Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-12-18
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
Interesting Description of Life in
That Great Institution.

Cal, Dec. 16.-(Special Correspondence
come to live among the students. Her
gracious presence and tactful person.
atty Will add a new element to the
university atmosphere. The reason for
her coming is the desire to be the per-
sonal friend of the college women and
to enter intimately into their thoughts
and occupations. Every day thirty or
forty of the college girls will be Mrs.
Hearsts guests at luncheon. and
every Saturday afternoon there is to
be open house in Hearst hall for sew
eral hundred women students at a time.
The men, too, are often to enjoy Mrs.
Hearst's hospitality. Henri Jean Emile
Bernard, the architect, who won the
Phebe A. Hearst international compe-
titiOn for the permanent plans for the
University of California is now, to-
gether with his wife, the guest of Mrs.
Hearst. Every day the famous French
man may be seen upon the campus.
He is visiting one department or an
other, and familiarizing himself with
the needs of each. Bernard Maybeck,
instructor in architecture in the Uni
versity of California. Is his constant
companion, and often his interpreter,
for NJ. Benard's command of English
is but hating. Nine. Bernard, who is
with her husband almost continually
shares his enthusiasm.
Mrs. Hearst's latest kind thought for
the students is an offer to build for the
college women what undoubtedly will
be the best basket ball court in the
T,if n1 tot D,~@f Il Nor
has worked out plans for an ideal court
under the open sky. among the oaks
of Coed canyon. The field will be of
tanbark. Along one side will be
bleachers for 600 spectators. At one
end will be little training house. with
two reception rooms for opposing
teams, and eight big dressing-rooms
and shower baths. About the entire
grounds will be a '--elve-foot fence, to
be shingled on TIE outside AMI COW
cred with growing vines. AS hereto
fore, only women may behold the
coed basket ball games. This years
basket ball team promises to be ex-
ceedingly good.
Next summer Hearst hall, the build
ing erected by Mrs. Hearst as place
to entertain the students during her
stay in Berkeley, will be moved to the
campus to become a temporary wo-
mans gymnasium. Meanwhile the
girls will continue to use the old gym
nasium, dividing the hours of the day
with the men.
The Harmon gymnasium itself is i'm
mediately to be enlarged. By the
expenditure of $4,000 the regents will
increase the floor space of the exercis-
ing room from 5,400 to 11,600 square
feet. The full length of the enlarged
building, east and west, will be 1Ij
feet. The exercising room, 145 feet in
length, as compared with eighty now.
will be encircled by a gallery running
track of twelve laps to the mile. There
will be room on the main floor for
gymnasium class of 29O-twice as many
as can be accommodated at present.
The enlarged gymnasium will supply
a need long grievous-that of a tenn
porary auditorium. The old building
was crowded by 900 people-the enlarg-
ed gymnasium will seat $500. There
will be a big stage and dressing -rooms
in the new gymna SUM, and in future
class plays, lectures, public meetings.
university days, can have a habitation,
and not be forced TO take shelter on
the athletic grounds where President
Wheeler was inaugurated, or in the
circus tent in which two classes re
ceived their diplomas. a temporary
auditorium comes opportuneiy now.
for it is President Wheelers desire to
have the members of the university
often gathered together.
NJ. Henri de Regnier, one of the
most celebrated of contemporary
French poets, has consented to visit
Berkeley next April to deliver five
lectures in French upon the achieve
ments Of the present-day poets OF his
race. The generosity of Prince Poni-
atowsky of San Francisco has made it
possible for these lectures to be offered
| free to the members and friends OF the
university. 1t is hoped that every year
hereafter some man of letters may be
! brought from France to lecture before
the University of California, as has
for several years been the custom of
| the Cercle Francois of Harvard Uni
versity Professor F V. Paget. head CT
the department of romance languages
of the university, hopes to see a Cali
fornia Cercle Francois organized in
Berkeley.
Examinations are in full swing. AL
ready the students are starting home
Ioi TIC AOiu"SS' 10y i4Ie'S'
22nd when the examinations end,
Berkeley, will be deserted. From jan
uary 18th to 18th students will be af-
forded an opportunity to remove mat
REGULATION deficiencies, but there will be
no January entrance examinations.
Regular work will begin January Is,
1900.
Junior day was the last flicker Of
gayety before the examinations began.
The Juniors presented a farce and a
curtain-raiser at the MacDonough
theater in Oakland last Saturday
afternoon: James Wobberts-1-S. S.
Boston" by Richard Walton Tully
Of Stockton, and THE Case of a