admitted to the institution. The course of study does not ainn to carry 

 students deeply into scientific research work. It is elementary and part 

 vocational. It provides for several lines of study and experiment that are 

 intended to give students a knowledge adaptable to the farm, the dairy, the 

 orchard, the mechanical trades and the domestic arts and sciences. This 

 institution is supported entirely by the State by appropriations made from 

 time to time by the Legislature. 



There are numerous other technical schools maintained by private 

 endowments. More or less manual training is given in the high schools, and 

 domestic science receives considerable attention in many departments of 

 the public schools. 



University Education in 

 California. 



p. B. DRESSLAR. 



A REAL university is a place where scholars and students work together 

 for the preservation and advancement of science and art, of literature 

 and religion, of power and skill, to the end that humanity may profit 

 thereby. Hence the ideals that prevail in university work are never 

 selfish, for learning is incomplete unless it includes the outlook to life. 

 And this is the reason that modern universities, especially those of 

 the West, are dealing with so many subjects which found no place in college 

 work a few years ago. The demand is, that we must know more about all 

 legitimate interests in life, so that we may be able to do more, and to do it 

 better. In the colleges of earlier times, learning was looked upon as a sort of 

 accomplishment, or at best as useful only for special classes. In modern 

 days the spirit of learning looks out upon life and asks "Where can 1 help 

 and how may I render the best service?" Many people, however, who prate 

 much about practical education limit the word practical to mere "bread 

 and butter" industries. They minimize culture and magnify power. They 

 shift the joy of life from a sense of spiritual fitness and worth to a love of 

 external accomplishment. They forget that the most practical man is he 

 who lives a life worth the living; who puts the emphasis upon conduct and 

 upon a wisdom which aids and inspires better conduct. 



California is fortunate in having within her borders many excellent 

 colleges where culture and personal worth, as well as practical efficiency in 

 the narrower sense, are accounted as essential elements in a liberal educa- 

 tion. But the State is especially proud of its two great universities, the 

 Leiand Stanford Junior University at Palo Alto and the University of Cali- 

 fornia at Berkeley. 



They each offer excellent opportunities for graduate work leading to 

 higher degrees and their courses are open alike to men and women; they 

 are both members of the Association of American' Universities and are 

 rapidly acquiring great libraries and historic treasures in anthropology, art 

 and literature. They occupy a unique position in that California is the 

 meeting place of Oriental and Occidental civilizations. 



In the numbers of students they rank high. At the University of Cali- 

 fornia there have been registered during the year in all the colleges 3,631 

 students. They hail from all parts of our country as well as from many 

 other countries; the majority, of course, being residents of California. 



At either institution the students are offered opportunity to do under- 

 graduate and graduate work, under scholarly guidance, in the following 

 departments of learning: Greek, Latin, Germanic, Romanic and English 

 languages, and literatures; in history, economics and law; in philosophy, 

 political science and education; in mathematics, physics and chemistry; in 

 zoology, botany and geology; in physiology, anatomy, histology and hygiene; 

 in mining, mechanical, civil and electrical engineering. 



