Amador ledger., 1900-03-23
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.
Applications for University Scholarships
Must Be Filed in May.


University of California, March 18th.
All applications for University
scholarships for 19OO-O1 must be filed
by May 1st. Full information can be
obtained from the Recorder of the
Faculties as to the method of applica-
tion.
Every year the Regents set aside
$500 for the support of twenty eight
scholarships. Levi Strauss of San
Francisco supports twenty eight more.
These scholarships are distributed
equally among the seven congress-
ional districts of the State. They
are awarded only to students of
character, ability, and high aims
who cannot procure university educa-
ton without aid. Mrs. Phoebe A.
Hearst supports eight scholarships for
young women, the Scholarship Associa-
zion of the San Francisco Girls High
School two, and the pupils of the Hay
wards High School one, and besides all
these there are number of loan funds
which help many student past the
rough places in his career.
Professor Alfred Emerson, the cele-
brated archeOlOgist, has arrived from
Paris. DR.. Emerson, will consult with
Mrs. Hearst regarding excavations in
Greece and Etruria for the University.
Mrs. Hearst has engaged DR.. George
A. Keisner, formerly of the Berlin
Museum and the Riaro Museum, for
five years, to conduct explorations for
the University in Egypt, and DR.. Uhle
to gather archaeological material in
South America and Yucatan, DR..
Philip Mills Jones for California and
New Mexico. Mrs Hearst will defray
the expenses of these explorations, and
their fruits will enrich the museum of,
the University of California.
The grating of grape vines is the
subject of a new bulletin by Frederick
T. Bioletti of the College of Agricul-
ture Much valuable material is rem
dered available regarding the cultiva-
ton of wine and raisin grapes and the
protection of vineyards against phyllo-
zera.
The Graduate Club has undertaken
to aid the University Library by Sc
curing donations, appealing to people
of means, and interesting the alumni
club throughout the State.
Glass Day has been set for Thursday,
May 10, the Baccalaureate Sermon for
Sunday, May 13, and Commencement
for Wednesday, May 18th. The sem
ior ball, the address before the Phi
Beta Kappa society, the annual meet
ing of the Philosophical Union, and
Mrs. Hearst's garden party to the
graduating class at her country place,
''La Hacienda del Poso de Verom, ="
will fill the other days. Some PAT de-
grees will be conferred, as compared
with 255 last year, and 233 the year be-
fore.
John Jewett Earle of Oakland has
been elected editor and Henry Pixley
of San Francisco, manager of the Blue
and Gold, the university annual, for
1901.
Professor Joseph LIE Conte has been
accredited by the Regents as the Rep
resentative of the University at the In
ternational Congress of Biologists in
Paris next fall, Professor Shringham,
at the Congress of Mathematicians,
and Professor Willard B. Rising, at
the Congress of Applied Chemistry.
Professor Rising will be member of
the international Jury of Awards.
Professor George H. Howison of the
Chair of Philosophy, who is now in
Oxford on years leave of absence, has
been elected member OF the Balliol
College.