graduate of the University of California, the money to be used by the recipient in the pursuit of graduate study at Harvard University.

The Phebe Hearst Scholarships for Women. Eight* scholarships in the University of California have been established by Mrs. PHEBE A. HEARST, of San Francisco, for worthy young women, each scholarship yielding $300 per annum. The award is made by the Faculties of the University, but any school officer of this State may recommend candidates. In accordance with the express desire of the founder, the qualifications are noble character and high aims; further, the award is not to be made as a prize for honors in entrance examinations, and it is understood that without this assistance a University course would in each case be impossible.

The State of California Scholarships. In accordance with action taken March 9, 1897, the Regents of the University will set apart annually, out of the income furnished to the University by the State, the sum of $3,500, to be distributed equally among the (seven) Congressional Districts of the State, for the purpose of aiding poor and deserving students to attend the University. The scholarships so founded will be known as the State of California Scholarships, and will not exceed twenty-eight in number for any one year.

The Levi Strauss Scholarships. At the same meeting of the Regents at which provision was made for the State of California Scholarships, Mr. LEVI STRAUSS, of San Francisco, duplicated the action of the Board by providing for not to exceed twenty-eight additional scholarships, to be distributed and awarded on precisely the same terms as those prescribed for the State of California scholarships. In formally accepting the magnanimous offer of Mr. STRAUSS, the Regents emphasize the fact that "the terms of his gift constitute a significant recognition that the purposes and beneficence of the University extend to every portion of the State alike.

The San Francisco Girls' High School Scholarships, of the value of $250 and $125 a year, respectively, are under the control and management of the Scholarship Association of the Girl's High School. The Association is formed and supported solely by the pupils of the school, and awards the scholarships to meritorious graduates of the school, to enable them to pursue a course in the University of California. Applications should be addressed to the Secretary of the Scholarship Association, Girls' High School, San Francisco.

The Haywards High School Scholarship, of the value of $150 a *Mrs. Hearst has also provided four temporary scholarships, to be discontinued when the holders of these scholarships leave the University.

The

year, is maintained by the pupils of the Haywards High School. scholarship is awarded each year, by competitive examination, to a member of the graduating class. It may be held only by a regular student in one of the Colleges at Berkeley.

The Hinckley Scholarship of $300 is awarded each year by the Trustees of the WILLIAM AND ALICE HINCKLEY FUND (San Francisco) to some young man in the University of the State, or in some other school.

The Joseph Bonnheim Memorial Fund. On April 5th, 1897, Albert Bonnheim and wife, of Sacramento, California, founded the Joseph Bonnheim Memorial Fund, the proceeds of which are to be used in assisting worthy boys and girls to receive an education by means of which they may become self-supporting. The Fund is named in memory of a deceased son of the donors, and is administered by a Board of Trustees. The fund at present maintains five scholars in the University of California.

Applications for scholarships to be awarded in accordance with the provisions of this Fund should be addressed to the Trustees, care of Albert Bonnheim, Secretary, Sacramento, California.

Application for Scholarships. A circular of instructions concerning applications for scholarships may be obtained from the RECORDER OF THE FACULTIES. A copy will be mailed to any address, upon request.

INTERCOLLEGIATE DEBATE.

The students of Leland Stanford Junior University and the University of California have an intercollegiate debate, in San Francisco, in April of each year. James Moffitt, Esq., of Oakland, offers a prize of $200, to be awarded to the speakers on the winning side in the intercollegiate debate of 1899.

CURRICULA OF THE COLLEGES OF
GENERAL CULTURE.

College of Letters. The curriculum is essentially the so-called Classical Course of the leading American colleges, and leads to the degree of Bachelor of Arts.

College of Social Sciences. The Curriculum follows the more modern lines of a liberal culture, including language, literature, history and political science, and diverges from that of the College of Letters mainly in that it omits Greek and does not insist upon Latin, except in the requirement for entrance. It leads to the degree of

Bachelor of Letters.

College of Natural Sciences. The curriculum embraces the broad field of general science, together with the languages and arts necessary to the student and investigator. It leads to the degree of Bachelor of Science.

College of Commerce. This college affords an opportunity for the scientific study of Commerce in all its relations and for the higher education of business men and of the higher officers of the civil service.

In each of these colleges about one-half of the curriculum is prescribed with a view to the information, discipline, and culture requisite for the pursuit of advanced studies. The Prescribed Courses fall, with certain exceptions, within the first two years of the curriculum. At least one-quarter of the curriculum consists of an elective group of advanced courses, dealing with one subject, or not more than two cognate subjects, in the direction of the study and research which the student desires especially to pursue. The election of this special subject, or group, must be made by the student after he has completed the courses prescribed in his college, and before he has begun his fourth, or Senior year. The remainder of the curriculum consists of Free Electives chosen from any of the courses offered at Berkeley and pursued at any time during the undergraduate period, subject, however, to any sequence of studies required by the departments concerned.

This organization of the curriculum secures a division into general or fundamental courses on the one hand, and special or advanced courses on the other. With his entrance upon the Elective Group the

student is introduced to aims and methods of study which obtain not only for higher undergraduate courses, but for graduate work. This organization secures, also, the regulation of the purely elective element by the restriction of at least one-half of it to a group chosen in a special department of scholarship. It is believed that this adjustment of courses is preferable both to the system of rigid prescription and to that of unrestricted freedom in election, since it provides not only for liberal culture, but also for concentrated and systematic study in the direction of the student's preference, and for training in methods of original investigation.

In these four colleges the requirements for graduation consist of: A. Prescribed Studies.-Sixty-five* units† (seventy-one units in the College of Commerce) as distributed in the following table:

B. The Group Elective.-Thirty units of advanced studies (twentyfour units in the College of Commerce) in one subject, or not more than two cognate subjects, chosen from the groups indicated in the descriptions of the various colleges.

C. Free Electives.-Thirty* units to be chosen at any period during the undergraduate course, subject, however, to any sequence of studies required and announced by any department.

* Students who do not take Military Science have only sixty units (sixty-six units in the College of Commerce) of Prescribed Studies, but they must take thirtyfive units of Free Electives.

A unit is a credit of one hour per week for one half-year.

Namely, Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Morphology, Geology, Mineralogy, Entomology, (lecture and laboratory courses in Economic, Systematic, and Structural Entomology), and Bacteriology.

Not less than two, nor more than three of these subjects; but the French or German, if chosen, must be pursued two years.

COLLEGE OF LETTERS.

FACULTY.

The Faculty of each College consists of the President of the University and the resident Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors, and Lecturers giving instruction in the College.

UNDERGRADUATE COURSE.

The requirements for admission to this college are: (A) Oral and Written Expression, (1) English, (3) Algebra, (4) Plane Geometry, (5) Government of the United States, (6) and (7) Latin, (8) and (9) Greek, (10) Ancient History, (11) Physics.

The undergraduate course in this college corresponds to the classical course of the leading American colleges, the prescribed study of Greek and Latin forming its distinguishing feature. It is designed to furnish a liberal education, and to afford preparation for professional studies. For details regarding the studies pursued, consult the statements made under the several courses of instruction in this Register and in the Annual Announcement.

The requirements for the degree of A.B. consist of one hundred and twenty-five units,* distributed as follows:

A. Prescribed Studies. Sixty-five units, distributed as in the following scheme, and taken in the order announced by the several departments concerned, as explained in the detailed description of the Courses of Instruction.

Greek and Latin, 18 units, chosen so as to include not less than six units of each; English, 8 units; French or German, 14 units; Mathematics, 10 units; Natural Sciences, 10 units, chosen from the following list: Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Morphology, Geology, Mineralogy, Entomology (lecture and laboratory courses in Economic, Systematic, and Structural Entomology), and Bacteriology; Military Science, 5 units. Students excused from the exercises in Military Science are required to make up the deficiency in units in other departments of study. (See page 90.)

B. The Group Elective. Thirty units of advanced studies in one subject, or not more than two cognate subjects, chosen from one of the following groups:

1. Philosophy: either alone or together with one subject from Group 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6.

* A unit is a credit of one hour per week for one half-year.