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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
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of Physics, and his subsequent death, with that of his wife and children, on the ill-fated Colima, forms the saddest chapter of the history of the University during the past year. It seems eminently fitting that the bill appropriating $250,000 for an Affili- ated Colleges building in San Francisco should have been signed by a Uni- versity of California alumnus, Governor James H. Budd. A lasting debt of gratitude is due Adolph Sutro for his gift of a magnificent site for the build- ing, and his assurance that the Sutro Library will occupy an adjoining site and will be open to the students. Nor is this the only material advancement which the University has made. The Regents have received a bequest of $400,000 from Mr. J. C. Wilmerding to found a School of Industrial Arts. The Department of Physics is the beneficiary of the late Professor Whiting in the sum of $20,000. The library and apparatus of the Viticultural Commission have been added to the equipment of the College of Agriculture. The gift of a three-foot reflecting telescope to the L,ick Observatory by Edward Crossley, Esq. is a valuable token of the high regard which California has won in astro- nomical circles. The library has been enriched by the private library of the late Dr. E. B. Walsworth, containing 2000 volumes. The University is also indebted to Mr. Edward F. Searles and Mrs. Phoebe Hearst for continued favors during the year, and to a number of other benefactors for generous gifts. One of the most characteristic marks of a great university is the number of her graduate students, which is an accurate index to the opportunities of- fered for advanced study and research ; and California compares well with other large universities in having 112 graduate students registered in the Academic Colleges at Berkeley, representing institutions all over America. A Graduate Council has been formed to organize the courses in graduate instruction and to have general supervision over graduate work in the University. A Gradu- ates ' Club has also been organized with the object of bringing its members into closer union socially, and of considering matters of common welfare. The visit of two of our distinguished alumni, Professor Josiah Royce, who holds the chair of History of Philosophy at Harvard University, and Sidney E. Mezes, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas, will long be remembered at Berkeley. They came on the invitation of the Philosophical Union and took a leading part in the discussions of the philosophical congress, whose sessions, held at the University in the fall of 1895, created such de- served interest, not only about the bay, but throughout the state. In the line of student activities, there is much to chronicle. The attitude which the Associated Students have assumed toward regulating matters which affect their honor and well-being evinces the emergence of a well defined esprit de corps. When last year ' s Blue and Gold appeared, The University of Cali- fornia Magazine and The Daily Berkeleyan had just launched their barks upon uncertain waters. Both have successfully passed the shoals and are now
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