The record-union., 1895-03-19
UNIVERSITY NOTES
Interesting Items About Educatio,
Matters

Matters.
The summer schools in physics and
chemistry will be held this year at the
University Of California running from
June 9Th to July 18th.
The third conference on secondary edu-
cation by representatives Of the high
schools, normal schools of Southern Cali
fornia and the university will be held in
the high school OF Los Angeles on March
9th and 2Sth. The topics discussed will
relate to the proper adjustment of high
school curricula. both to university
courses and to'tne more general problem
of high schools.
Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst has established
at the university eight scholarships for
worthy young women, each yielding $500.
The award is made annually by the fac
ulty, and applications must be filed with
the Recorder before May lst. Letters
and testimonials should be as full as pos
sible touching the applicants circum-
stances, education and aims.
On April 18th an extemporaneous de-
bate between the University OF Cali
fornia and Stanford will be held at Palo
Alto. Clark '96, Friend '96 and A. Ley
sey '9S, will represent the University of
California. The subject will be WAS
Casimir-Perier Justified in Resigning
the Presidency of the French Republic?'
At the celebration of Charter Day of the
University of California on March 23d
addresses will be made by Rev. DR.. Nc
kenZie of the First Presbyterian Church,
San francisco; Professor Greene of the
faculty and w. e. Lloyd of the students
University extension courses are now
being given by the university at the
Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San
francisco. The courses are in Latin by
Professor w. a. Merrill, pedagogy by
Professor t. P. Bailey, Jr., and geology
by Professor Joseph LIE Conte w. d.
Armes is the Secretary of the university
extension work.
MIR. Garnett of Harvard has been en-
gagged as coach Of the boat crew of the
University of California. Candidates are
now in training for the race which will
come Oft IN Oakland Creek on April 9th.
A tine race boat forty feet in length is
| now being constructed for the crew.
a literary monthly, to be called the
University Of California Mdg0zine, is
| about to be launched at Berkeley under
the general supervision Of Professor Will
lam Carey Jones and Professor Thomas
Bacon. The editor-in-chief is A. O.
Lovejoy of the senior class. He will be
| assisted by K. j. Russ, G. NJ. Fisher, Miss
Henderson and Miss WhipDle. Bernard
Miller will be business manager. The
new magazine will also serve as the Off
cial organ of the Alumni Association of
the University of California.
y new department OF the University is
devoted to decorative and industrial art.
| 1t is under the direction OF Henry Il.
Ardley, 5. A, who for the past six years
| has been in charge of the art depart
ment of the University of Minnesota and
was formerly director of the school of ap-
! piled arts of London. There are eight
! courses-elocutionar drawing, advanced
drawing, landscape, elementary design,
original analysis, ancient art and historic
| ornament, applied design, and industrial
art work.
a gift to the University at Berkeley
which only awaits confirmation by the
Board OF Regents has been just received
from r. ID. Yelland, one OF California's 8
favorite painters. The picture is a fine
! portrait study of an old lady whose face
is filled with the joys and sorrows of life
and is called appropriately The Evening
of Life" The artist is not Mr.. Yelland,
but Miss Elizabeth Williams, California
woman and q pupil of Amie Morot.
On his seventy second birthday the
| students Of the University Of California
| presented their beloved Professor, DR..
Joseph LIE Conte, the great scientist, with
! an etching of his old master and friend,
| Louis AgassiZ. His bowed head and
| moistened eye showed a silent apprecia-
ton OF the great love his pupils truly bear
! him. Said he III reply: Here below we
| are governed by two great moral laws
one the love of God, the other the love of
| our fellowmen. The first we receive
! from above. The second we give to those
around US. And 1t is oftener better to
4 give than to receive. 1t is often better to
| love than to be loved. To give you the
| truth has been the only motive in my
! work with you. II | have succeeded in
! this I ask no other reward
| The collection of works by California
authors at the library Of the university is
! being constantly augmented. Already
| there are over 300 volumes, many very
rare, and Librarian ROweIl believes that
! when completed the collection will be of
! priceless value. ANY author who spent a
| considerable portion OF his life in Califor-
MIA or received his inspiration from her
| romantic annals, comes in the category
even though ne owed his birth to another
! State, as did John Vance Cheney, or Bret
! Harte, or Joaquin Miller. One of the
! gems OF this collection is the first volume
! of Joaquin Miller-a very small green
! book, on whose title page is Cincinnatus
! II. Miller. The title is Joaquin and
! Other Poems" from which the Poet OF
| the Sierras received his name.
! Professor Hilgard, the weIl-known
| head of the College of Agriculture of the
! University of California, is preparing
some decidedly newsand interesting work
on which he will report at the Farmers
Institute TO be held on March 24th at Per-
| ris and Riverside. Samples of soil about
I SI Iis nave DcSu SeHb W MIN, anu ne mus
! they are very rich in phosphate, while
those of Riverside are very deficient in
! phosphate. But the startling doctrine
! that he may proclaim, and which will eX-
| plain many of the disastrous results in
| some orchards in the south, is that stable
| manure must not be used with COM
mercial fertilizers. because they tend 10
decompose each other, sometimes result
ing in worse results than no fertilization.
/ This new doctrine is causing a sensation
| in Europe, where fertilization is topic
| of great importance to every rural dis
/ trict Experiments that he is now max
| ing are awaited with intense interest by
| the horticulturists of this State