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H. H. TOLAXI LEVI STRAUSS A. K. P. HARMON JAMES LICK MRS. PHEBE HEAKST J. C. WILMERIIIM, OUR BENEFACTORS S. C. HASTINf.s D. O. MILLS H. D. BACON
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enabled us to keep pace with the actual increase in numbers and the calls for new lines of expansion. The State has been a good mother to its University. Yet for the ten years ending July 1, 1898, the foster mother, the United States, furnished 46 per cent, of the University ' s income, the State 44 per cent. Private benefactions furnished 8.6 per cent., incidentals the remaining 1.4. In 1895 the State appropriated $250,000 for the erection of new buildings in San Francisco, for the group of professional colleges. There was no provision for a site, but this need was generously met by a donation from Hon. Adolph Sutro. The buildings have been completed, and the two largest are already occupied. Of the more quiet forces contributing to the University ' s growth, we may put in the foreground the system of accrediting the high schools. It began in 1884, with a little nucleus of the nearest schools, and slowly extended to the farthest towns in the State. Over a hundred schools are now applying for this recognition, and the relation has been helpful alike to the high schools and to the University. The last few years have brought a fresh and powerful impulse from feminine hands. Mrs. Phebe A. Hearst had established in 1891 eight three-hundred-dollar scholarships for young women. Earlier still she had made valuable gifts to the Lick Observatory. In 1896 she became responsible for the expense of a new architectural plan, to be open to competitors in various countries, for the permanent deve lopment of the University site. The project was received with much interest, and more than one hundred entries were made last autumn, at Antwerp. The international jury selected eleven of these to form the basis of a second compe- tition. The architects represented in these plans were all to visit Berkeley, at Mrs. Hearst ' s expense ; and we have seen them already traversing every rod of the University grounds. This historical sketch properly includes a promise from the same gracious lady, to begin the series of new buildings provided for in the large architectural plan. Such a purpose antedated the offer of the plan and seemed to make it necessary. Our architecture thus far had been hap-hazard and highly unsatisfactory. Another generous benefactress appeared in 1898, in connection with the new College of Commerce, just established by the Regents. Miss Cora Jane Flood has given for its benefit the fine property at Menlo Park, which was owned by her father. Its value to the University will be enhanced in future years. The State scholarships established by the Regents twenty-eight in number, each of the value of $125 have been matched by the generosity of Levi Strauss, who duplicated the amount. One benefaction well deserves mention, of a building outside the University lines. Stiles ' Hall, erected by Mrs. A. J. Stiles, in memory of her husband, is under the care of the University Y. M. C. A., and is not owned by the University ; but it has served many important uses of the students, to whom it has been freely thrown open. On non-collegiate lines we must not omit the bequest of J. Clute Wilmerding for an Industrial School. The bequest became available in 1896, and a site for the school was secured in San Francisco in 1898. Director Everett Schwartz is now on the ground, and the school is to open next autumn. Many minor gifts have all along been received from donors whose names are crowded out of this bird ' s-eye view. The University is strong in its multitude of appreciative friends, chief among whom are the lengthening lines of those who have received instruction in its halls. MAKTIN KELLOGG.
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