The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-02
One Hundred Candidates to
Face the Examination
To-Day.
FRESHMEN EYED AsKANCE.
Talk of an Early Rush Between the
Sophomores and Their
Rivals.


munity will awake tomorrow morning
from three months sleep. The opening
examinations begin tomorrow and con-
tinue all day. Probably a hundred or
more candidates will face the ordeal. The
larger portion of the incoming class will
present certificates of admission from rep
utable preparatory schools, which entities
them to freshman standing without ex-
animation, except a preliminary test in
English composition, which all students
are required to pass. For meeting the en-
trance requirements of the university can
didates are offered a choice of twenty-five
subjects These subjects are all reduced
to the unit of high school year, making
twenty-eight credits. and placed on an ex-
act equality. Twelve credits are necessary
for admission to full standing, and these
may be made up of any Twelve, including
English, which the candidate chooses to
elect.
HHe selects from the following list: Eng
lish, elementary algebra, plain geometry,
solid geometry, trigonometry, advanced
algebra, physics, chemistry, physiology,
zoology, botany, drawing, American his
tory, English history, Grecian and Roman
history, English literature, Spanish,
French, German, elementary and advanced
Latin and Greek. Solid geometry and trigo-
nometry together count one credit; Eng
lish, elementary algebra, French, German,
elementary and advanced Latin and
Greek, two credits each; all others one
credit each.
From present indications the freshman
class will be large and good-looking- The
few sophomores already here are looking
askance at their new rivals and speculat-
ing upon the probable outcome of the first
rush. Last year the initial conflict oc-
Cured during the first week. Several
Juniors are quietly circulating rumors of
an early rush, and it is quite probable that
the end of the week will witness scrap
of large proportions.
College journalism has always prospered
here. The prospects for good year are
unusually bright The editors and bust
ness managers of the various publications
have been here for some weeks past, and
are the busiest people in the community.
The Daily Palo Alto has often been ranked
as the best college daily in the country.
It always contains more reading matter
than the other college dailies, and as rule
is better edited.
This year it will be in charge of Joseph
Timmons, 1917, and George Wilson, 49,
editor in chief and business manager
respectively. W. J. Neidig and ]. NJ.
Switzer will direct the weekly Sequoia,
and Edward Moslin Hume, whose poetry
has appeared in several coast magazines
will be at the head of the University An
nuaI. James w. Clark, '97, the business
manager of the Annual, will not return
this year, having entered the Iowa College
of Law.
The publication of humorous periodi-
cal at Berkeley will probably start a
similar enterprise here; there is an
abundance Of material. A monthly jour
nal, devoted to the more permanent
literary work of the university, is expected
to appear during the year. The faculty is
heartily in favor of it.
The attendance at the Palo Alto pre-
paratory schools, Manzanita and Castel-
laja halls, and the Public High School,
surpasses the attendance of all previous
years. The enrolment is considerably in
creased by the presence Of a number of
Eastern families, who have moved here for
educational purposes, and who are build
ing permanent homes.
The reopening of the university infuses
new life into Palo Alto. Students infuse
new life into everything, for student pat
ronage is practically the sole support and
mainstay of the town. An idea of its i'm
portance may be indicated by few rough
figures. Eleven hundred students were
enrolled last year; 1000 of these may
be reckoned as visiting students, who
spend annually an average allowance
of $500, or total of $300,0 A large
portion Of this goes to merchants in San
Francisco and San Jose, but the bulk of it
is consumed within radius of three
miles of the quadrangle.
Incidentally, student allowances afford
some interesting statistics. They range
all the way from the boy who has abso-
Iutely no income, save from his own per-
sonal labors, to the senior OF last year.
class who received from his father May
allowance of $3.50. A former manager of
the Student Cooperative Association, the
local supply stole. said:
al had opportunity to learn great deal
about student allowances. External ap-
pearanees were no criterion whereby to
Judge Students financial standing. One
of the worst dressed men in the university
received from his home all the money he
could spend. 1 have frequently cashed
large drafts for him. There were others
more or less like him. On the other hand,
several of our ultra fashionable young
men, supposed to have a good bank &C.
count back of them, were really on the
ragged edge throughout the year. Like
wise some of the girls. think, in general,
the girls have smaller allowances than the
boys. A number of fair goods were
obliged to maintain themselves at $50 and
$35 per month. One girl, well known on
the campus, used to present $25 draft to
me on the first day of each month. She
may have had more than that, but doubt
1t. Her companions belonged to the $50
and SIS SET"
ACT OF Il PRINCETON FATHER.