The San Francisco call., 1895-08-03
CHANGES FOR THE COMING TERM
The Only Difficulty Which Berkeley
Has to Meet Is an Increased
Attendance,


pared than ever to assist those who desire
| to devote their time and attention to the
pursuit of higher education.
President Martin Kellogg, in speaking
of the outlook, said: eve never before
were so prosperous, and, on account of our
great prosperity, we are somewhat
| straitened
"This statement may be considered in
measure paradoxical," said he, "but it is
nevertheless true. Last year there were
! 100 students in the colleges at Berkeley
alone. and the prospects for the coming
year are that we will have even more, al
| though probably not SO many more pro-
portionately as entered last year.
According to reports the graduating
classes in the high schools OF the State
have not been so large this year as last,
doubtless owing to the action of the preva-
lent hard times We are SO prosperous
that our ciassrooms are crowded to over
flowing and the professors and instructors
, are kept under high pressure in doing the
necessary teaching.
1--WE need more room, we need more in
structors and we need more equipment in
order that we may be better able to render
the highest quality of instruction without
putting either the teachers or students to
more than ordinary inconvenience.
'IleSe Detter 1aCll1JleS Will OOuDCleSS
come in the due course of time.
1.-The most important appointment this
year. continued President kellogg, sis
that of DR.. John Fryer to the chair of
Oriental languages.
1.-THE appointment has already been
confirmed by the board of regents, but we
| have not as yet heard from DR.. Fryer
| is in Shanghai at the present time, and
| letters from him have not yet had time to
reach u.s.
| The establishment of the chair of Ori-
entail languages was the idea of the late
Edward Tompkins of Oakland, who gave
in 1872 a strip OF land containing forty
seven acres to the university, which was
| to be sold for not less than $4,000 and that
money be set aside as an endowment OF
| the chair.
| Recently the exchange was made and
DIR. Fryer was decided upon as being the
most competent man for the position.
The newly elected professor is now in
! the service of the Emperor of China and is
stationed at the Klangnan arsenal, Shang-
hal. He was called out from England to
Hongkong in 1851 by the Bishop of the
diocese to take charge of st. PauPs College.
1t was then that he applied himself to the
study of the Chinese language as spoken
at Canton, Hongkong and the adjoining
southern provinces. Some of the Chinese
| become famous. One has been Minister to
/ the United States, another Minister to
| Spain, and third is the present private
secretary of Ii Hung Chang.
| After two years at ST. Paul's DR.. Fryer
was summoned to take charge of Tung
| Wen College, q Governmental institution
established for the special education of
| young men intended to represent China in
| other countries. At Peking he found his
| Cantonese dialect of little use to him, so he
began the mastery of the mandarin dia-
| Iect, and subsequently went to Shanghai,
where he sohooled himself In another dis
f, tinct dialect.
| At Shanghai he began the publication of
a periodical in Chinese and was so success
full with his work that he received call to
| the imperial service as a translator of
| foreign scientific works. DR.. Fryer has
also made an extensive study of Japanese,
and it is believed that he is we'll qualified
to give instruction in that language, as we'll
as the different Chinese dialects. 1t is ex-
pected that if he does accept the offer
made him by the university he will not do
so unconditionally as he is at present
under contract to do a large amount of
| translating for the Chinese Cover nment.
| In reviewing the other departments of
| study the president said that several men
of recognized ability had been appointed
| to fill vacancies and to supply the growing
| demand.
| In the chemical laboratories the old
force will be maintained. In the mining
| and engineering departments few minor
changes have been effected. In history
new instructor has been appointed IN the
person of Give Day. who will do a portion
of the work formerly carried on by Clar-
ence w. Leach, who has been fellow in
history for the past three years. and who
has recently been advanced to an instruc-
torship.
1 lzl
| temporary loss by the resignation of Pro-
fessor E. L. Greene, but the president is in
communication with several celebrated
botanists in the East, and it is expected
that arrangements will soon be perfected
with one of them to fill the vacant chair.
w. NJ. Hart has been appointed to sue
ceed Mr.. McGillivary, who has been trans
ferred to the department of philosophy as
instructor in English.
During the early part OF the vacation
there was a rumor afloat that Professor
Howison, head of the department of
philosophy, was about to leave California
to accept the char of philosophy at Ann
Arbor, but he has decided to remain in his
present position.
The vacancy in the department of
physics occasioned by the resignation of
Professor Whiting, who was lost in the
Colima disaster, will practically be filled
by E. P. Lewis Pho, and DR.. A. G..
Alexander, both of whom are Eastern
men.
Though the work of these newly ap-
pointed instructors will extend over a
wider range than that of the deceased pro-
fessor, yet the salary which he alone re-
ceived will be apportioned between the
two
DR.. Lewis has, for some months, been a
lecturer at the Bliss School of Electricity
in Washington, d. G. He also held at one
time the position of an assistant in
physics at the Johns Hopkins University,
the institution which conferred upon him
the doctors degree. He was recon-
mended for the position which he has re-
Gently accepted by President Gilman of the
Johns Hopkins University, formerly presi-
dent of the University of California.
DIR. A. C. Alexander, who is to be asso-
ciated with DR.. Lewis is recently from the
Sheffield Scientific School, where he has
won considerable distinction as a physicist
by his successful work along the line of
original research.
The position as instructor in Latin, left
vacant by Leon j. Richardson, who is now
taking advanced work in classical philol-
ogy on the Continent, has been filled by
Clifton Price, graduate of Cornell Uni
yersity. After teaching for four wears at