The Stanford Chaparral was founded in 1899 and is Stanford's humor magazine. The founding idea of the magazine from the website of the Chaparral, "Stanford student Bristow Adams came up w … Read More

We recently obtained a book published in 1895 and it gives a pictorial history of the University of California from 1868 to 1895. At the time the University of California was located only in Berkeley … Read More

William Haines Hall was an illustrator who lived in the Bay Area. Hall moved to San Francisco from Missouri in 1925 and enrolled at the California School of Fine Arts. He then worked as a fashion illu … Read More

Cal Berkeley is famously known for its anti-war protests in the 1960s opposing the Vietnam War. Thus, we found it interesting to stumble across an old book titled University of California : A Glimpse … Read More

The tradition of a "Beer Suit" at Princeton originated with the class of 1912, who began to wear the beer suit  because they had difficulty keeping their clothes from becoming spotted when they q … Read More