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

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ings College of the Law, Toland College of Medicine, San Fran- cisco Polyclinic or Post Graduate Medical School, College of Dentistry, and College of Pharmacy ; the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, (San Francisco), and the Lick Astronomical Department, (Mt. Hamilton); and the academic and scientific departments at Berkeley, namely the Colleges of Letters, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and the five colleges of applied or technical sciences, namely Colleges of Agriculture, Mechanics, Mining, Civil Engin- eering and Chemistry. In addition University Extension Courses of Lectures are given in various parts of the State for the purpose of popularizing higher education. CHANGES. The last year has been a year of progress in the University, especially in the Academic Departments. Important changes have been made which have resulted in almost complete reorgan- ization of the departments in Berkeley. Under the new system a certain amount of such studies as Mathematics, English Litera- ture, Languages, History and Sciences is prescribed in the Colleges of Letters, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences, to be pursued during the first two years. After having completed fifteen hours per week for two years, or sixty hours of this prescribed work, the student is required to elect certain groups of not more than two or three subjects, and to pursue thirty hours of work in these elected groups, and at the same time to pursue thirty hours of other studies elected freely from the whole range of the Uni- versity Courses. These thirty hour group electives and thirty hour free electives form the minimum of work to be pursued during the last two years of the four years ' course. Thus a sharp division line is drawn in the middle of the academic course. During the first two years, the student is re- quired to pursue certain liberal culture studies. In the second

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Secretary to the Board of Regents, is as follows : Value of all the property belonging to the University, $3,209,424.05 ; cash capital, $ I 95 757 ' 9 2 1 special funds and endowments, $371,719.72; and 12,311,501.20, which, at 5 per cent, interest, may be estimated as the principal of the State tax of one cent on each $100 of the value of the taxable property of Ihe State. Thus the total wealth is about eight million dollars. GOVERNMENT. The government of the University is intrusted to a corporation styled The Regents of the University of California, which in- cludes the Governor and six other ex-officio members and sixteen members appointed by the Governor for a term of years. To this body falls the duty of managing the finances, caring for the prop- erty, appointing instructors and determining the interior organiza- tion. The instruction and government of the students are intrusted to the faculties of the several colleges and to the Academic Senate. This senate consists of all the Faculties and instructors of the Uni- versity, sitting in regular session twice a year. It conducts the general administration of the University. The Senate has created the following standing committees : (i.) The Academic Council composed of the President, professors and instructors in the Colleges of L etters, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences, and in the Colleges of Applied Sciences. The jurisdiction of this body is confined entirely to the colleges at Berkeley. (2.) The Pro- fessional Council, composed of the President of the University and two members from each of the Faculties of the Professional Colleges, exercising immediate control over the professional departments in San Francisco. ORGANIZATION. The University is organized into the following departments : The professional colleges located in San Francisco, namely Hast-

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two years he may begin to specialize. The first half of the course is academic work, while the latter half is university work proper. Exactly the same division is made in the University of Chicago, the Freshman and Sophomore years being academic, and the Junior and Senior years being devoted to university work in the higher sense. And it is well to notice that the movements in the University of Chicago and University of California arose entirely independently of each other. The divisions into groups during the university part of the course introduces the unlimited elective system, with this advan- tage : that groups give basis to the special work here pursued. Thus the prospective doctor of medicine might elect the biological sciences as his group. The free electives offer an opportunity to round off the man. While pursuing his special work he may pur- sue his free electives in any other lines. Or they may be in the studies cognate with his special groups, or even in the same sub- jects. So, in pursuing special group work in political science, the thirty hours of free electives may be in political science or in cog- nate subjects ; or may be in Latin or Greek or any subjects, which may tend to liberal culture. Thus the degree of specialization range from the highest where the full sixty hours is pursued in specialized work, to the lowest where only thirty hours of special work is pursued, for the group studies and always more or less specialized. The system is perhaps better than a purely free elec- tive system, in that a certain amount of studies of general value are required for everyone, and the subjects that are elected must have a certain grouping, must have a basis and unity. A second line of change is in progress, concerning the colleges of applied science. Heretofore they have attempted to do two things : to enable the student to attain professional excellence and at the same time to attain a degree of general culture. In accord 10