The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-02-19
BERKELEY.

Inc question of aiding needy students
10 work their way through college is one
that deserves the attention of people who
desire to give that which will not be
charity but will be used TO large effect.
In former generations the poor student
had little hope of direct aid in taking his
course in college, and depended on alter
nate years of working while out CT college
and half-Starving while in. Now. in the
great universities like Harvard and Yale,
aid funds have been so munifcently given
for scholarships and fellowships that it is
their boast that no student of fair ability
need ever leave college for lack of re-
sources. Harvard gives 900 annually
In scholarships and iellowsbps, ana new
endowments are constantly added. The
State University gives. first of all, an alb
| solutely free education, but beyond that a
needy student can expect little help from
the university itself.
| Yearly the number of boys coming up
from the country schools with little money
| and plenty OF push and ability is creating
a problem OF how to give them if not
| money the means of earning 1t. As there
| Is certain amount of work to be done
about college and in the town that can be
| done by students, a society was organ
lzed three years ago to collect all oppor-
tunities for work that it could. and thus
form sort of employment bureau for the
| students. The organization was loose ia
form, and. in order to perfect the organ.
iZatlon and lay more efficient plans, a
meeting was held at Stiles Hall on Friday
evening and the Students Aid Society
definitely formed.
| Any student or member of the faculty or
| any person in the State may belong 10 the
| society. the only requirement being that
the member shall try to divert work to
the students If 1t is in his power. A hoard
of five trustees will govern the society.
10 consist of one lady student, one gentle
! man student, q member of the faculty.
townsman of Berkeley and a townsman of
some other place-Oakland or SaE Fran
cisco.
A meeting will be held in March to for
mally organize the society and elect the
trustees. Besides proceeding as before in
the collection and distribution of work the
committee in charge Will print 25, 600 cir
culars. to be sent throughout the State
and placed at the univei sty's exhibit at
the fair. These circulars will explain the
object of the society, request aid and
especially bring forward the following
plan: That the society will have students
capable of doing any kind of research in
works of reference only to be had in great
libraries, and investigators throughout the
the Pacific Coast can through 1t obtain
transcripts, TRANSACTIONS. ETC. The society
will obtain the use OF he San Francisco
libraries and can offer thus the advantage
to be had from a library of a couple of
hundred thousand volumes. The idea
came from suggestion of Professor w.
Is. Rising and will undoubtedly prove of
material advantage to investigators and
students
Lectures by Scientists.
Assistant Professor of Astronomy
Leuschner has arranged series of lee
lures to be given biweekly before his as
tronOmy classes by men who have won
fame for the State and its university in
their specialities. Professor Z. E. Bar
nard will deliver the first lecture and will
be followed by Professor Schaeberle. Pro-
lessor George 3. Davidson, in charge of
the GeOdetic survey, and Marsden Mansen.
Professor Schaeberle will lecture on the
theory of the suns spots and flames that
he has worked out after several years in
vestigatiOn. Professor Strawberries theory
is entirely new. and has not yet been pub
lished. although now in the hands of the
printer. BY long series of experiments
with an artificial sun multitude of bent
wires 10 represent the huge flames of the
solar body, the hypothesis was tbeoreti
cally proved. Then Professor Schaeberle
announced last year that he would prove
the matter practically, and predicted inst
what phenomena should be observable from
Chile in the eclipse of 1898. He organized
an expedition TO Chile to observe the
eclipse, and his predictions were absr-
lutely verified.
Notes.
James Andrews will address Oak Leaf
Lodge NO. 80, a. U. U. W., at Fraternal
Hall this evening.
The report of the State Board of Health
for January puts Berkeley at the head of
ninety-sevep cities and towns in point of
healthfulness. With a population of TO-
600, the town had six deaths, while the
average rate was las per thousand. OF
the deaths here one was from whooping
cough, one from fever. two from AGATE
pneumonia and two from causes not
stated.
The uniyersity's exhibit is now being
put in place at the Liberal Arts building,
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