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tas County, Virginia, In Au-
gust, 1908, he became a minis
ter of the gospel at the age of
"a and did excellent work in
his own state, and later in
Missouri and among the
Shawnee Indians. In 1852 he
came across the plains" and
located near Peta4uma. and in
1859 began his most successful
labors among the children by
organizing the California
Youths Association" from
which sprang the Bands of
Hope" which are so widely
spread at the present time.
Father Waugh" has en-
deared himself to the hearts of
thousands by his love for the
little ones. his sincere Chris
tianity and his utter unselfish-
ness and devotion to the cause
which he has zealously advo-
Gated for so many years. His
has been a simple, honest.
generous life, well worth the
living He Saws.
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BRONCO BUSTER" by Frederick Remington

fornia and his standing in educational matters is in
every way satisfactory.
have not thought about the matter all and
consider indeed, that 1t is affair that might safely
/ be left, without outside
| CARTER c. POMEROY, discussion, to the decision
Hastings Law University Of VI Inc ooolu VI eeSeHts,
l---------- duty 1t is to attend to it.
The regents fully the requirements of the
position and have wide opportunities to view the edu
cational field and weigh the qualifications of the diff
ferent candidates. Such being the case they
doubtedly will make the best selection possible.
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FISHER &MES.
Dartmouth College.

the university should especially be scholar OF ac-
knowledged world wide reputation. merely man
rather unusual ability and little local
as educator.
With a president like this and such corps of
professors suggest the University of California
would at take place In the front rank of the
great educational institutions of the yorld cost
of obtaining such president and such a faculty Isl
in the estimation of those who desire the good
of our State and its future citizens, matter of
neither consideration mention since the benefits
resulting from the additional outlay would be almost
inestimable.
The motto of our regents should be: The best
man for the place, no matter what the cost" and
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work, and work well. at that
advanced age. Since then
Mr.. Diamond worked for
thirteen years as engineer
In the Occidental and Bald
win hotels, and for the past
five years has supported
himself in the active and
arduous occupation OF a
book-agent.
It is his ambition to
walk from Seal Rock to
Coney Island, and all his
preparations are made to
start on this long tramp the
last of next March. He
trained for this trip last
spring, walking an average
Of twenty miles a day for
six weeks, but the war
changed flis plans for the
time being. Mr.. Diamonds
recipe for longevity contains
some rather unusual Ideas,
but as he practices what he
breaches, and is far more
active and healthy than
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GORDON BLANDING,
Yale.

tice to small man. am not fit to answer it, have
not the time to answer it and do not to
it, and IL attempt reply 1t Is only because of that
inherent weakness which makes us all towards when
ought to say NO"
The university is presided over by an able Board
of Regents The long list of It's alumni contains the
names of many scholarly and accomplished and
women. These are the persons who best know the
special needs of Berkeley and whose ripe Judgment
and experience should concur in the selection of a
fitting president. That they will do cannot be
doubted. It is great Office and not easy to
FILL Not all who will 1t will possess shoulders
broad enough to the mantle II the maxim that
the office should seek the man not the the Office
ever had significance applies with peculiar force
here. "Palmarn qu meruit ferat." The saying is
trite and easy OF utterance, but what a world of
meaning is implied in this particular "qui meruit."
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It IS We'll WOrlH HOlIIS'
7 WAS born In Plymouth, Mass, May l. 1885, OF
/ Irish, English Dutch and Scotch ancestry MY
constitution is excellent and have always worked
| hard believe that the secret of my long and
- vigorous life is that have taken as good care or
myself at least for the past sixtyfive years, as
kind and sensible would of an ordinary horse
/ have given myself proper and sufficient food kept
myself clean and exercised myself regularly My diet
has been and is sustaining. nourishing and satsfac-
tory, though for fifty years have drank neither
tea coffee and have eaten no meat whatever In
fish of all kinds, eggs. milk fruit and vegetable pro-
ducts l find sufficient for my wants Hot water /
drink freely especially before meals, and masticate
all food most thoroughly believe in onions as a
morning is my invariable rule, and California olive
oil used externally and internally believe to be al
most a panacea. BY thorough rubbing with this
have avoided the stiffness of joints and muscles
usually incident old and cured myself OF deaf
and granulated eyelds; taken internally 1t has
proven sovereign remedy for very many bodily
troubles.
1 have used liquors tobacco as believe in
keeping my body clean outside and inside. Given a
good physique to begin with believe a close adj
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Ut" TLO y, hGcO verx, non,1lar
r T GREDITY has, think much to do with my
longevity. l come from good, solid stock, my
/ fathers brother living to be 107. My father,
- exposure and privation during his army life
in the Napoleonic and his death at the age of
rs due to this rather than to weakness of con-
stitution
ing more than ordinary to my diet and
habits. MyAife physician has prevented from
centering my thoughts too much upon myself 1 have
worked hard and necessarily kept irregular hours,
While 1 reprobate the frequent and excessive use
of alcohol in any form 1 have taken light wines
casionally with benefit OF late years prefer hot
slant occupation is, think, of the for my
'ong life. Idleness would death to me, for when
/ cease to work and study and think about the suf-
ferngs and needs of others I shall most certainly
cease to live.
aDAM SIMPSON, aged 80.
Adam Simpson is a Scotchman, having been born in
temperament which supposed be Characteristic
of the whose home is the channel Previous
f mhn e Sc 6 a where
theates and established deserved reputation for being
He built and managed the Montezuma House the
first hotel in Monezuma. California, and though he has
lived retired life for the past few years, counts
Cafornans both old and his friends
T BELIEVE my life has been long because 1t has
/ been happy, he says. 1 have denied myself
| anything that 1 really wanted II / were able in
any way honestly to obtain It, have smoked
L tobacco but never chewed it; have drunk when
felt like 1t and have always fond of mrth, jolity
and song. 1 never allowed my temper to away
with me and have looked on the dark side OF
managed to live through 1t both times you
my mind cheerfulness is the best recipe for long
life that can be given.
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Of such an important ed
ucational institution as
is our university 1t would
be wise to secure some
one who has had expert
ence in one Of the larger
Eastern universities, that
is. either Yale or Har-
ward. My reason for this
is that these two institu-
tons form, as 1t were,
a standard Of education
to which all the smaller
colleges try to attain, or
which they endeavor to,
with greater or less sue
cess, improve upon.
A man who has been
a succ essful mem
Der Of the faculty Of
either of these universe
ties would bring to this
one a measure of
intellectual requirement.
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HOW TO LIVE
9 To Be
8 EIGHTY YEARS OLD. 9
Be
EIGHTY YEARS OLD.
BY eleven and women who have succeeded in doing


lady persuaded to oin the Washingtonian move
ment then sweeping over the country. A month and
half later another young lady persuaded me to give
the whole thing up and from that day to this have
used my own Judgment In regard to my beverages. /
drinl- what l like when like and have never found
my bodily mental health the for it,
While have smoked cigars from beyhood have
never smoked cigarette. q late years 1 eat very
ntte meat in fact eat sparingly of everything I
90 not keep specially good hours. but go and come
as Is most expedent and agreeable.
Aitnough am 81 / feel by old, and have
eonoently laid my plans to round out at least CEN
Jury OF existence If l doing it will he
am convinced, because strictly adhere my rule:
Ion worry. If thing be helped help at
no more about it."
EDWARD READ. oqed 80.
.u EDWARD Read. by occupation in his earlier years
iono gl s naive OF Brundel England, and
@ ana healthy family, grandfather living to be
iUI years old Mr.. Read hearty still al
Son ne WITHIN one of being only per-
aI uoupie Is slight, scarcely noticeable deafness
Ia - hVed quiet and sober life he states was
tiiea5lieo over forty-one years and had a happy
ana comfortable home Have known little of ex-
1 cltement and nothing of destination
L nave never worried trying IN studv
out why Kept on living while other people died early
have not been total abstainer, have been tenn
perate always In food, drink, amusement and work
nave never over-drfven myself in any way what
ever but have taken pains either in diet or in anv
other way to insure long life for myself That
have lived to this is due to the natural coursa
or affairs and not to any special wisdom or practice
part. FS0
DIR. JOHN \. FLoTo aged 90.
pbyss o9n A. He 94 paccng
In 1906 he to this country while Old fIicort NO
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personally to all matters connected with the different
branches Of university work. and also apt be
liberal rather than conservative in his views and adj
ministration.
Having chosen this intellectually qualified energetic
and liberal man. whoever he may be- he should be
given far more power than those who have been
presidents in the past have been allowed. He should
be made president Of the Board of Regents as well
president Of the university thus all differences
between the two bodies would be prevented, and
moreover. political Governor would thus be pre-
vented from mingng politics with the management
Of great educational institution Occupying this
dual position the president should have full respon-
sbility and should be held responsible With the
right man at the head the university would show
the beneficial effects of this change in the form of
management.
OFF, hand giving time for reflection you ask
my opinion to what the qualifications that
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this motto should be strictly lived up to. Our uni
yersity, permit to add in this connection, should
not be made asylum for mediocre school teachers
pension bureau for financially ambitious peda-
gogues.
If the choice of president were left to and /
were obliged to select Pacific Coast selec-
ton would be Professor George Davidson as con-
slider him be f.remost scientist, philosopher
and ali-round scholar.
In making their decision it is be hoped that the
regents will that practical business ability is in
Guided among the qualifications of the successful
didate.
The selection of a president for the University
of California is matter of Importance the whole
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rreSlQent and after gradual
ing with honors from both the
|AHentown, Pennsylvania CHo-
|meopathic), and the Philadel-
Iphla Medical College (Allo-
|pathic), began the practice of
medicine, il which he has been
actively and successfully en-
gagged for over sixty years.
The doctor looks as young
as most men of Is; his figure
is erect, his manner alert and
assured; a slight deafness is
the only mark which time
seems to have laid upon him.
He dlslikes notoriety and
much prefers to pass unno-
ticed among his fellow beings
as a man of the age that he
looks, rather than be pointed
out as a marvel because of the
age that he is.
DR.. Floto has long borne the
distinction of being one of. the
Oldest practicing physicians in
tho nns1nfrxr I4rva- hi
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w. 3. PRlNGlE,
Yale.

dence here, feel special interest and special PRIDE
and secondly, because young men and women are
the ones who are to profit otherwise by the de-
cision made.
1t is my idea that in choosing man for the head
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Captain Diamond has been well-known figure in the
streets Of San Francisco for the past years At the
street carline and looked curiosity &C
uOf Of
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loyalty TO my Alma Mater, but because I consider
that Harvard stands at the head of all the educational
institutions of the United States. professor of
perience in that college who could to fully
recommended by that faculty could fail to be
occupy the presidential chair State
university The faculty of Harvard understands what
one here vacant and were on the Board of Regents
should have not the slightest hesitancy in accept
ing candidate sent by them.
All Californians may not remember I do that
among the leading promoters of the University of
Cafornia-those who active in it's estab-
lishment-were many of Harvard men, and Har-
ward men have always taken especial interest in
welfare. For years the Harvard Club this city,
of which q member has donated annual
sum for the purpose of paying the expenses of
Berkeley graduate recommended by the faculty while
pursuing postgraduate course at Harvard. I
ton this merely to Illustrate how deep and also
tical interest in the California University really
In my opinion the who is selected for the po-
siton of president should be broad minded and many
sided. and have executive ability well great
store of learning Some changes might perhaps, be
made in the administrative system of the university
which would be to the advantage of the institution
we'll as to the faculty should recommend that
ways than has been allowed those who have served
in that capacity in the past.
The president of a college should be capable of
taking intelligent, prominent and active part in
the management of the body which he presdes
else he should be allowed occupy his position
He should not be held responsible for events over
which he has limited control, but he should be
given larger rights powers and then be held ac-
countabe for results
Another thing false economy should have no place
in the consideration Of those in charge Of State
should be selected for the various professorships
who well worth the money paid them Cheap
labor is ultimately found hgh-prced wherever
1t is employed.
1t should be matter Of State pride to make our
university second to none. In order to accomplish
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experience which could
scarcely fail make his occupation Of the presden
tial chair satisfactory from all points Of view.
l should also advocate the securing Of of
not than middle age. such person is more
apt to be familiar with principles of education
apt be energetic and give greater attention
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He should have, and in the order named:
2. Executive ability.
8. A wide and scholarly learning.
he must be an unconscious ruler OF men, He must
govern not by the severity of written rule pre-
scrbed ordinance but by the gracious reverence ill.,
be founded on the hearts not the fears of his dis
cipes. 1t must be built upon the immutable founda-
finite truthfuiness. And these must be not hidden
gems but as the sun at MONDAY SO that AL me
fresh ardor by their unsullied glow His work will
swifter than these detect any kind or degree of
sham. They that have passed beyond the college
academic mold are upon them. They that yet llnger
within are still the plastic earth upon which all forms
fingers that would fashion this yielding staff must
werR with dizziness born of long worship OF the
the great questions the great suferngs Of the world
The voices that whisper from the broken columns OF
the Parthenon and the Colosseum from the crumbling
arches of Benares, from the craven stones OF the
Pharaohs and Of Rameses, from every sod knee
munon with his soul and have lifted him from
the inntesmal of the ego to the infniteness OF the
beyond.
Ny a1fe. ps ses ge fs Cloth this 81 their Dough.
10 crown len NO M. Narrower E pro o
H 1f IN his ps nd o Sa n d.
a and os Its u forehead mead Truth
In such presence all will instnctively bow
and do The young will come to him as to
the shrnes of Alma Mater shall know them more.
f Of his vaa light 1o will shire Work. Hnodden
One such scholar such master there was more
grave on the ST shores Of Long Island Sound His
mortal monument rests the spot where his task
was wrought but his influence, outleaping far the
confines Of brass, of place. of time dwells
quenchable in the hearts and minds Of all his pupils
throughout the broad land.
I am personally very much in favor of securing a
new man from the East for president OF our uni
TOM WELLS RANSOMe, 1t is a fact Wei-kno
University Of California 49, tbara - 80 ~
been differences or
less serious between the factions the faculty
known to the students the Dutch and English
To elect president from either of these cliques
would antagonze the other and lead to an increased
lack of harmony which would certainly be exceed
ngly prejudical to the best of nstitu-
ton.
am specially opposed to the election of Professor
Bernard Moses account of the extremely ungracous
attitude which he assumed at the time of Martin
Keloggs election to the presidential chair Presi-
dent Sherman OF Cornell would, think be a most
excellent choice. He made very favorable impress
sion upon all who him during his visit to Cali
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WHO SHALL BE ELECTED
PresideDt
OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY
By proDipept college graduates

By seven proDiDeDt college graduates.

tT\HE selection of a president for the University
of California is a question which is greatly in
teresting State at the present time, and is
incidentally interesting other States which
have 'favorite sons who aspire to the position
The Eastern candidates most prominently men,
toned far Professor Benjamin l. Wheeler
professor of Greek at Cornel DR.. Charles II. wal
cott United States geologist and acting manager OF
National Museum; DR.. Albert Shaw, editor OF the
Review of Reviews; DR.. Edward James OF Chicago
University; Dr. John H. Finley, president OF Knox
College Gaesburg ILL.,: Dr. William D. Hyde. presi-
dent of Bowdoin, and Professor William James OF
Harvard.
The prominent Pacific Coast candidates are Profes-
sor William Carey and Professor Bernard Moses
Some of prominent San Francisco college men
have express opinion in the premises
with the following result:
We need at the head of the University OF
California who combines learning and intellectual
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LORENZO WAUGH. oged 90.

Father Waugh" he Is affectionately called by all
who know him active worker in the Metho
dist ministry for over sxty-sx years Born Pocahon-
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ability of the very highest
order with a capacity for
understanding and man
aging the practical affairs
of college life.
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|. S. SEVERANCE,
Harvard.

dates who will undoubt-
eddy apply for SO desirable position.
one great trouble with Berkeley in the past has
BEEN in my estimation. the many changes which have
which has been the rule and the sense of inse-
initiates against the even progress of the college
and the work which he has instituted may be COM
pletely changed by his successor This is intended
of the university in the past-hey have all done their
undoubtedly under the circumstances and in the
environment in which they found themselves-but 1t
is merely statement of fact Rotation In once
is very poor plan for an educational institution
place and let him alone as long as he is fit for it.
poa a Of 70 e bes the
college and the students attending it.
1 inclined to think that the root of all the Diff
fcultes and troubles which Berkeley has experienced
in the past has been the connection which politics
treIy eliminated as affairs of the university
concerned, and political methods should not be
Fitness for the place should be the only qualification
required of regent professor or president and when
this is the rule and it is lived up to our university
will be far ahead of what it is at the present time
requires than the possession of intellectual quail
ties though those should be of the highest order
ordinates are requisite In my opinion the success
President Jordan at Stanford has been largely due
an unusual degree. and also the fact that he has
allowed such freedom in these and other respects
The lettering of the president has initiated against
the of Berkeley in the past and 1t is to be
hoped that the statement recently made that change
is to be made this regard in the future is based
on fact The president should be broad-mnded.
well as scholar of eminence; these qualities being
assured he should be given wide latitude of action
that Berkeley should be second institution Of
learning in the country 1t is place OF almost UNI
limited possibilities, which be made realities by
judcious management. Stanford has done Berkeley
almost incalculabe good by arousing spirit OF
healthy rivalry and emulation and the future promises
well.
AS far as my feelings are concerned should
very much like to Harvard man at the head
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SIDNEY WORTH, M. o.,
Dartmouth.

would suggest that In choosing a man Tor The
occupancy important position in the gift
of the regents the fortunate possessor of
a pleasing personality, who is tactful man and
a man who is capable of expressing himself readily
and well on all topics general interest well as
upon those connected with the particular interests of
the university should be selected.
1t may seem utopian to expect to find one person
who combines successfully many excellent and
necessary qualities but mind Stanford has been
able to accomplish just this President David Starr
Jordan seems ideal college president, and
since Stanford fortunate enough to find him it
seems at least impossible that Berkeley find
some worthy to enter into generous rivalry with
him.
The selection of president for our university is a
thing which should appeal to every thinking man In
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yersity.
1t is a fact well-known
to those most interested
that there have always
been differences more or
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State; first. because the
university is an institu-
ton in which all who are
Californians, either by
virtue of birth or resi-
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should be possessed by q
president Of the Univer-
sfty of California. It is
a large question to be
pronounced on short no.
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this result its faculty
must be men of scholastic
eminence in the depart
ments over which they
preside. The president of
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Continued on Page Twenty-six.
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the State, and it behooves
the regents to make a
most careful selection
among the many candi-
dates who will undoubt-