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

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California J HISTORIANS of Blue and Golds that have gone before, in their retrospect over a past year of University expansion, never beheld a view more crowded with significant marks than that which lies before the historian of the year 1894-95. In this year of great financial depression, the University of California has grown and strengthened in its various branches in an unparalleled degree, and has made more sure its claim to a place in the front rank of the great universities of America. The increase in the number of students enrolled is one of the most evident signs of prosperity and popularity. As against 1124 enrolled at Berkeley a year ago there are now 1338; and in the same time the whole number registered in the University has grown from 1781 to 2308. The teaching force has been proportionately increased, being now 250 strong. The Board of Regents is to be congratulated upon the wisdom displayed in selecting as reinforcements to our teaching corps Dr. John Fryer, to fill the Tompkin ' s chair of Oriental Languages and Literatures ; W. A. Setchell, of Yale, to be Professor of Botany; and William J. Hussey to take the place in the Lick Astronomical Department, made vacant by the resignation of Professor Barnard. The following instructors made their initial bow to the students at Berkeley at the beginning of the present college year : Clifton Price, in Latin ; William M. Hart, in English; E. P. Lewis, in Physics; Clive Day, in History; and E. H. Symonds, in Assaying. The University has lost two esteemed members of its faculties in Professor Edward Lee Greene and Professor E. E. Barnard, one having been called to become the head of the Botanical Department in the Catholic University at Washington, D. C., and the other having accepted a chair in the University of Chicago. The resignation of Professor Harold Whiting of the Department