The San Francisco call., 1897-04-16
STUDENTS STILL
THROWING STONES
This Time the Military
Department Is Bitterly
Assailed.
The Occident Again Gives Berke.
ley College Some Cause
Tor Talk.
Tie Paper Says the Duty Is Irksome
and the Comm andant Rather
Despotic.

forth to-day another fuslllade upon the
government and systems of education at
the institution, taking refuge this time
under the covert OF 1.-THE Court
The Occident, which has been the
medium for delivering the charges upon
the university, was again brought into
use.
Under the soothing caption OF Respect
fully Submitted appears caustic
criticism upon the ever unpopular war
department of the university. The writer
begins by saying: "To those OF US who
entertain wholesome contempt for the
military feature of our university the
present policy OF the department is en-
couraging." He continues to charge the
enforcement OF ''petty and irksome de-
taiis,' and declares that the ''petty
tyrants" meet with only hostility and
failure, as they always will. Then the
writer goes on to say:
II any good is ever to be derived from the
military department., the commandant must
first realize the futiitty of attempting to en-
force army methods in dealing with the
students This fact should need no further
demonstration than the experience of the last
few years. When mutual tair treatment takes
the place of a policy of compulsion results
much more efficien, than al present are sure to
be attained. Most of the student-soldiers are
things military; they can drill well, and when
they choose they DO drill we'll. The recent
voluntary turnout OF the battalions on the
occasion of the celebration of the university
appropriation bill dem what the boys
can do when they will; the negligent and
slouchy manner in which they regularly go
through the maneuvers shows what they will
do when they must
AS long as the department pursues the poi
Icy of emphasizing its authority by forcing
upon the men petty and irksome regulations
just so long will an independent student body
show its resentment by defiant hostility TO-
ward its petty tyrants.
A change in the attitude of the department
toward the officers, especially the lower off,
GERS OF the companies, might we'll be made.
The bitter personal reprimands which the
commandant sees fit to iniict at pleasure upon
the non-comm issioned officers tends only TO
create between them and the privates below
them the same attitude that the commendant
has created between itself and the officers.
And the petty annoyances with which the nom
commssi oned officer will endeayor to impress
his authority upon the ranks will arouse re-
sentiment that viii manifest itself in the most
And even decent respect for the opinions
Of the officeless might be shown without dero-
CATION from the dignity of the powers that be-
1t is highly impro bable that even fair and de-
cent treatment VIII ever make drill univer-
sally popular, but it is nevertheless certain
that a little mutual consideration will serve
to mitigate the drudgery of ones perfunctory
military schooling. II, for instance, excuse
from terms drill were offered as reward
LOT SdllsIdClOry Ourlng the nrSt two
years and a half, or if the present Gus tom of
granting excuses that are not excuses were
discontinued, the military department would
be the recipient OF fewer despairing impreca-
tions from the unhappy victims upon the
altar OF Mars.
Another critic is Charles Osborne, who
thinks that the courses at Berkeley are so
arranged that students during their first
two years at college are taking post
graduate high school course" real uni
versity work not beginning until the
junior year.
Incidentally. Osborne declares that the
recent critics of the university have been
personal rather than general, thus op-
posing Editor Hopper's expressed notion
that no personalities were INDUCED in.
They Kept Their Secret.
BERKELEY, CAL, April 15.-President
Martin Kellogg Of the State University
has written a letter of thanks to the
young ladies of the university who pre-
sented him with charter day gift as
token of remem brance of his fourth ami
versary as president.
The question has arisen as to why the
male students were not given a chance to
be represented in the gift to the president.
1t seems that the co.eds discussed taking
cOlleglans of the sterner sex into their
secret, but finally decided that they
wanted TO give the present the enselves
a, mark of their appreciation of the
president, but also In memory of his
especial justice and consideration toward
the women during the history of CO.
education at Berkeley.
College Functions Conflict.
BERKELEY, CAL, April 15-The Skull
and Keys Social and Dramatic Fraternity
at the State University will give Its an
nual play at the Macdonough Tneater, in
Oakland, on the evening of April "a. BY
an unforeseen ombination of circum-
stances the play will fall on the same
evening as the annual intercollegiate de-
bate in San Francisco. 1t seems that the
date for the debate was originally set for
Saturday evening, the 18th. Then it was
changed to the oath Meanwhile the
Skull and Keys managers had set the Oath
as the date for the play, made their de-
posit for the theater and issued the invl-
tations.
conflict great regret has been expressed
on the part of the Skull and Keys men,
since a change of date seems impossible.
Annual Church Meeting.
BERKELEY. CAL, April 15.-The an
nual meeting OF the West Berkeley Pres
byterian Church was held last evening.
Rev. DR.. Ketchum was chosen moderator
and William Stevenson secretary. A new
set of bylaws was adopted, which pro-
vldes tnat person TO De trustee m ust
be a member Of the church. A new board
was elected, consisting OF Messrs. Steven
son, Griffin, Kastens, Holgenson an d
WrighIbody.
Canvassed the Vote.
BERKELEY, CAL, April 15.-The Board
OF Town Trustees met last evening to can
vass the vote of the municipal election on
last Monday. No material change was
made from the count as first announced,
and the officers were declared du.y elected.
The board will meet next Monday evening
for the purpose of swearing in the new
officials.
Debators Chosen.
BERKELEY, CAL, April 15.-At the
preliminary held last evening by the
Berkeley High School to choose speakers
to represent it in the coming interschooI
debate with the Oakland High, Fred Bar
ton, Hershel Macdonald and Allan
Matthew were chosen, with Otto Peterson
as substitute.
Everybody knows how hard it is TO look
entirely unconscious if you have nothing
to put in the plate when collection is be-