The San Francisco call., 1898-05-19
GRADUATES
 ARE HAPPY Presented With Their
 Diplomas. U. C. COMMENCEMENT DAY PROFESSOR JAMES ON "THE MODERN UNIVERSITY.n An Alumni Lunch and Reunion Held in Harmon Gymnasium
 Features of the
 Day.

BERKELEY, May 1S.-The exercises of the twenty-ninth commencement of the University of California were held to-day in the large tent erected on the lower campus.
 The programme consisted of the follow ing:
 Overture ''Orphee aux Enfers." offenbacb :. prayer, Rev. T. c. Williams; statement by the president; Introduction and chorus, third act University and Its Relation to Practical Life . ProIessor Edmund J. James of the University Of Chicago; Tone Pictures From North and South.' Bendix; conferring of degrees by the president; delivery of military commissions. by his excelleney, James H. Budd, Governor of California; benediction, Rev. T. c. Williams
 At 10 o'clock the graduates. together with the regents and members of the fac ulty, assembled at Stiles Hall and marched in order to the places prepared for them in the tent. After a prayer of Tered by the Rev. Theodore c. Williams of Oakland President Martin Kellogg spoke of the progress made in the uni verslty during the past academic year. He enumerated the gifts and favors eX- tended to the university by its regents, alumni and friends, comprising rare books and manuscripts, funds, buildings and lands. He spoke of the enlargement of college activities, seen in the founding or the new college Of commerce, the sue cess of the department of oriental lan- guagesa and the erection of buildings for the Affiliated Colleges in San Francisco.
 
 body he especially commended, both for their good sense shown in abolshing rushes and for their success in athletics and debating.
 Professor Edmund I. James was then introduced as the speaker of the occa- sion. Professor James holds the chair of political science in the University of Chi cago, and he had chosen for his subject: The Modern University and Its Relation
 "The century which is just drawing to a close he said, will be known for and education. They are intimately as sociated with each other and cannot be divorced. Wealth and democracy go to- gether, nor would either be possible with out education. In the United States an increasing proportion of our wealth is be- ing devoted to education. We are con- this interest to last? Th. answer is to be found in a consideration of the modern university, it's aim, its function and it's relation to modern life.
 The university lis the highest educa- tional institution of the community, the home and center of science. using that term in its broadest significance. It has two ways open to itself-either, on the one hand, to become mere purveyor of the past, as in China, or, on the other, to train the student himself to become an investigator and a scientist, in the broad sense of the term. The latter has been the fundamental conception in Germany and the contribution of the German uni versailles to modern thought. It goes with out saying that the professor under the latter system must embody this spirit must himself be an original, independent investigator, if he is to have any influence upon his students.
 ''The university should recognize all branches of science IL should be, in the words of Mir. Cornell, center where any man could learn anything. The human ities. the natural sciences, both theoreti- cal and applied. and the political and so- cfal sciences, should each have place for each has it's own special function and significance. All careers which come within the domain of the sciences are proper objects for preparation and uni Versity recognition
 Here Professor James took occasion to founded recently by the Board of Regents. Such a department is needed he said 'because the control of modern society Is passing into the hands of the business classes. The modern world is ruled by