Medical Board is to make such recommendations to the University Hospital Committee of the Regents as would, in its opinion, add to the comfort of the patients and the welfare of the institution. The Superintendent of the University Hospital is to be the executive officer of the Hospital Committee of the Regents, reporting through the Comptroller. The Superintendent is to have control of all departments, subordinate officers, nurses, employees, and patients, except in so far as concerns the medical treatment. Resident and house officers are to be appointed or dismissed by the Superintendent following the recommendation of the Hospital Medical Board and all other officers and employees are to be engaged and dismissed by the Superintendent. The Superintendent is to have charge of the admission of patients and the administration of the hospital. EXTENSION FOR THE DENTAL INFIRMARY Despite its increase in entrance requirements, the College of Dentistry is growing so rapidly that its students have been seri ously overcrowded. The Regents therefore have voted to advance $30,000 to the College of Dentistry for building an extension to the Dental Infirmary, large enough to accomodate approximately sixty more students than at present. So excellent is the work of the College of Dentistry that for the past four years not a single one of its graduates who has presented himself for examination for a license to practice dentistry in California, Oregon, Washington, or Arizona has failed to pass the examinations—a record equalled in those four states by no other dental college in America. The increase in first-year dental students for the past four years was three, nine, twenty-two, and forty-one per cent, respectively. DENTAL INSTITUTE AIDS "RHEUMATISM" Of late it has been realized that "rheumatism," heart-disease, and all manner of obscure ills are frequently due to diseased teeth. To aid in acquainting the dental profession of California with new methods for preventing and curing such lesions in tissues about the teeth, an annual Dental Institute was conducted by the College of Dentistry and the University Extension Division during the first week in January, attended by eighty-five practicing dentists. A five-day session held in Los Angeles the previous week was attended by more than eighty. In both cities lectures, clinics, and demonstrations were conducted by Dr. Arthur D. Black of Chicago, Professor of Operative Dentistry and Dental Pathology in Northwestern University. In San Francisco courses were given also by Dr. James D. McCoy of the College of Dentistry of the University of Southern California on radiography in diagnosis and treatment of abscesses of the teeth, and by Dr. George L. Bean, Professor of Dental Porcelain in the College of Dentistry, on porcelain shell crowns and amalgam model technique. UNIVERSITY BUILDING BONDS PROJECTS The highly favorable terms on which the contracts were let for Benjamin Ide Wheeler Hall, the great new classroom building of the University, will make it possible to complete the building at a total cost of $700,000, instead of the $800,000 originally allotted for it from the proceeds of the University Building Bonds. The Regents have now voted a new distribution of the funds available for the buildings to be erected under the University Building Bonds projects. The funds available for expenditure include $1,800,000, the par value of the University Building Bonds; $51,552 premium on the bonds; and $86,000, the unexpended balance (including interest) of the bequest of Charles Franklin Doe available for use toward the completion and equipment of the University Library, or a total now available of $1,937,552. The new schedule for the expenditure of these funds as adopted by the Regents February 8, 1916, is as follows: Benjamin Ide Wheeler Hall Completion of the Library, including bookstacks.... Agriculture Building (in concrete) New unit of the Power Plant Furnishings and equipment for: Chemistry Agriculture Total $700,000 525,000 160,000 350,000 70,000 27,000 22,000 60,000 25,000 $1,939,000 ARCHITECTURAL UNDERTAKINGS Benjamin Ide Wheeler Hall will be devoted to classrooms, the chemistry building to laboratories, while the new unit for agricul ture is to contain accomodations for the departments of pomology, horticulture, viticulture, citriculture, soil technology, the soil survey of California, agronomy, field crop investigations, forestry, farm management, and rural institutions, and in the basement, a refrigeration plant for experimental work in the matter of the best methods of refrigerating fruit for shipment. Among the permanent improvements the Regents will make during 1916 will be the provision of an additional press and one more linotype to be installed in the new building recently erected for the University Printing Office, a new storehouse, to cost $7500, adjoining the new printing office; $3000 for nursery propagation and for planting on the campus, and the removal to a new site of the little Philosophy Building, which now blockades the region of the Hearst Memorial Mining Building. A contract has been let for the new library and museum building for the Scripps Institution for Biological Research, at La Jolla. It will cost $18,000. Fireproof in construction, this reinforced concrete building will contain book-stacks with a capacity of about 20,000 volumes, a reading-room, offices, a seismograph room, museum quarters, etc. It will be completed in time for use for the Summer Assembly in Science at the Scripps Institution from June 25 to August 5, 1916. Clinton Day, '68, LL.D., '10, one of the earliest graduates of the University, architect of the Chemistry Building on the Berkeley Campus, of the Stanford Church, and of many other notable structures, died at his home in Berkeley on January 11. His last service at the University was the designing of the marble sundial recently installed just south of the Sather Campanile, through the gift of the class of '76. PLANS FOR THE RIVERSIDE STATION Plans have been completed by Lester H. Hibbard, '09, (one of the first graduates of the School of Architecture) for the new buildings for the Citrus Experiment Station and the Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture, to be erected on the new 471-acre site at Riverside at a cost of $125,000. In their exterior the buildings will suggest the Spanish inheritance of California, through their graceful lines, tiled roofs, plastered walls, arched Spanish doorways, pilastered façade and picturesque open arcades from building to building. Everything is planned as part of a group capable of expansion by future generations. In the main laboratory building will be offices for Director H. J. Webber and for University Extension in Agriculture, the library, laboratories for plant breeding and insect work, the entomological collections, offices for Government investigators of soil and orchard management, and private laboratories for the scientific staff. In a separate building on the north, reached by an open arcade, will be the chemical laboratories, and on the south, laboratories for study of abnormal physiological conditions or infectious diseases of plants. A most livable dwelling for the Director, with sleeping porches, open loggia, and sun-room, and various station appurtenances such as barn, stable, sheds, and shops, are also to be erected. SOME AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES A "State Dairy Cow Competition" will be launched on November 1, 1916, by the College of Agriculture. This competition will continue for sixteen months. It will be open not only to pure-bred but also to grade and common cows. A number of different prizes will be awarded for butter-fat production during any ten consecutive months of the sixteen. Prizes aggregating several thousand dollars have already been offered. The prize list, however, will be held open until July 1 so that any other persons or firms who wish to contribute may subscribe. The list of premiums and the definite rules will be announced by the University about August 1, 1916. "California King," the Hereford-Angus cross-bred steer, bred and fed at the University Farm, broke all records for a California steer by being sold to the Western Meat Company of San Francisco for 172 cents a pound--the highest price ever paid in the San Francisco market or for a California steer. The Farm Advisers, who are doing so much to introduce into use among the farmers of California not only better scientific methods but the habit of community co-operation, held a "traveling conference" for two weeks during February. They visited five counties in order to witness one another's methods and results, spent some days at the University, and wound up their journey with several days of practical demonstrations and conferences at the University Farm at Davis. THE BEAR GULCH WATER COMPANY Through the great endowment given to the University by Miss Cora Jane Flood, for instruction in commerce, the University became the possessor of four-fifths of the stock of the Bear Gulch Water Company which supplies water to Menlo Park. Recently Regent Guy C. Earl has become President of the company and Comptroller Ralph P. Merritt its General Manager. The result of the introduction of modern scientific management of this water property has been that the water-users have been greatly pleased by the improvement in the quality of the water supplied. The Railroad Commission has officially declared the quality of the water good and has authorized readjustment of rates by which the income of the Bear Gulch Water Company is increased about 25 per cent per annum. TWO REGENTS RE-APPOINTED Regent A. W. Foster and Regent Rudolph J. Taussig on February 29 were re-appointed, by Governor Johnson, Regents of the University, each for the full term of sixteen years. Regent Foster first became a member of the Board in 1900, as successor to Regent R. S. Foote. Regent Taussig first became a member of the Board, as President of the Mechanics' Institute, in 1902; he was appointed Regent in 1906 and again appointed Regent in 1913, as successor to Regent John E. Budd. Both have been members of the Finance Committee for a dozen years. GIFTS TO THE UNIVERSITY Miss Annie M. Alexander has approved a budget for 1916 for the California Museum of Vertebrate Zoology which means a gift from herself of $12,191.50 as a year's maintenance fund of these researches, biological surveys, and museum activities. The City of Berkeley has now given 7500 bulbs of selected varieties of Darwin tulips, and they have been planted in front of Bacon Hall and in the region about the Sather Campanile. These bulbs were presented to the University through the efforts of Mrs. Allen G. Freeman of Berkeley and were sent to the city by Messrs. E. H. Krelage and Sons, of Haarlem, Holland. Albert Bonnheim has given $160 for the Bonheim Essay Prizes and for the Bonnheim Discussion Prize for the Upper Division Bonnheim contest. Regent P. E. Bowles has given $500 toward the cost of planting trees on the hill lands of the University, a work which is making a remarkable transformation in the watershed of Strawberry Creek. The Class of '96 has given a fund for the installation in the Greek Theatre of a marble chair. There are now marble chairs in the Greek Theatre in honor of Mrs. Hearst, Professor Joseph Le Conte, President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Professor Henry Morse Stephens, Frank Norris, Dean William M. Searby, Professor Eugene Woldemar Hilgard, etc. Some 500 members of the Class of 1916 have pledged themselves to sign a note each, for $100, payable twenty years after grad |