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PACIFIC MAIL'S GIANT LINER KOREA. THE SIBERIA IS A SISTER SHIP. AND A DISPLACEMENT OF

THEY HAVE A GROSS TONNAGE OF 12,000 TONS EACH, 18.000 TONS.

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THE UNITED STATES BRANCH MINT-ONE OF THE LARGEST COINAGE PLANTS IN THE WORLD.

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State by the late Adolph Sutro, of the Sutro tunnel fame. Another affiliated college of the University of California is the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, situated on Nob Hill, San Francisco, in the palatial home built by the late Mark Hopkins, one of the original builders of the first overland railroad. To the location here of this high-class school of painting and sculpture the city owes largely its high rank for creative excellence. Each year this institute sends to Paris and to Rome and to the older art centers, scores of earnest students, whose good work has given San Francisco enviable fame in foreign ateliers.

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The University of California (at Berkeley) is by The the terms of its charter an integral part of the educational of California. system of the State. The University's endowment is capitalized at about eleven million dollars; its yearly income is about five hundred thousand dollars; it has received private benefactions to the amount of about four million dollars. The University is indebted to Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst for permanent building plans, upon a scale appropriate and comprehensive. At Berkeley there are one hundred and seventy officers of instruction distributed among thirty-one departments; twentyfive hundred students; a library of one hundred and five thousand volumes; an art gallery; museums and laboratories; also the agricultural experiment grounds and station which are invaluable adjuncts of the farming, orchard, and vineyard interests of the State. In San Francisco, there are one hundred and thirty officers of instruction, besides demonstrators and other assistants, and five hundred and seventy students. Tuition in the academic departments of the University, during regular sessions, is free to residents of California; non-residents pay a fee of $10 each half-year. Instruction in all the colleges is open to all qualified persons, without distinction. of sex.

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The founding a few years ago of Stanford Univer- Rivalry of the sity at Palo Alto, thirty miles below San Francisco, gave to the older University of California the stimulus of rivalry, notably in athletic sports, and each year the big

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football contest between the men wearing the cardinal of Stanford and the blue and gold colors of Berkeley wakes the city to as much excitement as do the gridiron battles of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Pennsylvania, in the Eastern cities. The university at Palo Alto is a memorial to the son of the late Leland Stanford and of Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford. The bulk of the colossal Stanford. fortune, made chiefly in overland railroad building and operating, has been given to this institution, of which Dr. David Starr Jordan is the president.

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The endowment of Stanford University is greater The Richest of than that of any other two institutions of learning in Stanford. America―amounting to over $30,000,000. It consists mainly of interest-bearing securities, and a landed endowment of over 100,000 acres. The Vina estate in Tehama county and the Gridley estate in Butte county are the largest tracts. In the erection of the university buildings. it has never been necessary to touch the principal of this vast endowment. The interest has met all requirements. The location of the university is ideal. Over thirty thousand acres are included in the university estate.

Among well-known private preparatory schools are St. Matthew's Hall (Episcopal) at San Mateo; Mt. Tamalpais Military Academy at San Rafael, conducted by the Rev. Arthur Crosby, kinsman of the famous Dr. Howard Crosby, of New York; Peralta Hall and Boone's Academy of Berkeley; Trinity School of San Francisco, the Thacher Preparatory school at Nordhoff and Price's school at Alta, Placer Technical county. The technical schools include the Lick, the Cogswell, and the Wilmerding, where manual training methods are well established. The city's public schools are noted for their efficient training. Here also is located one of several State Normal schools.

With libraries the city is well supplied, and only lately has been the recipient of Andrew Carnegie's bounty for the erection of a library building. The free library contains over 126,000 volumes; that of the Mechanics' Institute 100,000; Mercantile, 75,000. Here also is the famed Sutro library of over 200,000 rare reference volumes.

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