the University Farm is shown by the fact that the eighth annual University Farm Picnic, celebrated on April 22, was attended by 15,160, by actual count, up to five o'clock, or three times as many as the previous year. More than 2600 automobiles entered the University Farm during the day.

At the University Farm School in one particular month recently, 161 out of the 299 students supplemented their resources by work in some division of the farm, earning $841.78, or an average of $5.15 for each of the 161. Twenty-five earned $10 or more from the farm during that month. With few exceptions the rate of payment was twenty cents an hour.

"The First Annual Davis Clean-up Day" was celebrated at Davis on March 18. The students built a new fence around their athletic field, aided in planting trees along the streets of Davis, built sidewalks, and otherwise aided in this community housecleaning.

The farm tractor, which is nowadays ousting the horse for farm work, is to be made the subject of a special short course at the University Farm at Davis, from November 13 to 24. Other short courses will be in progress between October 2 and November 10 in agriculture, dairying, horticulture, and poultry husbandry.

DENTAL COURSE FOUR YEARS

A four-year course will be inaugurated by the College of Dentistry beginning with 1917-18, a course of this greater length having been approved as standard by the Dental Faculties Association of American Universities.

MEDICAL SCHOOL

A renewal for five years from June 6, 1916, of the affiliation between the Hospital for Children and Training School for Nurses in San Francisco and the University of California Medical School was approved by the Regents on April 11, 1916, a year's experi ence having shown the value of this relation to the patients, to the cause of medical education, and to the advancement of women in medicine and surgery.

"Toland Amphitheatre" has been chosen as the name of the amphitheatre in the new University Hospital, as recommended by the medical faculty, as a tribute to the memory of Dr. Hugo H. Toland, who gave to the University of California the Toland Medical College, in which he had long served as teacher-Toland being the foundation on which the present University of California Medical School arose.

SHAKESPEARE CELEBRATION

The University of California joined in the world-wide celebration of the three-hundredth anniversary of the death of Shakespeare by three events: on April 15, scenes from various Shakespeare plays were presented in the Greek Theatre by students of the high schools of the neighborhood, the Alameda High School giving a Corpus Christi celebration, including the second Shepherd's Play from the Towneley Cycle of Miracle Plays, as a specimen of pre-Shakespearean drama; the Fremont High School of Oakland giving two scenes from "A Midsummer Night's Dream''; the Berkeley High School giving the duel scene from "Twelfth Night''; the University High School giving a pageant based on the ending of "As You Like It'; the Oakland High School giving scenes from "Coriolanus," and the Oakland Technical High School giving the sheep-shearing festival scenes from "The Winter's Tale." Most of these schools made pageantry and dancing the essential motive of what they presented.

Literary exercises under the auspices of the English Department were held in Hearst Hall on the evening of Friday, April 21. Professor Charles Mills Gayley read an original poem, "Shakespeare Heart of the Race'; Regent Guy C. Earl, '83, spoke on "Shakespeare, the Man"; Professor Walter Morris Hart on "Shakespeare, the Writer," and Professor William Dallam Armes on "Shakespeare's England.'

The closing event of the Shakespearean Tercentenary Celebration was the presentation of "Julius Caesar" by the English Club in the Greek Theatre on Saturday evening, April 22.

THE PARTHENEIA

Save for the pleasant frivolities of the Senior Extravaganza, sometimes, as this year, adorned with lyrics of witty and poetic quality and original music of excellent worth, the Greek Theatre in the thirteen years of its existence has done little to encourage creation in either the drama or music. In the annual Partheneia, however, the University has a tradition of creative endeavor of honorable achievement in the past and of promise for the future.

This year's Partheneia, given April 7, and the fifth to be presented, was "Aranyani of the Jasmine Vine," an allegory written by Miss Maude Meagher, '17, who herself took the leading rôle in the 1915 Partheneia, with original music of distinction by Katherine Urner, a graduate student, rendered by an orchestra of thirty, conducted by Dorothy Pillsbury, '15. The costumes were from original designs by various women students. The

dances were devised and given by the women students. The rich opportunities for pageantry and spectacle were developed under the direction of Porter Garnett, of proved skill in such undertakings.

To test student sentiment as to whether the Partheneia, with its great demand for toil by hundreds of participants in its planning and execution, should be given only once every two years instead of annually, the women students voted on the issue. They decided by 532 to 221 to continue it as a yearly event.

ENGLISH CLUB PLAYS

The English Club, besides its two productions of plays in the Greek Theater each year, is holding also annual play-writing competitions. A competition has been announced, open to any student registered in the University, for a play of any length and any type, on any subject, the manuscript to be submitted during the first week of the fall semester and the play then to be presented by the English Club. Twice of late has the English Club presented original plays-"Blind Alleys" and "Bagdad," both written by Kenneth Perkins, '14.

THE DEATH OF ISHI

Ishi, the last American Indian of the Stone Age, for the past four years a highly contented dweller in the University Museum in San Francisco, died in the University Hospital on March 25, 1916. Born and reared in the remote fastnesses of Deer Creek, Tehama county, and throughout the first half century of his life absolutely isolated from any contact with the white man or the white man's civilization, he at last found himself the only surviving member of his tribe-a branch of the South Yana Indians. Driven out by hunger from his ancestral haunts he went down into the valley, clad only in skins, and was arrested for helping himself to food. Representatives of the Department of Anthropology of the University, who for some years had heard the rumor that there were absolutely aboriginal Indians still in hiding in the Deer Creek country, went to his rescue and brought him to San Francisco. In the years which have passed since then they have elicited from him a great fund of information as to the language, customs, myths, aboriginal music, and primitive arts of his people-information trebly precious because he was undoubtedly the only adult Indian in America whose life had been passed in complete isolation from the white man's civilization. His natural dignity and self-respect, his inborn courtesy and kindness, greatly endeared him to the University anthropologists, and they followed him to his grave with sincere mourning.

THE NEW HOSPITAL

The cornerstone of the new University Hospital, which is being built on Parnassus avenue in San Francisco through gifts of over $600,000 from friends of the University, was laid on May 18. Regent William H. Crocker presided as chairman of the University Hospital Committee of the Regents, Regent Charles A. Ramm, '84, was Chaplain, and there were addresses by President Wheeler, by Dr. William Watt Kerr, Clinical Professor of Medicine, for the medical faculty, and by Dr. A. A. D'Ancona, '80, for the alumni of the medical school.

In honor of the cornerstone-laying the medical alumni held a series of clinics from May 16 to 18 and an alumni dinner, at the San Francisco Commercial Club, on the evening of May 18.

SCRIPPS INSTITUTION IMPROVEMENTS

Miss Ellen B. Scripps has arranged for the execution of contracts for additional work at the Scripps Institution for Biological Research, including a two-story reinforced concrete library building, $17,928, and library stacks, $2014. Through day labor she is erecting a club-house and several permanent living houses for the staff. She has recently constructed an aquarium, a garage, a service building, and three cottages at the Scripps Institution, at a cost of $7000, besides completing a thousand-foot concrete pier and salt-water pumping system.

$2,500,000 OF BUILDING WORK

During the summer a great amount of building work is in progress, on undertakings which will cost two and a half millions, including Benjamin Ide Wheeler Hall, the new classroom building; the completion of the Library; Hilgard Hall, the second unit of the Agricultural group; the first unit of the Chemistry group, and the second unit of the Central Heating and Power Plant (all these projects being undertaken from the proceeds of the sale of the University Building Bonds, voted by the people of California through their approval of the initiative measure proposed by the alumni); the completion of the granite balustrade and brick and granite steps and terraces about the Sather Campanile, with planting and improvement of the esplanade running north from the Campanile; the erection of the Domestic Science Building, to cost, including equipment, $15,000, and to stand north of the Mechanics Building; the removal of the Philosophy Building to a new site east of the Drawing and Domestic Science Buildings; the completion of the new University Hospital in San Fran

cisco, at a cost of over $600,000, defrayed by private gift; much work at the Scripps Institution of Biological Research at La Jolla, including the erection of a thousand-foot concrete pier, a library, a club-house, and a number of cottages for employees; and the erection of the laboratory, offices, director's residence, and other structures for the Citrus Experiment Station at Riverside, at a cost of $125,000.

SATHER BELLS FOR THE CAMPANILE

The twelve "Sather Bells," the chimes which through Mrs. Jane K. Sather's gift are to be hung in the open belfry of the Sather Campanile, have been completed by John Taylor & Sons of Loughborough, England, regarded as the foremost bellfounders of the world. After careful tests Mr. H. B. Walters, M.A., F.S.A., of the British Museum, recognized as the leading campanological expert of England, who made a special journey to Loughborough as the representative of the University to test the bells, has declared them "in every way satisfactory." The largest of the bells, "the tenor," came out of a weight of 3650 pounds.

"That the bells are in perfect tone and harmony there can be no doubt," reported Mr. Walters. "This is due to the new system of tuning which the makers have adopted with conspicuous success. It is well known that every bell when fairly struck gives out three distinct notes: a fundamental note, or 'tonic,' the octave above, or 'nominal,' and the octave below, or 'humnote.' Bells cast on the old system very seldom had all these three notes in unison, the hum-note being usually sharper, the fundamental flatter, than the nominal. In tuning bells the two former were usually neglected, and the nominal only regarded. By the new system the fundamental note of each bell can be brought into true octave with its nominal with perfect exactness, and when each individual bell is thus rendered true in itself, the harmony of a whole ring or chime can be obtained with equal certainty. Similarly, the hum-note, where necessary, can be rectified by thinning the metal near the crown of the bell. The machinery by which the thickness of the metal in each part of the bell is regulated can be adjusted with scientific accuracy, and this has completely displaced the old rule-of-thumb method. It is also worth noting that bell-founders are now giving up the old shortwaisted type of bell and are reverting to a more continental, that is, straighter and long-waisted, form. Anyone who is familiar with Italian bells, for instance, will appreciate the sonorous depth of tone which the long-waisted form yields. I have no hesitation