The record-union., 1893-04-29
COLLEGE WORK.
How 1t Proceeds at the University
of California.
The Number of Students Constantly
Increasing - New Feat
ureS Added.

BERKELEY, April 2.-Two years ago
the new chemical laboratory was COM
pleted in the university grounds at
Berk eley, and a new department-biology
was instituted. Ever since that time
the work has been growing more and moro
popular. and the peculiar conditions of
the Pacific Coast have greatly facilitated
summer work. Last year the work was
carried on successfully along the Mon
terey coast by Professor Ritter and his
students. This year the summer work
will be carried on at Santa Catalina
Island. Professors Agassiz of Harvard
and LeCont, Lawson and Ritter of the
University of California will be in charge
The Regents have given Mr.. Ritter carte
blanche, and no expense will be spared to
make the work a complete success. Mr..
Sutro of Sutro flights has generously
offered his aquarium at the Cliff House
for the use of the biology department.
The aquarium will be ready for the stu
dents by the time they return from Santa
Catalina. The intention is to carry on
winter work at the aquarium and sum-
mer work at other places.
Another step in advance has been
made in the revision of the courses
OF study. The literary course and the
course in letters and political sci
future there will be in their place a
college of social science. A college of
pure science has also been segregated; it
will be for the accommodation of those
who wish liberal culture in the natural
sciences. Those who wish technical
education still have the old scientific col
leges to choose from. The general result
OF the change is to reduce the number of
prescribed studies and enlarge the field
of elective work.
The summer school of chemistry will
be held for the third time this year in the
laboratory building, and will be in charge
of Mr.. Chestnut. This is an extension
course for those who wish to teach chem
istry in the public schools, and is purely
elementary. This school has been de-
servedly popular in the past, and will be
still more largely attended this year by
those who wish to enjoy the facilities ofthe
State University in pursuing the great
subject of chemistry.
The new building for mechanical and
electrical engineering, which has attracted
so much attention during the course of
its erection, will be ready for occupation
at the beginning of the next term. 1t is
the eighth addition to the group of build
ings at Berkeley, and Is the handsomest
of them all. 1t affords 25,000 square feet
of working space, and will be completely
equipped for the most thorough work in
electrical science. Excellent courses in
electricity have been arranged, and after
the sophomore year students will have
the option of electing either mechanics or
chemistry for the rest of their college life,
The coming term will witness the ar
rival of probably the most athletic fresh
man class that has ever entered the uni
versity, snd nowhere will this strength
be more apparent than in football, now
the greatest athletic department of the
college.
Recorder Sutton has received the Uni
versity Register for 1S92-93 from the hands
of the State Printer, and it has been
mailed far and wide, 1t shows that the
student numbers at Berkeley have in
creased in three years from 40l to 64S, and
in the entire University of California
from 701 to 1,0S2. The University has pa
"Co-eds," which makes it the second
largest coeducational university in the
world.
The college year is rapidly drawing to
close, and the examinations for seniors
began on the 9th OF April, and for other
students will begin on the 4th of May.
Class day follows on the 18th of May, and
the calendar for the term will be COM
pleted by commencement on May 18th.