The San Francisco call., 1896-03-24

ton to literature's la ok of any exhaustive
treatise telling of the comparative results
achieved by such methods.
Miss Shinn was followed by William
Nathaniel Friend '96, the president of the
student body. In Mr.. Friends address,
which was on "The Significance of Recent
Events" the student body of Berkeley was
likened to miniature political state. The
speaker traced the life of the college state
from its organization twenty-eight years
ago TO the present. telling in brief of the
early rise of an "aristocracy," the control
of the government, its division into
guarreling factions and fraternities and of
its final overthrow by the "plebeians'
1.-THE two parties still exist at Berkeley"
said Mr.. Friend, ''but they have united
against the common enemy. The cure for
nation divided against itself is the ap-
pearance of common foe Thus STAN
ford s advent was declared to have unified
the factions of Berkeley, making possible
such harmonious student enterprises as
the Eastern athletic tour of last spring,
which was supported by all students, and
such exhibitions of united college spirit as
was the action of the students in forming
themselves into pick and shovel brigaue
for the Identification of the grounds of
their alma mater.
After song by the Glee Club Louis de
Fonteney Bartlett of the Hastings Law
College spoke on "American Law Col
leges." Mr.. Bartlett told of the great in
crease in the number of law colleges that
has recently taken place, there being but
few such colleges in the country fifty
years ago. He outlined a number of
methods of instruction in law and advo-
Gated more strict examination of aspir-
ants for admission to the bar.
49, N-1
University, a graduate of the University
of California, delivered an address on
~Some Responsibilities of the Modern
University" Professor Stillman said that
there is at present no general agreement
among the great universities of the world
as to the best system of higher education.
The reasons for this lie near the sur
face" said he. The machinery of civil
ization has become so complex that the
need OF educated men and women has
become more manifest. The sum of USE
ful ana important knowledge and the de-
mands npon the university system become
more and more exacting. The mass of
subjects in every department of thought
is becoming rapidly greater, and the diff
Guilty OF mastering it is correspondlngly
increased
He declared that money spent in the ed
ucation of capable political economists.
Sdpdolc cuSiHecTS, SO tudt costly
such fields of labor might be avoided, re-
turned to the State several times over in
actual cash.
The last speaker was Professor Thomas
Il. Bacon OF the department of history in
the University of California. Professor
Bacon's subject was sour Foreign Policy
and the Worlds Peace" The professor
said ne would assume that peace is a good
thing, though like the axioms of mathe-
matlcs the proposition could be disputed
by those disposed TO argue 1t. He referred
to recent speeches in the United States
Senate as frantic voices" for war and said
that certain Senators demand war at any
prlce-not war with any one in particular,
but war Tor its own sake. If not with Eng
land, war with Spain, and if not with the
latter with some nation that could be
fought with even more safely than might
Spain.'
Professor Bacon said he had high respect
for the aims of pnilanthropists who would
establish international courts OF arbitra-
ton, but that he had no respect for their
Judgment. War, he declared, would
always be part of history as long as hu-
man nature remains as it is. The profess
sor advocated closer diplomatic relations
between England and the United States.
At the conclusion of the speeches came
the formal presentation to the university
OF the portrait of DR.. Horatio Stebbins,
which has for some time been in the uni
yersity library. The speech of presenta
ton. prepared by the principal donor, John
Perry Jr. OF San Francisco, was read by
Professor William Carey Jones. The other
donors Were: Regents Crocker, Bartlett,