The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-27
Athletics for Charity.
BERKELEY.

AT the meeting of the Board of Town
Trustees Monday evening the protest
against the work of improving Shattuck
avenue was overruled. The protest against
improving Alcatraz avenue was also over
ruled. DR.. S. NJ. Mouser was permitted,
according to his request, to put in certain
culverts across Panoramic way, subject to
the approval of the City Engineer and
superintendent of Streets. A lengthy
communication from street contracting
firms asking for an opportunity to bid on
the proposed improvement of San Pablo
avenue was heard. No bids having been
received the clerk was ordered to advertise
further.
University.
The university has received a communi-
cation from Edward S. Holden giving the
reason why instruction in astronomy is
not being given to the undergraduate stu
dents in the colleges at Berkeley. The
plan of giving instruction at Berkeley was
advocated by him in 1887 and the reason
why it did not prevail was because Presi-
dent Davis did not think the plan wise.
A statement as to the cost of maintain
ing the observatory at Mount Hamilton
| compared with the expenses of keeping UP
the observatories of Greenwich, Harvard
College and Paris shows that they REQUIRE
oNOAO qOOiOJO IIiOIc Gill tIldH Tie LICK.
A statement covering the work done by
the department outside the mere instruc-
ton shows that within the last seven years
10000 visitors have been received, many
lectures have been given before general
audiences, eight books have been published
and distributed from the observatory and
. 100 communications have been made to
scientific journals and magazines.
Professor Holden thought that if any
change was to be made by the regents
with regard to giving lectures in Berkeley
1t should be so made as to interfere as little
as possible with their work at the OBJ
servatory.
Enthusiastic Athletic Meeting.
At no time in years has college spirit run
so high or so much interest been shown in
purely college affairs as was displayed at
the athletic meeting yesterday afternoon.
The purpose Of the meeting was to devise
ways and means for sending an athletic
team East to compete with Pennsylvania,
Yale, Harvard and Princeton in track
athletics.
Students were excused from all recita-
tions after 2:50. The meeting was adj
dressed by Colonel Edwards, Professor
Clapp, Captain Koch, Manager North and
others and it was unanimously carried
amid loud rounds of cheers to send a track
team East. ---------------
A loan of $1,000 was asked from the
student body and in less than fifteen
minutes $500 was subscribed Heretofore
the question of sending a team across the
continent was an uncertainty, but now it
is an assured thing.
New Greek Letter Fraternity.
A chapter of the Kappa Alpha Fraternity
made its existence publicly known yester-
day afternoon. The charter membership
is composed of H. J. Sherer '95, r. II.
Turner '95, Charles Gutenberg 96, Louis
Hilborn '96, Melville Dozier 1913, and Louis
Mead '9S. The fraternity has been in ex-
istence since the ODD inst
The original chapter of the fraternity
was organized some years ago at the Uni
versity of Virginia. There are only three
chapters in the fraternity, the one at Berke-
ley being the only one west of the Rockies.
There are two national fraternities by the
name of Kappa Alpha but this one is
known as the Southern Fraternity" hav-
ing been founded in Virginia.
The new chapter has taken hall on
Bancroft way, near Audubon street. This
makes the third fraternity organized in
Berkeley since the beginning OF the fall
term.