LECTURES ON TROPICAL MEDICINE

(At the University Hospital, on Parnassus avenue, San Francisco, at 10 o'clock, Saturday mornings).

January 17-Dr. K. F. Meyer, Associate Professor of Bacteriology and Protozoology, "The Scope of Tropical Medicine."

January 24-Dr. K. F. Meyer, "Filariasis.''

January 31-Surgeon W. W. Glover, of the United States Public Health Service, "Uncinariasis.''

February 7-Dr. F. P. Gay, "Bacillary Dysentery.' February 14-Dr. K. F. Meyer, "Amoebiasis: Parasitology." February 21-Dr. H. C. Moffitt, Professor of Medicine and Dean of the College of Medicine, "Amoebiasis: Clinical Features.'' February 28-Dr. K. F. Meyer, "Yellow Fever."

MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC EVENTS

January 13-Berkeley Musical Association concert: Miss Kathleen Parlow, violinist, and Charlton Keith, pianist.

February 4-Berkeley Musical Association concert: Josef Hofman, the pianist.

February 12-Berkeley Oratorio Society concert: Mendelssohn's Oratorio "Elijah" was presented under the direction of Paul Steindorff, Choragus, with Mme. Gabrielle Chapin-Woodworth, prima donna soprano, and Homer Henley, baritone, soloists.

February 17-University Recital: A programme of folk and popular songs by Lucia Dunham, soprano, with introductory comments by Charles Louis Seeger, Professor of Music.

February 24-University Recital: A programme of compositions of Monteverdi, Purcell, Bach, and Handel was rendered under the direction of Charles Louis Seeger, Professor of Music, by Emilio Puyans, flutist; William Edwin Chamberlain, baritone; and Gyula Ormay, pianist.

UNIVERSITY MEETINGS

January 16-President Benjamin Ide Wheeler.

January 30-Judge W. W. Morrow of the United States Circuit Court.

February 13-Dr. John Casper Branner, President of Stanford University.

February 27-Dr. Herbert C. Moffitt, Dean of the College of Medicine, and Colonel Robert H. Noble, in charge of militia affairs in the Western Division.

LECTURES AT THE UNIVERSITY

January 22-Samuel C. Wiel, of San Francisco, Water Rights

Law.

January 26-John D. Barry, of the San Francisco "Bulletin,' "The Spirit of Cosmopolitanism.'' (Before the Cosmopolitan

Club.)

January 28-T. T. Waterman, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, "The Conventional Character of the Sounds of Speech." January 29-Samuel C. Wiel, Water Rights Law. January 29-Kang Woo Kiang, of the University of Peking, "Education and Social Reform in China." (Before the Intercol

legiate Socialist Society.)

January 30-A. L. Kroeber, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Curator of the Anthropological Museum, "Mechanical Records of Speech."'

February 3-Dr. Herbert C. Moffitt, Professor of Medicine and Dean of the College of Medicine. (Before the Associated Pre-medical Students.)

February 10-Dr. William Morris Davis, Sturgis-Hooper Professor of Geology, Emeritus, in Harvard University, "The Larger Topographic Forms of Desert Regions." (Before the LeConte Geological Club.)

February 10-E. W. Gifford, Assistant Curator of the Anthropological Museum, "Shells of the Indian Shell Mounds of this Vicinity;" A. L. Barrows, Research Assistant in Zoology, on the Scripps Foundation, "The Significance of the Rock-boring Mollusks." (Before the Pacific Conchological Club.)

February 13-George M. Haushalter, the landscape painter, of Boston, "The Tides of Art." (Under the auspices of the Department of Drawing.)

February 13-F. Baldensperger, Professor of Comparative Literature in the Sorbonne, "Alfred de Vigny et la Littérature Anglaise." (Under the auspices of the Department of Romanic Languages.)

February 14-F. Baldensperger, "Maurice Barrès et la jeunesse intellectuelle." (Under the auspices of the Department of Romanic Languages.)

February 17-0. H. Benson, United States Department of Agriculture Specialist in Charge of Club Work. (Before the Agriculture Club.)

February 17-Herbert Folger of the German-American Insurance Company and the Phoenix Company of Hartford, "Fire Insurance-Its Relation to the Community, etc."

February 17-Guy L. Bayley, Chief Mechanical and Electrical Engineer of the Panama-Pacific Exposition. (Before the Associated Mechanical and Electrical Engineers.)

February 18-Alfred J. Cleary, Assistant City Engineer of San Francisco, "Recent Municipal Engineering Developments: High Pressure System, Municipal Railroad, Sewer System." (Before the Civil Engineering Association.)

February 19-Dr. William F. Badé, Editor of the Sierra Club Bulletin, "Birds of the High Sierras." (Before the Cooper Ornithological Club.)

February 24-Professor J. A. Schumpeter of the University of Graz, Austria, Exchange Professor in Economics, "Marx' Economic System."

February 24-F. B. Kellam, of the Royal Insurance Company, "The Insurance Office."

February 24-C. S. Brothers, Expert on the Classification of Lands of the United States Forestry Service, "Classification of Lands in the Forestry Service." (Before the Forestry Club.)

February 25-W. L. Jepson, Associate Professor of Dendrology, "Origin, Relationships, and Persistence of the California Flora." (Before the Sigma Xi Society.)

February 26-William E. Colby, Lecturer in the Law of Mines in the School of Jurisprudence, "The Public Domain."

February 26-Dr. R. L. Wilbur, Dean of the Medical School of Stanford University, "Medicine as a Vocation." (Before the Associated Pre-medical Students.)

February 27-John E. D. Trask, Director of Fine Arts of the Exposition, "The Artistic Significance of the Panama-Pacific Exposition." (Under the auspices of the Department of Drawing.)

VOL. XVI

JULY, 1914

COMMENCEMENT DAY ADDRESS

BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER

No. 3

You have been acquiring various knowledge here; I wonder how much of it has settled down into wisdom. Except as it has, it must still be labeled among the questionable assets. "Of all horned cattle in a newspaper office,' said Horace Greeley, "save me from a college graduate." He had probably just been having some irritating experience with some recent graduate whose uncooked knowledge was encumbering digestion. One of the commonest difficulties with green high school teachers resides in their tendency to carry over to the school unmodified and unabated, both as to substance and method, what they have just learned in the college. They convey it over in a pail instead of in a mind and in a life.

The rate at which your knowledge will ripen into wisdom depends in considerable part upon your distinguishing between what is important and what is relatively unimportant. Some people seem never to know any difference between the foot-notes and the head-lines. What is true about knowledge is true about the general business of living; sooner or later, if you are going to live the life of wisdom, you will have to make up your minds what things are for you worth while-what things are worth while for you, you and your goal being what they are, and you will have to gather together the will to do those things which are worth while and leave out those things which are meaningless. You have been born into a twentieth century world, which, having just inherited the discovery of the

control of physical power, rejoices like a child in making the wheels go round, and takes to itself the keenest delight in purposeless activity and meaningless speed. If you would have a sample embodying the spirit of modern motion bereft of schedule you cannot do better than review one of your own too typical academic days. You arrive late from a hurried breakfast at a lecture in a course you chose because a friend of yours was taking it, and then go up to North Hall to attend one you chose because the hour fitted your card, and then drop into the "Coop," and are thereby reminded to fill your pen, and by that to purchase a few lemon drops, and you sit on the senior bench and miss a recitation and attend a Blue and Gold meeting and hurry down to the photographer's for a group-picture, and after luncheon on your way to a laboratory you meet a friend who takes you over to Oakland in an automobile, and on your return you hear cheering which reminds you that there is a baseball game, and after the game you are invited to a cup of tea and talk about nothing in particular, certainly nothing you had planned to, but about anything which happens along; and during dinner you are called up on a telephone and asked to join a party for the theatre, but that by reason of a mistake in date degenerates to the "movies," and the next morning you awake with the brown taste of nothingness in your mouth and a dull foreboding in your conscience that you have another day of earnest work before you, but you have forgotten what the work is.

I have staged my illustration on the campus merely that through concrete examples you may understand me-not because these faults are peculiarly characteristic of college life. They are not, except that you are very young and very joyous. The main point is that you should understand my allegory. It symbolizes a way of living in which are hopelessly confused together the things that are, and the things that are not-worth while.

It means the life which wastes its strength flitting hither and thither without plan or chart; which follows the sug