In addition to these, the University of California offers graduate and 

 undergraduate courses in commerce, anthropology, linguistics, Semitic, 

 Oriental and Slavic languages and literatures; agriculture in all its branches, 

 irrigation, architecture, fine arts, medicine, dentistry and pharmacy. These 

 general subjects, it must be said, are but bare outlines, for each one resolves 

 itself into many branches. 



In addition to the opportunities offered at Berkeley and Palo Alto, the 

 University of California has organized and is maintaining a department of 

 university extension work, in which men are employed to go to the people 

 and serve them along lines in which they are seeking help. 



Nowhere in the country is there a closer contact between university 

 investigations and practical agriculture than is found in California. In short, 

 these universities, especially the University of California, are called on daily 

 to help the people solve the practical difficulties met with in all lines of 

 endeavor. They are veritable servants of the people. And yet, with all of 

 this direct help to offer, there is still the feeling that this is not all, nor even 

 the most important work a university has to perform. 



All universities which undertake to train men for special efficiency 

 must see to It that true culture and a sincere sense of honor are not only 

 held in the highest esteem, but urged upon all and upheld with a sense of 

 genuine patriotism and religious conviction. Universities have gained much 

 in their changed attitude toward daily needs in practical affairs, but along 

 with this there must go a continued and a deepened respect for the things 

 of the spirit. As efficiency increases, moral responsibility increases and 

 righteous living has a larger field of usefulness. 



The most practical problem in education and business Is one and the 

 same problem — how can v/e develop better men and make them more 

 efficient? If the love of truth and insight Into nature and the esteem of 

 justice and purity among men are the results of true culture, nowhere is 

 culture more needed than in the busy walks of life. A young man just 

 starting in business remarked, not long since, that it was necessary to tell 

 many lies each day in order to succeed, for he could not successfully com- 

 pete on any other basis. If this be true, the highest type of both honor ana 

 integrity, learning and Insight should be brought into immediate and vital 

 touch with business life. It is comparatively easy for a preacher or a 

 teacher to be honorable, but the best fortified men are needed to withstand 

 the temptations of business life and correct the evils consequent upon the 

 low standards of ethics so threateningly prevalent in commercial life. 



Judged by the quality and quantity of original contributions to knowl- 

 edge put forth, our universities are making enviable records. Despite the 

 fact that most of the professors are called on to do a great deal of routine 

 teaching and to handle large classes, each one, with few exceptions, is 

 engaged In research work and feels it his duty not only to himself but to his 

 students and the university to extend the boundaries of knowledge. Much 

 of this work is made public through the columns of the various scientific, 

 professional and literary magazines, the rest through books and the various 

 series of bulletins printed at the universities. 



For those who wish to engage In research work in botany, zoology, 

 astronomy, agriculture. Irrigation, mining, engineering, geology, paleont- 

 ology, West Coast history, Indian languages and customs, California offers 

 peculiar advantages. But what is being done In research to-day Is, we 

 trust, only an earnest of what we may rightfully and hopefully expect to- 

 morrow. 



