The San Francisco call., 1905-01-22
SENDS REPORT
TO GOVERNOR
President Wheeler Gives De-
scription of College Ac-
tivities That He Controls
WORK OF UNIVERSITY
Needs of Department of Ag-
riculture Given Special
Emphasis in the Document
Berkeley Office San Francisco Call.

berkeley (fff1ce San francisco Call,
214S Center Street, Jan. 21.
All the activities of a great university
are described in the biennial report pre-
pared by President Benjamin Ide
Wheeler and sent by him last night to
Governor George G. Pardee at Sacra-
mento. No department of any of the
colleges is overlooked in the resume of
all their work, prepared by President
wheeler, the report giving the reader a
birdseye view of the work accomplished
by the small army of officers, students
and instructors at the State university
on the hills of Berkeley.
President Wheeler calls attention to
significant circumstance revealed by
the registration figures, this being the
trend of male students away from the
pure cultural courses toward the en-
gineering and scientific colleges, leav-
ing the classical or culture courses to
be dominated by the women students.
Regarding this feature of the uni
versity's life the president says:
"A comparison of the distribution Of
undergraduates among the different
colleges in 1912 with that in 1903-4
shows that the three colleges of gen.
eral culture have slightly declined,
their total in the former year being
1880, in the latter 1403: and relatively
to the entire undergraduates they have
significantly declined, their proportion
CT the whole being in the former year
33.6 per cent and in the latter ST. per
cent. The six technical or special col
leges-agriculture, mining, mechanics,
civil engineering, commerce and chem
istry-have each, with the exception of
the last named, grown both abso-
lutely and relatively, and taken to-
gether have practically absorbed the
entire growth of the undergraduate
body.
This comparison of the two groups
of colleges shows, therefore, that a pro-
cess of automatic segregation is being
gradually accomplished, and it is one
which is very generally deplored in the
university faculty. 1t certainly is to be
regretted if this university is not to
train men in considerable numbers, as
well as women, for the pursuit of stud
les in literature, language, history,
philosophy; if men, in their preference
for the applied sciences, are to leave
pure science prevailingly TO the women;
ii the education which makes to
rounded culture is to be the exclusive
privilege of women.
THE present tendency to make the
general culture colleges women's COL
leges and the special colleges mems
colleges ought not to be, and / think
will ultimately prove not to be per-
manent one. But it will continue un-
til the profession of teaching in our
State, whence comes our principal un-
dergraduate constituency, shall offer
greater relative attractions to men, or
a greater number of our men come to
devote themselves to the fields of
higher scholarship in science and the
humanities, instead of being diverted,
as, with the exception of candidates
for the professions of medicine and
law, the ablest and most energetic in
cline to be now, into the practical ap-
plications of science. AS the stand
ards for medical and legal education
come to be established in this State on
a worthy basis, the college of social
Sciences will be recognized as the
chief pathway to the study of the law,
and the college of natural sciences to
the study of medicine, while the coll
lege of letters will continue to offer
the one safe. route for those who look
toward higher scholarship in litera-
ture, iinguistics, philosophy, history
and all the sciences of human life and
thought
The great growth OF the agricultural
department of the university is COM
mented upon by President Wheeler,
who says:
In comparing the progress made by
the different departments in the past
two years it appears that the depart
ment of agriculture has made the
most significant development. The
number of regular students of agri-
culture in 10000 representes gain
of rs per cent over 1901-02. For the
same period the units of registration
in agriculture increased from 1854 to
251y, /. e., 65 per cent, the greatest
gain of any department 1t must be
remembered that the number of stu
dents from other colleges taking
courses in agriculture far exceeds the
number in the college of agriculture
itself During the past year the total
number of students in agricultural
classes, including the short courses,
was 415, of whom 27S, or 81 per cent,
were from other colleges than that of
agriculture, i. e., students not taking
the full agricultural course
The need of farm in connection
with the agriculture college work is
most urgent. The notable work per-
formed in Professor Jacques Loeb's
department is made the subject of the
following paragraph:
The work of the new department
of physiology. under the brilliant lead
erShip Of Professor jacques Loeb, be-
gan with the building of the new labor
atcry at cost of $4,000, the gift of
Rudolph Spreckels. The laboratory
was dedicated August 20, 1908, with an
address by Professor Wilhelm Ostwald
of Leipzig. The part of the equipment
used for instruction and research was
provided at an expense of $4,000
through the liberality of Dr. M. Herr
stein of San Francisco. The nucleus
of a departmental library was pur-
Mrs. William H. Crocker of San Fran
CISCO"
The splendid new library building,
made possible by the bequest of Charles
F. Doe, is the subject of preliminary
plans by John Galen Howard The
president says of this matter:
plans for this building are already
far advanced. The leading librarians
of the country have been consulted,
first as to the main features and type
of the structure by Supervising Archi-
tect Howard in person visiting them in
their own libraries, and, secondly. after
the outline plan had been established
through correspondence and the sub
mission of copies of the plans. 1t is evil
dent that the building we must plan
for will cost when completed in all its
parts between 100000 and 81, 900. 900.
The funds provided will therefore be
insufficient to build the entire structure
at once"
The work of John Galen Howard. pro-
fessor OF architecture, Is described in
detail, he having supervised the draw
ing Of plans for the mining building,
California Hall. the new library build