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with which it has stressed definiteness of aim and 

 result as the possibility and the glory of the higher 

 education. Tuition fees are charged. Both sexes 

 are admitted but the total number of female students 

 at any time is limited to five hundred. The institu- 

 tion does not undertake agricultural instruction. 

 The enrollment of students in 1920-1921 is the 

 largest in the history of the institution." 



The possession of two great universities by a state 

 so new as California is altogether unique and the 

 provision for the pursuit of the highest learning per 

 capita of population is exceptional. Besides the 

 institutions named, several others, privately governed 

 and maintained and scattered through the State, are 

 providing instruction of college grade and making an 

 honorable contribution to the educational resources 

 of California. 



AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH 



The chief institution of agricultural education and 

 research is the College of Agriculture of the Univer- 

 sity of California with its central establishment at 

 Berkeley and its branches and auxiliaries in all the 

 leading divisions of the State. It was established 

 at the organization of the University in 1868 and 

 planned both for instruction and for research as an 

 agricultural experiment station. Instruction was 

 begun by E. S. Carr in 1870 and plantings on the 

 grounds were made from that date until 1874, but 

 chiefly for the ornamentation thereof. The conscious 



