The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16
DEGREES ARE CONFERRED.
The University of California Is
Honored by Its Own
Work.
VERY CHARACTERISTIC ESSAYS.
Creditable Exhibitions of Scholar
ship at the Commencement
Exercises.

The twenty-sixth commencement exer-
cises of the University of California took
place yesterday afternoon in Harmon
gymnasium on the university campus.
Degrees were conferred by the Board of
Regents upon liz graduates from the col
leges at Berkeley and upon thirty-five
from the College of Law in San Fran
cisco.
Six honorary degrees were also conferred
two being the MA. and four, the NIL.
degrees.
The hall in which the exercises were
held was decorated with branches. of the
pepper tree, festoons of geranium and
palm leaves. The building was crowded
to the doors with. students and their
friends, and at O'Clock the graduating
class, headed by the Board of Regents and
faculty came from the library building to
the gymnasium.
Upon entering the building they were
given hearty ovation. Soon all were
seated, the Board of Regents, President
Kellogg and other members of the faculty
occupying the platform, while the class
took chairs in the front part of the hall.
The exercises were opened with an over
ture by stringed orchestra, after which
the audience was led in prayer by Rev.
j. K. Mclean, DID,. ofOakland.
Four: speakers, Fred Hanley Seares,
William Henry Gorrill, William Hud-
FELTON,, had been chosen by the faculty
from the third of the class holding the
highest record for scholarship to repre-
Sc 1T the graduates.
The first to speak was Mr.. Seares, who
had taken for the subject of his address,
''The Value of Liberal Science" He said
that within the years of the present
of the human race has assumed more and
more complex forms, and the different
branches of the race have been brought
into clearer union.
A new interdependence has sprung up
between the various races and the life of
the individual and the Nation has assumed
new duties and greater responsibilities. 1t
has been an age of transition from idealism
to materialism.
Nearly every branch of knowledge has
its two sides; one the practical, which finds
direct application to the conditions and
relations of life; the other, non-practioal or
non-utilitarian. which has no immediate
effect on such life.
Of science this is prominently true, and
in this case the one side we call technical
or applied science, the other abstract or
pure or liberal science.
1t was on the question of pure science
that the speaker dwelt most emphatically.
He conveyed the idea that pure science is
the forerunner of applied science and with
out pure science the applied sciences could
never have existed. Applied science is
pure science adapted to particular classes
of problems.
1t consists of deductions for general prin-
ciples, established by observation, compare
son, classification reasoning and generaliza-
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methods OF the investigator and the techni-
clan, and the effect of pure science upon the
powers OF observation, memory, abstrac-
ton, reason and generalization may be
clearly seen.
The work of practical, scientific men of
should receive all the encouragement pos
slble.
The man who enters, upon the work of
original scientific research has less to ex-
pect in remuneration and more to contend
against than he would in almost any other
line of professional occupation.
I Greater facilities for and closer devotion
to scientific work must be provided for if
universities are to be nut upon plane
where they will command the respect of
the world.
After another musical selection Will H.
GorrilT spoke upon the topic, us the
Method Of Jurisprudence Exclusively
ScleDCl1c I!
He believed that there is a tendency
toward placing psychology and iurispru-
dence, formerly considered as classical
branches. in. the same category with
sciences The philosopher Kant has done
| exceedingly more for the world than Edi-
son ever Thought of doing. Science has
for .her world the world of nature, and
philosophy has for her world the realm of
| spiritual things, and those conditions
| which ought to exist. By too Closely con-
| tinued study of the real, the ideal is shut
| out and the shutting out of the ideal
means the destruction of the real.
Following the address of Mr. GorrilI was
an original poem rendered by Walter H.
| Graves entitled 'Misanthropes.'' Alonely
sage was pictured lying in his study at
| early morning. with the same parchment
roll in his hand that he held when he
| finished his previous day. ~work. Hecared
not for having fallen asleep at his work
the night before. and thus he spoke to
himself:
All, WE'LL what matter how or. where one night be
passed.:
For nights and nights are mine. and days and
days, so let night
Sometimes be given for a sleep, what less?
One night, or three, q score-what matter them
An ardent admirer of the sage. brought
up under his influence, follows his teach
ings, and is fmDued with the precepts of
his ideal.
After many years of incessant toll the
pupil of the aged bard writes:
came to teach all men, but some there were more
wise than I-of me they could not learn;
LEARNED of them such things had not dreamed
I thought to teach the world--it were too much
A tiny part is mine, but all enough.
To have a share in giving to mankind
The wisdom of the past to lead few
To mountain heights whence they may see and
know
Spread out before them all the world
With this am content
Next in order was the essay of Miss
Katharine Conway FELTON,, the class medal
ist, the subject of which production was
Faith in the Moral Consciousness" She
said:
History presents two distinct civilizations
the occidental, based upon the conception of
the dignity, the freedom, the reality OF man !;
the oriental, upon his utter nothingness Life
is made up of unsatisfed desires, of unrealized
hopes, and hence is in its essence pain. The
wise man realizes this, ceases to desire and so
ceases TO live.
The history of the Orient is the record of
stagnation, that of the Occident the record of
individu activity and progress.
So inherent in the Western mind is the be-
lief of its freedom that even at time when it
still retained theoretical conception derived
from the Orient IL could not carry them out In
it's actual life. In Homer above the gods
themselves rules an Inconsistencies, al.-pow-
I'D,