The San Francisco call., 1905-05-10

shocked the professors TO receive
through the press the first intelligence
touching the amount of their respec-
tive salaries. The Regents therefore
voted that time should be given to the
secretary to enable, him to convey to
each professor in style of delicate
felicity a brief resume of the boards
action on the budget.
The budget estimate of the income
for the ensuing year is S923,916 so. 1t
Is contemplated that the sum of 1884,
069 25 must be disbursed. Income
slightly in excess of the amount esti-
mated is expected. OF the sum al
lowed salaries to professors and other
instructors and attaches will absorb
S477,262 79. 1t is figured that the rum
ming expenses will foot up S456, 6,S06 20.
The sources of income are thus
enumerated:
Two-cent state tax. s2sa. 600: State bonds.
Gulch water. s410o stocks. s2435. johnson and
First street buildings S45, 500: rents, $39. 030
fees. fees. sS4, Isa: United States Government. $40
partment, S21, 900: various State appropriations
S2s4, 600; Mrs Hearst $500: Carnegie. $4,000;
annual gifts. s920I; prizes. $1,000.
The board allows s25,Ooo for baths for
men in Harmon Gymnasium and $500
for baths for women in Hearst Hall.
SIGN PETITION.
On the recommendation of the finance
committee the Regents voted TO sign
the petition to permit the Suffer street
railroad to put UP overhead wires on
Sutter street. The university owns the
Johnson building and land on Sutter
street, and the Regents therefore sign
as property owners. Yet the property,
by reason of public ownership, Is ex-
empt from taxation.
The new law relating to the registra-
ton of nurses is to be administere un-
del the auspices of the Regents of the
State University. The nurses will not
be paraded. looked over and passed on
separately by the Regents at Mark
Hopkins Institute of Art, but their fit
ness to perform nursing duty will be
vouched for in sense by the regent
body. Each nurse registered must pay
a fee of SIS. The secretary of the Board
of Regents is to be the custodian of the
money. On behalf of the Regents, DR..
George F. Reinhardt and DR.. A. e.
Spalding are to act as examiners.
Genevieve Cook, Elizabeth Ash and
Helen Chriswell will act as examiners
for the California Nurses Association.
was surrendering too much power to
the association.
Judge Waymire thought that the
work of examining nurses was foreign
to the duties of the Board Of Regents.
Regent Budd said: "The law puts
this work on us, and we must take our
medicine"
Regent Waymire said: 'I am not sure
that the law can put this burden on us.
Such work is not contemplated by the
organic act"
Regent Yorke advised the board to
proceed with caution. He suggested
reference of the subject to the attorney
of the board.
President Wheeler reminded the Re-
gents that the law required the first
examination to take place in July, 1905.
The subject was referred to Charles
E. Shook, attorney of the board, with
instructions to report at the meeting in
Berkeley next Tuesday.
The following reappointments rec
commended by President Wheeler were
approved: DIR. George A. Reisner,
Hearst lecturer in Egyptology; DR..
Max Uhle, Hearst lecturer in Peru
Wan archaeology; Mrs. Zelia Nuttall,
field director Of the Crocker-Reid re-
search in Mexico.
The president also recommended
that the resignation be accepted of
DR.. r. H. Curtiss as Carnegie assistant
at the Lick Observatory. DR.. Curtiss
has been appointed assistant astron-
omer in the Allegheny Observatory.
Adopted. That the resignation be aS-
cepted of Charles Mills Bakewell, pro-
fessor of the history Of philosophy.
Professor Bakewell has been called
to Yale as professor of philosophy.
President Wheeler submitted the
following report touching military in
struction:
The War Department .s. ha. issued an order
~ uvhin ~ axxr
science and tactics II detailed. II shall be pro-
vided in It's regular schedule of studies that
az least three hours per week for two years:
for instruction in the military department. not
less than two-thirds OF the total time to be
devoted to practical drill including guard
mounting and other military ceremonies. and
the remainder to theoretical instruction"
Of the board be amended SO that It shall read !:
INSTRUCTION in military science and tactics
and in other military subjects shall be given
during at least three hours per week for the
first two years Of an undergraduate student 8
course and not less than two-thirds of the
total time shall be devoted to practical drill.
including guard mounting and other military
ceremonies. and the remainder to theoretical
Instruction..
WILL COMPLY.
1t was decided to comply with the
War Departments regulations. The
academic senate on May 8, 1905, vot-
ed to recommend to the regents that,
on the recommendation of the facul-
ty of any one of the colleges of gem
eral culture (letters, social sciences,
natural sciences) the regents of the
university confer the degree of juris
doctor on students who shall have
completed the two years graduate
course provided for candidates for this
degree in the department of jurispru-
dence.
The board voted to award the de-
gree as recommended. The president
also reported as follows:
1 have the pleasure OF reporting that D. o.
Mills who for the paet five years has MAIN
tanned the d. 0. Mills expedition from the
Lick Observatory to the southern hemisphere.
has offered to continue the work for Ave
years longer, providing - besides $4,000
for the improvement OF the equipment of the
observing station
The Regents gave Mr.. Mills vote OF thanks.
The William H. Crocker eclipse ex-
pedirion will observe the August
eclipse in Spain, Labrador and Egypt.