ham, Teaching Fellow in Political Science, Reconstruction Work in France; T. G. Chamberlain, Teaching Fellow in Political Science, Second Lieutenant, First Anti-Aircraft Battalion; R. M. Dorton, First Lieutenant, National Army. Dr. MacDonald is a member of the United States Public Service Reserve.

Department of Public Speaking

The Department of Public Speaking has been especially active in furthering the war aims of the national government. Through its head, M. C. Flaherty, Associate Professor of Forensics, it has, in coöperation with the State Council of Defense, contributed its share towards making more efficient the work of the Four Minute Men. Classes were established for the training of these speakers, and for others who were preparing to aid the government in its publicity campaign. Model speeches were drawn up and forwarded to Washington to serve as guides for those engaged in speaking for the Liberty Loan issues. vidual speakers were coached for special occasions.

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Under the direction of C. D. von Neumayer, Assistant Professor of Public Speaking, plays were given for the benefit of the Red Cross and Belgian Relief Funds. Other members of the Department of Public Speaking have given readings and recitals before gatherings of enlisted men. Graduate and undergraduate students in the department have toured the state in the interests of food conservation. Three of its teaching staff are now serving the colors.

Newton B. Drury, former instructor, is Second Lieutenant, Balloon Service, stationed at Arcadia, California. George Boas, Instructor in Public Speaking, is First Lieutenant, A. E. F.

A. H. Hankey, Teaching Fellow in Public Speaking. is Second Lieutenant, A. S. E. R. C., A. E. F.

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 Campusrecent 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 coöperation 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