The San Francisco call., 1898-01-16

munities: Advanced commercial training corresponding to our college work has been developed independently of univers- 1ty work. It has developed upon the de- mands of practical men. It has made successful business men and has kept them at their career.
 An outline of the course of study, embracing forty-eight subjects, is con- talned In the report of the committee. It Is recommended that one professor of commerce should be chosen. It is further recommended: And the great est care should be exercised to secure a vigorous, practical, tactful and dis ungulshed professor, whose success in similar work elsewhere would assure the most favorable organization and beginning of the new college
 The prospective advantages of the proposed college are set forth in these terms:
 Aside from this duty and the general policy which require the organization of a college of commerce our situation and our IT.. deEelopme9nIt urgently demand it.
 Hitherto California has been isolated by mountain, desert and sea-and with climate and valuable resOurces-from the rest of the world, and specially from the great markets of the Atlantic; and our people have been engrossed with eX- plotting and experimenting upon the re- sources of this new and strange terri tory. We have reached that point in Knowledge and improved methods where our production is far beyond the con sumption of our, own people, and capable of vast expansion even under present conditions. Speaking broadly we have the population of Paris with the avail able natural resources of France.
 We must reach the markets of the world with the least cost and lessen the expenses of internal trade.
 Hitherto our chief markets have been in the West, the Atlantic States and EJ1lrODP and have hppn virtually nh- liyious to the Pacific Ocean, which in- yftes us to the greatest commercial con in the Northwestern and Northeastern Pacific portend marvellous commercial expansion. In the prospective struggle for this commerce we of this coast and country have opportunities through geo. graphy and resource more favorable than any other people of our civilization.
 In this connection we deem 1t proper to quote from the letter of Regent Edward Tompktns in 1872, donating property to this board to support the AgassiZ pro- fessorship of Oriental languages and lit- erature: "The business between CaliPor- nia and Asia is already very great. Its future is beyond any estimate that the most sanguine would dare to make. The child is now born that will see the com merce of the Pacific greater than that of the Atlantic"
 It is therefore of the utmost conse- quence for California, that the means shall be provided to instruct our young men preparing for lives of business ac- tivity in the languages and literature of Eastern Asia.
 In conclusion, the committee recom- mends:
 First-The adoption of the reso- Iution that a college of commerce be established in the University of California.
 Second-That the president of the university be authorized to nee as professor in this college with such titles as may hereafter be adopted.
 The report was ordered printed
 Regent Reinstein read a carefully prepared and able address in which he reviewed the university of the past and sketched a future for the institu- ton, full of honorable achievement. At tention was called to some remarks re- gently made by David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University. In this style MT. Reinstein commented on the language ascribed to pr. Jordan:
 And, here, too, where sit other ex- officio regents, whose duties are con- nected with the spread of knowledge through the State, should be resented and answered such false and slander- ous charges against the State as those recently made by President David Starr Jordan. Speaking of California, he publicly proclaimed that mo other State on receiving a gift proceeds at once to tax it out of existence'-mean- ing thereby that California does-an absolute untruth-and the more repre- hensible in the hint that the State was not only an ingrate, but stabbed its donors in the back.
 "'Other civilized States pr. Jordan said, meet the generous giver half way and double his gifts. California plum ders his donation as soon as his back is turned These charges are the less justifiable from one in his position, from one whose few years in this State have brought him more notoriety and profit than he had obtained before in all the years of his life, and who has not sojourned sufficiently in this State to appreciate the character of her people.
 No man. said Burke, can frame an indictment against a people, and it is high time that at least so prominent a citizen should cease to charge that all of the people of the State plunder. where he would not dream of saying