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administration of the University, memorializing the Regents, regulating in the first instance the general and special courses of instruction, and receiving and determining all appeals from acts of discipline enforced by the Faculty of any college; and it exercises such other powers as the regents may confer upon it.

In all matters not expressly delegated to the Senate or to the several Faculties, the Regents govern, either directly or through the President or Secretary.

SITE AND CLIMATE OF BERKELEY

The principal seat of the University is at Berkeley, a city of about 60,000 inhabitants, on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay directly opposite the Golden Gate. It is thirty-five minutes' ride by train and ferry from San Francisco, and twenty-five minutes' ride by electric car from the business center of Oakland. The site of the University comprises about five hundred and thirty acres, rising at first in gentle and then in bolder slopes from a height of about two hundred feet above the sea level to one of about thirteen hundred feet. It has a superb outlook over the bay and city of San Francisco, the neighboring plains and mountains, the ocean, and the Golden Gate.

Berkeley is a healthful locality; the slope of the town site makes perfect drainage possible.

The climate of Berkeley is one of great uniformity and is exceptionally well suited for university work throughout the year. The summers are cool, making it possible to begin the academic year earlier than in Eastern universities, and thus divide it at the Christmas holidays into two equal half-years. Commencement is held about the middle of May.

Extremes of heat and cold are unknown. The average temperatures are about 59 degrees in summer and 48 degrees in winter. Temperatures as high as 85 degrees are of infrequent occurrence and never last more than a few hours. Very low temperatures do not occur; within the last twenty-five years 24.9 degrees was the lowest temperature recorded at the University.

The marked rainy season begins in November and continues through March; although rains may occur in all months except July and August. In the winter, rain falls on three or four days in succession, after which a week or more of fine weather follows. On the average, even in winter, less than a third of the whole number of days are rainy. The annual rainfall at Berkeley is about twenty-seven inches.

The prevailing summer wind is from the southwest off the Pacific Ocean. It is cool and damp, seldom attaining a velocity of over fifteen

miles an hour. During the winter months easterly winds are common, although a considerable portion of the winds are westerly throughout the year. In winter there is occasionally a strong, cool northwest wind, or a strong north or northeast wind which is dry and warm.

FUNDS

The endowments on which the Academic Colleges and the Lick Observatory have been founded and maintained are the following:

1. The Seminary Fund and Public Building Fund, granted to the State by Congress.

2. The property received from the College of California, including the site at Berkeley.

3. The fund derived from the Congressional Land Grant of July 2, 1862.

4. The Tide Land Fund, appropriated by the State.

5. Various appropriations by the State Legislature for specified purposes. 6. The State University Fund, which is a temporary substitute for a tax of three cents on each $100 of assessed valuation; the income will be $1,142,619 for the year ending June 30, 1918.

7. The Endowment Fund of the Lick Astronomical Department.

8. The United States Experiment Station (Hatch) Fund of $15,000 a year.

9. The United States Experiment Station (Adams) Fund of $15,000 a year.

10. The Morrill College Aid Fund of $50,000 a year.

11. The Smith-Lever Fund for co-operative extension work in agriculture, providing $39,434 for 1917-18.

12. The gifts of individuals.

The total endowment of the University of California at June 30, 1916, was $5,532,606.55; the income earned by this endowment for the year 1915-16, $241,242.35.

The California School of Fine Arts and the California College of Pharmacy are supported by fees from students. The Hastings College of the Law has a separate endowment.

ORGANIZATION OF INSTRUCTION

UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULA

There are established at Berkeley seven colleges, in each of which there is an undergraduate curriculum of four years, leading directly, under conditions hereinafter stated, to a bachelor's degree, as follows:

The College of Letters and Science: to the degree of Bachelor of Arts. to the degree of Bachelor of Science

The Colleges of
Applied Science

in the College of Commerce,

in the College of Agriculture-in any one of seventeen divisions; for example, entomology, forestry, soils,

in the College of Mechanics-(1) in mechanical engineering, or (2) in electrical engineering, or (3) in gas engineering, in the College of Mining-(1) in mining, or (2) in metallurgy, or (3) in economic geology, or (4) in petroleum engineering,

in the College of Civil Engineering-(1) in railroad engineering, or (2) in sanitary engineering, or (3) in irrigation engineering,

in the College of Chemistry-(1) in chemistry, or (2) in chemical engineering.

PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

Work in the undergraduate colleges at Berkeley may, under certain restrictions, be credited in the schools of Architecture, Education, Jurisprudence, and Medicine, the Hastings College of Law, and the curricula in Public Health. Students pursuing these curricula are also classified in the College of Letters and Science and are subject to all the requirements of this college until they begin the strictly technical work. The first year of professional work in the schools of Education, Jurisprudence and Medicine, or the first two years of professional work in the School of Architecture, or of one of the three curricula in Public Health may be credited toward the bachelor's degree in the College of Letters and Science.

The professional work of the schools of Architecture, Education, and Jurisprudence, of the curricula in Public Health, and the first year and a half of the Medical School is given at Berkeley. The work of the last three years of the Medical School is given in San Francisco. The work of the California College of Pharmacy, of the Hastings College of Law, and of the College of Dentistry is given in San Francisco.

There are permitted, in addition, courses at large and partial courses, not leading directly to any degree, but through each of which, by compliance with the conditions upon which it is conferred, a degree is possibly obtainable.

The University has no preparatory department.

GRADUATE COURSES

In all the colleges named above there are provided graduate courses leading to advanced degrees.

STATUS OF STUDENTS

In respect to status, students are classified as graduate and undergraduate, and undergraduates as regular students, students at large, and partial course students, the last being further classified as special students and limited students.

Graduate students are such graduates of the University of California or of other universities, colleges, or like institutions, who may be authorized to pursue advanced or special studies under the direction of a faculty. Such students may or may not be candidates for degrees.

Regular students are those undergraduates who have complied with the requirements for matriculation, and who pursue, or are entitled to pursue, the established curriculum of a college.

Students at large are undergraduates devoting to their studies the full time required of regular students, but pursuing purely elective courses. Students at large are subject to all regulations imposed on regular students, except the requirements for a degree, unless otherwise provided. Special students. See p. 70.

Limited students are partial course students to whom, for adequate reasons, less work is permitted, or assigned, than is required of regular students.

Students at large, special students, and limited students, by virtue of their status, are not candidates for any degree.

ADMISSION

Applicants for admission to regular undergraduate courses at Berkeley must be at least sixteen years of age, must give satisfactory references concerning moral character, and must, by examination or by certificates from accredited schools or by other certificates which shall be satisfactory to the faculties, give evidence of proficiency in such of the subjects

as are designated below as required for the college and status sought. Applicants must also appear before the University medical examiners and pass a satisfactory physical examination, to the end that the health of the university community may be safe-guarded.

A detailed statement of the methods of admission and a list of accredited schools will be found in later pages of this circular.

The normal time for admission to the University is August, but students are also admitted in January. However, the work of many of the curricula is so arranged that a student cannot enter the University in January and complete his college course in four years. A student who intends to enter the University in January should communicate before December 1 with the Recorder of the Faculties, stating the curriculum he intends to pursue and his preparation in detail, in order that he may be advised if entrance in January is practicable.

LIST OF PREPARATORY SUBJECTS

Units of Credit.-The amount of work represented both by preparatory or high school subjects and by the University courses is specified quantitatively. In the University a unit signifies one hour per week of recitation or lecture, with preparation therefor, during one half-year. A course of study taken in the preparatory school for one year at five periods per week is valued at 3 units. Laboratory hours not requiring preparation are estimated at a lower rate than recitations and lectures.

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