien. The work cost 300 marks in Dresden, Germany...
...Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton, California, has been finished at last and will soon be formally made over to the State University. The long, delicate work of making and mounting the enormous telescope has been successfully accomplished. A defect in the movement of the revolving floor of the dome will be remedied by means of four hydraulic rams which will move the floor at the rate of a foot per minute. The observatory has been provided with the best and most perfect astronomical instruments, including a spectroscope having a prismatic field of thirteen feet. More than $600,000 have been...