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Horticulture, Parasitology, Plant Pathology, and Rural Institutions), Anatomy, Anthropology, Architecture, Astronomy, Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Botany, Celtic, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Drawing and Art, Economics, Education, English, French, Geography, Geology, German, Greek, History, Home Economics, Hygiene, Irrigation, Italian, Jurisprudence, Latin, Library Science, Mathematics, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Military Science and Tactics, Mineralogy, Mining and Metallurgy, Music, Oriental Languages, Palaeontology, Pathology and Bacteriology, Philosophy and Psychology, Physical Education, Physics, Physiology, Political Science, Public Speaking, Sanskrit, Semitic Languages, Slavic Languages, Spanish, Zoology.

II. AT MOUNT HAMILTON

The Lick Astronomical Department (Lick Observatory).

III. AT SANTIAGO, CHILE

The D. O. Mills Observatory, a branch of the Lick Observatory.

IV. IN SAN FRANCISCO

California School of Fine Arts,

Hastings College of the Law,

Medical School (third, fourth, and fifth years, including the University Hospital),

The George Williams Hooper Foundation for Medical Research,

College of Dentistry,

California College of Pharmacy,

The Museum of Anthropology, Archaeology, and Art.

V. IN LOS ANGELES

Los Angeles Medical Department, graduate instruction only.

Southern Branch of the University.

VI. AT DAVIS

The University Farm School and college instruction and research in Agronomy, Animal Husbandry, Dairy Industry, Farm Mechanics, Olericulture, Poultry Husbandry, Pomology, Soils, and Veterinary Science.

VII. AT RIVERSIDE

The Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture.

VIII. AT LA JOLLA

The Scripps Institution for Biological Research.

IX. AT SWANTON

The Summer School of Surveying.

ORGANIZATION

The University of California is an integral part of the public educational system of the State. As such it completes the work begun in the public schools. Through aid from the State and the United States, and by private gifts, it furnishes facilities for instruction in literature and in science, and in the professions of art, law, medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy. In the colleges of Letters and Science, Commerce, Agriculture, Mechanics, Mining, Civil Engineering, and Chemistry these privileges are offered without charge for tuition to all residents of California who are qualified for admission. Non-residents of California are charged a tuition fee of ten dollars each half-year. In the professional colleges, except that of law, tuition fees are charged. The instruction in all the colleges is open to all qualified persons, without distinction of sex. The Constitution of the State provides for the perpetuation of the University, with all its departments.

ADMINISTRATION

The government of the University of California is entrusted to a corporation styled THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, consisting of the Governor, the Lieutenant-Governor, the Speaker of the Assembly, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the President of the State Board of Agriculture, the President of the Mechanics' Institute of San Francisco, and the President of the University, as members ex officio, and sixteen other regents appointed by the Governor and approved by the Senate. To this corporation the State has committed the administration of the University, including management of the finances, care of the property, appointment of teachers, and determination of the internal organization in all particulars not fixed by law.

The instruction and government of the students are entrusted to the FACULTIES OF THE SEVERAL COLLEGES and to the ACADEMIC SENATE.

The Faculty of each college consists of the President of the University and those professors and instructors, and only those, whose departments are represented in it by required or elective studies.

The Academic Senate consists of the members of the Faculties and the instructors of the University, the President and professors alone having the right to vote in its transactions. It holds regular meetings twice a year, and is created for the purpose of conducting the general 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 67,000 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 usually 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.

LIVING ACCOMMODATIONS

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The Cost of Board and Lodgings (1) in boarding houses in or near Berkeley is $35 to $50 a month; (2) in fraternities and clubs from $35 to $45 a month. (3) For students living in housekeeping rooms and "boarding themselves" the expenses may be reduced as low as $20 to $25 a month, but this plan of living is not generally recommended. hours of recitation are such that students may commute from their homes in Oakland and San Francisco. (5) Families or groups of mature students who wish to rent furnished houses or apartments should apply to the local real estate agents. Rents near the campus for housing eight or more persons range from $65 up, unfurnished. A two-room furnished apartment, with bath and kitchenette, janitor service, heat and house laundry rents from $50 up. (A list of real estate agents will be supplied on request.)

The University has no dormitories. Lists of boarding places approved by the University authorities are published at the opening of every session, one list for men and another for women. No freshman woman is permitted to complete her registration unless her boarding place is first approved by the Dean of Women.

Lists of approved boarding places and further advice concerning living accommodations may be obtained at the office of the Dean of Women, 205 California Hall, and at the office of the Dean of the Undergraduate Division, 207 California Hall.

EMPLOYMENT

Opportunities for Self-Support.-Men students desiring employment should apply for information at the Employment Bureau.

The Employment Bureau acts only as an agent for the purpose of bringing together employers and students desiring work. It does not undertake to make arrangements with respect to remuneration.

Women students desiring employment should apply at the office of the Dean of Women, 205 California Hall, 9 a.m.-12 m. daily. Board and lodging can often be obtained in exchange for three or four hours of household work daily. Opportunities also exist for obtaining employment, on an hourly basis, in the following fields: typewriting and stenography, clerical work, tutoring, telephone service, housework, care of children, general manual labor, etc. A student qualified to do draughting, computing and other technical work can occasionally find employment on a more remunerative basis than in these fields.

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 nor every amount of outside work is entirely compatible with the student's main purpose at the University, namely, his education. Only in rare instances can a student be entirely self

supporting.

The Young Men's Christian Association acts as a bureau of information concerning boarding places and opportunities for remunerative employment.

Applicants for employment in teaching or tutoring should apply at the office of the Appointment Secretary, 102 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 selfsupporting through the university course, without having on hand at the beginning sufficient funds to cover the expenses of the first half-year.

EXPENSES OF STUDENTS

For cost of board and lodgings, see above.

Tuition in the academic colleges at Berkeley and tuition at the Lick Observatory is free to residents of the state. Non-residents of California are charged a tuition fee of ten dollars each half-year. Tuition in the Medical School and in the College of Dentistry, both for residents and non-residents, is $150 a year. Students in Public Health, Curricula A and B, are subject to a fee of $150 for the year spent in the Medical School; students in Curriculum C are subject to the fee of $75 during the halfyear in the Medical School (second half-year of the fifth year). The following incidental expenses are to be met:

Gymnasium and Infirmary Fees.-The gymnasium fee is $2 per halfyear, and the infirmary fee is $3 per half-year; both are payable by every student, graduate or undergraduate, before his study-card is filed. These fees entitle students to gymnasium and hospital privileges, and are not remitted, in whole or in part, for those who may not desire to make use of these privileges. Gymnasium privileges comprise, besides the use of the gymnasium, tennis courts, swimming pool, baths, lockers, washrooms, etc. The infirmary fee entitles students, in case of illness to hospital care (cost of surgical operations not included) or dispensary treatment. One

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