the Associated Students of the University of California. The cost of a membership card is about $5.00 per year. The card entitles the holder to participation in the affairs of the Associated Students; a free subscription to the Daily Californian; free admission to all athletic contests held on the campus under the jurisdiction of the Associated Students with the exception of final intercollegiate contests, and membership in the Associated Students' Store with the privilege of rebates on all purchases. The ordinary yearly expenses of a student in the academic departments, including personal expenses, need not exceed $350. Opportunities for Self-Support.-Board and lodging can often be obtained in exchange for three or four hours of household work daily. Students desiring employment should apply for information at the President's Office, Room 217, California Hall, or at the office of the Dean of Women, 205 California Hall. Other work by students is paid for at the following approximate rates: Manual labor (men), 25 cents to 30 cents per hour. Clerical work, 25 cents per hour. Typewriting and stenography, 25 cents to 35 cents per hour. Sewing (women), 25 cents per hour. Taking care of children (women), 25 cents per hour. A student qualified to do draughting, computing and other technical or expert work can occasionally find employment at rates considerably higher than the above. General manual work, such as gardening, sweeping and cleaning, woodcutting and the like, housework of all sorts, and typewriting, especially with stenography, can always be found. For other employment the opportunities are not so great, the demand for it by students being always larger than the supply. Self-supporting students are respected. With reasonable diligence a student can devote from twelve to twenty-five hours per week to outside work without seriously interfering with college work of from twelve to sixteen units (involving thirty-six to forty-eight hours per week). It should always be borne in mind, however, by students seeking employment that not every kind or every amount of outside work is entirely compatible with the student's main purpose at the University, namely, his education. The Young Men's and Young Women's Christian Associations act as bureaus of information concerning boarding places and opportunities for remunerative employment. Applications for employment in teaching or tutoring should be made at the office of the Appointment Secretary, 203 California Hall; for employment in stenographic, clerical, manual or other labor not connected with teaching, students should confer with the Chief Clerk in the President's Office, 217 California Hall. These agencies, however, can do little for students who are not actually on the ground to negotiate for themselves. It is usually so difficult for a stranger to secure remunerative employment from the start that, in general, no one should come to Berkeley expecting to become self-supporting through the university course, without having on hand at the beginning sufficient funds to cover the expenses of the first year. LOAN FUNDS Women students desiring to draw on the Prytanean Society and Napa Seminary Club Loan Funds should confer in first instance with the Dean of Women. Applications on all other funds should be addressed through the Secretary to the President, to the Committee of Award, on the loan fund forms available in the President's Office. Applications of freshmen for loans from loan funds are in general discouraged, preference being given to students in the upper classes. Loans from loan funds and appointments to scholarships, unless otherwise required by the terms of endowment or gift, shall be applicable only to undergraduates in the colleges at Berkeley. Save in very exceptional cases, a student may not borrow from a single fund, or by combination of sums from different funds, more than one hundred dollars, previous loans counting toward this total. The Prytanean Loan Fund.-The Prytanean Society has established a Loan Fund, which may be drawn upon for the purpose of aiding deserving undergraduate women students in good standing. The fund is administered by a committee composed of the Dean of Women, the president of the Prytanean Society and a third member by them selected. The Loan Fund of the Class of 1881 was accepted by the Regents from the Class on February 13, 1912, and is available for loans to fully matriculated students in the University at the discretion of the President and the Dean of the Lower Division. The Frank J. Walton Memorial Loan Fund was established by the graduates of the Class of 1883 in memory of a classmate deceased. Loans are available to "undergraduate students in the academic departments at Berkeley who are studying for degrees and who have finished half their undergraduate course." The Memorial Loan Fund of the Class of 1886 was accepted by the Regents from the trustees of the fund in April, 1902. In the distribution of loans from the fund precedence is given to students in the higher classes. No loans are made to freshmen. The Loan Fund of the Class of 1895 was established by the class and accepted by the Regents in January, 1911. The committee having authority to determine the administration of the fund awards loans for the benefit of students of the University above the freshman year. The Loan Fund of the Class of 1897 was established by the class and accepted by the Regents in April, 1913. It is available for loans to deserving undergraduates. The Loan Fund of the Class of 1898. On October 10, 1911, a member of the Class of 1898 presented $200 to the Regents as an acknowledgment of his indebtedness to the University for a scholarship enjoyed in his undergraduate course; he asked that the money be used as a loan fund (or scholarship) to be named after his class. Loans are limited to male undergraduates and in amount to $100. The Loan Fund of the Class of 1903 was established by the class in the year of its graduation. 'Application for a loan may be made by any college student having senior standing."' The Loan Fund of the Class of 1909 was established by the class in the year of its graduation and accepted by the Regents in August of that year. Loans are available "for juniors and seniors in the University only." The Loan Fund of the Class of 1911 was established by the class in the year of its graduation and accepted by the Regents in June of that year. The fund is available for loans to deserving students. The Grubstake W Loan Fund was established through gift of a stranger who in September, 1908, called upon the President of the University, describing himself as a messenger from a man "up in the woods" who wished to "grubstake" some student who was working his way and needed a little money to help him finish his college course. The gift was reported by the President to the Regents, and is used in accordance with the desire of the donor as a loan fund. Loans are given to men only and by preference to students in the engineering colleges, especially the College of Mining. The University Medal Loan Fund was created by the Regents through sale to the United States mint of three gold medals which the medalists preferred not to accept. The fund is available for loans to students. The Hammerslag Loan Fund was founded in February, 1910, in accordance with the terms of the will of Mr. A. Hammerslag. Loans are made in monthly sums or other periodical amounts to such students as would otherwise be unable or find it extremely difficult to continue their course in the University. Preference is, in accordance with the desire of the donor, given to students in scientific courses and, when possible, to students who in the opinion of the President are likely to do original work in any branch of science. The Napa Seminary Club Loan Fund has its foundation in a gift from former students of Napa Seminary and is administered in loans to undergraduate students of the junior or senior classes in the departments at Berkeley. It may eventually after additional gifts with accumulating interest be changed into a scholarship. Preference in loans is given to descendants of Napa Seminary students and to women students. The San Joaquin Women's Clubs Loan Fund was accepted by the Regents from the San Joaquin District of the California Federation of Women's Clubs and is to be used to assist women students of the University, preference being given to those in the last year of the undergraduate course. No loans may be made to freshmen and only regular students are entitled to borrow. The Mining Student Loan Fund was accepted by the Regents from Mr. F. W. Bradley, '86. Loans are to be made only to students in mining and metallurgy in the College of Mining at Berkeley who may need pecuniary assistance during their college careers and who show through their past records and current University records promise of future usefulness in the development of mining resources of the State. Precedence is given to upper classmen. Loans from this fund are limited to $200. The Snell Seminary Memorial Loan Fund was accepted by the Regents from members of the Alumnae Association of the former Snell Seminary on May 12, 1914. The fund commemorates Miss Mary E. Snell, Miss Sarah H. Snell, Mrs. Edna Snell Poulson, and Richard B. Snell, and is designed to aid deserving women undergraduates of the University, preference being given to former pupils of Snell Seminary or to the female descendants of such pupils. The Denicke Loan Funa for Members of the Faculty.-The executors and heirs of the estate of former Regent Ernst A. Denicke-Mrs. Ernst A. Denicke, Regent James K. Moffitt, Mr. Frederick A. Denicke, Mrs. A. O. Leuschner, and Mr. Ernst H. Denicke-have created an endowment of $5000, the principal and income of which are available for loans to members of the faculty. Applications should be presented in person to the President of the University. Loans exceeding $100 in amount must receive the approval of all the members of the executive board-the President, the Dean of the Faculties, and a Regent to be appointed annually by the Board. Interest attaches at the rate of 6 per cent and the term is one year, with installment payments or six months for repayment in one amount. The Frederick W. Dohrmann Fund for Members of the Faculty.—Mrs. Minna D. Pischel, Mr. A. B. C. Dohrmann, and Mr. Frederick Dohrmann, Jr., in memory of their father, Frederick W. Dohrmann, Regent of the University from 1903 to 1914, and in fulfillment of his suggestions, have created an endowment of $5000, a portion of the principal of which is available for temporary loans to members of the faculty, "to lessen solicitudes and burdens which might impair in any way their effectiveness as teachers and scholars." Application should be presented in person to the President of the University. MEDALS The University Medal, by direction of its founders, is bestowed upon the most distinguished scholar of the graduating class of each year. The Carnot Medal, given annually (beginning 1895) by the Baron de Coubertin in honor of the late President Carnot of France, is competed for by three representatives each of Leland Stanford Junior University and the University of California, debating upon some topic connected with contemporary French political affairs. The debate is held in the month of February. The award is made to the student who displays the highest merits as a speaker. PRIZES The Bonnheim Contests were inaugurated by Mr. Albert Bonnheim in 1902, his purpose being to promote a wider interest in ethical problems. There are two contests, one for the upper division and one for the lower division. In the upper division the subject assigned is some question from the general field of current conduct, private, public, or corporate. Four Essay Prizes of $15 each, two for seniors and two for juniors, and a Discussion Prize of $100 are provided. The subject for 1915-16 is "The Value of a League of Nations in the Western Hemisphere Pledged to United Action Against any Member That Attacked Any Other Member, Save by Authority of the League." Essays on this subject must be in the hands of the Recorder on or before Thursday, October 28, 1915. In the lower division the subject is "How Can the Work of the College Journalist be Made Serviceable to Real University Aims?" Essays on this subject must be in the hands of the Recorder not later than Friday, |