Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Francisco...
...with '90 in regard to the number of men who have come to Harvard from the large cities of the United States. The following list, however, has been carefully prepared with respect to the present freshman class; Boston, 43; New York, 18; Philadelphia, 9; San Francisco, 5; Chicago, 4; Cincinnati, 4; St. Louis, 2; Brooklyn...
...Royce first gives an outline of the earlier history of the state, and then tells of the American as its conqueror, and how his conquest was completed and supplemented in the ensuing struggle for good government and order. The last two chapters treat of the social evolution in San Francisco and the history of California's land troubles and politics. The whole book is exceedingly interesting and entertaining, and is printed in neat form. Especially noticeable to Harvard men is the pleasant way in which the logical mind of the author has stamped its imprint throughout the book...
There is a Harvard colony in Lake county, California. These graduates are devoted to grape growing. The San Francisco Chronicle says that the native's look with wonder upon the oarsmanship of the Cambridge colonists...
...rather a curious illustration of the barriers which conventional boundary lines may create, that Canada is represented in this college by only three students. The Pacific slope, which is ten times farther away, sends thirty students here; the city of San Francisco alone has twenty-two. And yet there is probably as large a well-to-do class in either Montreal or Quebec as there is in the American city. The great difficulty about attracting Canadian students to this country is, that a college is almost entirely deprived of the most effective means of overcoming international prejudice and conservatism - advertising...