Word: california
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...large universities and technical schools which have benefited most by this new-found popularity of higher education. Take, for instance, the enrolment statistics of 11 of the representative big city or state universities -- Boston University, Columbia, Cornell, New York University, Northwestern, Syracuse, and the universities of California, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Their total registration today is 90,947, compared with 53,316 in 1918 and 72,646 in 1916. Here is a gain of 55 per cent. over last year and of 25 per cent. over three years ago. In other words, they are well above the average...
...same reasoning applies in a measure to the University of Pennsylvania, with its 10,321 students; to New York University, with its 9695; California, with its 9208, and Michigan, with its 9800. All of those institutions and others like them are rendering a public service of tremendous dimensions...
...committee felt that there was a possibility that the plans of the football team might run counter to the wishes of the Government in the present critical fuel situation, and that this possibility ought to be guarded against. A telegram advising them of the action taken was sent the California alumni last night by Dean Briggs and Major F. W. Moore...
This plan to send the team to the Pacific Coast was brought to the attention of the Athletic Committee a few days ago by a telegram from W. C. Whitmer '12, Secretary of the Harvard Club of Southern California. Mr. Whitmer told of the strong feeling in the west in favor of having the University football team play one of the best coast teams at the annual Pasadena Tournament of Roses on New Year's day. He urged the value of the game in the favorable impression it would make on the alumni of the coast, and cited the cases...
...plan was brought to the attention of the authorities here through the following telegram sent to the Chairman of the Athletic Committee by W. C. Witmer '12, Secretary of the Harvard Club of Southern California...