The San Francisco call., 1904-09-14

The Board Of Regents Of the Univer-
sity of California at its meeting yester-
day afternoon again failed to select a
secretary to fill the place of the de-
faulter, McKowen. A resolution intro
duced by Regent Budd making the Sc
lection Of a secretary a special order OF
business for the November meeting was
voted down, Budd and Yorke alone
supporting it.
In the absence OF Governor Pardee'
Regent Earl presided. Those present
were President Wheeler and Regents
Taussig, Rowell, Reinstein, Budd, Fos-
ter, Ellinwood, Earl, Yorke, Britton
and Dohrmann.
President Wheeler presented a num-
Der of recommendations, the most I'M
portant Of which were that there be a
reorganization of the staff in the col
lege Of dentistry and the authorization
of the erection Of temporary addition
to the college of agriculture, at cost
not to exceed $4,000.
Under the head of new business Re-
gent Budd made his motion to have the
election of a secretary made a special
order. To bring the matter before the
body Regent Reinstein seconded it.
Budd took the floor and in support of
his motion said: THE finance commit
tee is authorized to recommend a man
for this position, and although we have
been waiting almost a year no report
has been received from it. The present
manner Of acting is not fair to the act
ing secretary, the applicants or any
one else"
LOOKING FOR A MAN.
Reinstein in reply said that he did
not approve Of Budd's motion, but had
seconded it to bring out an expression
of opinion.
Britton Of the finance committee said
that so far as the committee was con-
cerned it had failed to make a recon-
mendation simply because the proper
man had not yet shown up.
We'll" retorted Budd, IF the finance
committee don't recommend man
will"
Regent Foster Of the finance commit
tee backed uD Britton. IF any Of Mr..
Budd's friends have been injured" he
said, Il am prepared to vote at this
moment. Personally, though, 1 agree
with Mr.. Britton that the right man
has not shown UP yet"
Budd was determined. however, and
arising excitedly exclaimed: I'll force
an election in November or I'll quit
That's all there is to it,
President Wheeler reported as fol-
lows:
The Girls Scholarship Association Of the Los
Angeles High School has presented to the uni
versity $50 to be applied to the support OF
three scholarships for the current university
year. The holders OF these scholarships are:
Miss Grace Tower, Miss Edith Walters and
Miss Lillian Head.
The San Jose High School has presented to
the university S125 10 be applied to the support
Of the San Jose High School scholarship for
the current university year. The holder ls
Clifford B. West
Mrs Eugenia Schepck has presented TO the
university the library Of her late husband,
who was a civil and mining engineer. The
collection consists of about two hundred vol
umes in civil mining and mechanical engineer
ing and in chemistry. physics. botany zoology,
geology. mineralogy and astronomy.
The Bulgarian Government through the very
kind intercession of NJ. Bakhmetef, Russian
Minister at Sofia and of Jerome B. Landfield
Of the department of history, has presented to
the university q set of valuable pathological
and folklore publications of the Ministry OF
Public Instruction, entitled. 'Sbornik "a No
rodns Unotvorenia Nauka I Knizchniaa."
friend OF the university. who requests
that his name be not made known, has de-
frayed the cost-S97 50-of the colored plates
for the last publication in the university series
in zoology, The Structure and Regeneration
of the Poison Glands Of Blethodon," by Calvin
Esterly.