Department of Romanic Languages

The demand for French and Spanish has greatly increased as a result of the war, and the courses have been so arranged as to provide a speaking knowledge not only of the classical portion of the Romanic languages, but also of the war terms of everyday use.

L. M. Turner, Assistant Professor of French, a Lieutenant at Camp Kearney, is organizing French classes for officers and soldiers, while Gilbert Chinard, Professor of French, has coöperated in the publication of a French war vocabulary of a scientific character.

Alfred Solomon, Instructor in French, is with the Y. M. C. A. in France.

Department of Semitic Languages

Professor M. A. Meyer, Lecturer in Semitic Literature and History, has been active in civilian duty. He is Chairman of the Jewish Welfare Board of the United States Army and Navy, Northern California Branch; Director of the San Francisco Chapter, Red Cross; Vice-Chairman of the Civilian Relief Section, San Francisco Red Cross; committee member of the Syrian and Armenian Relief Fund; member of the British, French, and Belgian Commission for the Blind; and member of the Belgian Relief Commission.

William Popper, Associate Professor of Semitic Languages, has been collecting funds in Berkeley for the Young Men's Hebrew Association.

Department of Slavic Languages

Lieutenant Milutin Krunich, Assistant in SerboCroatian, has written an important war book entitled Serbia Crucified. The University of California is issuing it as one of its volumes in the Semicentennial Series.

UNIVERSITY RECORD

NEW CALENDAR FOR 1918-1919

Radical changes in the calendar were made necessary because of the imperative need for meeting the shortage in farm labor during the harvest season in California which comes at a time ordinarily falling within the University academic year. The summer vacation was accordingly extended six weeks, the fall semester opening September 27. With a five months' peroid of vacation, it was anticipated that large numbers of the students would avail themselves of the opportunity to help in the harvests. On returning in the fall, students are to file with the Recorder of the Faculties a statement of the nature of employment engaged in during the summer. War emergency has necessitated a complete rearrangement of the year's schedule. The University calendar as revised will be as follows: First term, September 27-December 21; second term, December 30-March 22; third term, March 31-June 21.

ENROLLMENT OF SUMMER SESSION

On July 9, the total enrollment of summer session students at Berkeley and Los Angeles stood at 4016 as compared with 3985 in 1917; the Northern Division total was 3417, and the Southern Division, 619; on the publication of the Summer Session Directory the enrollment had already passed last year's figure, which far exceeded the most sanguine expectations of these war times.

The most significant increase, however, is seen in the number entered from California, 3551, exceeding that of 1917 by 343. It was to be expected that the marked increase in railroad rates would deter many from extended journeys across the country; last year, 777 registered from outside the state as compared with 485 this year. Besides California, thirty-eight states and nine foreign countries are represented in the registration.

The students this summer, in general, appeared either younger or considerably older than those usually assembled on the Campus― recent high school graduates, teachers with experience or married women contemplating self-support while their husbands are in service. The proportion of women over men was marked, being five to one, whereas in 1916, they stood as five to two. This could have been predicted even before the close of the spring term, for so many university men had enlisted that their enrollment dropped to one-third the original number.

WAR EMERGENCY SCHOOLS

The outstanding features of the Summer Session were the courses of instruction intimately connected with war work, affording intensive training of men and women for immediate and urgent war tasks. There were five war emergency schools: the school for social service, for nursing, for laboratory technicians, for reconstruction aides, and for stenographers.

The War Emergency School of Social Economics, the third American Red Cross Institute in Home Service will be held at the University, will be under the directorship of Jessica B. Peixotto, Professor of Social Economics. The general course at the first session will be on the control of poverty, with supplementary lectures by members of the Department of Economics; during the second session, the main lecture course will consider the care of dependents, with supervised field work under the various social agencies in the bay cities directed by Dean Lucy Stebbins, Associate Professor of Social Economy. Undergraduate students will not be admitted to this school. College graduates and women of social experience of mature age, intending to enter war service directly upon completion of the course will comprise the great majority of the students. Upon graduation they are to receive a Red Cross certificate in civilian relief work, and will be prepared for immediate placement in service.

The School for the Training of Laboratory Technicians will be given at the University of California's Medical School in San Francisco, coöperating with the Hooper Foundation for Medical Research. The registrants will be limited to twenty-five, preference being given to college graduates. A number of courses designed primarily for premedical and medical students will be offered in chemistry, physics, zoology, and anatomy. The aim of the school is to prepare women to serve as technicians or assistant bacteriologists in cantonments or government laboratories.

A School for the Training of Nurses will be conducted through

out the twelve weeks' session. The University of California will follow, in the main, the Vassar College plan inaugurated this year for specialized training in nursing. On completion of the summer's work women will be entitled to enter any accredited school; one year later they may enter government service directly or may be assigned to military hospitals or similar institutions to complete their training. Thus at the end of fifteen months, a woman may begin military nursing; with an additional year's training she will be eligible for the state examinations as registered nurse; at present, three years' training is required for registration.

The purpose of the War Emergency School for Training Reconstruction Aides, is to provide instructors for disabled men; the physical and mental rehabilitation or reeducation of wounded soldiers, must shortly become an imperative war problem in this country. Dr. Robert T. Legge, University Physician, will act as Director, associated with Dr. Elsie Blanchard, a graduate of the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia, recently appointed as Director of Therapeutic Gymnastics at the University, aided by a large corps of university assistants. The plan of study has been outlined by the Surgeon-General of the United States Army acting in cooperation with the Federal Board of Vocational Education. This includes courses in anatomy, physiology, psychology, physical therapy, massage and corrective gymnastics. All applicants for training are subject to physical examination in order that the prescribed military requirements may be met. Graduates of colleges and schools of physical education are to be preferred. Similar schools of training for occupational therapy are being given this summer at Kingston University, Toronto, Canada, and at Reed College, Portland, at which Dr. Legge and Dr. Blanchard have been in attendance.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SUMMER SESSION

The Southern Division of the Summer Session, the first one in the history of the University of California, began on the same date as the Northern Division, Dean Hart being present to open the session. Courses of instruction were held in the Los Angeles High School Building where the admirable equipment and facilities of the High School and Junior College have been placed at the disposal of the University.

The enrollment far surpassed anticipations. At the time of the publication of the Los Angeles Directory, it consisted of 619 registrants, thus exceeding the first University Summer Session held in 1907 which totaled only 522. The large proportion of the students

consisted of teachers from the southern part of the state to whom attendance in Berkeley would have been impracticable. The faculty members, exceeding sixty in number, aside from those serving directly from the University of California, have been selected from many institutions; most of them are connected with the Associa tion of American Universities, being men of eminence in their respective fields.

Both the Northern and Southern Divisions offered many courses dealing with imminent war problems-both sessions bore the stamp of distinctly patriotic institutions furthering personal efficiency to meet present emergencies.

BUDGET APPORTIONMENT TO AGRICULTURE

In view of the extensive war activities being carried on by the University, the apportionment to the College of Agriculture for 1918-19 was significant. Approximately one-third of the income of the University was set aside for this college and its various departments. Provision was made for nine home demonstration agents to cary on agricultural extension work through the various counties of the state; there was also a marked increased in the number of farm advisors. For additional instruction in agriculture, $9480 was apportioned. New appointments to be made, include that of a professor of pomology, a poultry specialist and a soils specialist.

DURHAM LAND SETTLEMENT

A tract of land, comprising 3620 acres of irrigable land in Butte County between Durham and Chico, has been purchased from Stanford University by the State Land Settlement Board. This first unit of settlement land adjoins the state highway and the Southern Pacific Railway, and is traversed by the Northern Electric Railway. The Board divided the tract into fifty-three farms and twenty-one allotments for farm laborers, these subdivisions ranging from twenty to one hundred and sixty acres in extent. A map showing the character of soil on each farm was prepared by the College of Agriculture and posted for inspection. The Division of Irrigation Investigations of the University coöperating with the United States Department of Agriculture has drawn up plans for an irrigation and drainage system which the Land Board is prepared to complete at an early date.

In the land settlement awards, the prices charged for land varied from $180 to $225 per acre. The average capital of the farm settlers was $3000 with assets amounting to $7000, that of the farm