The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-13
JEWISH LORE, A
GIFT TO BERKELEY
Valuable Library Donated
TO the California
University.
Semitic Works That Belonged
TO DR.. Greenebaum of
Germany.
Cornerstone of Affiliated Colleges to
Be Laid February 22-Other
News.

A valuable library gift of particular sig
nifcance was made to the University of
California yesterday by Alfred Greene
baum of this City. Through the Board of
Regents, in session for the initial meeting
of the new year, he presented the State in
stitution at Berkeley with some thousand
volumes com prising a choice collection of
Hebraic works that shall form the nucleus
of library of Semitic languages. They
had been the reference books OF the late
DR.. Greenebaum of Germany, prominent
rabbi, student and litterateur.
Accompanying the books was a check
for $587 80 from the women of the Jewish
Temple Emanuel of this City, with the
request that it be used in properly ar
ranging and labelling the new collection
ard in maxim certain additions TO it dur
ing the present year.
The gift was rece we'd with surprise and
manifest pleasure by the regents. Colonel
Fred Croker moved that most gen eral
and cordial thanks be returned to all these
concerned. State Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction Black remarked upon the
thoughtfulness it indicated and the wide
spread interest that is now being shown
in the work and improvement of the
State University. Arthur Rogers charac-
terized it as one of the most significant
gifts ever made the university; it implied
great interest taken by race remarkable
for It's shrewdness and showed that the
university is receiving the favorable and
kindly interest of the Jewish people.
As a result of this move Regent Halli-
die extoled the gratuitous services OF
Rabbi Voorsanger as professor of Semitic
languages at Berkeley, and the board
unanimously decided to supply an assist
ant instructor for the department as soon
as funds will permit.
There are other Semitic librarles-at
Harvard, at the University of Pennsyl-
vania and elsewhere in the East-ex-
piained President Kellogg after the meet
ing, but this is the first one either private
or public in the West. White it is not so
large 1t is very valuable beginning and
will certainly tie augmented.
Regent Reinstein suggested that the
cornerstone of the new Affiliated Colleges
buildings be laid with proper ceremonies
on Washington's Birthday, and the idea
met with general approval.
1t was decided by close vote to pay
superintendent of building $3.50 month
rather than $500, as was particularly
argued for by certain of the regents who
wish to retain for the position Robert
McKillican, ex-Sheriff OF Alameda County,
who has been gratuitousiy serving while
expecting the appointment.
Further time was asked by and granted
to the special joint COMMITTEES appointed
to devise ways and means for providing
superintendent of construction for the
new Affiliated Colleges buildings.
The proposition of the Alameda Water
Company to supply the university at
Berkeley with water for three years from
August, 1896, to August, 1899, at the re-
duced rate OF 81 per day for 10000 gallons
was adopted, and a contract ordered
drawn to that effect. Heretofore the uni
versity he's paid 81 50a day for the same
amount of water. The new rate provide s
for an extra charge for water in excess of
the stipulated 10000 gallons day.
The finance committee recommended
the expenditure of $4,000 in effecting i'm.
provements thought necessary in the uni
versity's Sutter-street property, now occu-
pied by Nathan 81 DohrmanD. A new
electric elevator to replace the present
tedious means of locomotion is part of the
plan. The finance committee reported