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

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IN addition to their regular work of directing the University affairs, which is more or less in the nature of a routine, the Regents have accomplished two under- takings of marked importance during the past year the selection of a President for the University and the completion of the Wilmerding School. Board of Regents EX OFFICIO REGENTS His EXCELLENCY HENRY T. GAGE Governor, ex officio President of the Board His HONOR JACOB H. NEFP Lieutenant-Governor HON. ALDEN ANDERSON Speaker of the Assembly HON. THOMAS J. KIRK State Superintendent of Public Instruction A. B. SPRECKELS President of the State Agricultural Society ERNST A. DENICKE President of the Mechanics ' Institute BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER President of the University APPOINTED REGENTS Term expires JOHN E. BUDD 1900 HENRY S. FOOTE 1900 ISAIAS WILLIAM HELLMAN 1902 WILLIAM T. WALLACE ,. 1902 STEPHEN M. WHITE 1904 JAMES FRANKLIN HOUGHTON 1904 ARTHUR RODGERS 1906 ALBERT MILLER 1906 JAMES A. WAYMIRE 1908 ANDREW S. HALLIDIE 1908 CHARLES W. SLACK 1910 CHESTER ROWELL 1910 W. H. L. BARNES 1912 J. B. REINSTEIN 1912 MRS. PHOEBE A. HEARST 1914 GEORGE C. PARDEE 1914 24

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are maintained between the buildings and avenues in the larger and smaller groups; the amplitude allowed for the buildings, and, withal, the general utility of the different departments. How much of this project may we who are now undergraduates hope to see real- ized? We have seen how the seemingly impracticable scheme presented at the Final Competition assumes comprehensible proportions when the problem is reduced from an ideal to a practical basis. Instead of unlimited resources being required, the Trustees propose so to regulate the outlay that the interest may not exceed the income for educational purposes. Instead of condemning and purchasing large acreages of land, all we need is the Hillegas Tract, bounded by Audubon Street, Bancroft Way and Tele- graph Avenue, for a Gymnasium and Athletic Field. This tract contains twenty-three acres, and can now be purchased at a nominal sum, which will probably double during the next two years as it has during the last two. The new Gymnasium will not be built within the present bounds of the University Grounds. Instead of our children ' s grandchildren watching the beginnings of the Greater University, Mrs. Hearst, to- gether with the Trustees, informs us that as soon as Monsieur Benard ' s plans are accepted, and requisitions for bids can be compiled and answered, ground will be broken for the first building of the University of California conforming to the Phoebe A. Hearst Architectural Plan. We. as students, cannot comprehend the vast amount of labor of the most exact- ing kind that has been bestowed upon this great movement in behalf of our University and ourselves by those two patriotic graduates who have perfected and executed this magnificent scheme. Xor can we overestimate the bounty of that noble woman whose voluntary and cheerful gift of time, strength and money not without pre-determined and far-reaching motives has made this project, like so many others aided by her, a possibility and a reality. Hers is a lasting Charity, born of a lasting Faith. Let this be our lasting Hope: Oh. may the stones here reared make mute appeal With their dumb eloquence for beauty ' s dower, And may they be the center whence shall steal A presence through the land, a might, a power, Shaping the West to ends more fair and real, Holding a spirit strong for every boar. GEORGE 0. BREHM.

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The Academic Senate BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER, Ph.D., LL.D., President of the University. EDWARD WALKER DAVIS, B. L., Secretary of the Board of Regents. JOSEPH LE CONTE, M.A., M D., LL.D., Professor of ' Geology and Natural History, Honorary Professor of Biology in the College of Dentistry and Special Lecturer in the Veterinary Department. MARTIN KELLOGG, M.A., LL.D., Emeritus Professor of Latin. GEORGE DAVIDSON, Ph.D., Sc.D., Honorary Professor of Geodesy and Astronomy, and Pro- fessor of Geography. WILLARD BRADLEY RISING, M.E., Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, and Dean of the Faculty of the College of Chemistry. FRANK SOULE, Grad. U. S. Military Academy, West Point, Professor of Civil Engineering and Astronomy, Acting Professor of Military Science and Tactics and Dean of the Faculty of the College of Civil Engineering. ECGEXE WOLDEMAR HiLGARD, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Agriculture, Director of Agricul- tural Experiment Stations, and Dean of the Faculty of the College of Agriculture. FREDERICK GODFRAY HESSE. Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Dean of the Faculty of the College of Mechanics. BERNARD MOSES, Ph.D., Professor of History and Political Economy. IRVING STRINGHAM, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics. ALBIN PUTZKER, M.A., Professor of the German Language and Literature. GEORGE HOLMES HOWISON, M.A., LL.D., Mills Professor of Intellectual and Moral Phi- losophy and Ciril Polity. SAMUEL BENEDICT CHRISTY. Ph.B., Professor of Mining and Metallurgy, and Dtan of the Faculty of the College of Mining. CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY, A.B., Professor of the English Language and Literature. FREDERICK SLATE, B.S., Professor of Physics, and Dean of the Faculty of the College of Natural Sciences. JACOB VOORSANGER, D.D., Professor of the Semitic Languages and Literatures. ELMER ELLSWORTH BROWN, Ph.D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Education. EDWARD BULL CLAPP, Ph.D., Professor of the Greek Language and Literature. WILLIAM CAREY JONES, M.A., Professor of Jurisprudence. Absent on leave.