The San Francisco call., 1910-11-09
REGENTS DISCUSS
TERMS OF A GIFT
Site for Biological Station at
Pacific Grove May Be Used
by University

The terms of the gift by the Pacific
Improvement company to the University
of California of a valuable point OF land
at Pacific Grove. to be used as bio
logical station for the study and dis
meeting Of the regents yesterday after
noon. A. d. Shepherd, president of the
company. was present at the invitation
of the regents and explained that the
only condition the donors wished TO in
clude in the deed of gift was one insur-
ing that a substantial structure in
keeping with the value and beauty of
the site should be erected by the uni
versity.
President Benjamin Ide Wheeler said
that the site offered was an eXtraor-
dinary one. remarkable alike for its
beauty and its historical associations.
and altogether too good to be put to
the ordinary purposes of individuals.
As to the use the university might
make of it, he said. it could not be eX-
pected that an elaborate structure
would be erected in the near future.
His idea was that biological station
for marine work might be established
under the auspices of the University Of
California. and that scholars from. other
institutions. the University of Southern
California and Stanford university for
instance, might be given facilities for
study there.
LABORATORY FOR POINT
Within the last week" said Presi-
dent Wheeler, II have entered into cor
respondence with the Rockefeller insti-
tute of New York, which has SS,500.000
available for pure laboratory purposes,
with reference to allowing them TO take
space on the point and erecting a lab
% nT-Tr , t.
as yet, but this is an illustration Of the
use to which the point might be put"
Regent Charles w. Slack was deputed
to confer with Shepherd as to the terms
of the deed Of gift.
The regents authorized the establish
ment of a testing laboratory in the de-
partment of civil engineering Cor ex-
perimental and research work in the
use of cement 1t will cost $4,000.
REPORTS "GRUBsTAKEr FUND
President Wheeler reported the ex-
istence Of a fund known as the grub
stake loan fund" Two years ago. he
explained, a stranger called on him and
delivered small sack containing s349
In gold coin, saying that he was a mes
senger from man "up in the woods
who wished to "grubstake'' some stu
dent who was working his way and
needed little money TO help him finish
was not disclosed, and the stranger
seemed glad to make his escape from
the university as rapidly as he could
President Wheeler said. The fund thus
established had been doing sood service
1t was voted by the regents to print
directory. of all the alumni of the
university, to establish a wagon road
entrance to the campus at La Iona
avenue and to build a roadway from
Arch street and Hearst avenue to the
new building known as the presidents
house.
resolution forwarded bv the
Woman's Christian Temperance union
earnestly protesting" against the sale
of tobacco on the campus was received
and placed on file" without comment
APPOINTMENTS ARE MADE
The following recommendations of
President Wheeler were adopted: That
Robert Almer Harper. professor of bot
any at the University of Wisconsin. be
appointed professor for the next half
year at a salary of $4,000: that SarI
Custer Crane. NJ D.. now assistant in
the orthopedic service of the chiIdren's
hospital in San Francisco. be appointed
assistant in orthopedics in the medical
school from July 1, 1910, without sal
ary; that Robert Lloyd. be appointed
laboratory helper in the department Of
physics from October I, 1910, with sal
airy a the rate of 5000 per annum; that
Gilbert M. Thomas. E. E., University of
Texas 1910, be appointed Mackay
scholar for 1901; that Lawrence Ba-
ker be appointed university fellow in
paleontology for 1901; that Miss
Ella Estelle Clancy. A. B., Wellesley
college. 1905. be appointed university
fellow in astronomy for 1910-11; that
George Putnam Gray. B. S, Pomona
college. 1910. be appointed Goewey
scholar for 1910-11; that Gustave Fau-
cheux, assistant professor of French
literature, be given leave for the sec
ond half of this academic year on two
thirds pay; that the designations of
Herbert A. Hopper. assistant professor
of dairy husbandry, and Roscoe Farrar
instructor in soils and farm crops. be
accepted. to take effect January l.
1911
Regent Guy c. Earl presided at the
meeting and the others present were
Mrs. Phebe Hearst, President Wheeler.
T. w. Dohrmann. Charles w Slack r.
j. Taussig and J. 3. Reinstein.