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In addition to this work in surgical dressings and hospital work, other Red Cross activities were carried on by a student committee, headed by Miss Mary Downie. During the influenza epidemic gauze masks were made of material bought by the University Red Cross Auxiliary; and the men of the School of Military Aeronautics, the Students' Army Training Corps, and the Naval Unit were supplied twice daily with freshly sterilized masks.
Student committees had complete charge of this work. Several students substituted nursing for the surgical dressing and garment work. Funds used for this work were raised through the operation of the Red Cross Book Shop, tag days, and candy sales. The function of the University in relation to vocational education has been discussed by three members of this department with members of the Department of Education. The decision of the committee was that the training of teachers for correlated subjects under the Smith-Hughes Act was the work needed to be done here rather than the training of technicians in trade lines.
Considerable time has been given by the staff to outlining, remodeling and correcting correspondence courses and laboratory courses for sewing, dressmaking and house-furnishing for the Extension Division. Twenty-five thousand copies of the pamphlet were printed and distributed by the State Printing Office in Sacramento in April, An illustrated syllabus for a course in millinery for high schools is in preparation by a graduate student. The opening of a lower division course in Household Art this year, at first as a war emergency measure, has proved of real and permanent value in interesting women students at the beginning of their college careers in specific and well-planned courses of study leading to professional work.
The Textile course has been enlarged and enriched by the addition of a laboratory period for weaving and a study of textile design, color combination and the textures resulting from the use of certain fibres and their finish. The work of the course, interrupted suddenly in October, , by the death of Miss Ethel E. Taylor, Instructor in Textiles, will be carried on in the fall semester of the coming academic year by Miss Anne Swainson.
Another new appointment for the coming year is that of Miss Lucy Conant, a Boston artist of experience and reputation, as Lecturer in Design. Chief among the needs of the department are an experimental house or apartment for the courses in House Furnishing and Household Management; a Museum of Decorative Art for graduate students engaged in artistic and historic research in connection with clothing and housing problems, and the moving of the collections of textiles, furniture, prints, etc.
Hearst to the University, to a place on the University campus within reach of the student body. The outstanding feature of the work of the Division of Household Science during the year just closed has been its efforts in war service. Morgan, Assistant Professor of Household Science, at the request of the United States Food Administration and including a total of students, was made up largely of University of California women enlisted through the war food courses offered by this division.
Of the total number registered in the service 58 per cent rendered known, tabulated, and attested service to the State Food Administration. Their work may be summarized best under the various types of effort involved, thus: War conditions are to a considerable degree responsible for the institution of three new types of courses in the division; a course in dietetics for nurses offered each year as part of the preparation of young women for nursing training, especially with reference to public health work; the graduate year course for hospital dietitians leading to the M.
This division has provided a ten-lesson correspondence course on the feeding of children for the University Extension Division at the request of the Children's Year Committee of California. Morgan's fourteen-lesson correspondence course in Normal Nutrition for Agriculture Extension use has been thoroughly revised and brought up to date in the past year. Two reports published during the year have given the results of research in the study of almond proteins, the bacteriology of home canning processes, the precursors of creatine in the animal body and the extraction of vegetables for dietetics.
Two others are ready for publication. Work planned in the development of animl feeding research has been hampered by the lack of sufficient funds and space for the building of proper animal metabolism cages.
A syllabus of a standardized course in food preparation for high schools has been compiled by this division and is now available for use by practice teachers and graduates. Practice teaching has been offered by the division at the University High School in Oakland, where members of the division staff have been assisted by Miss Margaret Mills. Four classes in cooking and dietetics were organized and taught at the University High School in the spring semester of Two instructors have been added in the last year, Miss Anna W.
Metcalf, in charge of the dietetics laboratory work and cooperation with the University Hospital. The department was badly crippled on account of the demands made by the Government for scientific men for war service. Many of the professional courses had to be suspended. However, many other new courses were given to conform to the requirements and wishes of the War Department and of the American Red Cross.
A course prescribed by the War Department in military hygiene and sanitation was given for the department by Captain Robert T. A class of graduate nurses was trained in public health nursing for the first time in the history of the department. Force, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, and Dr. The courses are planned primarily to meet the needs of the students of the Colleges of Civil Engineering and Agriculture. Four undergraduate courses and one graduate course are given primarily for Civil Engineering students; four other undergraduate courses are given primarily for Agriculture students; one undergraduate and two graduate courses are offered in common to both classes of students.
In addition, properly qualified students in the Colleges of Civil Engineering and Agriculture may elect their thesis course in the Department of Irrigation; and seminar work is offered for graduate students. The enrollment in the Irrigation courses is largely dependent on the number of junior and senior students in the Colleges of Agriculture and Civil Engineering, and was very materially decreased, especially during the first semester of the year, owing to the withdrawal of students to enter war service.
During the second semester instruction was more nearly normal and it is believed that with the development in irrigation throughout the west, which will accompany and follow the reconstruction period, the demand for instruction will be materially increased. During the past year the small enrollment in some of the irrigation courses permitted the consolidation of some of the sections in courses which are normally given in two or more sections; and in doing so aid was given the Civil Engineering Department in its instruction.
As previously stated, the students electing courses in the Irrigation Department are largely from the Colleges of Civil Engineering and Agriculture. The Irrigation course in the curriculum of the College of Civil Engineering is parallel with the Railroad course and the Sanitary course. Close cooperation between the Civil Engineering and Irrigation Departments has always existed and has resulted in the building up of a strong course in Irrigation.
During the year , the following Professors and lecturers were on leave: Demands of private and public business required the absence of Messrs. To supply vacancies in the faculty, Professor Leslie J. Philbrick has resigned to accept a professorship in the School of Law in Northwestern University. The establishment of the Students' Army Training Corps Unit and the generally unsettled state of affairs this year have reacted somewhat unfavorably upon such subjects as Latin.
But, in view of the circumstances, the enrollment in the department has been very satisfactory. The number of contestants for the Richardson Latin Translation Prize was unusually large. With the idea of strengthening the work in the schools, the department has continued the policy of sending out an annual circular to the Latin teachers of the state.
During the year various members of the department have been called upon to serve the University in additional capacities. For the coming year the teaching force is strengthened by the appointment of Professor E. On the retirement at the close of the year of George C. Edwards, Professor of Mathematics, after thirty-five years of loyal service with the department, Professor Florian Cajori, for many years Professor at Colorado College, was appointed to the staff as Professor of the History of Mathematics. He has been entrusted with the care of students who are preparing to teach mathematics in the high schools and with the courses in the history of mathematics and of physics.
During the fall the demands of the Students' Army Training Corps Unit necessitated an increase in the number of elementary courses offered at the expense of several of the advanced courses. This enlarged program called for an increased number of teaching hours from every member of the staff. The Department is indebted to Mr. Stricklen, Instructor in Music, who volunteered his services in the emergency and taught a large class with eminent success. In this period Dr. Buck, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, and Dr. The Department has been obliged for a number of years to teach elementary classes in sections much too large for the best results.
During the current year the prescription of mathematics in the College of Letters and Science has been held in abeyance. This has afforded a certain measure of relief but the number of students in Engineering, Chemistry, and Commerce is increasing with great rapidity and the department needs a considerable addition to its teaching staff if the instruction of those students is to be maintained at a high standard.
The department has, during the past year, added a number of new advanced courses of an important character particularly along engineering lines related to the rapid developments of the war period. These courses are primarily designed to meet the demands of the fundamental problems of transportation, in which the two most noteworthy developments have been the perfecting of the automobile and transportation through the air.
Both lecture and laboratory courses have been organized in Automotive Engineering and the laboratory for this work has been equipped under the direction of B. Raber, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. In the field of Aeronautics, Dr. Woods, Assistant Professor of Theoretical Mechanics, has supervised the installation of the laboratory equipment in the frame building, which, until November 15, , was used by the School of Radio Electricians.
The equipment in the Aeronautics Laboratory includes a number of internal combustion airplane engines for testing purposes, a complete airplane, and a miniature windtunnel for research in the fundamental problems of air flow. The developments in road and air transportation are, in reality, closely allied to the well-established courses in Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture. It has been found necessary to house the facilities for the work in all of these courses in the Mechanics Annex and, in addition, the work in Radio Engineering, which is closely allied to Electrical Engineering, has been done in this temporary building.
The greatest difficulty we have had in the past few years, and the situation is now more acute than ever before, is the lack of sufficient room in the present building, which has now been in use more than twenty-five years with practically no increase in the number or size of the rooms which are used for lectures, drafting, and laboratory work.
The shop, laboratory and lecture room facilities are grossly inadequate, not only on account of their small size, but as the result of inadequate equipment. The seriousness of the situation is particularly apparent when due consideration is given to the increasingly large number of students enrolled in the College of Mechanics, all of whom take their principal advanced courses in this department.
The War Department Bulletin of August 17, , which includes the University in its list of distinguished colleges, marks the fourth consecutive time the University has held a place on this list. Welch, Retired, who was the Professor of Military Science and Tactics during the year , was relieved August 31, , and Colonel William Lassiter, Retired, was detailed in his stead. During the fall semester of the current year a unit of the Students' Army Training Corps was established at the University and maintained from October until December, In addition to the Professor of Military Science and Tactics, forty-six line officers and ten medical officers were on duty with the unit of the Students' Army Training Corps.
Fourteen hundred and fifty-seven students of the University were enrolled as members of the Students' Army Training Corps Unit. On February 2, , Colonel John T. Under telegraphic authority from the Committee on Education and Special Training, an infantry unit of the senior division of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps was reestablished February 2, The courses of instruction since that date have been those prescribed under the Reserve Officers' Training Corps regulations, which were the same as the courses conducted in this department during the year All of the officers at the University on February 2, , who had been on duty with the Students' Army Training Corps Unit were relieved from time to time between that date and the middle of April.
Four officers have been detailed as Assistant Professors of Military Science and Tactics during the spring semester, and reported at the University for duty as follows: March 5, , Captain Curtis D. All these officers except Major Fiske are now present for duty. These telegraphic instructions state that he will return to the United States on or before September 1, Three non-commissioned officers of infantry reported for duty as assistants to the Professor of Military Science and Tactics in April, The personnel of the department detailed for duty by the War Department is now, therefore, five officers and four non-commissioned officers.
The changes in personnel noted in the foregoing made necessary frequent changes of instructors, but all of the prescribed courses have been given during the semester. Not all of the articles of ordnance equipment and of clothing for which requisitions were submitted in February and March, , have been received.
This has necessitated drilling without uniforms and without ordnance equipment other than rifles. Only eleven third- and fourth-year students have been enrolled in the advanced course of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps during the current semester. A number of students who had had military training in the University and who had been to officers' training camps and commissioned in the Army during the war were attached to the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and gave very valuable assistance in the instruction and discipline of the regiment during the current semester.
This is a very small number of students electing to continue in the advanced course with a view to being commissioned in the Officers' Reserve Corps. It is not only necessary that a large proportion of the students completing the prescribed work go on with the advanced course and take the courses in camp training leading to a commission in the Reserve Corps if the unit is to serve its purpose, but it is highly desirable from the standpoint of efficiency of the cadet regiment that practically all of the officers of the regiment be seniors and all of the sergeants juniors.
There should be a minimum of approximately sixty juniors and forty-five seniors for the unit to be properly supplied with officers and non-commissioned officers from the upperclassmen in the University. The total number of students enrolled in the department during the current half-year is , of whom were members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and of whom were attached to the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. One hundred and forty-five of those attached were members of the United States Naval Reserve Force and not eligible for membership in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps.
With the approval of the President, the military training of these students who are members of the United States Naval Reserve Force was deferred until August, The maximum strength of the regiment was on February 17, ; the minimum strength on May 28, The service flag of the College of Mining bears stars, four denoting the supreme sacrifice.
The national crisis disrupted routine work, and faculty, alumni, and students wholeheartedly accepted the call to service. Classes were disorganized and the constructive plan of the last three years interrupted, but in the coming year all indications point to a record enrollment of freshmen and the return of students full of confidence, earnestness of purpose and ambition. The outlook is most gratifying. The loss of our benefactress, Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, is greatly felt; her sweet womanly qualities, unfailing interest and magnanimity encouraged and sustained this department for many years.
During the academic year changes and improvements have been made in the college laboratories and modern equipment installed. A reverberatory furnace has been added to the smelter room and switch board completed to supply power to an electric furnace. The petroleum laboratory has been greatly improved by the acquisition of apparatus and facilities for experimentation.
Competent research and instruction is now possible. The division of petroleum engineering is attracting many more students than heretofore. The Lawson Adit has been driven further into the hills and is of increasing value as a laboratory in which to direct the early practical mining work of the students. All seniors were given instruction by federal officers in the use of oxygen breathing and first-aid apparatus, receiving certificates of competency for the work. The war has emphasized, as perhaps nothing else would have done, the importance of natural mineral resources and the imperative necessity, in times of emergency, of exploiting them.
Changing conditions compel scientific investigation of present practices and researches such as will reduce unit costs. The University laboratories must participate in this work and it is hoped that either state or private funds will be made available to collaborate more closely with the United States Bureau of Mines. Fellowships should be established so that advanced students may carry on the excellent work in the Bureau Experiment Station.
During the year the following investigative work has been done in the local station of the United States Bureau of Mines under the direction of Dr. In cooperation with the War Minerals Investigation, a systematic study of the deposits of chrome and manganese and methods of treatment was made; the manufacture of carbon electrodes was undertaken; the concentration of sulphur by flotation; the volatility of lead, zinc, and silver chlorides, sponge iron production and other incidental problems were worked out.
The desirability of giving engineers a broader and more liberal education has been demonstrated and it is hoped that changes in the rigidly prescribed curriculum of the College of Mining will be effected in the near future. He returned in February, In November he was appointed a member of the special committee to look into the administration of the War Minerals Act, and in January was nominated by Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, as a member of the American Mining Mission sent to France at the invitation of the French High Commission, to appraise the damage done to the mines of Western Europe during the war, and advise on matters of reconstruction.
Professor Probert returned to Berkeley early in May. In rendering a report on the Department of Music for the year , certain matters involving the relation of the University to the state should be discussed. The preparation of teachers of music for the public schools is of primary importance. At present the students of the University seeking such certification for music teaching are not afforded the opportunity for this practice teaching in a degree commensurate with the requirements of the state.
There are insufficient classes at the University High School to meet the needs of this work. Because of the influenza during the last year it has been impossible to make arrangements elsewhere. It is hoped that opportunities for university students to obtain the prescribed teaching experience will be afforded in future years. A departmental deficiency in the subject of community music was remedied in a preliminary way by giving prospective teachers a knowledge of the history of the subject, together with practical instruction concerning organization.
There should, however, be special and adequate courses in this subject. A community chorus was organized early in the fall by Arthur Farwell, Associate Professor of Music for the year This chorus could not be organized in and for the university alone, as, on principle, it must exist for the entire community. The chorus was twice stopped by the influenza, and, in the brief available intervals for its continuance during the first semester, was so dampened by the public's avoidance of meetings, that little could be accomplished. Moreover, it became plain that if it was to reach the people in the widest way, the campus was not the most advantageous place for it.
The chorus was reorganized as the Berkeley Municipal Community Chorus, with a committee of citizens, appointed by the Mayor, in charge. Influenza conditions and the processes of the new organization delayed an official start until March 18, when it was begun in the Berkeley High School Auditorium. The shortness of time remaining made impossible any extended growth of the movement or important demonstration before the end of the academic year, but the chorus continues as a civic institution.
The Department met with some hindrance to its plans for the year, due to two occurrences; the organization of the Students' Army Training Corps, whose regulations kept some members of the Corps from entering the classes in Oriental languages, and the departure of Dr. This occurrence interrupted the courses of lectures that had been announced for the year.
Professor Williams left early in December. The remainder of the lectures for the first half-year were read by Mrs. Williams, who also took over the language classes of Professor Williams for the remainder of the year. The classes under the instruction of Mr. Kuno, Instructor in Japanese, and Mr. Kiang, Assistant in Chinese, were conducted as usual. The number of students taking Japanese has considerably increased. As compared with the preceding year the increase was over 20 per cent. Considerable difficulty has been experienced in obtaining a suitable text-book for those beginning the study of the Chinese language.
The available books are not only very expensive, but ill-suited, because especially prepared for students in China who devote practically their whole time to the study of the language. Efforts are now being made in the Department to remedy this difficulty by preparing a text-book better adapted to the needs of a university student. At present these lessons are available only in blue prints, but it is hoped that means will be found in the near future for their publication in proper book form.
During the past year the classes in the department continued with numbers approximating those of previous years. The work of the graduate students was considerably diminished owing to the fact that nearly all of the men were absent on war service. During this year special effort was made to see that organization of materials in the department reached a relatively high stage of efficiency in order to permit more ready application of scientific information for practical uses.
The department has finished a complete index of all materials in the collection with cross references covering locations of types and figured specimens, and giving both geological and biological classification of the collections. This has made possible for the first time ready access to every group of fossil forms secured and labeled.
Clark, Assistant Professor of Palaeontology, and E. Furlong, Assistant in Palaeontology, and the results of these studies have been included in several technical papers which have important scientific and practical value. At the opening of the year, instruction in the courses of philosophy proper was definitely transferred from the Philosophy Building to Wheeler Hall. This was made necessary by the increasing demands of the work in Psychology upon space in the Philosophy Building, and by the growth of the work in Philosophy, much of which had not, for several years, found accommodation in the Philosophy Building.
It is unquestionably a distinct advantage both that the courses in Philosophy and the offices of instructors should be centered in Wheeler Hall, in close touch with kindred departments, and with convenient access to the Library. The Mills Lectureships were filled during the year by Dr. Hocking, Professor of Philosophy in Harvard University, during the spring term. Two members of the department who had engaged in war service returned to the University in January, Dr.
Stratton, Professor of Psychology, and Dr. Lewis, Assistant Professor of Philosophy. The department is not unmindful of the necessity of devoting an increasing measure of its energies and of its courses to the fundamental problems of life and of society which the war has left behind. Many of the courses have been reorganized with this purpose in view, and particularly, two new year courses have been established in the Lower Division, one in the History of Ideas, and the other in the Problems of Philosophy.
It is hoped that these courses will increasingly serve to awaken in students, at an early period of their college career, a critical appreciation of the development and the present status of the outstanding problems of civilization. The policy adopted five years ago by the Department of Physical Education for Men, which has made the establishment of standards of physical efficiency the basis for procedure in physical education, is gaining recognition in all parts of the country.
Standards are being compiled for the army and a sub-committee of the National Committee on Physical Education is making investigations looking to the establishment of national standards for the primary and secondary schools as well as for the colleges. The primary schools of California are experimenting on standards of physical efficiency and the department is preparing standards for experimental use in the state high schools.
The chief facts worth noting as a result of the department's war period functioning are its experiences with an ideal scheme for the organization for the development of intramural competition and its opportunity for carrying out a plan of systematic physical education through athletic sports in the School of Military Aeronautics.
The need of increased field areas and other facilities in intercollegiate developmental, recreative, and intramural athletics has been felt keenly in the past year. The activity of the department in promoting athletics during the past year included the coaching and training of varsity teams in boxing, wrestling, fencing, gymnastics and soccer football, as well as weight teams in basket ball and the freshman teams in basket ball and baseball.
There follow tables compiled by the department showing the work of the department and the athletic endeavors of the men of the University in the last year:.
Elementary Tumbling and Apparatus Work. Men Training for Intercollegiate Activities Jan. There is an ever increasing demand for well trained teachers of physical education. The Department of Physical Education for Women, therefore, is endeavoring to offer teacher training courses to meet this demand. There was a total enrollment for credit of during the past year, and a total enrollment in athletics and classes without credit of The practice teaching of the department has been supervised by the department and conducted at the University High School. Every student receiving her teacher's certificate in Physical Education has two years of practice teaching, one year in her own university class and one year in the public schools.
Seven of our graduate students receiving teacher's certificates in June, , held responsible positions during the past year. This work they carried with their University work and all received remuneration for their additional labors. Five did substitute work in the Oakland and San Francisco public schools, one had charge of the work of the Girls' Club in San Francisco, and one in charge of the work of the Alameda School for Incorrigible Girls.
The principal new feature of the work of this department during the past year has been the training of Reconstruction Aides in response to a call from the medical authorities of the United States Army. Under the supervision of Dr. The University of California offered these courses to graduates of colleges and schools of physical education and other specially qualified persons between 23 and 40 years of age who were able to meet the physical requirements made by the Surgeon General.
Two new members were added to the department staff during the year: Miss Maude Cleveland, Assistant Professor and Director of the Women's Gymnasium, on leave for the duration of the war, has served for the past two years as casualty officer under the American Red Cross in France. Miss Edna Lee Roof, instructor, was granted a year's leave of absence because of illness. Miss Frances Whittlesey resigned because of illness and Miss Mildred Lemon resigned because of death in her family.
This department cooperated with the University Infirmary, with the office of the Dean of Women and a special health committee headed by Dr. The provision of supervised rest-periods in three specially prepared and equipped rest-rooms formed a chief feature of this work. Although no sports were offered or practiced during the period of the influenza epidemic, the two gymnasiums, the corrective room and the out-door platform, were in constant use. The Associated Women Students of the University have undertaken a campaign to raise funds to provide an adequate heater and filter for the Hearst swimming pool, which has been closed during the past two years because it has been considered dangerously cold a large portion of the college year.
Locker equipment for the gymnasium has been increased by the rehabilitation and reequipment with locks of two hundred and fifty old lockers. A new laundry system which insures the laundering of gymnasium uniforms at least twice a month has been instituted. The new floor in the main gymnasium has been started and will soon be completed. Other needs of the department yet to be met are for additional office and conference room space and a new ground-floor corrective room.
The department supervised and coached the dancing in connection with the Partheneia during the spring semester, regular classes being conducted for this purpose by Miss Florence Eisenhardt, Instructor in Physical Education. More complete organization of the required gymnasium work and the development of a system of check on the results obtained by the department have formed no inconsiderable portion of the accomplishment of the department in the last year.
In the first semester organized athletics and games were suspended because of the exigencies of the influenza epidemic. In the second semester the normal program was in force and was featured by an unusually successful field day in May. Increased activity and cooperation on the part of the Sports and Pastimes Association was noted. A marked increase has been observed in the enrollment in elective courses.
Nine students received their teachers' certificates in Physical Education at the end of the spring semester. It is intended that this number shall be doubled next year and quadrupled in the one following. Opportunity for specialized work is growing momentarily. For some time the increasing enrollment in this department, especially in lower division and graduate courses, has taxed the capacity of South Hall and of the teaching force to the utmost.
During the past year the demands made upon the department by the Students' Army Training Corps Unit and the unprecedented size of the beginning class in January brought matters to a crisis. The temporary reduction in the size of upper division and graduate classes, which enabled almost the entire resources of the department to be devoted to the freshman classes, alone made it possible to carry on the work successfully. To meet the probable situation next year, temporary relief will be sought by abandoning the freshman laboratory work for engineering students, instruction being confined to experimental lectures and recitations.
The addition of another instructor to the staff will make it possible for this work to be carried on entirely by instructors of experience, not partly by inexperienced assistants as was necessarily the case in the past, and this will offer some compensation for the loss of laboratory training. A committee composed of representatives of the department and of other related departments was appointed to consider the needs of this department, and this committee in its report called attention to the urgent need for a new Physics building, and also recommended that the staff be strengthened to the end of promoting more effective graduate and research work.
The heaviest task of the department is its part of the preliminary training of students in the Engineering and Medical schools. This is important work, and can not be neglected, but it is no less important that the needs of upper division and graduate students be satisfied. One of the results of the war has been an increased recognition of the great economic and cultural value of research in physics and other sciences. There is a growing demand for trained physicists, both for teaching and for industrial research, and this department can not do its full part in this work without increased facilities.
It is hoped, therefore, that means may soon be found for carrying out the recommendations of the committee referred to above. Jones, Instructor in Physics, and W. Roop, Instructor in Physics, have continued in the Government service throughout the year; the former as Captain in the Aviation Service, the latter as Lieutenant in the Naval Reserve.
The staff was strengthened by the addition of Dr. Birge, formerly assistant professor at Syracuse University, as Instructor in Physics. The department's staff during the past year included the following: Professor Emeritus Bernard Moses; Dr. Reed, Associate Professor of Government; Dr. Dahlquist, Teaching Fellows in Political Science. Chamberlain, who served in the war as a Captain in the Anti-Aircraft Service, was appointed at the beginning of the second half-year to assist in the course in governments and social institutions of the belligerent countries, peace terms and problems of reconstruction.
Within a few weeks after his appointment he was invited by ex-President William Howard Taft to join the Speakers' Bureau of the League to Enforce Peace and he thereupon resigned his position with the department. Dahlquist, who had been a Lieutenant of Infantry in France, was appointed in his stead.
The courses offered by the department in connection with the war program of the University were Political Science M2, in which attendance was limited to student in the Students' Army Training Corps Unit and the Naval Unit; Political Science M5, which was a continuation of M2; Political Science 1A, , and , which were adapted to problems raised by the war. The work of the first half-year was seriously interfered with by the influenza epidemic and the disturbed and changing conditions produced by the war and the Armistice.
The second half-year witnessed a return to fairly normal pre-war conditions, and the enrollment in the department was the largest in its history. The work of the department was conducted, during the first term, in conformity with the curriculum of the Students' Army Training Corps Unit. At the end of the second term a general meeting of all students enrolled in the department, in all about , was held, at which were presented examples of the different types of work done by the students--speeches, readings and a one-act play. Professor Jaen's unfailing courtesy and kindliness had endeared him to his colleagues and students.
In California he found much that reminded him of his native land, and his brief sojourn here stimulated his ambition to make known to his students and auditors the progressive movements of modern Spain. During the year the department made seven contributions to the Semicentennial Publications in the form of four single volumes and three articles representing studies in the Spanish language and literature.
In the first half-year there were but two registrations in the Semitic Department. In the spring half-year, however, the enrollment returned to normal, although the total number of students attending lecture courses was reduced because of the absence of Dr. During the year instruction was given in the Russian, Polish, Bohemian, and Serbo-Croatian languages, and lecture courses were given on Russian novelists of the nineteenth century, recent Russian literature, the political development of modern Russia, and Slavic literature.
Since there has been a steady increase in the number of students taking courses in the department. In the registration was 62 in language courses ; in the corresponding figures were 51 in language courses , and in they were 50 15 in language courses. Two master's degrees were given in Kaun, Assistant in Russian, has done excellent service to the University by his work as lecturer in the University Extension Division.
The number of students during the past year was naturally diminished on account of the war. The total enrollment was , including in the Summer Session, as compared with of the previous year. To a certain extent also the enrollment, especially in the lower division, was affected by the abolition of prescribed science. During the absence of Dr. Barrows, Instructor in Zoology, who was engaged in military service in France, Dr. Taylor acted as Instructor in Protozoology. Kofoid, Professor of Zoology, who entered military service in the early part of the preceding year, has been continuing his work in parasitology.
More recently he was transferred to a hospital for returning soldiers in New York City, where he has been carrying on investigation on protozoan diseases. The department has issued several publications during the year. Long, Assistant Professor of Embryology, has made important observations in connection with his studies of the oestrus cycle in the rat. Swezy have written papers on the parasites of termites and have in course of publication a large monograph on the dinoflagellates.
Several other important contributions have been issued by graduate students and others associated in different ways with the department. The department has cooperated with the State Council of Defense in several ways. Professor Kofoid, and later Professor Holmes, were on the Committee on Zoological Research of that body, and the department has been concerned in the production of two publications relative to the increase of the food supply.
In cooperation with the State Board of Health the campaign to eradicate hookworm from the state has been actively carried on, and studies have been made on the occurrence and life history of parasites introduced from the Orient. The department regrets the loss of three members of its staff: Taylor, who has accepted a Johnston scholarship at the Johns Hopkins University. I have the honor to submit the report of the Secretary of the California Alumni Association for the year ending June 30, The year was unique for the Alumni Association.
Marked beyond all other years by the great increase in the number of those who were permanently taken from our membership rolls by war and influenza, the year yet brought a realization of three long-dreamed-of plans. In spite of the fluctuating conditions of war, the alumni managed to organize and maintain its Bureau of Occupations, initiate the Alumni Club movement among California towns where groups of former Californians are located, and direct a part of the campaign for the Student Union, first originated over twenty years ago by this Association.
During the year, the Association has cooperated with the University. Both the Summer Sessions of and were aided by the alumni. The University Extension movement is being pushed by the Association especially in those towns where district councils are formed. The Association work for the past year divides itself readily into four classes: The annual football dinners were a real jubilee over the renewal of hostilities with Stanford and the cessation of hostilities with Germany.
Charter Day was observed at Victory dinners, in honor of the part played in the war by our Californians, in the following cities: The Commencement Luncheon was held as usual in Faculty Glade. It was marked as the last luncheon attended by President Benjamin Ide Wheeler in his official capacity; by the presentation of an address by the alumni to the retiring executive, and by the election of officers, by which the president of the Association became a member of the Board of Regents. The publication of the Fortnightly has been maintained without increase of dues or subscriptions in spite of doubled costs.
It has gained in subscribers and advertisers. In October, , the first edition of the University Honor Roll was published by the Fortnightly and a final edition in June, In May, , a special Summer Session edition of the magazine was issued. During this year of activity, unusual in its abundance and quality, with a staff running short-handed because of the influenza and war, the Alumni Office has successfully carried on the following lines of work: The addresses of 15, migratory alumni have been maintained.
Headquarters were changed from to California Hall. Several thousand football programmes were mailed as Christmas greetings to California boys with the American Expeditionary Forces. It has conducted vigorous membership campaigns. It has carried on a heavy correspondence. It has supplied the alumni with tickets for the Big Game and the many rallies held during the year. The war-work of the Alumni Association can be divided into three parts: The compiling of the Honor Roll is not yet complete, for the story of our men is a long one. The signing of the armistice brought to a successful close the Military Bureau and its twenty-five branches.
When Constitutional Amendment No. When Henry Morse Stephens died, the University in its desire to immortalize the great teacher, called upon the Alumni Association to organize a world-wide campaign. The Central Council responded with alacrity and Chaffee Hall, '10, was appointed to direct the campaign. In January, , the Central Council of the Alumni Association decided to turn the machinery of the Military Bureau into a Bureau of Occupations and immediately to assist in the placing of returning soldiers, sailors, or women war-workers. Query cards were mailed to a total of persons and a thousand business firms were notified.
Alumni volunteered their services to interview many local firms, and newspapers all over California ran our announcements. In five months of life the Bureau has received pieces of mail and has sent out ; persons have called and 53 positions have been filled. The senior women requested the Alumni Association to assist them in a vocational conference. The conference rooms were overcrowded and the committee was more than ever impressed by the fact that women are deeply interested in professions other than teaching. This committee has invited alumnae engaged in such professions to act in an advisory capacity to the younger women who desire to break away from traditional occupations.
The alumni clubs have awakened to new life. At the time of war so many members of the clubs went into the service that most of the units ceased activities. The present general plan for the clubs is to assist the University in its Extension work; to aid the Bureau of Occupations; and to keep alive the friendships formed in college.
These clubs have given invaluable help in the Stephens Memorial Campaign. The comparatively brief life of most of the clubs prevents more than a short report:. I have the honor to submit herewith my report covering the period from July 1, , to May 31, The work of the Appointment Secretary's office, like that of the Employment Bureau maintained by the Alumni Association, has been affected by war conditions.
Not only was there a steady drafting of teachers into the Service, creating an extraordinary demand for teachers and at the same time reducing the supply, but calls from the government for investigators, censors, and secret service agents who had special qualifications such as knowledge of several languages, had to be met.
This office worked in closest cooperation with the Military Intelligence Bureau and the Employment Bureau of the Alumni Association, and in addition, furnished direct to the Surgeon General's Office, to the War Camp Community Service, to the Red Cross, to the National League for Women's Service, to the Federal Board for Vocational Education, and other national organizations, teachers to serve as reconstruction aides, translators, canteen workers, stenographers, statisticians, censors, and through the Young Men's Christian Association and the Young Women's Christian Association, scores of teachers and hostesses to the military camps.
In addition to these war emergency calls, much time was consumed in securing teachers of agriculture, the mechanic arts, and home economics for vocational work under the new Federal Smith-Hughes and Smith-Lever Acts. The demand for substitutes created by the influenza epidemic could not be met with the limited number of candidates listed by this office. It was necessary to seek for teachers wherever they could be found without regard to their previous residence at the University. We registered in all some candidates in the eleven months covered by this report. During the same period we had separate calls.
Over sets of recommendations of candidates were sent out, and over 15, letters. There were visitors to the office and over one thousand long distance telephone messages and telegrams. Fortunately the office was relieved of the handicap of cramped quarters and given space for its work. Even yet conditions are far from normal. So many men and women are still in war emergency service, or in the larger service of the reconstruction period which has just begun.
The shortage of teachers has created a crisis which is receiving the attention of our national leaders. Plans are afoot for including the recommendation of teachers in the new professional section of the United States Employment Service. A national service in connection with the United States Bureau of Education is also contemplated. The question to be solved is whether the eight hundred thousand teachers in the United States shall be handled by a separate service or in connection with the recommendation of other professional workers.
This committee will cooperate with the leaders in Washington who are attempting to solve this problem. Respectfully submitted, MAY L. I have the honor to present the following report of the California School of Fine Arts San Francisco Institute of Art , for the academic year The difficult conditions under which the country suffered during the fall of were reflected in a diminished attendance during our first term. With the new year, however, there was a rapid return to a normal state in the school, the number of students enrolled being as large as at any previous time.
Working in complete harmony, the members of the faculty and Board of Directors have carefully considered every phase of the school activities in an earnest endeavor to eliminate entirely all waste of time and effort on the part of students, due to any lack of systematic conformity in the various courses, and so to coordinate the work of the entire school as to lead to a more unified result. The success of these efforts has been gratifying and distinctly evident in improved average standard of work. The night school has been steadily growing in interest, filling as it does a most important demand for a chance to study art by many who are bound to commercial pursuits.
The scope of the night school is now such that the courses offered are equal to those of the day school. There is a wide field of advancement open to young men in the line of sculpture, especially as applied to architecture. We are building up a strong course in sculpture in the night school to supply this need.
A new feature, which we believe will be of lasting benefit to the school, is a plan for an interchange of exhibitions of students' work in drawing, sculpture and design with prominent eastern art schools, arrangements for which have been made. This will tend to disseminate broad ideas and improved methods of work as well as have an influence in bringing the institutions closer together, in their common effort in the cause of art.
The usual scholarships were awarded at the close of the spring term, including three given to high school students in annual competition. The Summer Session, as usual, has a large enrollment from Pacific Coast states. Respectfully submitted, LEE F. The college experienced the usual difficulties arising out of the war.
It was necessary to revise the curriculum and schedule three times during the first quarter to comply with the plan of the War Department to standardize dental instruction in this country. This, with the epidemic of influenza, demoralized the work of the first quarter but a normal readjustment proceeded rapidly with the opening of the term in January.
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