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

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sailing smoothly in the open sea. California came off with the victor ' s laurels in the second Intercollegiate Debate, and in the last Carnot Debate. Although the last foot-ball game with Stanford was a tie, in all other respects the season was a very successful one. In the trans-continental tour of our track team, whose brilliant achievements carried their fame and that of their college to every hamlet in the nation, California proved to the college world that in athletics she is the peer of the oldest and largest universities, west or east. And now we come t o the student labor episode. We will! the bat- talion of students thundered out when Regent Reinstein, after setting before them the lack of funds to hire labor, and the pressing need of improving the grounds, appealed to them to do the work. The promise was kept, and as a result there is now a finely graded and picturesque walk leading from the west entrance to the University buildings ; and the rocks and adobe about North Hall have been replaced by fertile soil. A new roadway has been con- structed, extending from North Hall to the new Mechanics Building, and several other improvements of like character have been accomplished. The Labor Days were brought to a pleasant close with a promenade concert in the Library which was then for the first time lighted by electricity. The material improvement, however, is the least important result of the students ' labor. The love and enthusiasm for their Alma Mater has been quickened, and a closer community of spirit has been engende red in the stu- dent body.

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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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Che Regents of the University. x Officio Regents. His EXCELLENCY JAMES H. BUDD Governor, ex officio President of the Board. His HONOR WM. T. JETER Lieutenant Governor. HON. JOHN C. LYNCH Speaker of the Assembly. HON. SAMUEL T. BLACK - State Superintendent of Public Instruction. HON. C. M. CHASE President of the State Agricultural Society. ANDREW S. HALLIDIE, ESQ. 8 Pine Street, San Francisco President of the Mechanics ' Institute. MARTIN KELLOGG, A.M., LL.D. Berkeley President of the University. Sacramento Santa Craz San Bernardino Sacramento San Francisco Appointed Regents. Name HON. J. WEST MARTIN ANDREW S. HALLIDIE, ESQ.. HON. WILLIAM T. W T ALLACE JAMES A. WAYMIRE, ESQ. HON. TIMOTHY GUY PHELPS ISAIAS WILLIAM HELLMAN, ESQ. GEORGE THOMAS MAR YE, JR., LL.B. ARTHUR RODGERS, B.S., Ph.B. JACOB BERT REINSTEIN, A.M. HON. HENRY S. FOOTE ALBERT MILLER, ESQ. COLUMBUS BARTLETT, ESQ. CHARLES FREDERICK CROCKER, ESQ. JAMES FRANKLIN HOUGHTON, C.E. CHESTER ROWELL, M.D. HON. CHARLES WM. SLACK, Ph.B., LL.B. Address Term Expires Union Savings Bank, Oakland 1898 8 Pine Street, San Francisco 1908 799 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco 1902 Alameda 1908 Belmont 1896 Nevada Bank, San Francisco 1902 234 Montgomery St., San Francisco 1898 309 Montgomery St., San Francisco 1906 217 Sansome St., San Francisco 1900 U. S. Appraiser ' s Building, S. F. 1900 532 California St., San Francisco 1906 530 California St., San Francisco 1896 Union Trust Company ' s Build ' g, S. F. 1904 303 California St., San Francisco 1904 Fresno 1910 New City Hall, San Francisco 1910