No. 3 in the Pac-10, sort of

That last bit from the 1904 Chinook caught my attention. If the Evergreen held a place of distinction in "the college journalism of the West," what did college journalism actually look like at that point?

Here's a rundown of when the Pac-10 student newspapers joined the tradition:

1871 The Daily Californian (at Cal)
Remarkably, it's had pretty much the same name ever since it began as one of the earliest college newspapers in the country and one of the first newspapers at all in the West.

1892 The Stanford Daily
Originally it was called The Daily Palo Alto.

1895 The Evergreen

1899 The Arizona Wildcat
It started with the stupid name Silver & Sage, later evolving to the Arizona Weekly Life and the University Life before getting a name that sounds marginally more like a real paper.

1900 The Oregon Emerald
It was the Oregon Weekly until 1909.

1906 The Daily Barometer (at Oregon State)
Its predecessor started in 1896 as a monthly literary magazine, then finally turned into a real weekly newspaper.

1906 The State Press (at Arizona State)
It started out as the Tempe Normal Student and then the Tempe Collegian. In 1890 they started a 1-page supplement to a professional local paper. It was called the Normal Echo.

1909 The Daily (at University of Washington)
UW technically had a paper called The Pacific Wave in 1891, but I'm not counting that because then they would be earlier than us.

1912 The Daily Trojan (at USC)

1919 The Daily Bruin
It didn't get its name until 1926, after putting in a few years as the Cub Californian and the California Grizzly. They also had a paper of sorts called the Normal Outlook from 1910 to 1918.