in his own hand with this comment: "I most warmly and earnestly join in this prayer. It means a great deal to the public service."

To observe political, social, and economic conditions in Europe in these days of the great war, and to aid in the work of the American Commission for Relief in Belgium, David P. Barrows, Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Academic Faculties, has sought leave of absence for a half year, and from December 20, 1915, to June 30, 1916, Henry Rand Hatfield, Professor of Accounting (on the Flood Foundation), will serve as Dean of the Academic Faculties.

To aid also in Belgium, Clare Morse Torrey, Secretary to the President, has sought leave of absence from December 1, 1915, to June 30, 1916. With him to Belgium goes also John L. Simpson, Alumni Secretary in 1914-15 and since then of the staff of the California State Commission on Immigration and Housing. Newton B. Drury, '12, who was Mr. Torrey's immediate predecessor as President of the Associated Students, will receive a half year's leave of absence from his duties as Instructor in Public Speaking to serve as Secretary to the President during Mr. Torrey's absence.

The honorary degree of Doctor of Science was conferred upon Charles A. Kofoid, Professor of Zoology in the University of California, by Oberlin College at its last Commencement, in recognition of his investigations in marine biology and concerning the fresh-water plankton.

Charles E. Rugh, Professor of Education, was winner of the thousand dollar prize awarded at the recent general session of the International Congress of Education, held in Oakland, for the best essay on "The Essential Place of Religion in Education, with an Outline of a Plan for Introducing Religious Teaching into the Public School.'' There were four hundred and thirty-two competitors.

Dr. Wilbur A. Sawyer, Lecturer in Preventive Medicine in the University, has been appointed a member of the California State Board of Health, and Secretary and Executive Officer of the Board. For the past five years he has been Director of the State Hygienic Laboratory maintained at the University by the State Board of Health. In his new capacity he will have charge of all activities of the State in public health, including the State Hygienic Laboratory, the Bureau of Sanitary Engineering, and the Food and Drugs Laboratory, all of which have their headquarters at the University, and the Bureaus for administration, the registration of nurses, vital statistics, anti-tuberculosis work, etc., which have their headquarters at Sacramento.

PROFESSOR HOWISON ADDRESSES THE UNION

Eighty-one years of age, George Holmes Howison, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, came as an honored guest on November 19 to address the Philosophical Union of the University of California, which he himself founded some thirty years before. His address was on "The Knowledge of Other Minds." A former member of the faculty of Washington University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan, and Harvard University, Professor Howison in his twenty-five years of teaching in the University of California trained a distinguished body of disciples, including such men as Charles M. Bakewell, Professor of Philosophy in Yale University; Charles H. Rieber, head of the Department of Philosophy of the University of California and Dean of its Summer Session; George M. Stratton, Professor of Psychology in the University of California; Harry A. Overstreet, Professor of Philosophy in the College of the City of New York; Arthur O. Lovejoy, Professor of Philosophy in Johns Hopkins University; Ernest Norton Henderson, Professor of Education and Philosophy in Adelphi College; E. B. McGilvary, Professor of Philosophy in Johns Hopkins University; Henry W. Stewart, Professor of Philosophy in Stanford University, and Sidney E. Mezes, formerly Professor of Philosophy and then President of the University of Texas, and now President of the College of the City of New York.

This year's monthly meetings of the Philosophical Union are devoted to a study of "The Meaning of God in Human Experience," a recent volume by W. E. Hocking, now Professor of Philosophy in Harvard University, and Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the University of California from 1906 to 1907.

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

One of the most notably enthusiastic and successful football banquets ever held by the Alumni Association was celebrated at the San Francisco Commercial Club on Friday evening, November 5— the eve of the California-Washington game. Oscar Sutro, '94, President of the Alumni Association, introduced Regent Charles S. Wheeler, '84, as Toastmaster, and the other speakers were as follows: President Wheeler; President Henry Suzzallo of the University of Washington; Judge W. W. Morrow, LL.D., '13; Professor George C. Edwards, '73; Frank Otis, '73; Mayor S. C. Irving of Berkeley, '79; Professor Edmond O'Neill, '79; Regent James

K. Moffitt, '86; Professor T. M. Putnam, '97; Milton H. Schwartz, '01; Douglas Brookman, '10, and Herman H. Phleger, '12.

Harvey Roney, '15, Editor last spring of the Californian, the student daily, has been chosen by the Alumni Association as Secretary and as Editor of the Alumni Weekly. He has edited the alumni journal with vigor, freshness, and success. The Regents have appropriated $3000 as an aid to the Alumni Association in bringing up to date the list of names and addresses of the alumni, and in furtherance of the work of the association in general.

The alumnae of the classes from 1906 to 1915, inclusive, held a football dinner at Hearst Hall on the evening of November 5, with an attendance of about 150.

The Chinese graduates of the University of California who live in the region of Peking, together with various American alumni there, have organized a University of California Club of North China, under the chairmanship of Julean H. Arnold, '02, Commercial Attaché of the United States for China and Japan, and have signified their intention of presenting a silver cup to their Alma Mater as a perpetual debating trophy for an annual debate on some question pertaining to China and its various affairs.

GIFTS TO THE UNIVERSITY

Miss Annie M. Alexander gave $3870 during the half-year ending June 30, 1915, for the support of the California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. On June 30, 1915, the Museum contained 54,555 specimens, including 21,888 mammals, 25,495 birds, 5,558 reptiles and amphibians, and 1614 sets of birds' eggs. During the year the staff published thirty-five papers and numerous signed reviews, and other papers were published by investigators outside the staff of the Museum which were in large part based upon material in its collections.

The Babcock and Wilcox Company of San Francisco, through C. R. Weymouth, '98, has given a number of mechanical engineering books to the Department of Mechanics.

Mrs. George Baugh of Berkeley has given to the University Library forty-three volumes of special interest to students of the Bengali, Hindustani, Tamil, and Singhalese languages.

Albert Bonnheim and Fannie Bonnheim, who in 1897 created the Joseph Bonnheim Memorial Fund, and the Trustees of the Joseph Bonnheim Memorial Fund (Mr. and Mrs. Bonnheim, Harris Weinstock, H. Thorp, and W. A. Briggs) have now conveyed to the Regents preferred stock of the Weinstock Lubin Real Estate Company of a par value of $25,000 and common stock of the same

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company of a par value of $45,000. The income is to be expended to "assist worthy boys and girls in their education at the University of California, with a view to making them self-supporting as rapidly as possible. The Regents shall use their own best judgment in making selections of the persons to receive assistance from said fund and in determining the amount to be expended for assisting beneficiaries, provided that the benefits to any one person shall not be less than $20 per annum nor more than $400 per annum. selecting the beneficiaries, the Regents shall make no distinction on account of sex, race, color, nationality or religion, giving preference, however, to boys and girls between the ages of sixteen and nineteen years, but continuing the assistance after that age if in their judgment necessary to make the beneficiary self-supporting. By education' is meant education in its broadest sense, having in view such preparation and training as will make the beneficiary self-sustaining by whatsoever trade, profession or calling as may seem best adapted for such purpose in each case."

F. W. Bradley, '86, has made his third annual gift of a thousand dollars toward the Mining Student Loan Fund. Already twenty individuals have been aided from this fund, and there are student loans outstanding to the amount of $2300.

The Class of 1915 has given $1000 as the Class of 1915 Fund, the income (subject to determination of the rate by the Regents from time to time) to be paid to the class, and upon the death of the last surviving member of the class or at such date prior thereto as may be fixed by the class, the fund to be devoted to some University purpose.

Mrs. Elizabeth C. Fisk has given various Filipino weapons and Filipino articles of clothing as an addition to the Asa F. Fisk Collection in the University of California Museum of Anthropology.

The French Republic has given to the University (under the patronage of the Friends of France) the extraordinary collection of six thousand volumes of French literature, science, and art, which for the past year has been on display in the library room of the French Pavilion at the Exposition. Seldom has so remarkable a collection been brought together. The French government invited the leading French authorities in philosophy, history, philology, science, and the arts to write a chapter each on the contributions of the French people in their special fields. To each chapter was appended a bibliography of the most important French writings on the subject. With comparatively few exceptions the works mentioned in these bibliographies prepared by the most distinguished experts are a part of the great gift now made to the University Library.

A friend of the University has given $1200 as the Edith Claypole Memorial Research Fund for 1915-16. The Edith Claypole Fellowship is this year held by Dr. Sanford B. Hooker, who is working with Dr. Frederick Parker Gay, Professor of Pathology, on the problem of treatment of typhoid with an immune serum, a new method through which Dr. Gay has succeeded in aborting typhoid fever in approximately forty per cent of cases.

A friend of the University has given $675 to provide salary for an instructor in Neurology in the University of California Medical School until December 31, 1915.

A friend of the University has offered a loan of $26,000, without interest, repayment to be made when University funds become available during the next fiscal year, so that a new Printing Office may be built and the old quarters of the Printing Office made available to relieve the serious overcrowding of the Department of Anatomy. The new Printing Office has been erected, in concrete, on Bancroft way, southwest of the new running track. The removal promises much gain in efficiency and economy.

The Hahnemann Medical College of the Pacific has given funds to provide a salary of $2000 for the first year and $3000 for the second year for Dr. William Boericke, Clinical Professor of Homoeopathic Materia Medica.

Regent Phoebe A. Hearst has given funds for the construction, for the mining museum in the Hearst Memorial Mining Building, of a replica of a model of the Homestake Mine which constituted a part of the exhibit of the Homestake Mining Company at the Palace of Mines at the Exposition.

The Knights of St. Patrick have repeated their customary annual gift of $100 to buy Irish books for the University Library, a generosity which is building up a valuable Celtic collection, ancient and modern, in the Library.

Dr. Harry East Miller has given to the University a set of the Illustrirte Zeitung, from 1870 to 1912, inclusive, and over two hundred volumes of valuable chemical journals, and has expressed the intention of turning over to the University eventually his entire technical library.

Bernhard Nathan has bequeathed to the University $5000, the annual income to be used to "assist deserving students, while at the University, with particular consideration for those of Jewish parentage." The executors of this pioneer California merchant, who, though for many years past a resident once more of his native Germany, had kept keen his interest in California life, are Mr. A. B. C. Dohrmann and Mr. H. Wiener.