Amador ledger., 1900-03-16
AT CALIFORNIA; UNIVERSITY.
That Great Institution Is Striving to Lead
All Others


University of California, March I,
1900--Bernard Moses, Professor of
History and Political Economy in the
University of California, who has been
President Mckinley, will remain in
Washington until March oath, and
then return to California. He will sail
from San Francisco, in company with
the four other Commissioners, on April
year. The special subject of Profess
sOr Moses historical researches has
been the colonization and development
Of North and South America. He is
generally regarded as the greatest liv-
stitutions. He talks Spanish huently
and has travelled in the Orient.
President Benjamin Ide Wheeler will
report to the Promotion Committee of
the Pacific Commercial Museum early
Philadelphia Commercial Museum,
during the months journey in the
east, from which he returned Monday.
The Association of American Univer-
slties, organized last week at Chicago,
ing, as the result of movement inaug-
urated by the University OF California.
of which President Eliot of Harvard is
President, and President Harper, of
conference next March in Chicago.
and the requirements for the higher
degrees will be reported on
Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst has promised
$1,000 and Mayor Phelan of San Fran
cisco $3.50 toward the $500 which the
Greek Department of the University of
California has pledged itself to raise for
the American School at Athens. At
an enthusiastic meeting this morning,
the young men and women of the Col
lege of Letters laid plans for a series of
six lectures for the benefit of the en-
dowment fund, The speakers will be
Professor Charles Mills Gayley, Pro-
fessor Thomas Rutherford Bacon,
Charles r. Brown, d. D., Father Mac
Donald, and Professor Alfred Emerson
the celebrated archaeologist who will
arrive in Berkeley next week to consult
with Mrs. Hearst in regard to the for
nation of museums of classical art and
fornia. The students will district San
Francisco, Oakland, Alameda and
Berkeley, and make house to-house
canvass to sell tickets. By raising this
contribution, the University acquires
for its graduates the perpetual right of
admission to all the privileges of the
American School in Athens.
Resolved, that the army 'canteen'
Ia - s1
which has been proposed by the Uni
bate with Stanford.
The University Rifle Team, which
for number of years in succession has
held the American intercollegiate rifle
championship, has again challenged all
the military colleges of the country.
Professor and Mrs. Walter E. Magee
journey through the east. They visit
ed great number of universities and
colleges and gathered much informa
University gymnasium and improving
the work in physical culture.
The Botany Department of the Uni
versity, which has probably the best
herbarium west of the Mississippi, has
purCudSou d COll0CtloH vi pldHGS SdIH-
cred in Lower California and the South
west by Purpus, the German botanist.
Professor C.. G.. Plehn, Dean of the
College of Commerce, has commenced
a series of University Extension lee
lures in San Francisco on 'The Com
merce of the Pacific" During April,
DR.. Thomas Page OF the History De-
partment will lecture in San Francisco
on ''The Commercial Development of
the United States