Amador ledger., 1900-05-11
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.
The University Year Will Close wednes
day, May 18th.

day, May 18th.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, May
8, 19O0.-Twenty years of study and
experiment have gone to the making
of the bulletin on The Nature, Value,
and Utilization of Alkali Lands by
Professor E. W. Hilgard which is now
ready for free distribution by the Uni
versity of California. In clear and
compact form DR.. Hilgard discusses the
origin and characteristics of alkal
soils, the injury done to plants by the
noyious salts, the effect OF irrigation,
and the reclamation of alkali lands.
A few crops of general utility are not
affected by alkali, says Professor Hill
gard, but the most important problem
is to render alkali lands available for
ordinary crops by processes financially
possible. Lands can be reclaimed by
mulching, counteracting evaporation,
diluting the salts, applying chemical
remedies, or by removing the alkali by
scraping and teaching. Alkali lands
are proper investment only for farm
ers of means who can apply capital.
Professor Hilgard says that reclaim
able and irreclaimable alkali lands may
be distinguished by their natural vege.
tation.
The University year will close on
Wednesday, May 18th. A provisional
program has been announced for CON-
mencement week. The examinations
will end on Wednesday, May 9th. The
festivities will begin on Thursday, May
10th, with Glass Day. In the morning
the graduating class will go in pilgrim
age from building to building, with
speeches at the best-loved spots, Mrs.
Phoebe A. Hearst will turn the first
shovelful of earth at the site of the
new Presidents house-the first of the
buildings of the Hearst permanent plan.
Douglas Tilden's statue, the Football
Players, trophy offered by Mayor
Phelan of San Francisco and won from
Stanford by the University of Cali
rornia will be unveiled. In the after
noon a Greek extravaganza by Miss
Alice Humphreys of San Francisco
will be presented in Ben Weed IS amphi-
theater.
President David Starr Jordon of
Stanford will address the Graduate
L Ioll n.tS al
Friday morning, May l1th, on "The
Freedom of the University" On Fri
day evening the graduating class will
be the guests of Mrs. Hearst at the
commencement ball in Hearst Hall.
On Saturday evening the graduating
class will give banquet at the Palace
Hotel, the Glass of 80 of the Law De-
partment will give a banquet in San
Francisco, and there will be reunion
of the Glass of 80 at East Hail.
The baccalaureate sermon will be
preached by Rev. Charles r. Brown of
Oakland at four o'clock on Sunday
afternoon, May 18th.
A garden party will be given by Mrs.
Hearst in honor of the graduating class
at her country place, La Hacienda del
Pezo de Verona, on Monday afternoon.
The annual meeting of the Philosophi-
cal Union will be held Monday evening,
and the annual meeting of the faculties
on Monday morning. On Monday
evening the alumni of the Medical De-
partment will hold banquet at the
Palace Hotel. The same evening the
Class of 179 will hold a reunion at the
home of DR.. George c. Pardee, 672
Eleventh street, Oakland.
Rev, Robert j. Burdette will deliver
the annual public address before the
Phi Beta Kappa society on Tuesday
afternoon. On the same day the Re-
gents will meet to confer degrees upon
some 80 graduates of the various de-
partments. The annual banquet of the
Alumni Association will be held at the
Merchants Club, 222 Sansome street,
San Francisco, at 700 p. m, and at
500 p. M, the alumni and faculty of
the College of Pharmacy will tender a
banquet to the graduates in pharmacy
at Delmonica' S in San Francisco.
Commencement will be at 1915
o'clock on Wednesday morning, May
10th, in the Harmon Gymnasium. The
speakers from the colleges at Berkeley
will be Miss Lille F. Moller OF Oakland
Willard G. Parsons of Los Angeles and
Alfred Skaife of San Francisco. The
festivities will end with farewell re-
ception to the graduating class on
Wednesday evening by President and
Mrs. Benjamin Ide Wheeler.
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