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

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Edmond A. Diion. Dr. John Gallw . hill. William H. : Robert G Nichols (Comptroller), Edmond Craig, Pretton HotchkUt. Garret W. McEnerney. A. P. Giannini, Fa ' - THE REGENTS OF THE University of California are the constituted authority which governs the institution. Of the twenty-four members, sixteen are appointed for sixteen year terms by the Gov- ernor of the State: eight are ex-officio members by virtue of other offices they hold. The organic act which created the University provided for long terms so that the character of the Board may not be altered at will by any state executive and so that a definite long time program of adminis- tration may not be interrupted. Ex-officio members represent offices having an interest in higher education. Appointive mem- ber? are men of prominence in the state who serve without compensation. The Governor is presi- dent of the Board : the Lieutenant-Governor and the Speaker of the Assembly also sit as members. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the presidents of the State Board of Agri- culture, the Mechanics Institute, the California Alumni Association, and the University are the other ex-officio members. The Regents are the governing board from the point of view of finances and business adminis- tration, but it is their duty to lay down educa- tional policies as well. REGENTS

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THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA is not the college of a region, it is the university of a State. It has seven prin- cipal centers in which its work is carried on, the largest in number of students and variety of offerings being here at Berkeley; others are in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Davis, Mount Hamilton, Riverside, and La Jolla. Besides, there are the state-wide activities of the College of Agriculture through its experiment stations and its extension service, and of the University Extension Division through its classes, correspondence courses, and lec- tures, which minister to the needs of every part of the commonwealth. To the several campuses of the State University come more than 21,000 resident students in regular sessions, from every county in the State, from forty-six states of the Union, from forty-five countries of the world. And these students are met by good teach- ers, for year by year there has been concentrated in this University a growing company of scholars, which is now generally acclaimed as one of the most distinguished faculties in America. The past, then, is secure; the present sound and fruitful. It is for us to press forward in the spirit of the great tradition that we inherit; the tradition of devotion to our University and to university ideals; the tradition of loyalty and service to the public interest, to the State, and to the Nation. ROBERT G. SPROUL, President of the University.

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WILLIAM W. CAMPBELL President Emeritus MONROE E. DEUTSCH Vice-president and Provost THE ADMINISTRATIVE YEAR IT is CERTAINLY appropriate that in the University ' s year-book there be some account of activities of the University proper as distinguished from the extra-curricular activities of students. This account is confined to the northern section of the University and covers only the period up to March 1. Most striking is the increase in enrollment; on the Berkeley campus the figures for the current academic year are approximately 14,264. During the freshman year of the class of 1936, the total enrollment at Berkeley was 13,088. At the branch of the College of Agri- culture at Davis, the number of students has grown from 412 in the fall of 1932 to 720 in the fall of 1935. Of great importance to all interested in higher education was the article in the June (1935) number of the Atlantic Monthly entitled In Order of Their Eminence ; in it Mr. Edwin R. Embree, President of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, has made an appraisal of American universities. He rates the first five in the following order: Harvard, Chicago, Columbia, California, Yale. In a subsequent discussion of this article by Professor W. C. Eells of Stanford University, the rating by Mr. Embree is questioned, Professor Eells plac- ing Harvard as first and California as second. Various changes have taken place in the faculty. At the close of the academic year 1934- 35 the following instructors received the title of emeritus after long service to the Uni- versity: George M. Stratton, W. J. Raymond, F. T. Bioletti, Robert G. Aitken, Y. S. Kuno, Jessica Peixotto, and Thomas F. Sanford. Death has also made inroads into our faculty; these have occurred in the past year: Felix Flugel, P. W. Nahl, R. M. Holman, Louis O ' Brien, H. M. Adler, Elwood Mead, Robert P. Utter, and Cornelius B. Bradley. Another member of the University family was taken by death in the person of Mrs. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, widow of Dr. Wheeler, who for twenty years was president of the University. Of the additions to the faculty d uring the current academic year one of the most not- able is Ferdinand Lessing, who assumed the Agassiz Professorship of Oriental Languages. In the administration of the University three important changes took place. Professor O. K. McMurray, Dean of the School of Jurisprudence, retired from the deanship but is continuing his work as professor; E. D. Dickinson, Professor of International Law, has suc- ceeded him as dean. The post of Assistant Dean of Undergraduates was filled by the ap- pointment of Professor E. C. Voorhies of the College of Agriculture. S. B. Freeborn has succeeded the late T. F. Tavernetti as assistant to the Dean of the College of Agriculture. 26