The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-13
THE AFFILIATED COLLEGES
The Building to Occupy the
Sutro Site Will Be Erected
Speedily.
DR.. r. Beverly Cole Outlines Few
Results of His Eastern In
vestigations.

The committee appointed by the regents
to see that the conditions accompanying
the selection of the Sutro site for the
Affiliated Colleges are properly observed is
working hard. The deeds, undertakings
and other necessary legal documents are
being drawn up and will be submitted by
Judge Wallace to the law committee at the
proper time, and everything will be in
readiness for the completion of the trans
fer at the next meeting of the board on the
14th inst.
Now that the matter of the site is at last
settled, public interest naturally centers
about the kind of building to be erected
thereon. This, however, the regents have
tacitly agreed to leave to the faculties of
the departments interested, STIMULATING
only that the cost of the building shall not
exceed the amount of the appropriation,
$3.50, 600.
The members of each faculty will dictate
just what is needed in their particular de-
partment, and may even do some design
ing. The work of the architect will be to
reconcile the various requirements and
construct a suitable exterior about the
whole, at the same time incorporating
into the structure the most modern prac-
tical ideas as to heat light ventilation,
etc.
In this connection, the recent Eastern
tour OF inspection OF various educational
institutions becomes valuable. 1t will be
remem bered that DIR. R. Beverly Cole,
Professor F. A. Beckett and Architect AL
bert Sutton were commissioned by the
regents to inspect prominent institutions
in the East and note recent Improvem ents.
They travelled 1400 miles, visited every
large city in the United States, inspected
itrrtf 1f Lao ~1r,
nence, and returned with a tlunkful of
blue prints, plans and notes, but failed to
find the perfect building which they were
willing to copy. As a result, every good
point and every desirable feature noted
during that trip is to be used to give to
California perfect structure.
1T is hard to specify just what changes
from present systems is desirable" said
DR.. Cole yesterday. eve found, generally
speaking, that in teaching the didactical
method, that is by lectures, is giving away
to classroom and laboratory work, and that
is true not only of one of the departments
of the Affiliated Colleges, but in all.
''Take the law for instance. We found
that IN the law school of Columbia College
in New York they had only two lecture
rooms, and they were more often used as
classrooms than for lectures. And at Ann
Arbor in lieu of lectures hypothetical
case is tried before one of the professors as
judge. The court is complete in every
detail; clerk, bailiff, etc. The senior stu
dents act as attorneys on either side and
witnesses are called, examined and cross
examined as in any trial, and the stu
dents OF the lower grades sit without the
rail as spectators and take notes.
''In medicine laboratory work is made
pre-emlnent. In surgery every operation
is performed on the cadaver, and the stu
dents eye and hand are taught equally
with his mind and eye. The physiological
laboratory is veritable machine. shop, and
in many places they employ a machinist
at high salary to make the instruments
used in the experiments.
''In pharmacy now microscopy plays an
important part. The students watch the
progress of the plant from the seed to the
perfect fiower-the biology of the plant, if
you please. In chemistry they view every
process of decomposition and recomposi-
ton of the various drugs, and the analysis
OF every substance, whether vegetable or
mineral-yes or animal either-is success
fully performed in the laboratory. The
druggist of the future will have to be i'm
mensely learned-as far in advance of
those we have now as they are in advance
of their predecessors of years ago.
"For all these provisions will be made in
the new building. We have not yet got to
work on it, but we shall just as soon as the
transfer in the site matter is completed"
The regents and the various faculties
are fully alive to the necessity of pushing
the building ahead as fast as is compatible
with safety. The fiscal year will end on
July next, and they realize that any por-
ton OF the $l25,OOO of the appropriation
which shall then remain unexpended or
uncontrolled for will lapse to the State.