1892] Our Contemporaries at Berkeley 



In it I set forth certain principles with which my 

 mind had for some time been occupied, and which 

 constituted a sort of literary anticipation of what 

 I later embodied in my essay, "The Stability of 

 Truth," * elaborating the doctrines afterward known 

 as "Pragmatism." Dr. Howison, though polite as 

 always, wa,s visibly disturbed by my deviation from tism 

 his consistent idealism. 



Dr. Martin Kellogg, professor of Latin, then act- 

 ing president, later president of the institution, was 

 a gentle spirit, quite averse to assuming responsi- 

 bility of any kind. Following his death in 1899, 

 Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, professor of Greek at 

 Cornell, was selected for the presidency. Of Wheeler 

 and his successful administration I shall subsequently 

 have occasion to speak. Among other able Cali- 

 fornia scholars and friends of these and more recent 

 days, I must mention only the one whose work lay 

 nearest mine, Dr. William E. Ritter, professor of 

 Zoology, an efficient investigator to whom was later 

 entrusted the direction of the Scripps Institute of 

 Marine Zoology at La Jolla, near San Diego. 



But any reference to the University of California 

 brings up the name of one who did most to strengthen Hearst 

 and adorn the institution. Phoebe Hearst was a 

 woman of great beauty of feature, of broad interests, 

 especially in education, and possessed of a steady 

 and constant purpose. Her numerous benefactions, 

 large and small, gave her a warm place in the hearts 

 of the people. Toward my wife and myself she was 

 always most considerate; and when circumstances 

 permitted, we went as guests to her beautiful coun- 



1 Printed in The Popular Science Monthly; afterward (1912) expanded into 

 a volume bearing the same title. 



