Amador ledger., 1900-05-18
Glass Day Exercises Neces-
sarily Postponed.
CONDITION OF THE UNITED STATES TREASURY
The United States Government Has
More Than Double the Required
Gold Reserve.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.
A Number of Additional Courses for tn,
University,

University.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Nav
10, 1900.-Two of the most notable his
torical scholars in the United States
will offer courses at the University of
California next year to fill the vacancy
left by Professor Bernard Moses, new
Philippine Commissioner. Professor
Moses has been granted years leave
OF absence, during which time Profess
sor Thomas Rutherford Bacon will be
head of the History Department. II.
Morse Stephens, Professor of Modern
European History in Cornell Univer-
sity, will lecture for a, month during
the first term on England S Admins
tratiOn of Her Colonies and Dependent
cies'' and 1.-THE French Resolution. I"
Adolph G.. Miller, Professor of Finance
in the University of Chicago, will give
courses in finance, taxation, etc.
A number of additional courses have
been announced for the summer session
of the University of California. Pro-
fessor Max Margolis will give courses
in Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, and Ara
maic, planned especially for clergymen
whose vacation will give them an op-
portunity to pursue advanced studies
in the biblical tongues.
Instruction in. elementary Greek will
be offered in the summer session.
Among the departments which will be
represented will be those of philosophy,
pedagogy, history and political science,
Latin, English, mathematics, physics,
chemistry and botany. This is an a. .
tractive opportunity for teachers and
Others who cannot pursue college work
at other times.
The commencement festivities were
to have been begun on Thursday, but
a rain rendered it necessary to post
pone the Glass Day exercises until Sat-
urday. The members of the gradual
ing class will be the guests of Mrs.
Hearst at the commencement ball on
Friday, and on Saturday evening will
banquet together at the Palace Hotel
in San Francisco.
The announcement of courses for the
coming year, just issued by the Uni
versity, contains number of import
ant changes. George H. Howison,
Professor OF Philosophy; Irving String
ham, Professor of Mathematics; Albin
Putzker, Professor of German; and E.
Percival Lewis, Assistant Professor of
Physics, will return from years alb
scence in Europe. Professor Joseph
LIE Conte, Professor Alexis F. Lange,
Professor w. G, Jones, and Librarian
j. G, Rowell will all spend the coming
year in Europe. The Philosophy De-
partment will be strengthened by the
addition OF DIR. Charles M. Bakewell,
new Associate Professor of PhilOso-
ply.
The Golden Bear, the senior society
of the University of California, has
initiated the follOwing-namedm members:
Archibald j. Cloud, Alexander M.
Kidd, Frederick Dorety, Nathen H.
Morn, Lawrence l.. Greene, William
B. Greeley, Ralph T. Fisher, William
T. Drum, Owen E. Hottie, Richard w.
Tully, Albert M. Walsh, William Hun
ter, and Charles A. Pringle.
The members Of the society in the
graduating class are Robert Belcher,
Ezra Decoto, Victor Henderson, Jack
D. Hoffman, Reno Hutchinson, Willsie
M. Martin, Clinton E. Miller, J. E.
Moulthrop, Willard G. Parsons. Clar-
ence w. Peck, Paul Selby, and James
r. Whipple,
The faculty members are DIR. Joseph
LIE Conte, Professor Charles Mills
Gayley, DR.. George G. Edwards, and
Dr. Kendric G. Babcock.