University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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considered. But the very great inequalities in the amount and character of the tasks of the different participants, render any assignment of credit impossible. Furthermore, the introduction of any credit system would destroy the spontaneity which is so essential to true artistic success. The merits of debating are too well known to need any emphasis, but the same difficulties which make the credit system impractical for dramatics apply also to this activity. Student musicians have recently been recognized by the Faculty as de- serving of credit. The University Orchestra is now a regular course in the Department of Music. Any one who has heard the Orchestra, feels that the single unit which is given them for their conscientious practice and splendid results is only too meager. Other universities, among them Columbia and Washington, accredit work in Journalism which corresponds almost identically with that of the Califoriiitiii and the Occident, and eminently satisfactory results have been obtained. If the system operates successfully in institutions which exist under conditions similar to those at the University of California, it must be feasible and deserves a trial. There is no reason why this trial should not In- successful and lead to the permanent incorporation of Journalism as an undergraduate course. If this were done. Journalism would become an activity in the true sense of the word, with an increase in all of its benefits to the entire L ' niversity.

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Irving Stringham It is our sad but honored duty to make mention of the loss to the University of one whose talents and services to our community hardly leave the hope that they will ever be replaced. In the death of Professor Stringham we feel that our loss is more than keen, it is irreparable. Not only to his family, but to those few who were so fortunate as to have his intimate friend- ship, to the larger academic circle, whom he inspired by the profound genius of attainments, to the State as a whole, his departure from this life brings the keenest sorrow. Professor Stringham was born in Dela- van, X. Y., 011 December 10, 1847. He began his collegiate studies at Washburn College, Topeka, Kan., from 1866 to 1873, and then went to Harvard University, where he was graduated in 1877 with the degree of A. 15. In 1880 he received the degree of Ph.D. from John Hopkins University, and later studied in Europe. While at Harvard he devoted himself especially to Mathematics, having the good fortune to come under the influence of the late ISenjamin Pierce, the greatest mathematician that America had produced up to this time. At graduation he was awarded highest honors in mathematics, for which he prepared his Investigation in Quaternions, published in the proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1878. He was then appointed Fellow in Mathematics at the newly-founded John Hopkins University, where he spent three years in study under the celebrated Syl- vester, proceeding to the degree of Ph.D. in 1880. At the close of his studies at the John Hopkins University, he was appointed to a traveling fellowship from Harvard, and spent the two years in Germany, studying at Leipsic, under Professor Felix Klein, the most brilliant of living German mathematicians. Professor Stringham had already become interested in questions touching the logical foundations of geometry, and had published a brilliant investigation of the regular bodies in higher space. Professor Klein recently wrote, I always considered that Stringham was endowed with a unique talent for geometry, and that he came to the front in a most remarkable way in his first paper on the regular bodies in 26