The Students' Co-operative Society, which for many years has conducted a department store in North Hall for the benefit of the students, has conveyed all its property to the Associated Students of the University of California, and hereafter its business will be conducted under the name of the "Associated Students' Store."'

BUILDING NEEDS AND PLANS

With the students at Berkeley growing in number by nearly one-sixth per annum, the building accommodations have become more and more grievously inadequate. At a meeting of the Regents on the campus on October 14, the special order of business was the consideration of the most pressing building problems. It was the sense of the Board that two particularly urgent needs at present are an auditorium of moderate size, seating say twelve to fifteen hundred people, which would accommodate the halfdozen and more classes which now are too large for the largest lecture room on the campus, and which would furnish opportunity for student plays and concerts, meetings, and public lectures. During the present half-year some of the larger classes have been held in the Harmon Gymnasium, which has caused interference with gymnasium work, and expense at the rate of $1,000 per annum for moving chairs. Another most urgent need is for additional classrooms. At no other large American university are the classrooms used for so many hours a week. The lack of rooms is becoming impossible. A plan which greatly commends itself to the Regents, if in some way moneys can be found for the purpose, is to build a tier of rooms along the east side of the unfinished portion of the new University Library, this construction to be permanent in character, and the space so secured to be used as classrooms. Eighteen classrooms, each approximately thirty feet square, could be so provided at a cost of approximately $125,000. Additional laboratory accommodations for chemistry is another of many pressing needs.

For some measure of temporary relief, it was decided to erect a temporary frame structure near the Architecture Building, in which to accommodate the Department of Drawing, thus making available for classroom use the quarters in East Hall vacated by the Department of Drawing, and, further, to build an addition to Hearst Hall, with locker-rooms and showers on the ground floor and a commodious room on the second floor available for gymnasium classes and also for lectures and various other University purposes of assemblage. North of this will be the new outdoor swimming-pool for the women students-forty by seventy-five feet

in size, and estimated to cost $6700-toward which Mrs. Hearst has offered $2750, while Regent F. W. Dohrmann has contributed $250 toward the same purpose.

To build training quarters for athletic teams and for all other students who wish to engage in outdoor athletics is the desire of the Associated Students. The Regents have, therefore, granted their request that the space north of California Field, between the Rudolph Spreckels Temporary Physiological Laboratory and the California Museum or Vertebrate Zoology, be reserved as a site for such a building, to be erected hereafter at the expense of the Associated Students, subject to approval of the plans by the Committee on Grounds and Buildings and the Supervising Architect.

The building containing the Hygiene Museum has been removed to a spot west of the College-avenue entrance to the campus and the Museum reopened, with additional exhibits illustrating methods of public health protection.

Planting work in progress during the current year has far advanced the foresting of the 300 acres of hills and cañons in the eastern portion of the University campus. It was approved by the Regents on December 9 that planting work on other portions of the campus proceed on the basis of an expenditure of $3000 for the year beginning July 1, 1914.

The Regents have appropriated $2500 for an additional exterior stairway for North Hall and to improve the condition of the lockerrooms in the building, and have ordered metal ladders to be placed on the Botany Building and on Budd Hall, formerly known as Agriculture Hall, as fire-escapes.

California Field is to be turfed in preparation for next year's 100tball season.

Contracts have been authorized for a beef barn at the University Farm, to cost not to exceed $2700.

GIFTS TO THE UNIVERSITY

The Associated Women Students have given to the University a portrait of Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst, painted by Winifred Rieber. On December 5 the women students, as an expression of their love and affection for Mrs. Hearst, held unveiling exercises for this portrait in Hearst Hall.

In memory of Thomas R. Bacon, for many years Professor of Modern English History in the University of California, a number of former students and other friends united in purchasing Professor Bacon's private library from his estate and presenting it to the University. The gift was tendered to the Regents on

October 14, 1913, in the following letter from Duncan McDuffie, '99: "In behalf of a group of his former students and other friends. I have the pleasure of offering to you, as a gift to the University of California, the library of the late Thomas Rutherford Bacon, for many years Professor of Modern European History in the University of California. The collection consists of something over 1200 bound volumes and about one-third that number of pamphlets. While a large proportion of these books are no doubt already represented in the University Library, yet the bulk of the collection consists of standard works in history and literature for which there is very great and very constant demand on the part of the students and for the possession of duplicates of which there is, therefore, very real need. We do not wish to make any request that the books be separately shelved nor that the library be required to retain such duplicates as it cannot use to advantage. Professor Bacon's rich and various personality, his contagious enthusiasm for the things of the spirit, and his warm kindliness of friendship endeared him to passing generations of students for a quarter of a century of the life of the University. We would ask that in commemoration of his life and his loyal service to the University, these volumes be received by the University and individually inscribed as constituting the Thomas Rutherford Bacon Memorial Library." All further contributions will be spent to buy books dealing with the French Revolution-Professor Bacon's favorite field of study.

Albert Bonnheim has given $160 for the 1913 Bonnheim Prizes. F. W. Bradley, '86, President of the Alaska-Treadwell Gold Mining Company, and also of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Lead Mining Company of Idaho, has offered a gift of $1000 per annum for at least ten years for the establishment of a fund to be known as the "Mining Student Loan Fund," for the benefit of students of mining and metallurgy who show "promise of future usefulness to the state," preference to be given in general to upperclassmen, although in exceptional cases the benefits may be extended to members of the lower classes. Loans are to be made upon the recommendation of the Professor of Mining and Metallurgy, with the approval of the President. Ordinarily loans are not to exceed $200 in any one year.

The University is contingently a legatee under the will of James Denman, long a leader in educational work in San Francisco. His estate has paid over to the Board of Education of San Francisco $3000, the net income of which is to be applied to the purchase of medals for the most deserving girls graduating from the public grammar schools of San Francisco. If the Board of Edu

cation shall at any time resolve to discontinue or shall for any calendar year cease to give medals as so provided for, the fund is to revert to the Regents of the University of California and the income to be applied to the support of the James Denman Scholarships for deserving young women, preferably for young women preparing to enter upon some municipal employment in connection with recreation for young people. The Board of Education has signed a trust agreement declaring that it is its understanding that it was not the desire of James Denman, nor the desire of his heirs, that the Board of Education should deem itself bound to continue the giving of these medals when it shall feel that other systems of stimulating the minds of the young pupils have made the giving of such medals inadvisable, or that the fund or the investment thereof might be more advantageously used by the Regents for the proposed James Denman Scholarships.

Regent F. W. Dohrman has contributed $250 towards the new swimming-pool for the women students.

George L. Foote, the composer, of Boston, has presented $100 to be expended by the Department of Music for the purchase of music. Mrs. Mary W. Glascock has presented to the University some 800 volumes of law-books from the library of her late husband, John Raglan Glascock, '65, at one time member of the House of Representatives from the Third Congressional District of California, and later Mayor of Oakland. This library will constitute a memorial to one of the most loyal and devoted of the alumni of the University; a man whose yearly addresses to the students at the "smoker rally" and at the University Meeting preceding the California-Stanford game were a precious tradition, keeping burning brightly the clear flame of pure university spirit; a man whose life and labor, public and private, set a high ideal for the relation of the university graduate to the community.

H. B. Hambly of the Bancroft-Whitney Company of San Francisco has given to the law library three volumes of the California Cumulative Quarterly Digest, for 1910-11, 1912, and 1913.

Mrs. Hearst has increased her original gift of $2500 toward the new outdoor swimming pool for women students by $250, in order that it may be an uncovered pool forty by seventy-five feet instead of a covered pool twenty-eight by sixty feet in size.

Mrs. Hearst has presented to the University Library a folio Hogarth, published in London in 1822 from the original plates as retouched by James Heath, R. A. The folio contains Hogarth's portrait and one hundred and fourteen pages of plates.

Mrs. Hearst has provided for the expense of stiffening the floors of Hearst Hall. While the building was reported by Charles

Derleth, Jr., Professor of Civil Engineering, as perfectly safe from the point of view of structural strength, he recommended this work as advantageous for lengthening the life of the building.

Mr. William Randolph Hearst has offered to defray the cost of extensive repairs to the Greek Theatre, the expense thereof being estimated at $3000. Included will be the relaying of portions of the stage floor, the repairing of cracked portions of the diazoma, the weather-proofing of the cracks in the proscenium wall and at the north stage entrance, the substitution of iron for wood gratings over the drainage troughs, and the releveling, repairing and draining of portions of the seats in the two south sections. The Home Industry League of California has offered a $25 prize for the best essay by a student of the University of California on the question: "Why Should Home Industries be Encouraged and Fostered by Californians?"

The Knights of Saint Patrick have given $100 for the purchase of Irish books for the University Library.

The Power and Mining Machinery Company of Cudahy, Wisconsin, has given a working-size laboratory model of the McCully Gyratory Ore Crusher for the Mining Department.

The San Joaquin District of the California Federation of Women's Clubs has given $124 as the San Joaquin Women's Club's Loan Fund. From this fund loans are to be made to assist women students of the University, preference to be given to those who are in the last year of their undergraduate course.

The San José High School has given $125 to support the San José High School Scholarship for 1913-14.

Miss Ellen M. Scripps has presented $4000 for the building of a Director's House at the Scripps Institution for Biological Research.

The Frank K. Shepard Company of New York has given to the Law Library the Supplemental Edition of Shepard's Pacific Reporter Citations.

Max Thelen, '04, member of the California Railroad Commission, has presented to the law library three volumes of Shepard's Citations, viz., United States Citations, Federal Citations, and Pacific Citations.

(The University Hospital building fund donations are listed above-see page 108.)

RECOVERY MADE IN THE TURNER CASE

The twenty-year litigation of the Turner case has at last been settled by the recovery by the Regents of $60,000.

On the death of W. C. Turner, intestate, on March 12, 1894, he was indebted to the Regents, for a mortgage loan and accrued