PRESIDENT'S REPORT

The "President's Report" for 1912-13, a volume of 390 pages, has been rendered by Dean David P. Barrows, in the absence in Europe from June to December, 1913, of President Wheeler (on the first leave he had taken for rest during his fourteen years of service in the University). A feature of the report is the discussion by Dr. Barrows of certain fallacies current in common talk in which city life is contrasted unfavorably with country life. He urges the development of the social and community aspects of rural life, in such forms as the Department of Agriculture is now fostering.

The report calls attention to the fact that the University has now 7500 students, of whom over 5000 are taking full courses at Berkeley. There are 1992 new students this year, and 1477 in the freshman class alone. It is pointed out that the income of the University available for general educational purposes is growing at a rate which is extremely slow as compared with the extremely rapid increase in the number of students, and that educational endowment and more classrooms and laboratories are equal needs. In the financial statistics it is shown that the receipts for the year ending June 30, 1913, were $3,105,249, of which one-third came from the State, and that of the total receipts $1,105,659 was available at Berkeley for general educational, scientific, and administrative purposes, while the rest consisted of additions to endowment, moneys for building operations, moneys restricted to use for agricultural investigations and extension work in agriculture, etc. Among other features of the President's Report are the Comptroller's detailed report on the income and expenditures of the University, together with a balance sheet showing the state of its endowments and its other assets and liabilities, statistics showing that the Infirmary cared for a daily average of 91.7 dispensary cases and a daily average of 9.5 bed cases, an account by Director W. W. Campbell of important astronomical work done by the Lick Observatory, the Secretary's report on the activities of the Board of Regents, educational statistics compiled by Recorder James Sutton, a bibliography of publications by members of the faculty during the year, thirty printed pages of lists of gifts to the University during 1912-13, and detailed reports of various officers and various departments of the University.

VISITING SATHER PROFESSORS

Through the generosity of Mrs. Sather, donor of the Jane K. Sather Campanile, the Sather Gate, the Sather Professorship of Ancient History, the various Sather library funds, etc., the Uni

versity possesses an endowment, amounting to more than $120,000, for the Jane K. Sather Professorship in Classical Literature. It is planned not to make a permanent appointment to this chair, but each year to invite some distinguished scholar from Europe or America to spend a half-year or a year at Berkeley, teaching in the University.

The first Sather Professor in Classical Literature will be John L. Myres, Wykeham Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford. He will be at Berkeley for the half year beginning with January, 1914.

Professor Myres is distinguished as a classical archaeologist and as a historian. For twenty years he has been at work helping to reveal to the world the ancient civilization of the Mediterranean, as represented in Crete and in Cyprus. He graduated at Oxford in 1892. In 1893 went to Crete on the Craven Expedition, and in 1894 to Cyprus, where he reorganized the government museum and laid on a sure foundation knowledge of the contribution of Cyprus to ancient civilization. From 1895 to 1907 he was classical tutor at Christ Church, Oxford; lecturer in classical archaeology at Oxford from 1903; Gladstone Professor of Greek in the University of Liverpool from 1907 to 1910; and Wykeham Professor of Ancient History at Oxford since 1910. He has published a catalogue of the Cyprus Museum, a "History of Rome," a volume on the "Dawn of History," and numerous contributions to classical and archaeological reviews. Most advance in knowledge of ancient history can be made nowadays, he believes, through the excavation of ancient sites of civilization rather than through new investigation in what remains of ancient literature. He comes directly from Cyprus, where he is engaged in archaeological explorations for the government.

ALUMNI HONOR MRS. HEARST

A reception in honor of Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, Regent of the University of California and its staunch and faithful friend, was held by the Alumni Association at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco on Tuesday, December 11. The committee in charge consisted of Judge A. E. Graupner, '97, Dr. Matthew C. Lynch, '06, Douglas Brookman, '10, and John L. Simpson, '13. A large number of Alumni came to express their affection and their appreciation of Mrs. Hearst 's varied services to the University and to the community.

ALUMNI FOOTBALL DINNER

Fifty classes combined for the annual football dinner of the University, in San Francisco on Friday, November 7, the night before the "Big Game." There was a large attendance of alumni.

JUNIPERO SERRA COMMEMORATION

The University was represented by C. E. Chapman, Traveling Fellow in Pacific Coast History (a fellowship maintained by the Native Sons of the Golden West) at the ceremonies held in November by the people of Majorca on the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Father Junipero Serra, founder of the Franciscan Missions of California. Mr. Chapman was one of the speakers of the occasion and was received with distinguished hospitality and courtesy by the people of Majorca.

Monday, November 24, the anniversary of the birth of Father Serra, was observed by the University as a holiday in accordance with the proclamation by Governor Johnson, declaring this a legal holiday throughout the State.

SOME FACULTY MATTERS

The faculty has decided that, beginning with May, 1915, Junior Certificates, representing successful completion of the work of the first two years of the college course, shall be conferred only on candidates who have demonstrated their ability to read intelligently a piece of ordinary prose in French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, or Spanish, and to render it into good English. This requirement is not to be satisfied by the mere acquisition of credit in courses but only by passing an examination set by a University committee. This requirement is to be known as Subject B.

The University Extension Division and the College of Commerce have arranged for a course of lectures to be given Thursday evenings from January 15 to April 23 on "Advertising and Salesmanship." The lecturers are from the membership of the Advertising Association of San Francisco and of the National Salesmanagers' Association.

An important recent publication of the University Press is a volume of 600 pages entitled "Business Cycles," the work of Wesley Clair Mitchell, until recently Professor of Finance in the University. The volume contains a wealth of information pertaining to the phenomena of business cycles, discussion of the factors involved, and a vast mass of tables and of illuminating charts dealing with such matters as the increase of the gold supply, the rise in the cost of living, interest rates, rise in wages as compared with rise in the wholesale and retail cost of food and of other commodities, banking and stock market matters, etc.

An improved method of typhoid vaccination has been worked out by Dr. Frederick P. Gay, Professor of Pathology in the University, and Dr. Edith J. Claypole. They use a sensitized culture of killed typhoid bacteria. Under this method the three innocu

lations required can be given at intervals of two days instead of intervals of ten days. The reaction is free from disagreeable symptoms that have sometimes attended methods heretofore in use, and the efficiency of the immunization is believed to be increased.

Professor Frederick P. Gay and Dr. John N. Force have developed a test for immunity against typhoid. By their very simple method it is possible to determine whether immunity against the disease, whether conferred by vaccination or by an attack of typhoid, still prevails; that is, whether revaccination is needed. By this method it is possible, also, to distinguish as between immunity against typhoid and immunity against two different types of paratyphoid.

During the year 1913 students to the number of 1027 were vaccinated against typhoid by the Infirmary, and 1684 were vaccinated against smallpox. Opportunity for anti-typhoid vaccination was extended not only to the students but to all members of the faculty and officers of the University.

The Appellate Court has confirmed the judgment rendered by Judge Waste asserting the right of the Regents to require vaccination for admission to the University.

Herbert E. Bolton, Professor of American History, has just published, through the Carnegie Institution of Washington, a "Guide to Materials for the History of the United States in the Principal Archives of Mexico," a volume of 553 pages in which he brings to the knowledge of historians the whereabouts and the general nature of the wealth of unknown manuscripts he has found through a dozen years of exploration in the Mexican archives.

A new permanent hall, to be known as "Southwestern Indian Hall," has been added to the Museum of Anthropology, at the Affiliated College buildings on Parnassus avenue, San Francisco. The collections, which were assembled by the generosity of Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst, represent the life of the ancient Cliff Dwellers of the Southwest, the town-dwelling arts, crafts, rites, and industries of the Pueblo Indians, and the life of war and the chase led by the nomadic tribes of the Southwest, such as the wild - Apaches, Navajo, Pimas, Papagos, and Walapais.

MINISTERS' WEEK AT THE UNIVERSITY FARM

All the clergymen of California were invited to come to the University Farm at Davis, in Yolo County, during the first week in December, to participate in "Ministers' Week." The result was a gathering of 501 ministers, including Catholics and Protestants, and representing nearly fifteen denominations. This is believed to be the largest interdenominational gathering of men

actively in charge of church work ever held in the United States. Addresses were delivered by a number of members of the faculty of the University, including Dean David P. Barrows and Dean Thomas F. Hunt, and by many others, including Warren H. Wilson, Superintendent of the Department of Church and Country Life of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church; Judge Peter J. Shields of Sacramento; Frederick Miller, Meat Inspector of San Francisco; and Robert N. Lynch, of the California Development Board. The purpose of "Ministers' Week' was to aid the clergy of the rural communities in their public service among agricultural people, and to help them to grasp the problems that lie in the borderland between agriculture and social service; to suggest ways in which the pastor of a church may help solve the rural school problem, the social problem, the recreation problem, and the organization of rural activities. The program covered a wide range of subjects, from the judging of beef cattle and the feeding of dairy cows to the developing of irrigation projects, including sociological problems such as the country life movement, eugenics, and wider uses for the schools.

November 15 a largely-attended "field day" for the fruitgrowers of Southern California was held at the Riverside Citrus Experiment Station. Experts spoke on different horticultural investigations in progress there and there were valuable conferences and discussions.

NEW PROFESSORSHIP OF POMOLOGY

Arnold Valentine Stubenrauch has been appointed Professor of Pomology and will begin his duties with the University year 1914-15. Professor Stubenrauch graduated from the University of California in 1899, took an M.S. at Cornell in 1901, did his first work in agricultural education as Secretary to Professor E. W. Hilgard, then Dean of the College of Agriculture of the University of California, was Instructor in Horticulture in the University of Illinois in 1901-02, Assistant Professor of Horticulture in the University of California in 1902–05, and in 1906 began investigations in California in fruit transportation and storage, which he continued for the United States Department of Agriculture until 1910. In that year he was placed in charge of this branch of the investigations of the government. Since 1910 he has been Pomologist in charge of the Office of Field Investigations in Pomology of the United States Department of Agriculture.