Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
is READY FOR NEW TERM
SEVERAL LEAVE eTAF OF THE
INSTITUTION
DR.. John Marshall Flint Goes to
the Surgical Chair at Yale.
Faculty Is In
creased

regis tration is over, ana the University
of California has opened its doors for
the instruction of the new academic
year. Members of the faculty, who have
spent the summer vacation in various
parts of the state, and other members
who have been absent on leave nave
returned and are meeting and enrolling
thu. students in their classes.
Professor Moses, who is head of the
department of political science, has spent
the past year travelling in many sec
tons of South America in search Of
data for use in the preparation OF a
Forthcoming volume on our sister corti-
nent. He will offer this year special
course of lectures on the southern Span
ish colonies in their last decades. These
lectures will be open to the public as
well as to students, and will include
the discussion of the following topics:
The Spanish colonial system; the cap
ital of South America; the viceroyalty
of Rio de la Plata; an interior province
in the colonial times; the colonial city;
the social Classes; colonial university;
an official report on the Indians; the
Indian revolt under Tupac Amaru; the
captalncy- of Chile; the great
captain-genera of Chile; the taking Of
Buenos Ayres by the Ens--sh; the re-
conquests; colonial industry and COM
merce; and Spains revenues from her
colonies
DR.. Ferguson, associate professor of
ancient history, has just concluded his
work as a member of the summer ses-
sion faculty of Harvard university, to
which he was called on his way home
from a year spent largely in the libraries
and universities of Italy.
Armes Returns
The English department will welcome
the homecoming of Professor William
Dallam Armes, who has enjoyed half
year at Cambridge. Professor w. j.
Raymond, newly returned from an ex-
tensive visit among English and Ger
man educational institutions, will resume
instruction in the department of ply
sizes. He returns with a rich store Of
memories of things seen and heard, and
with a strong longing to get back to
familiar scenes and tasks.
Professor Lawson has spent. the past
year in work at Washington, d. G. under
the auspices of the Carnegie institute,
but is now again in Berkeley and is
ready to meet his university classes in
geology.
Several instructors will join the fac
ulty this year for the first time. The fol-
lowing will conduct classes in the mathe-
NAUTICAL department.: B. A. Bernstein, a
graduate student of two years standing
from Johns Hopkins university; James II.
Tener of the class of 1907, Yale univer-
sity, with nine years experience in teach
ing; Joseph Lipke, formerly assistant in
Columbia university.
Oliver NJ. Washburn, a graduate of
Hillsdale college, who has since been a
student and fellow of the University of
Chicago, resident in Rome, a student
at Bonn, Germany, and fellow of the
Archaeological institute at Athens, will
begin instruction in Latin.
William Clyde Willard, holding the de-
gree of c.. E. from Cumberland univer-
sity and that of M S. from Lehigh, fol-
lowed by a long period of practical ex-
perience in railroad work, will take up
the duties of instructor in civil engineer
ing.
Thomas Sidney Elston has resigned his
place as instructor in physics at the
University of Wisconsin to associate him
self with the same department at this
university. He received his bachelors
degree here in 1899, and several years
later took the doctors degree at Johns
Hopkins university, Baltimore.
Dr. Fritz WHITTIER, a graduate with
honors of the University of Freiberg in
Baden, and recently instructor in modern
languages at the Oberrealschule of Fret
berg will assume the duties of instructor
in German At the Lick observatory
Henry G. Plummer, M. A. has been APP
pointed fellow. He holds his degree from
Cambridge university England, and has
been, during the past five years, as
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at Oxford.
Many Changes
Several instructors leave for other posts
DR.. B. l.. Newkirk will become professor
of mathematics and mechanics in the
University of Minnesota; j. d. Layman,
assistant librarian, will assume charge of
the library of the University of Nevada;
Professor e. ]. Wilczynski will join the
department of mathematics at the Uni
versity of Illinois. A most serious loss
will be that of DR.. John Marshall Flint,
who has been called to the chair of sur
gerry in Yale university.
All the lecture rooms in the Hearst
memorial mining building are now ready
for the incoming classes, go that the
students in this department will be ac-
corded the privilege of studying and ex-
perimenting in the finest and most ad-
mlraply equipped mining structure COLI
nected with any educational institution
in the world. The contract has been
let and work Is under way on the foun-
dations for the new university library
to be erected just east of California
hall. 1t will cover large area, and will
be in every way a modern, well-equipped
and fire-proof structure for the reception
of the large and rapidly growing col
lection of books and manuscripts now in
the possession of the university. Even
tually it will become the home of the
Bancroft library.
On Wednesday evening the undergrad
uate enrolment for the academic de-
partments in the year 19O7-OS was 2O49 and
the graduate enrolment 19L