The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-05-07
UNIVERSITY.
BERKELEY LETTER.
Summer School Of California Univer.
sity Will he Held, NOtHithstand.
ing Recent Disaster.


nounced today that the summer ses-
sion of the University of California
will be held from June twenty-fifth
to August fourth. While the univer-
sity suffered very heavily by the loss
of income property in the S2n> Fran
cisco fire, the university buildings and
their contents at Berkeley suffered
very little damage. The university
work will continue as usual, as soon
as the refugees, who are housed in
the various buildings on the campus
have been cared for. The Academic
Council met last night, and in con-
sideration of the fact that the Univer-
sity Cadets will probably be employed
for some time further in guarding
property, and the women students of
the university will be busy with the
relief work, the Council voted to sus-
pend the rules, which require that
final examinations be given before
marks for the term can be filed with
the recorder. The students will be
passed in their subjects on the basis
of the terms work, which was within
one week of completion at the time
of the earthquake. In cases where
the instructor is doubtful as to the
students having satisfactorily done
the work of the course, examination
will be deferred until the opening of
college next August. Commencement
exercises will be held. The date of
the exercises and the form they will
take will be announced later.
The members of the faculty are
nearly all engaged in the relief work,
having rendered particularly valuable
aid in the organization of the execu-
tive and sanitary departments. Pro-
fessor Lawson, of the department of
Geology, is at the head OF committee
to investigate the causes of the earth
quake. Professor Cory, head of the
department of Mechanical and Elec-
trical Engineering, is working with
the Citizens Committee of San Fran
cisco, planning the reconstruction of
the new city.
Professor Derleth, Jr., of the de-
partment Of Civil Engineering, to-
gether with a number of his assist
ants, is investigating the effects of the
earthquake and fire on the different
forms of construction, and the ma
terials used for building in San Fran
cisco. Professor Hyde, Professor of
Sanitary Engineering, is at the head
of the Sanitary department of the
University Relief Committee, and in
addition is making careful study of
the sanitary situation Captain ]. T.
Nance, Commandant of the University
Cadets, took the regiment to San Fran
cisco on the day of the fire, where a
strip of territory twenty-seven blocks
long and nine blocks wide, in the res
idence district, was placed under their
protection. They remained on duty in
San Francisco until Friday evening,
when they were relieved and returned
to Berkeley at the request of the citi-
zens of Berkeley, who desired their
services in guarding property on this
side of the bay. Their work in San
Francisco called forth the friendly
praise of the regular troops and po-
lice, to whom they rendered every
possible service.
Aside from the temporary abandon
ment OF the regular university routine,
on account of members of the faculty
and the student body being engaged
in relief work, there will be little per-
manent effect on the university other
than serious financial handicap, .nw-
ing to heavy loss of income property
in San Francisco. It, may be impos-
sible for the National Educational AS
ISOLATION to meet in San Francisco
on account of lack of accommodations.
There will be, however, ample accom-
modations in Berkeley for all who de-
sire to attend the summer school.
Aside from the pleasure of attending
courses given by some of the greatest
scholars and teachers in Europe and
America, the great opportunity of
watching the reconstruction of great
city should attract an unusual number
to this years summer session. All
inquiries should be addressed to
James Sutton, Recorder of the Fac
ulties, University of California,
Berkeley, California.