Every one of the twenty-three women's fraternities and house clubs was better in scholarship for the second half-year of 1915–16 than the average for the male undergraduates as a whole. The women's fraternities scored an average of 2.0048 as compared with 2.0788 for the women's house clubs, 2.033 for the undergraduate women who belonged neither to fraternities nor house clubs, and 2.3906 for undergraduate men as a whole. The women's fraternity which made the best record scored an average of 1.828, as compared with 2.006, the highest record for any of the men's fraternities. There were nine women's organizations which scored a higher record than the best of the men's fraternities, the second and sixth of these nine being house clubs and the other seven fraternities.

SOME UNDERGRADUATE MATTERS

The new plan that the Graduate Manager shall be chosen by the Executive Committee of the Associated Students, reinforced for this purpose by three alumni appointed by the Central Council of the Alumni, as adopted by the Associated Students last spring, has now been put into effect. John A. Stroud, '13, has been reappointed for 1916-18.

The football season began with eighty-five candidates out for the 'Varsity and 114 for the Freshman eleven. The coaching squad consists of Andrew Smith, Pennsylvania, '06, head coach; Edward Mahan, Harvard, '16, for the past three years named as a member of the All-American team, assistant coach; A. B. Zeigler, Pennsylvania, '07, line coach; B. F. Cherrington, Nebraska, '11, coach of the second team; and R. Davis Elliott, Chicago, '09, coach for the Freshmen.

The University Y. M. C. A., besides its two permanent secretaries, now has associated with it three assistant secretaries, whose salaries are provided for respectively by the Congregational, Baptist, and Methodist denominations.

The youngest Freshman ever admitted to the University of California is Harrison Cabot Brown (son of Dr. Philip King Brown, the San Francisco physician), a graduate of the Potter School in San Francisco. He matriculated August 16 at the age of 14 years three and a half months.

GIFTS TO THE UNIVERSITY

The Alumni of the University of California Medical School have offered to maintain for five years a scholarship worth $400 a year, to be awarded to some worthy medical student and to be known as the William Watt Kerr Scholarship in Medicine for their honored teacher, Dr. Kerr, Clinical Professor of Medicine.

The American Institute of Architects has given a medal and prize for the best student of the graduating class. It has been awarded for 1915-16 to Ephraim Field, '14.

The American Law Book Company has given a 43-volume set of the Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure as a prize for the highest scholarship in the School of Jurisprudence. James S. Moore, Jr., '14, is the winner of this prize for 1915-16.

Frank M. Anderson, M.S., '97, the holder of a scholarship in 1897-98, has given $500 for a graduate fellowship, preferably in Geology.

The Argentine Republic has given to the University a number of valuable specimens from its exhibits at the Exposition for the use of the departments of Agriculture and Vertebrate Zoology.

Mrs. Emilia Field Ashburner has presented to the law library of the School of Jurisprudence four volumes of miscellaneous pamphlets collected and bound by Justice Stephen J. Field and formerly part of his law library, and also one volume of "Legislative and Judicial Work of Justice Field," and six volumes of "Opinions and Papers of Judge Field.''

F. W. Bradley, '86, has given $250 for research work in the Department of Biochemistry.

Mr. Bradley during the year ending June 30, 1916, made gifts to the amount of $5582.30 for the development of the mechanical equipment of the Department of Mining.

The California State Dental Association has offered to give $300 a year for co-operation in research work with the University of California.

J. C. Cebrian has made another rich addition to the collection of Spanish books which he has been building up at the University of California. His latest gift includes some 1280 volumes of works old and new. Besides a great number of works of general literature, there are about 170 volumes on history, 140 on law, 100 on medicine, and 160 on various scientific subjects. About a hundred volumes are of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries (printed in nineteen Spanish cities), some in their original bindings; there are a few first editions of valuable works, and also some facsimiles of old manuscripts, one being the "Books of Astronomy of King Alfonso the Sage," of the thirteenth century, in five folio volumes.

The founder of the Edith Claypole Memorial Research Fund in Pathology has given $8000, in pursuance of previously expressed intention as regards the creation of an endowment for the furtherance of medical research, in memory of Dr. Claypole's own services to science. Professor Gay's successful researches, which have resulted in the discovery of a method of aborting typhoid in a large percentage of cases by injecting killed sensitized typhoid bacilli, have been greatly furthered by the aid of a series of Claypole Research Fellows.

The Crane Company of San Francisco and Chicago has presented to the Department of Mechanical Engineering a large exhibit of the products of that company, including representative specimens of the large valves, steam traps, etc., used on steam-generating plants and distribution lines. The larger valves are mounted on steel pedestals with revolving tops and are sectioned to enable the

students to view their construction and to make use of them in

connection with their design work. The exhibit represents an outlay in money of approximately $1500. It has given also a cabinet containing sample bars of castiron, malleable iron, ferrosteel, and cast steel, used by the company in the manufacture of valves and pipe fittings, together with tubes containing the exact proportions of each of the ingredients to be found in each of the materials.

The University has just received a check for $6000 in fulfillment of the bequest of the late William R. Davis, '74, long a leading member of the California bar, for the endowment of an undergraduate scholarship.

Regent Phoebe A. Hearst has given $1200 for the maintenance of the Phoebe A. Hearst Scholarships for women students from July 1 to December 31, 1916, and $500 as her semi-annual contribution toward the salary of the Supervising Architect, for the period from July 1 to December 31, 1916.

The Hercules Powder Company has given a thousand pounds of dynamite to be used toward driving the Lawson Adit into the Berkeley Hills for the instruction of the mining students.

An account of the Howison Foundation established by the generosity of Professor and Mrs. George H. Howison appears at the beginning of the University Record in this number of the Chronicle.

George L. Hurst has given an electrically driven working model of a Risdon Gold Dredge, complete in all details and accurately built on the scale of half an inch to the foot, at a cost of $750. It illustrates mechanical and electrical devices extensively used for the recovery of gold from California sands and gravels.

The H. W. Johns Manville Company, through the courtesy of Mr. John Crawford, Jr., Manager of the Asbestos and Magnesia Department, has given to the Department of Mechanical Engineering various non-conducting materials, together with standard specifications for their use.

Frederic A. Juilliard, '91, of New York has presented to the University $350 for a marble chair in the Greek Theatre in memory of Félicien Victor Paget, formerly Professor of Romanic Languages and a member of the faculty from 1887 until his death in 1903. The gift is made on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Mr. Juilliard's graduation from the University.

Mr. S. C. Kiang Kang Hu, Assistant in Chinese, has given to the University a valuable library of Chinese books. Of these ten thousand volumes many are exceedingly rare and could not be purchased at any price. Mr. Kiang has made this gift to further the

study of Oriental Languages and Literatures and aid in acquainting the western world with the treasures of Chinese civilization.

Charles W. Merrill, '91, $100 for research work in the Department of Biochemistry.

Dr. Harry East Miller, '85, $250 for research work in the Department of Biochemistry.

Regent James K. Moffitt, '86, $100 for research work in the Department of Biochemistry.

By bequest of Bernhard Nathan the University has now received $5000 as endowment for a scholarship to assist deserving students, with particular consideration for those of Jewish parentage.

The Prytanean Society has given $366 for eventual use for a student union, or for some other University purpose later to be determined by the Society.

The Prytanean Society has given $50 for the Infirmary.

The San Francisco Architectural Club has offered free membership for one year from graduation to the student graduating with highest honors in the course in architecture.

The Swedish-American Patriotic League of California, Inc., has renewed its provision of $125 for the maintenance for 1916-17 of a scholarship for a graduate with distinction of some California high school, born in California of Swedish parents, or whose parents are Swedish and live in California.

Regent Rudolph J. Taussig has given $100 as the Bryce Historical Essay Prize for 1916.

Arthur G. Towne has given $377.11, in addition to his original subscription of $2000, for the construction and equipment of the University of California Hospital.

APPOINTMENTS

(Unless otherwise specified the following appointments are from July 1, 1916.)

Lecturer on the Mills Foundation (in Philosophy), from July 1 to December 31, 1916, Mary Whiton Calkins, Professor of Philosophy and Psychology in Wellesley College.

Associate Professor of Law, Austin Tappan Wright.

Assistant Clinical Professor of Obstetrics, Reginald Knight Smith. Assistant Professors: V. C. Bryant, Agricultural Extension; Lee Randolph, Anatomy (in the California School of Fine Arts); Henry Poor, Drawing and Painting (in the California School of Fine Arts); Armin Hansen, Drawing and Painting (in the California School of Fine Arts); Leo Lentelli, Modeling (in the California School of Fine Arts); W. W. Cort, Zoology.

Lecturer in Law, Herman H. Phleger.