The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-20
LATEST BERKELEY ITEMS.
Changes on the Football
Grounds That Will Pre-
vent Accidents.
THREE SETS OF NEW RULES
DR.. Royce Gives the Students ADJ
vice About the Practical Study
of Philosophy.

BERKELEY, CAL, Sept. 19.-Berkeley'
football field has been undergoing change
which Manager Lang and Captain Sher-
man believe will be the direct means of
preventing many accidents to men which
continually occur during the practice sea-
son from men falling on the ball and hard
tackling. The entire field has been plowed
ten inches deep and about IS bales of
straw put into the burrows and covered, so
as to make the ground springy, at the
same time leaving it hard enough to admit
of fast running without too much effort.
Though it will be a week or ten days be-
fore the field is in first-class condition, yet
part of the training every afternoon will
be done on it. Light gymnasium work is
prescribed for the team each day before
going on the field. Special attention has
recently been paid to practice with the
| lacking bag in the gymnasium, but that
| is as far as the tackling will go for the
| present. as no opposition playing has yet
been allowed on account OF the lnexpe-
rience of manv Of the men and their lack
of training. Only single line work, punt
| ing and falling on the ball has yet been
practiced. No real heavy work will be
commenced until after the arrival OF
| Coach Butterworth, according to his in
structions. The team will miss Pierce,
| Berkeley's great center, who has served
Blue and Gold for a number of years past,
but who cannot play this season. Hunt,
another standby, will also be wished for,
but he too will not play this year. Schmidt
from the law college is a candidate for
| Pierces old place. He will weigh in at
| about go when in training, and is hard
| hitter. Wittenmeyer, of last years's var
| sity, who until recently was expected to
| play again, will not line up this season on
| account of so much college work. Those
of the varsity, however, who will train
this season are Sherman, Hupp, Ransome,
| Wilson and Plunkett.
About twenty men daily are now prac-
ticing, most of whom are freshmen.
Among those who we're on the field this
afternoon were Sherman, Thompson,
| Blasingame, Kennedy, Ransome, Plunkett,
| Hupp, Rubattom, Stowe, Ely, Carr and
| Osherg.
| Captain Sherman said this afternoon
that he was anxiously awaiting the arrival
| of the rules for this season as established
! by certain of the Eastern colleges. Three
| separate and distinct sets have been agreed
upon by different colleges of the East, any
of which can be legitimately used by any
other two contesting colleges which are
members of the Intercollegiate Associa-
ton unless by special provision other con-
tracts are made. Hence Berkeley and
Stanford may be governed by the rules of
| last year this season. or they may choose
| one of the three sets established by the
Eastern large colleges, or even the most
satisfactory provisions of the entire three.
| Preparations are being made to give
| Coach Butterworth a reception by the
student body upon his arrival about the
| 25th inst.
The men will not go into training quar-
| ters or placed on special diet until after
the arrival of the coach.
DR.. Royce on the Study of Philosophy.
DIR. Josiah Royce has written an article
for one of the university journals treating
of the value of the study of philosophy in
| a college course. He says that he has but
| little interest in what students and teach
ers often mean by the disciplinary value"
of any sort of study. in SO for as by this
disciplinary value is meant something to
| be got through the mere pursuit of q
| given course of intellectual work. apart
from living interest in the topics them
| selves which are in question. No student
| has vet justified his interest in philosophy
who gives as the sole reason for the exist
ence of this interest his belief that pLilo-
sophical work involves a great deal of
mental discipline" So does enduring
q
moral discipline" yet most of us can
better train our consciences than by morti-
| flying the flesh through the effort TO endure
or cultivate toohtaches. PHILOSOPHY
says DR.. Royce, sis thoroughgoing effort
| to think out what human life means"
of doing work along the line of philosophy,
| he says:
| Can you suspend your intellectual judgment
without paralyzing your practical earnestness?
| II you find that you can do so, then philosophy
is yours. But If to think about philosophy,
after you have tried the subject for year or
two, in elementary courses, causes your
'native hue of resolution" to be persstently
"sfcklied DER with the pale cast of thought"
then gather together what fragments OF culture
your elementary courses have given you, and
leave the realm of free inquiry to those to whom
it belongs. Few academic sights are more
| melancholy than the sight of the useless youth,
who desires to get from philosophy an appe-
tite for life which he thus far lacks, and who
attends for years the courts OF truth, failing to
recognize that This much-courted monarch
gives genuine insight only to those who are
first the devoted servants of their chosen life
| ideal. Let all such men study anything rather
than philosophy.
A Test Case.
For the past eight months there has
been more or less trouble between the
County Coroner and the Berkeley Health
officer over the removal of corpses from
Berkeley without properly certified per-
NIT from the latter. Last week the body
of Clarence Laugh, who was drowned in
the bay was taken to the Coroners Office
in Oakland without permit from Health
Officer Rowell, and this morning J. ].
Smalley, a representative of the Coroner,
was fined $40 by Judge James. having
pleaded guilty to the charge.
Visited by an Honored Guest.
Mrs. Carrie Oostdyk, supreme president
of the world Of the WOnpn's American
Protective Association, an auxiliary to the
American Protective Association. made an
official visit last evening to Council No. Is
of Berkeley as the guest of Mrs. j. T. Nor
rison, president of the local council.
The headquarters of the association is at
Detroit, Mich, and the visit OF Mrs.
Oostdyk to this coast is for the purpose of
organizing State Council in San Fran
cisco.
No Further Use for Altrurianism.
J. C. Aiken, one of the first co1onists of
Altruria has returned to Berkeley con-