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agricultural improvement" were fulfilled by a single 

 enactment, and the highest learning of the old school 

 and the highest technical training of the newer edu- 

 cational standards were irrevocably joined and placed 

 beyond legislative divorcement by the incorporation 

 of the entire organic act creating the university in 

 the new constitution of the State which was framed 

 in 1879. 



The University of California has become a great 

 institution, ranking first in the country in its enroll- 

 ment of students x and among the leading universi- 

 ties of the world in- its instructional resources, equip- 

 ment and achievements. It is situated in Berkeley 

 near San Francisco and it has a Southern California 

 branch in Los Angeles. It has also institutions for 

 research and instruction at several other points. The 

 following is a condensed statement of its organiza- 

 tion and policies: 



"The University of California is. an integral part 

 of the public educational system of the State. As 

 such it completes the work begun in the public 

 schools. Through aid from the State and the United 

 States, and by private gifts, it furnishes instruction 

 in literature and in science, and in the professions of 

 engineering, art, law, medicine, dentistry, and phar- 

 macy. In the Colleges of Letters and Science, Com- 



1 Raymond Walters, registrar of Lehigh University and sec- 

 retary of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars, in 

 his statistics of registration- in thirty American universities on 

 November 1, 1920, gives first place to the University of Califor- 

 nia, with registration of full-time regular students of 11,071 ; 

 a grand total of resident students of 16,379 and a final sum 

 total of all students instructed of 36,904 persons. 



