The San Francisco call., 1897-03-10
Levi Strauss to Give $500 a
Year and the State as
Much More.
College Of Commerce May Be an I'm.
portant Branch of the University.
Other Business.

it was accepted with applause.
1t was submitted in onjunction with q
plan for a legislative bill creating an
annual fund of $500 to maintain what
shall be known as the State OF California
scholarships, providing aid to not more
than twenty-eight especially deserving
students each year.
These combined funds aside from all
privately endowed scholarships, such as
those recently created by Mrs. Phebe
Hearst, will maintain at Berkeley over
fifty students in the undergraduate
courses. The twenty-eight State of Cali
tornia scholarships are intended to be
apportioned among the seven Congress
sional districts of the State. to be filled by
the tour most worthy applicants from
each district.
In addition to these State OF California
scholarships and the Levi Strauss scholar
ships, all for undergraduate students,
there are to be seven graduate scholar
ships, each yielding to the holder $3.50
year. They will after their creators be
named as follows, and will be filed by
one from each of the seven Congressional
districts:
Students graduate scholarship, an al
umnI graduate scholarship, a faculty
graduate scholarship and four regents
graduate scholarships.
OF more future significance perhaps than
these liberal provisions for poor students
was a plan Submitted by Regent Arthur
Rogers for the consideration of the board.
He would have created in the University
of California a college of commerce, and
he has given the subject to his fellow re-
gents to think about. His idea, first sug
gested over a dozen years ago in a COM
mencement address he delivered at Berke-
lev, contemplates the establishment of
school for the scientific study of trade, of
finance, of all manner of commercial re-
Iations between this country and others
to which it exports goods or from which it
gets supplies.
The idea would mean that here at the
greatest Pacific seaport of America, and one
of the great commerce centers of the world,
would be trained the specialists in trade
relations that would be the business ad
visers and experts for great mercantile
houses. 1t would, Mr.. Rogers thinks,
naturally lead up to the establishment of
college of diplomacy for the instruction of
future consuls to foreign ports, where to
have a skillful observer and planner OF
trade would result in great advantage TO
this country.
There is no such school at present ex-
cepting, Mr.. Rogers says small affair at
the University of Pennsylvania, but he
sees no reason why If there be colleges of
agriculture and colleges of mechanical
arts there should not also in this State,
with its manifold interests and resources
and commercial advantages, be a college
of commerce.
ELeyi Strauss offer of funds for annual
scholarships was made i'll the following
letter:
Regent J. B. Reinstein-DEAR SIR: I have
notad in the newspapers that while the Legis-
lature was considering the bill 10 increase the
income of the University of California sug-
gestlou was made to set apart $500 per an
mum to aid worthy and poor students from
each of the Congressional districts of the State
TO obtain an education at that university.
should be pleased to be permitted to du-
plieate the generosity of the State in the mat
ter of said scholarships, and request you
kindly to communicate the terms of this letter
10 the Honorable the Board of Regents OF the
university.
The University of California has already
risen to plane that challenges the admira-
tion of the entire country, and deem it q
privilege to aid those connected Herewith.
The proper officers are hereby authorized to
draw on me each year, until further notice,
for the sum of $500. u am, dear sir, yours
very truly, LEVI STRAUSS.
A petition was submitted from the
members of the senior class at Berkeley
asking for the surplus that will remain
from their long deposited diploma fees
after their graduating certificates shall
have been paid for. It will amount to
about $500, and the class of '97 wants it as
a matter OF principle, and especially be-
cause the class is more heavily burdened
by debts than any other lot of seniors that
ever worried at Berkeley over the un-
certainty of graduation and the expenses
of last year in college. President Kel-
Iogg was inclined to favor the plea on tn g
ground that public sentiment demands
absolutely free tuition in the university.
Each student upon entering q: Berkeley
deposits $40 to pay the cost of his diploma
four years hence. Latterly. with classes
of several hundred students, the amount
and interest of the diploma fund has
amounted to a sum at graduation consid-
erably greater than the cost of diplomas,
Judging from the fact that at Stanford
University each student at the time of his
graduation is charged only 81 so as the
actual cost of his sheepskin. The whole
matter was referred to the finance COM
mittee, as its settlement would es!ablish h
precedent upon which succeeding classes
would rely.
Beginning with July monthly salaries
will be paid by the university not until
the 10th of the month succeeding the SER
vice rendered, instead of on the 1st of
the month, according to the present rule
Provision was made for the publica ton
by the Lick Observatory of 1000 octave
volumes of a history of the earthquakes OF
the Pacific Coast.
Upon the recommendation of the archi-
tects and others connected with the con-
struction of the Affiliated Colleges build
ings bill OF $3.50 for construction was
passed upon favorably.
James Kennedy Moffitt, graduate from
Berkeley III the class OF 1886, has given
500 for the purchase of books for the uni
versity library, and purposes to give q
like sum each year for similar purpose.
Regent Denicke reported an abnor NAL
and unaccountable increase In the amou mt
of water used in and about the college
buildings at Berkeley, and janitors and
professors are to be cautioned not to per-
NIT water TO run to waste.
A report from the attorney of the board,
John b. Mhoon, gave the opinion that it
would not be i'm proper to pay professor
salary during his absence from the uni
verslty, for by so doing valuable so-called
nonresident professors might be obtained
for short courses of instruction.
Regent Reinstein called the attention OF
the board to the necessity of providing
some temporary buildings at Berkeley in
anticipation of a large freshman class next
fall that may be expected TO overcrowd
the present meager accom- modations He
suggested at least one two-story frame
building with twelve recitation-rooms.
The subject was referred to the committee
on grounds and plans, which will report
at the next meeting of the board, month
hence.
1t was reported that the bill now before