The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 15, 1902, Page 4

THE N FRANCI SCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1902 MUNIFICENT GIFTS AND AWARD OF DIPLOMAS MARK C — Z Generous Do- nations by Friends. Thousands of|| Dollars Are Given. Cheers Greet Announce- ' nts. University at B jay will be long remem- all who took part on the bered by account of announcement made by F t Wheeler of gifts to the of learning sggregating $83,00 and for the large num- ber of students who griduated. applause of t Harmon Gymmnasium was for both th dcnors of the munificent gifts and the young men and women who were award- lomas and certificates. the ning was cloudy and tened rain, nature smiled kindly n the exercises began. Thousands of ocked he university by early trains, umpus presented a series of striking and picturesque colors. The sedate members of the faculty, wearing their robes and college caps, wended their wz the assigned meeting place, each professor being distinguished by the muiti-colored bands“of well-earned alumni walked through the the conventional black hats, forming a back- colors of the dresse: The graduates appeared arb. when the to ground for the of fair visi in the tra It signal form ir and the was Gymnasium, e commencement day ex- n their h of gold oted the senting th aium had nee who IN STATELY PROCESSION. he pr ssion mov tk the uni- and ougt manner building W A milita: of Wiifred cers from t campus’ an- n of the procession the lively operatic the professors, d guests entered fence burst into applause continued while he center alsle A .4 speakers ascen duates were for them in . m. ed President Wheeler of the platform to rise during the ce €opins Perkins, a of the class of ches various students were 0 with close attention b the ach orator was gredted with President Wheeler also warm salvo of p- plause wounced many gifts | 1o the u d made a stirring ad- dress to the graduating clas Adjutant aiplomas and cer- tes were delivered the eler. s ascend: by their d to the platform respective dear e was announ d the “sheepskin” wa: ¥ able by a member of the X and handed in turn to President Wheeler, who then gave it to the grad- uating student AFPLAUSE FOR FAVORITES. taken from the faeulty The favorites of the graduating class were warmly applauded. The announce- ment by President Wheeler that the Le Conte fellowshin had been awarded to J. M E llfmdn( vas greeted with cheers. The winner will receive an allowance of $500 a year for three years, to enable him t0 pur: udies in Europe. Ber- nard Alfred E Engineering was mecal, he t inguished g heverry of the College of awarded the university eing deemed the most of the vear, and he was given a en President Whec ) n the gift with a few words congratulation The vresentation of the diploma con- ferring the degree of doctor of philos. ophy on Miss Alice Robertson of Seattle, Wash., evoked a storm of applause from gymnasium. This was the f the kind conferred at the - and Miss Robertson is the third woman to secure the distinction since the foundation of the university. She paseed through the college of natural _sclences z the recent examinations on “The Embryology ission in s Cyclostoma- Miss Robert: 2 son won the S. in 185 and M. 8. in 1899, Robert Burns Jr., who graduated in the dental college. was declared the winner of the Marshall prize for oral surgery. The presentation of the diplomas and certificates occunied nearly two . hodrs and the proceed closed with the ben. ediction. The full list of the graduating students published in The Call on Tuesday ——— STRONG SPEECH BY PRESIDENT Head of University Wisely Ad- vises Members of Graduat- The display of oratory for the com- mencement day exercises was of a high literary order and the speakers held the attention of their auditors closely. President Wheeler was received with e thousands who filled | aces were rec- | vas feelingly delivered | 2 | faco LTY AN GRADSATES LINE. 1N Harmon Gymn by Gaily Dressed Throng ~of Visitors. asium Is Filled K2 cheers when he rose to speak and at the close of the hearty reception accorded him, he addressed the gathering as fol- lows: s menc ce we last assembled here for the com- nt exercises we have been called upen to mourn the death of three of our beloved friends. _The brave Hiiton of the Civil Engi- neering Department has been taken from us in he prime of his 1f the Rev. Dr. ebbins has also been called from the sphere of his calling and no longer shall we receive his k advice; our beloved of all men, Joseph e to meet us with his kind- Yy have but It is with great pleasure I beg to ah- | nounce the receipt of many generous donatio | to the univ 1ty The following letter was re | cently received by the Regents, and I will read it to you lls Bullding, San Francisco, April 26, 1902 of Regents of the University —Gentlen E rly twenty-one have elapsed since the founding jn_the ersity of the chair known. through your us action, as the Mills Professorship of al Philosophy and Civil administration of the o offer you for the sup- ir and its objects, the fund has reaked and supplemented by ju- from your other resources, basis for the present large and nent of philosophy. . and aware of the T income pleas- ition to he departn 2 offering 1o your board, as an the pres fund of $100,000, the income of |w votedl to this purpose, the sum of | Afty tho i dqllars (§50,000), for which I v check. | incl se 'of the 1 foundation I | - condition that imposed al trust in my letter addressed board under date of July 1 to | which I here beg to refer. INCREASE OF RESOURCES. “I will oniy add that, as the present offer | is intended to be a real increase of the total | resources v d to the support of the Dey at of Philosor 1 assume that the vances made from the general fund ard in furtherance of the objects of department will continue undiminished. | Further, I indulge the hope that your board will second my addition to the original foun- by such increased allowances from your fund as will insure the continued and improvement of the department, a remuneration that will retain the hign proféssional service required In its ff of instruction. Continuing _to belleve that the vigorous partment is among public objects of a uni- ontrolled and supported gentlemen, very re- yours, ntenance of such a_ d rtant pectfully gnd cordially 0. MILL: Continuing, President Wheeler sai | Mr Claus Spreckels has presented to the university $11,475 82 for the purchase of books y.. Mr. Spreckels' gift will at e be applied to the purc of works in itical science, finance and ory. Announcement has already been made in the - | Past of the gift of Mrs. Jane K. Sather of $10,- 000 as an endowment for the support of the v Library. In addition to providing this endowment Mrs Sather has, since Janu- Sather Law Library a volumes, costing approximat. e books in connection with the y on hand provide for the y good working law librar. 30 purchased by Mrs, Sather, 14§ are American Reports and Digests; 541 re English Reports and Digests, and volumes 145 volumes are text books, including all those which are of the most importance. Dr. M. of giving us 38060 to found and does so on condition that maintain the chair and school, no dcubt that body will do. Mrs. Hearst has pr §000 for the purchase of books which shail form a nucleus for an architectural library. Of this sum $2000 will be expended during the coming year and $3000 during the year there- after. Mr. H. Weinstock of Sacramento has pre- serted to the university $5000 for the endow ment “of a_lectureshis in the College of Com- merce. The interest of thiz endowment will provide for an annual series of lectures dealing with the morals of trade. REGISTRATICN GROWS. The summer zoological laboratory at San Pedro, through which important sclentific re- sults In the marine blological exvloration of the coast waters of Southern California wero rezched, was supperted by the generosity of following_friends of the university: Mrs. Hearst, $600; Mr. J. A. Graves, Mr. Jaco Baruch, $150 each; Mr. Henry W. O'Melveny, Mr. Willlam G. Kerckhof, Mr. Williain G. Rowiand, Mr. I. N. Van Nuys and the Los | Angeles Terminal Railway, $100 each; Mr. H. Shankland. Mr. John E. Plater and Mr. Ckaries M. Wright, $50 each. he total registration for 1901-02 was 3980. 1 Of “hese 3144 students in the academic and professional colleges, 37 in the dairy course and 709 in the last summer session. Of the 3144 students, 677 were enrolled in the profes- sloral colleges in San Franclsco and 2470 in the colleges at Berkeley. Of the 2470 stu- dents at Berkeley 1222 men and 1026 women, or 2248 in all, were enrolled as undergradual and 118 mien and 112 women, or 230 in all, /as graduate students. The registration in the colleges at Berkeley has increased more than sixfold in the past twelve years. The number of undergraduates in the University of Cali- forula is mow exceeded by Harvard alone of American universities, and in total number of students California ranks fourth, being ex- ceeded only by Harvard, Columbia and Chicago, The anouncement of the various gifts awas frequently interrupted by vociferous applause and cheers were given by the students for the donors. President Wheeler then addressed the graduating class as follows: Another college year hos roled around and embarkatfon day has come again. The galle; chafe at the quays: knots and bands of pros- pective colonists swarm the piers more, indeed, than ever before on a safling day. The last farewells are being said. There are tears and regrets ‘at leaving, but withal much pleasant expectation for the voyage, much inclination to the risks of roaming, much curious wonder about the manners of the outer world, much golden hope for what the new land has to yield. The old folks of the mother city are gathered to glve their last words of cheer, ad- Herzstein has signified his intention chair in physiology the ~Regents which 1 have nted to the university | | vice and blessing. They have given to the emigrants freely of their household store—so much, indeed, as each after his own skill and foreslght, and the size of his receptacles, could select and stow. Some have planped and packed more carefully than others; there will be some I fancy who, in the hurry of a late permit to sail, have rolled a rather motley pack, and, Bathering some stray titbits at the last, have tied them to it with a cotton string. WARNS AGAINST ROUTINE. Some have pald more heed ir) their prepara- tions for some special craft and carry with them the special tools of their art and trade. Such will make themselves immediately of use, but they must look to it that they become no easy slaves to the rule of thumb and the ruts of routine. Some have collected thefr outfit more in reference to the common needs of life, as life goes. Such may prove able to adapt their lives more flexibly to demands as they arise, and, if they succeed to mastery in any field, display the larger power, but meantime they must run the sore risks of amateurism. The various baggage as it lies there heaped upon the pler does indeed look motley enough, and various are its labels; as it looks, too, on the books (or cards) of the recording baggage- master, it is a motley list. For the time we may be inclined in convenience to identify the man by his baggage—but that will pass away, for it is ultimately the man behind the baggage that counts. A little later, and we shall iden- tify the baggage by the man. We may classify the outgoing colonists to-day according to port- manteau, hamper and pack; we shall classify the settlers a few vears hence according to per- sonal hewlth—of body, mind and morals—ac- cording to personal will, the power to do; pc- cording to personal character, the power o be, In olden time it was the wont when bands of men went out to seek new homes and larger fortunes in a wider Hellas that they should take with them of the sacred fire from the altar of the mother city, wherewith to light new aitars and new hearths; andsthese who stand here now waiting for the ships that bear them into life to loose their cables and spread their cails bear with them, each of them, I would belfeve, whatever else they take, and however Giversely they have chosen, coals of the common fire that burns upon the college altar. Whether they have labored here for technical mastery of one of the crafts, arts or professions of life, or have studled to identify the facts of nature and set them in order by natural laws, or the facts of human experience in history and set them in order by social laws, or have studied to know and interpret by sympathy the move- meats of the human soul as expressed in litera- ture and the other arts, whatever the curri- cula, the courses, the subjects they have fol- lowed, there runs through all thé golden thread of the university spirit: the Inspiration to love the true and hate the false, the bent to seek fter the real and push aside the assumed, the vearning to see the real in Its place with the whole, to lift it into the transfiguration vision of the ideal. These three unite to be the very ardor and life of the fire that burns on the altar-hearth of the university. Many sub- 3 many degrees; one fire, one spirit, one it SENT OUT INTO LIFE. Members of the graduating class, candidates for all the degrees We send you out to-day into life. You go a= our children, our own and well-beloved. Whatever shall befall you in your yaging, whether of loss or of success, will have befallen us as well. In your misfortunes or fallures we shall suffer pain; in 3 - perity and in your triumphs we shall rejoice, You go as our products, our surest evidence: proofs and vouchers. You are to be 1iving do uments, known and read of all men. Conecern- ing the University of California, its spirit and its work, men will judge by what you do and what voi are etween university and life no fixed b: T exists. Education if it is genuine s not mscy preparation for life; it is the intensive practice of Tife itselt. What you have been in your at. titude toward life and duty here. you are likely to be in the outer life. If you have been fajth. ful to obligation here, you can be trasted to do your duty there. If you have sought to gain credit here for work you have not done, you carry with you e bent, it may be a habit. that will lead you toward the deception of your em- ployers there. If you have played fair here you will be just and generous there, I you have been cheery, genlal, sympathetic here, you will bring sunshine wherever you go, will' lyre and be beloved. A university cannot to be suye make character, but it can shape it, and the world has, therefore, fair right to Judge us by | you; surely it will do ro. What then does the upiversity expect you? What does she ask of you? She atks (hat oo embody in your lives the spirit of her life So far as you have been trained by methods we cail ‘scientific, it has been that you might know and value the real and abjure the e sumed and visionary. So far as you have been trained by methods we call humanistic, It hag been that you might know and follow ideals. Both methods have been present in all teach. ing of all subjects. In some one predominates, in some the other, but they cannot ever be utterly sundered one from the other. An edu. cation that does not make a man or woman more_ objective in mental habit is ‘mistaken: an education that does not inspire w, s 1s hopeless and vain. P i oy TALKS OF REAL THINGS. I speak the volce of the university, there- fore, when in this high moment of youy' ca?::;-‘s 1 bid you seek unto the things that are real Abjure childish things, the things of prejudice. vanity, caprice; of ignorance, superstition, un. truth.' Find the fact; that traight seelng and thinking. Face the fact; that is straight courage. Live up to the fact; that is straight living. Abjure prejudice, for that is plain slavery to the unreal. Crush vanity, for that puts a shallow self-love in place of Just salf- estimate. Nothing is so practically real for a man as real knowledge of himself. Upon it is founded the power to control himself. Wis success by pendence on the real, not the that rests his hope of success = builds on the unreal and malkes Lis life a lie. The clean life, the orderly 1ife the life that has liberty, that has in it tie peace of God, is the life' which bullds on the real. Indecision, unrest and slavery are the fruits of the lie. The truth is the light ang the truth shall make you free. I speak the voice of the university, too, when T bid you fashion and follow ideajs. Behind the outward pattern of things there iu a highest real In which all the real Inheres and through which alone it can exist, We call it the ideal. It is the “pattern set In the mount.” There is implanted in us the powes to see it. the passion to reach after it. This in our birthright as the sons of God. Disdain that birtbright ~and our lives become dull mechanism. ‘A man's reach is higher than his grasp, else what's a heaven for.” ‘Man liveth not by bread alone.” The real clarifies, * the ideal inspires, The real provides life with OMMENCEMENT 2 S 4 DAY EXERCISES AT UNIVERSIT MUNIFICENT GIFTS ARE MADE A Y TO THE STATE’S UNIVERSITY | D.NO. Mills to the chair known as the Mills Prqfl‘u : of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity.$50,000 Claus Spreckels for the purchase of ‘books for the library.. 11,675 Dr. M. Herzstein to found a chair Mprs. Phebe Hearst for the purchase of books for an archi- tectural ibrary .. .. .. cceeecicccnnn ot Henry Weinstock for the endotwm the College of Commerce. ... ......oco--o -« 3 Mprs. Jane K. Sather for the Sather Law Library, books valued, af: .. . <o iaes sorship in physiology aknae - 3,000 5,000 ent of a lectureship in 5,000 e —ge — SCENES AT UNIVERSITY COM- MENCEMENT DAY AND DIS- TINGUISHED GRADUATE. il'he Graduate_g Show Ability in Speech. B — its sure foundations, the idedl opens above it an outlook, a heaven, a hope. Children’ of many hopes, children of high opportunity, go forth and se DEMOCRACY OF A UNIVERSITY Monroe Emanuel Deutsch De- livers an Adcress That Shows Marked Ability of Author. ‘Monroe E. Deutsch, the next speaker, had selected for his address “The State University as a Democratic Institution.” He spoke in part as follows: That our ngtion exists to serve as an ex- periment in self-government is never seriously disputed, nor, on the other hand, seriously be- Ieved. - But it is nevertheless indisputable that a natlon’s success lles not in its material Drogress or its ‘place in the so-calléd concert of natious, but In its success In securing the realization of its ideals. It is for that a na- tion lives. Therefore, however great the temp- tatlon, cur national life must be essentially democragic or else it is an utter failure. The great problem then In our Btate, in fact, the only sroblem, is the making actual and’ reat the’ demceratic deal. And this 1deal is all summed up, It seems to me, in two expressions—equality of opportunity and the recognition of individual worth. It fs almed to give all an equal opportunity to make the most of thelr lives, so far as can be don in the case of.any one life. And then, havin, made the starting point the same for all, it seeks to bring it about that the “race is tc the swift,” in short, that judgment be made on the basis of tha man’s worth—on what s he, not what is his, whether that be an ancestry r_a country house. The means umwversally employved to attain the idea! a nation has set up for itself Is edu- c;uon. For it is in the formative period in the these ideals can be imprets2d upon them. Their lives can then be so molded that whatever makes for equality of opportunity and the recognition of the individual will seem neces- sarily the right courses of action. Every na- tion has thus sought to make real its ideal. And our State educational institutions from the primary school to the university are but expressions of our faith in the power of educa- tion to make each generation more essentially American in the best sersa. Our State universities as institutions are framed on the most democratic lines. But this is of but slight importance compared with the other question, whether their influence is such ax to make their students democeatic. Just in so far as students are withdrawn from the life of the world about them are they prone to undemocratic ways of thinking, not in regard to onme another, but in rezard to the rest of the world. The more decidedly cut off they are. from the world the more Will they regard themselves as a separate class, and from their greater educational opportunities a superior class. “The. university can only be democratic while it keeos in touch with the world about it. And so, far more than any formal instruction, do varjous activities about the State univer- sities keep them true to their mission. De- bating, which keeps college students in touch with the nation’s problems; journalism, which keeps them in touch with its activities, and the work of college settlements, which keeps them in touch with that phase of human lite that university students above all are prone to ignore—all these and many more help our State universities to fulflll their mission. For the ordinary student will like an essentially student Jife unless he s forced out of it. He prefers to talk to his fellow students rather than to outsiders; to be always near college rather than to live at some littie distance from it; to discuss college news rather than the rows of the world, and all this is excused in his eyes by the phrase “college loyalty.” But there Is vet another element the in- influence of which on student life, in this respect, has been ignored, and that is our intercollegiate athletic contésts. These strug: gles are constantly growing more and more im- portant in the eyes of the students. It Is true that they inculcate democratic Ways of think- ing, so far as students are concerned in their relations with one another, for it was soon discovered that a college which made sociul position the basls for selection on football teams would hardly ever have the good for- tune to gain the prize, So that as these con- lives of each succersive xeneration that | L — Striking. Scene Witnessed on Campus as Procession | Wends Its Way. tests grew flercer, individual worth alone was regarded in the selection of rival teams. But however democratic this made students in their relations to one another, it has produced the Opposite effect on the relations of students to the rest of the world. Our hope lies in a reaction from this apothe- osis of the student campalgns in intercolle- glate contests. These contests may and do de- velop manly qualities, but they do not de- | velop democratic "quaiities. Understand me, everything is not awry; our State universities are ‘becoming more democratic every year. Every year the number of college graduates is increasing enormously and the caste feeling is constantly growing less. More students are working thelr way through our colleges and more gradyates are taking part in public af- airs. EDUCATION HIS SUBJECT J- M. Eshleman s Applauded for Views Upon Ethical Signifi- cance of Collegiate Life. he Ethical Good in Education” was the topic of the address by John M. Esh- leman, and it was listened to with mark- ed attention, many of the faculty taking notes of the speaker's views. In part the young orator said: To each individual comes a question bearing with it the imperative demand for answer— the question what ought I to do? And every individual does answer it in one way or an- other, and in so doing he commiits himself to a course of conduct destined to prove his sal- vation or his undoing, The knowledge gained by study is valuable. only to the extent that it helps the individual to find his place in the Worldi—to determine his relations to other indlviduals and how much his own private judgment is to be influenced by theirs. He is still an individual and must think for himself, decide for himself, act for | himself. If hig thought, his decisions, his acts are such as aocord with the prevailing endencies of men around him, then he meets their approval and gets along in the world; if they are such as do not accord with current public opinion, either because he is purely selc- centered, or cannot conscientiously subscribe | to prevailing bellefs, then he becomes in a | measure antagonistic to his fellows. He must act in accordance with his con- science, seeking light from whatever source possible. From the very nature of humanity the former difficulty Is easy of solution. When a man is behind his generation, his inborn de- sire to adapt himself to society and be in harmony with his companions will draw him toward their standard. His natural inclination will bring him to the light. In the latter, however, the very opposite is the case. The man ahead of his generation will find himself sorely tempted to make the prevailing standard of worth his own. If his desire for rational self-realization Wwill not permit him to sur- render himself, we have our moral hero, our Socrates, our Christ—men finding their reward not in the plaudits of the multitude, but in an approving conscience, 1t is of great value in making a man master of his environment, but it should not aim to constitute him master of his fellows, unless it at the same time feaches him wliat such mastery entafls. He who advocates technical or professional training that does not rest upon a foundation of real education—that Is, education that shall make its possessor fully aware of the duty he owes to other men—is an unconscious enemy to civilization, because he subordinates the ultimate welfare of soclety and the individual as well to the lower interest of_the individual, To criticize doctor and sage may seem pre- sumptuous in one but on the threshold of education, 'but I belleve modern _educational | tendencles are in grave danger of turning in the wrong direction. I believe the constant emphasis laid upon the money value of every- thing from breadstuffs to food for gunpowder is even now felt within the sacred walls of the university, that should be the citadel of mor- ality, Inspiring its graduates to higher living— fitting them to become leaders and helpers of their fellows, not taskmasters and oppressors. The real purpose of an institution of learning is to help men to realize that the right answer to the ethical question what ought I to do is in terms of self-sacrifice and duty, not dollars and cents. FAIR CO-ED MAKES ADDRESS ‘Miss Maria Helen Elizabeth Cooper Cleverly Dea's With Drama and the Alma Mater. Miss Maria Helen Elizabeth Cooper ‘was then announced by President Wheel- er as the speaker selected to address the gathering as the representative of the co-eds. Miss Cooper's subject f | was “The I achieved. follows: The great actor Salvini was once giving “Othello” in a small Italian town. His au- dience watched every movement of the play with growing intensity. But when the catas- trophe came and the Moor was about to smother Desdemona the whole pit rose in wrath and horror and with execrations and missiles drove him from the stage. No shene could be more impossible than that in an American theater of to-day. And yet the university, the traditional what is great and good in our literature, might well be proud of producing just a touch of en- | thusiasm like that for plays that are good and great. For plays and the stage are inevitable in modern life, and if they are vulgar and ccmmercial just so do the people fail of proper development. Now the university is, and has been for cen- turles, the natural home of the drama. As far back as the fifteenth century the boys in the German colleges were giving Latin come- es. mation the Jesuits wrote plays for their semi- naries and introduced Luther as a comic fig- ure. Most people have heard of the old Stras- bugg University, where the students presented some drama yearly before magistrate and guildman and courtier. The custom of giving plays ‘in English colleges was in force even before the reign of Henry VII, and when Elizabeth visited Cambridge in 1564 King's College Chapel was transformed into a theater | and play after play was given by torchlight | in honor of the Queen. In America, while university faculties have given but slight assistance to university the- atricals, the students, left to themselves, have kept up the custom in their own sweet way. Where in the old days they gave a Senecan tragedy, now too often they give opera bouffe, with a ‘splash of college color. I am not ask- ing that this state of things should be reme- died by an appropriation of money for the sake of promoting the drama in this university. On that side of the subject I have nothing to say. Nor does any one desire that Greek and Latin classics only should appear on the col- | lege stage or that these should be given often. But there is many a fine old play which forms a part of the literature of our own language, and which has sunk into undeserved oblivion. Even Shakespeare is known far teo little—a modern presentation of ‘‘Romeo and Jullet” or | ““The Tempest’ gives more attention to the splendor of the stage setting than to the play | itself. Now it is against this tendency on the modern stage—the frame rather than the pic- ture—that the university should direct its in- fluence, in so far as it concerns itself with theatricals at all. The presentation of a good play at college need not require a costly dis- play of scenery. but rather intelligent deliv- ery and harmonious setting. Thoughtful men are saying that our flour- ishing modern drama is without moral or Iit- erary value; that the original comedies pro- duced in English to-day deal not with the facts or problems or emotions of life, but with trivial sensations and - make-belleve world. Stage managers in turn complain that there is little use in appealing to the intelligence of the pub- lic—that an audience wants to laugh, to-ery, to shudder, but not to think. However, thete &still are left a few true playwrights—Stephen Phillips, for instance, s trying to make dra- matic poems succeed beside the latest frivolity from glddy Paree. Pinero and Jones, however morbid and unwholesome are many of their themes, at all events are producing plays which are not only actable, but are also read- able. Now if students are bent on staging contemporary drama why mot produce such plays as give an effective picture of some rea! aspect of life—if only to vary a farecical and extravaganzical monotony? Farces are all very well in their way—provided they are simply fantastic, not puerile and vulgar. But a uni. versity. by its very nature, should concern it. self with that which has an undercurrent of serlousness. And If university students will produce plays and so connect themselves with the dramatic movement of the day they should not fall in line with the dramatic decadence of the day. The burlesque, the risque songs. the too gay Thanksgiving show—Ileave all those o the commercial manager. They are not the fleld of the university. The latter should gn the one hand endeavor to keep alive what Jo best In the drama of the past and should en courage what IS truly representative of the present. And If both faculty and stademiy support such college theatricals the untversity may assist in the formation of public taste ang in the production of a future English drama which shall be worthy of the past. mand creates supply. not than behind the footlights. —_— DISCUSS LAW AND MEDICINE James Milton Mannon Speaks on Legal Education and F. H. Tebbe on Healing Science. Frederick Henry Tebbe, a graduate of the medical department, spoke on ‘“Medi- cine in the Twentieth Century.” He said that medicine as practiced In the present day was comparatively new, and that not many years ago superstition and charlatanism were connected with the great sclence. He declared that the growth of other sciences had helped that of medicine, though its establishment on a scientific yplane had been tardily The speaker dwelt upon the — Drama in the University,” and was as | preserver ot | During the heat and storm of the Refor- | 'President /&cts in Role of Host. Gives Recep- tion at Hearst “Hal ERKELEY, May 14—The stu- dents who were graduated from | the University of California to-day were tendered a fare- well reception this evening in Hearst Hall by President and | Mrs. Wheeler. The affair closed the college year and the college life of the members of the class of 1902. President and Mrs. Wheeler stood on a Turkish rug near the center of the main | hall and the graduates flocked to them for | a parting chat. At the close of the recep- tion an informal dance was held. Tha last evening the graduates spent together | as a class was a delightful one to them. The lower hall was artistically decor- ated and refreshments were served thers | in quiet corners, s e Alumni Hold Luncheon. BERKELEY, May l4.—Alumni luncheon was held in Hearst Hall this afternoon at | 2 o’clock. Some 350 graduates of the Uni- | versity of California were present. T. A. | Perkins, president of the association, was tcastmaster, and speeches were made by | Regent _Charles S. Wheeler, Edward | Booth, Dr. Sarah I Shuey, Miss Alice | ! Robertson and L. E. Martin. rules laid down for the study of medicine and the necessity of a keen knowledge | of other sciences to understand it. | “To know the human body,” he said, | “one must know the steps of its evolu- tion. Practical medicine is making great advancement and has an assured place in the realm of sc ystematic methods of research. future will | show that practical medicine must be | founded on facts, which is the goal we | are striving to reach.” | _“The Importance of Legal Education to the State” was the subject of the ad- dress delivered by James Milton Mannon of the Hastings law college. He de- clared that the people are the true legis- lators of the state, and that the laws de- vend on the consent of the people. ‘“Lawyers are required,” he said, “to interpret the laws and frame new ones when necessary. New laws are constant- ly demanded by the requirements of sc- ciety, and the state therefore ini ested in having the work well done. ’ justifies the state college for the study of law, for law is the foundation of all so- clety. The judges are aided by the law- yers and the state must have honest and competent judges and lawyers. Society and the state are thus benefited by the law college. More than half the mem- | bers of political conventions and legisla- tures are lawyers, and if the state pro- vides for the education of its lawyers, it is educating the state also, for the legislatures represent the state. The law | school must teach not only the laws, but the reasons for them, and in sending out from its halls well trained lawyers the school is sending forth men who will in- fluence the law and frame new ones for the benefit of the commonwealth.” Says Widows’ Claims Are Valid. | .OAKLAND, May 14—The Board of | Police and Fire Commissioners to-day Ipassed on pension claims of $1000 each Ldrawn in favor of Mrs. Mary Ennis, widow of the late W. C. Ennis, a fireman, who died while fighting fire last August, { and to the widow of the late Henry Ned- derman, a retired policeman. City Attor- | ney Johnson said the claims were valid, but the City Council will first have to | establish a fund from which the money | can be drawn. —_———— | Montgomerys Testify in Way OaSlh OAKLAND, May 14—George S. Mont= gomery and Carrie Judd Montgomery, the philanthropists, were witnesses this morning -in Judge Ellsworth’s court, where the Maria Way will contest is go- ing on. They testified that they knew Mrs Way before her death and that she seemed to them to be perfectly sane. The Rev. F. 8. Brush of Alameda offered similar testimony. Aged Cycler Hit by a Car. ALAMEDA, May 4.—De Witt C. Storey of 2328 Clement avenue, while riding a bicycle this morning on Park street, near the tidal canal bridge, was struck by an electric car. He sustained a fractured rib and several lacerations of the scalp. | Storey is aged and quite deaf. He did not hear the car until it was too late to get | out qf danger. —_— Qil for an Alameda Roadway. ALAME: May 14.—Oil is to be used for sprinkling the Webster-street road- | way. Of late the thoroughfare has been | breaking badly at the surface and quanti- | ties of the top dressing have been blown | away by the wind. Sprinkling with water did not prove satisfactory, and the City Trustees have decided to try erude petro- leum to preserve the roadway. —_— et———— - Charges Husband With Desertion. OAKLAND, May 4.—Charging deser- tion, Mrs. Alma Wlilson began suit to-day against Antone Wilson for a divorce. The ccuple were married in 1883 and have four children. Wilson is a walter. — e——— Imposes a Heavy Fine. OAKLAND, May 14.—Mrs. A. D. Howe, convicted af practicing medicine without a license, was fined $300 to-day by Acting Police Judge Stetson. Her attorneys will app2al. e e Death of G. A. R. Veteran. OAKLAND, May H4.—John A. Robinson, fermerly a deputy under County Cles Jordan, died this afternoon at his resi- dence in Fruitvale. He was a Grand Army veteran. e e— Found Guilty of Contempt. G. W. Meierdierks was fined $25 for con- tempt of court by Judge Murasky yese terday during the progress of a suit to | recover $415 on a opromissory note, | brought by C. Larges against Dr. W. A. Meierdierks. The fine was the result of a remark made by Mieredierks while he was testifying. He referred ‘to Larges, ‘who is his stepfether. as a “‘damnable cur.” The witness apologized later in the day, both to the court and to his stegs htlter and the fine was remitted. ~