The San Francisco call., 1899-10-18
REGENTS HAND
IN HAND WITH
THE PRESIDENT 7
Wheeler Sits With the
Board.
MAKES HIS OFFICIAL BOW
HIS RECoMMENDATIo FIND
IMMEDIATE FAVOR.
Many Changes in the Medical Col
Wilmerding School In
structors Named-Inaug-
ural Exercises.
MAKES HIS OFFICIAL BOW
HIS RECOMMENDATIONS FIND
IMMEDIATE FAVOR.

At their very first official opportunity
since the arrival Of President Ben
jamin Ide Wheeler to take charge
of the University Of California the
Regents hastened to do everything
possible to assure him that they
meant what they said when they told him
that he would have their fullest assist
ance and sympathy in his new office. At
the meeting of the board yesterday after
noon at the Hopkins Institute he had only
to offer a suggestion to have the board
| vote unanimously in its favor. lie mace
numerous recommendations for the reor-
ganization of the medical college. They
were joyfully adopted. He asked for a
private secretary to help Tighten the presi-
dental burdens The board empowered
him to employ one at a salary or $lOO0
year. He made several recommendations
for the appointment of instructors at the
/ Wilmerding School and they were con-
Cured in, despite the fact that the pro-
lessor of blacksmithing will get a larger
salary than the instructor in arithmetic
and trigonometry. Slight changes recon-
mended in title and salary in other de-
partments of the university were also
adopted.
In return for all this nice treatment
President Wheeler was generousness per-
sonlfied. He announced his intention OF
reviving the instructorship in ancient his
tory now untitled. In order to do this, he
said, ne would assume the role of instruc-
tor for the second half of this college
year and recommended that the board Sc
lect for the position, beginning July l,
1900, with a salary of $1,000, William Scott
Ferguson, Ph.D., now in Europe. The
recommendation was adopted
The meeting was called for the purpose
of considering the formal inauguration OF
President Wheeler. The committee to
which the arrangements had been referred
reported, recommending as speakers for
the occasion President Daniel c. Gilman
of Johns Hopkins University, President
David Starr Jordan of Stanford and Re-
gent A. S. Hallidie. The inauguration eX-
ercises will take place on the campus a.
Berkeley october 26, beginning at p. m.
The sum of 500 was voted to defray the
! expenses of the Inauguration.
President and Mrs. Gilman will arrive
here on the evening of October 23 and
after participating in the inaugural exer-
cises at Berkeley will be the guests of
Mrs. Hearst at Pleasanton. October q.
They will remain in California two weeks.
1t was moved at the meeting that recep
ton be rendered them at the Hopkins In
stitute The chair appointed Regents
DeniCke and Hellman and President
Wheeler on a committee to arrange a
suitable date.
The Regents also accepted an invitation
extended on behalf of the Alumni Asso-
citation by Dr. d'Ancona, W. A. Beatty |
George Edwards and Herbert Dam to |
take part in a banquet at the Palace Ho- |
tel to President Wheeler on the night of |
his Inauguration. banquet in honor of |
Mrs Wheeler will be given the same |
evening by the wives of the Regents ana |
the young ladies of the university.
The finance committees report recon- |
mendlng an additional appropriation of !
$500 for the enlargement of the Harmon |
Gymnasium, making the total 100000 was |
carried, Regents Hearst and Halidie he |
ing excused from voting. Regent Denicke |
explained before the vote was taken that |
the gymnasium, to be enlarged as it |
should be to accommodate commencement |
day crowds, would cost $40 900. Under the !
f,Nt.
APPROXIMATION aloD as increased it will only seat
The following recommendations of Pres
ident Wheeler were adopted:
W. L. Jepson. promoted from instructor to
promoted from instructor to assistant professor
OF paeontology and historic geology; T. W
Page and K. G. Babcock promoted from in |
structors to assistant professors in history:
A. G. Lawson, from associate to full professor
in mlneralogy and geology; p. G. Nutting
from student assistant to assistant in physics: |
Newell Perry, from assistant to instructor in
Mathematics increase of salary from $500 to
$1,000; A. E. Chandler, made graduate assistant
in civil engineering; f. N Prouty promoted
to instructor in civil engineering: II II. Hirst,
granted years leave of absence without pay
In the Wilmerding School, beginning No
vember l. 1899: J. A Landerville Instructor in
cabinet making at sl200; II. j. Lindberg in |
structor in blaeksmithing, $1,000: A. w GRAY /
instructor in arithmetic etc, $1,000: Felix
Peano. instructor in principles of art $3.50
In the medical department:
Dr. Thomas W. Huntington. associate pro-
fessor of clinical and operative surgery: Dr.
John NJ Williamson. professor of genito-
urinary surgery; DIR. Harry NJ. Sherman. pro
fessor of principles and practice of surgery:
DIR. Alonzo E. Taylor, assistant director of the
Pepper Laboratory OF the University of |
Pennsylvania. as professor of pathology DR.
Herbert c. Mofitt. lecturer on the principles
and practice of medicine; DIR. J. Henry Barbat
Instructor in surgery and surgical anatomy:
DR. Wallace L Terry, assistant in clinical sur
gerry; DR.. Robert 1. Legge. assistant in materia
nledica; DR. Edward Adelung instructor
in nervous diseases; DIR. Stephen Cleary ana |
DIR. c. d McGettigan. demonstrators of |
anatomy DR.. John c. Spencer, resignation |
from the chair of pathology and histology ac-
cepted
The following reappontments were made,
DR.. Leo Newmark, clinical lecturer on nervous
diseases; DR.. William J. Hawkins instructor
in physiology: DIR. Richard NJ. H Berndt in
structor in therapeutics; DR.. Thomas B w
Leland instructor in physiology; DR. Philip |
Mills Jones' instructor in electro therapeutics |