The San Francisco call., 1904-07-11
UNIVERSITY EVENTS

BERKELEY, July 1o.-The number of regis
trations for the summer school went up to 900
to-day This is 30 more than last year, when
the total was S59.
Otto w Peterson, member of the class of
o4. has just been appointed member of the
State staff of the geological survey. Peterson
has been assigned to river gausing and will
take observations at various points on the inn
portant rivers of the State.
Herman Miller of the class OF OF and a
graduate of the law department at Ann Arbor,
has been elected City Attorney of his native
Professor G. w. Shaw of the Agricultural
College has sent to the press bulletin con-
tanning information that will be valuable to
the olive growers of the State. Professor Shaw
deals at length with two phases of this in
dustry one of which is the centripetal method
of extracting oil from the olives and the other
the discovery of a method that will prevent
the formation of crystals in the oil after 1t
has been bottled
The Young Mems and Young Womens Chris
tion associations viii distribute this week 2500
handbooks containing data that will be of
interest to summer school students and fresh
arriving for the regular session. One of
the features is an article on advice by Pres
ident Wheeler.
The Glee and Mandolin clubs have returned
from their Eastern tour, which has occupied
them since commencement The members
visited a number of cities in the Mississippi
Valley and Rocky Mountain region and finally
filled an engagement at the St Louis fair
The clubs sang and played at the fair under
the auspices of the California Promotion Com
mittee and created such favorable impress
eral days more than the original week that
was programmed The Virginia State Com
missionera were so impressed with the college
entertainers that they endeavored to secure
their services but the arrangement could not
be made Receptions in honor of the clubs
were given by the Illinois and Idaho Commits
sioners and the Lumbermans Club. A deficit
was incurred by the clubs, but it is understood
that it will not entail heavy burden on the
Associated Students.
DR. Saul Epstein of the class of go has re-
turned from Zurich, Switzerland. where he
took his doctors degree and Chicago, where
he was instructor in mathematics at the Uni
versity of Chicago for two years. He is on
his vacation and will spend time
at the university before returning to his work
Professor w w. Skinner of the Agricultural
Experiment Station at the University of Ari-
iona has come to the California Agricultural
College to take some special work in horticul-
ture.
'.FacuIty night will be observed at the
Faculty Club Tuesday night. for which oc-
casion an elaborate programme has been ar
ranged
Marsden Manson. the San Francisco engineer
will deliver a lecture Tuesday evening at the
Students Observatory on '"The Distribution of
Rainfall on the Continent Of North America .
The public is invited.
Professor A. A. Stanley of the University of
Michigan and instructor in music at the sum
mer session will lecture in Hearst Hall on
Wednesday night ''Parsifal"
Professor Henry Morse Stephens will speak
upon 1.-The Capture of the Bastie as Mar
rated by Modern Historians in Hearst Hall on
Thursday night