tical laboratory work. Boys taking agricultural work should, if possible, change their clothes when work is to be done on the school farm. Lockers should be provided in the school building for the ordinary school clothes and shoes and provision made for cleaning up after the outdoor work is completed. Jumpers and overalls make an appropriate working suit. It is perhaps needless to say that these should be regularly laundered and neatly kept. Properly used, the school farm is one of the most effective means of promoting the popularity of high-school agriculture. Unwisely used, the school farm marks the teacher as incompetent, militates against the value of classroom instruction, prejudices the community against secondary agricultural instruction, and makes effective local extension work difficult, if not impossible. If there is a school farm the teacher must make it a success if he wishes his school work to be successful. "Fail in the school plot and you fail in all. No degree of classroom efficiency will atone for failure on the plot. Most people are eye-minded. What they see they remember and what they see they think they know.'* If the agricultural teacher is properly prepared for his work and undertakes it with energy and foresight, the school farm need not be a failure. Selection of student problems suited to instructional needs and of practical demonstrations which promise benefit to local farmers, accompanied by definite, clear-cut plans for work, and followed by careful working out of every problem, can hardly fail to bring success. * Storm, A. V., The teaching of agriculture, Minnesota Educational Association, Industrial Section, Proceedings, 1912, p. 154. UNIVERSITY RECORD VICTOR H. HENDERSON No longer is the A.B. to be kept the exclusive privilege of those who have studied Greek. The Academic Senate has decided to accept what has become prevailing usage among the best American universities and to give the degree of A.B. to all graduates save those in the Colleges of Commerce, Chemistry, Agriculture, and Engineering. With this change in policy goes also the decision to consolidate the three Colleges of Letters, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences into a single college. Throughout the past year the faculty discussed these proposals. The plan failed of adoption last spring by but a single vote. It was then voted to recommend to the Regents that instead of reducing the three degrees of A.B., B.L., and B.S., as granted by the Colleges of Letters, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences, to the one degree of A.B., that the three be retained, the old degree of Ph.B. revived, and still another degree provided, for graduates of a course in fine arts. The Regents on receiving this recommendation appointed a committee to consider courses and degrees, Regents Guy C. Earl, Charles S. Wheeler, and James K. Moffitt. The final result was a vote of the Regents approving the committee's suggestion that the Academic Senate be asked to consider further the questions at issue and expressing the sentiment that the use of a single degree of A.B. for all students other than those in the applied sciences is in accord with the best practice of the times. The Academic Senate took up the question once more on August 31 and the result was the decision to give up the old requirement of Greek for the A.B. ALUMNI CAMPAIGN FOR UNIVERSITY BUILDING BONDS The Alumni Association obtained far more than enough signatures to place on the ballot at the November election the initiative measure proposing that the state should issue $1,800,000 in bonds for buildings for the University. The building work proposed is the completion of the University Library, now already outgrown; a new chemistry building, an additional building for the College of Agriculture, and a class-room building to cost approximately a million and to take the place of North Hall. No less than 50,000 people signed the initiative petitions, or half again as many as were needed to place the measure on the ballot in November. The Alumni Association in its campaign for these building bonds has brought to the public attention many interesting features regarding the urgency of the needs of the University—for example, that while the enrollment in the colleges in Berkeley increased from 1500 in 1898 to 5100 in 1913, the number of class-rooms in that same period increased only from 47 to 66. Most California high schools have several times as many class-rooms in proportion to number of students as has the University. WHERE THE STUDENTS COME FROM Interesting figures regarding the sources of students in the University have also been prepared by the Alumni. These show that fifty-six of the fifty-eight counties in California now have students at Berkeley, only Alpine and Mono counties being at present unrepresented. Of the 5265 students at Berkeley, fivetwelfths come from Southern California. Los Angeles, with 600 students, has a larger representation than San Francisco, which has only 450. While Alameda County is credited with 1575, a large proportion of these have really come from other counties, but make Berkeley their temporary home. The student enrollment by counties is now as follows: Alameda, 1575; Los Angeles, 600; San Francisco, 450; Sacramento, 115; Santa Clara, 114; Fresno, 109; Sonoma, 101; San Diego, 93; San Joaquin, 77; Riverside, 74; Tulare, 72; Santa Barbara, 66; Contra Costa, 61; Humboldt, 58; Stanislaus, 52; San Bernardino, 50; Santa Cruz, 50; Marin, 49; Orange, 48; Butte, 44; Mendocino, 43; Solano, 40; Napa, 40; Yolo, 35; San Luis Obispo, 34; Monterey, 33; Colusa, 32; Ventura, 30; Tehama, 25; Merced, 22; Nevada, 21; Siskiyou, 21; Shasta, 21; Kings, 20; Placer, 18; Lake, 17; Sutter, 17; Kern, 16; Yuba, 16; El Dorado, 15; Tuolumne, 14; Lassen, 12; Madera, 11; Inyo, 11; Glenn, 10; San Benito, 10; Amador, 9; Del Norte, 8; Calaveras, 7; Imperial, 6; Sierra, 5; Plumas, 3; Trinity, 3; Modoc, 2; Mariposa, 1. REGISTRATION OF STUDENTS Statistics compiled by Recorder James Sutton show that the registration at Berkeley on August 19, 1914, was 4960, as compared with 4685 on a corresponding day one year before, and as compared with 2869 on a corresponding day five years earlier. The undergraduate admissions up to August 19 were 1465, as compared with 949 for a corresponding day five years before. That is a growth of more than 50 per cent in five years. The percentage of men among this year's intrants was 53.51, as compared with 61.37 last year and 63.15 five years ago. By August 26 the total registration had risen to 5100, as compared with 4785 one year earlier. The new undergraduates admitted up to August 26 number 1511. Of these, 1178 were admitted on credentials from California schools, 299 from other states, 30 from other countries, and 4 by examination. The special students admitted to August 26 numbered 120, as compared with 102 at a corresponding date in 1913 and 105 in 1912. Of the 120 there were 66 men and 54 women. Of the total, 70 were between the ages of 21 and 25, and the remaining 50 over 25. HONORS FOR DR. REINHARDT When the Regents adjourned on June 9, 1914, such adjournment was in respect to the memory of Dr. George Frederick Reinhardt, Professor of Hygiene and University Physician and creator of the Infirmary. In reporting his death to the Regents, President Wheeler said: "I attended at Berkeley today the obsequies of Dr. Reinhardtan invaluable man. He has done for the students what almost no one else would in caring for them in season and out of season. He was a very unselfish man. He did not know how to work on the basis of working for himself, and individual achievement he did not seem to notice or understand very fully. He worked only to advantage when he worked in an institution. His idea was not that a man should dole out the means of health and healing to those who could pay for it individually, but whatever the community had to provide of health and healing he believed should be open to all the community, and at Berkeley he founded such a type of institution. He gave himself fully to his work. He built up the Infirmary. It is his work, and it will always be his monument. I don't know what we shall ever do without him-he did so many things, he was so useful to the University in so many ways." Some account of Dr. Reinhardt's life was given in the last issue of the UNIVERSITY CHRONICLE. Elsewhere in this number are the words of several men who have special fitness to speak of the high value and significance of Dr. Reinhardt's life-work. DEATH OF REGENT DOHRMANN Frederick William Dohrmann, a Regent of the University of California since 1903, died in San Francisco August 18, after an illness of some months. As a member of the Committee on Grounds and Buildings he had taken a most earnest part in the work of endeavoring to meet the swiftly expanding needs of the University and yet of safeguarding the proper development of the great Hearst Plan. As a member of the Committee on Medical Instruction he had given every encouragement to the raising of standards and purposes, and he had aided in the successful task of raising funds for the erection of a new teaching hospital in San Francisco. Through many years of service on the Finance Committee his sound judgment and ripe business experience had proven of constant value to the University. He had given generously for various University purposes-toward the equipment of the eye clinic at the Infirmary, toward the women's swimming pool, toward a loan fund for loans to members of the faculty in time of financial need, toward the palaeontological explorations at the Rancho La Brea, etc. His powers of clear analysis and his sober wisdom were of constant aid in the deliberations of the Board of Regents. "I report the death of Regent Dohrmann, a man who has been a personal friend of all of us, a man of rare patience, kindliness, and straight-out goodness.'' It was in these words that President Wheeler on August 11 reported to the Regents the death of Regent Dohrmann. It was voted that adjournment be taken in honor of his memory and President Wheeler was requested to prepare in behalf of the Regents their tribute of respect. This document, as read by President Wheeler at a meeting of the Regents on September 15 and ordered spread upon the minutes of the Board, was as follows: "In a little hamlet in Schleswig-Holstein, seventy-one years ago, there was born into the family of the village doctor a son. His schooling was brief, for at fifteen years of age he began to earn |