Los Angeles herald., 1908-02-08
PRES. 0ENT FAUNCE TO Z
SPEAK CHARTER DAY
WELL KNOWN ORATOR WILL ADJ
DRESS BERKELEY STUDENTS
Exercises Will Take Place March %
in the Greek Theater--Whitela law
Reid to Be One of the
Lecturers

BERKELEY, Feb. THE Charter
of the Pacific coast, will be given this
year by President William Herbert Per-
ry Faunce, the president Of Brown uni
versity. President Faunce is a man
we'll known among educators, a pro-
found thinker, and an excellent speak
er. He was born in Worcester, Mass,
in 1859, graduated from Brown univer-
sity with the class of 1880, took his de-
gree of A. M. and D. d. from Brown,
and in 1901 received the degree of doc
tor of divinity from Yale, and from
Harvard in 1904, as we'll as LII. d. in
the same year. President Faunce has
been an active contributor to religious
and educational periodicals for a great
many years. Since 1899 he has been the
president of Brown university at Provi-
dence, r. I.
The exercises are expected to take
place on the afternoon of Charter day,
March %. in the Greek theater. AS in
the past, the event will attract much
attention throughout the State as well
as at the University of California.
Among the Charter day speakers are
numbered Whitelaw Reid. Henry Van
Dyke, President Nicholas Murray But
| ler President Charles William Eliot,
President Arthur T. Hadley, President
James B. Angel and President Edwin
A. Alderman.
Students to Present Shakespeare
The student play to be given this
spring in the Greek theater has been
decided upon. The English club will
present Shakespeares winters Tale"
The cast will be entirely of student
talent, and the play will be staged with
the same care that has characterized
the past performances of the English
club Under the direction of Mr.. Gar
net Holme the rehearsals will start in
| another week. and parts will be as
signed within a few days The date OF
| the play is not yet definitely decided,
but will be probably about the first
week in April. 1t is planned to spare
no expense in the production, which is
to be thorough in every detail and in
keeping with the past performances in
the immense open air theater.
Noted Lecturer to Appear
Prof. Rudolf Leonhard of Breslau
university is to deliver two lectures at
Berkeley in the near future. AS a
scholar Prof. Leonhard is widely
| known through Europe and America,
and no doubt will attract a large hear
ing. The evenings that have been
chosen Are March 16 and II. Prof.
Leonhard has been lecturing at Column
bia university as the Roosevelt profess
sor this year, and as such will cause
wide attention.
Notes of the University Farm
In addition to the finishing of the
plans for the barn and seed house at
| the university farm, the plans for the
| shops and dormitories are well under
way. The sanitary experts have just
completed plans for the sewerage sys-
tenn of the entire farm. Under the di-
rection of the best experts to be had
the plans for the drainage of the pres
ent buildings and those to be put up
during the next few years have all been
laid, and 1t is expected that the entire
system will be put in al an early date.
| Prof. Hyde of the sanitary engineering
| department of the university has had
the matter in charge, and his plans are
now before the authorities for approval.
Another Coach for University Athletes
The executive committee has ap-
pointed to help the baseball men Coach
Dickinson, late of the University of
! Chicago. He is a graduate of Tufts
college, and was for several years con-
nected with the University of Chicago
In coaching and managing athletics.
In the few weeks he has been with the
university he has made good with those
in charge of sports, and bids fair to
put out one of the best baseball teams
of late years. Captain Jordan has a
squad of about forty men trying for the
different positions.