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

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UNIVERSITY REGENTS MEET IN ESHLEMAN HALL IN MARCH TO DISCL ' SS THEK MONTHLY BUSINESS BOARD OF REGENTS HIS EXCELLENCY JAMES ROLPH. Ji.. A.B. ; - - . - WILLIAM HENRY CROCKER, Ph.8. OFFICERS OF THE REGENTS JNO. U. CALKINS, J .,B.L,JJ . Attorney ROBERT M. UNDERBILL, BS. Secretary and Treasurer LUTHER A. NICHOLS. A.B. DEMING G- MACUSE. BS. AiMfam Secretary and Assist HIS EXCELLENCY JAMES ROLPH, Jt, A.B. Governor of California and President of the Regents FRANK F. MERRIAM.B.S. ...... ... - . . REGENTS EX OFFICIO WALTER J. UTTLE Speaker of die Assembly, 1933 VIERLING KERSEY. M.A., LLJX State Superintendent of Public Instruction A. BLANCHARD MILLER President of tile State Board of Agriculture JOSEPH MOORE GUMMING President of tie Mechanics Institute WARREN OLNEY. K, A.B., LLD. President cf tie California Alumni Association ROBERT GORDON SPROUL BS.. LLD. President of the Un: . GARRET WILLIAM McEN ' ERNEY GUY CHAFFEE EARL. A.B. WILLIAM HENRY CROCKER, PltB. JAMES KENNEDY MOFFITT. BS. CHARLES ADOLPH RAMM. B5. APPOINTED REGENTS EDWARD AUGUSTUS DICKSON, B.L. CHESTER HARVEY ROWELL, Ph.B., LLD. JAMES MILLS MORTIMER FLEISHHACKER GEORGE L COCHRAN, LL.D. MRS. MARGARET RISHEL SARTORI JOHN RANDOLPH HAYNES. Ph.D, M.D. JOHN FRANCIS NEYLAN CHARLES COLLINS TEAGUE, LLD. SIDNEY M. EHRMAN. B.L.. LLB. JOHN GALLWEY, M.D.. Ph D.. LLD. AMADEO PETER GIANNINI

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THE ADMINISTRATIVE YEAR AMMEDIATE and strenuous drive by the alumni, faculty, and students opposing the University budget reduction suddenly evaluated University importance to those forces and created a unity of spirit which served as a bulwark against any attempt at the deprivation of scholastic stability here. The total biennial reduc ' tion for the period 1933-35 was $4,273,818.16, a cut of 25 per cent below the sum appro- priated for the i93i ' 33 period. This was effected by reducing salaries of all University em- ployees; by not filling vacancies which might occur but, instead, redistributing the work; by curtailing expenditures for unnecessary equipment; and by not improving non-essential landscape on various c ampuses. Educational advantages offered the citizens of California were not affected nor was important research forsaken. Enrollment figures for 1933-34 were several hundred below those of the previous academic year, and those of the spring semester, 10,799 at Berkeley, below those of the fall semester. The Regents permitted the University to borrow money from the CWS federal emergency relief fund to aid 1581 needy students with fifteen dollars a month. DR. FRANK H. SPEDDING, University chemistry instructor, was awarded the annual $1000 Langmuir prize for research in pure chemistry. Professor E. O. Lawrence, of the physics department, was chosen American representative to the Solvay Congress, an international scientific gathering in Brussels, where he reported his research on the mass of the neutron. Dean Gilbert N. Lewis, of the College of Chemistry, represented the University at the Ninth International Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry at Madrid, Spain. Dean Lewis read a paper concerning the University ' s present experiments with isotopic hydrogen and heavy water, a field pioneered here for the past two years and bearing possibility of revolutionizing all sciences. One of the world ' s outstanding mathematicians, Dr. Griffith C. Evans, of Rice Insti- tute, at Houston, Texas, was appointed chairman of the University mathematics depart- ment. Dr. Karl Landauer, expert in the field of planned economy, was the first German scholar exiled by Nazi persecutions to come to this University. Dr. W. Jaeger, of the University of Berlin, was appointed Sather professor of classical literature for the first half of the academic year 1934-35. A lecture series on World Powers Since 1800 and Their Relations Today was given by Dr. Richard von Kuhlman, former German Minister of Foreign Affairs and Hitchcock professor. THE plan of having eminent men in various fields as monthly guest speakers for Uni- versity meetings has had important results. Attendance at the meetings has increased and the students have learned of contemporary advances and ideas from Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford University; Richard M. Tobin, California Chairman for Navy Day; and Charles H. Davila, Roumanian Minister to the United States. Probably the most significant innovation of the year was the approval by the Aca- demic Senate, and the subsequent adoption, of the Credit by Examination plan without enrollment in courses, resembling the European scheme for student initiative. This experi- ment has been followed by the demand for more elastic majors for fields that are not sharply defined. Such a plan now places the University among the foremost modern experimental educational institutions of the world. 22

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FACULTY HALL OF FAME ROBERT G. AITKEN S. J. BARNETT A.B., Ph.D. Professor of Physics at Los Angeles DAVID PRESCOTT BARROWS A.B., M.A., Ph.D., LL.D. Doctor honoris causa Professor of Political Science at Berkeley ROBERT GRANT AITKEN A.B., M.A., Sc.D. Astronomer and Director at Lick Observatory BENNETT MILLS ALLEN Ph.B., Ph.D. Professor of Zoology at Los Angeles S. J. BARNETT HERBERT E. BOLTON B.L., Ph.D., LL.D. Sather Professor of History at Berkeley CHARLES LLOYD CONNOR M.D. Professor of Pathology at University of California Medical School, San Francisco HERBERT E. BOLTON