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eovery. No one can contract to deliver it 

 on a specified day for a specified price. No 

 employee can be hired to produce it in re- 

 turn for wages received. 



To the investigator the considerations I 

 have endeavored to present are unim- 

 portant. Science for its own sake is his 

 sufficient incentive; but it is all important 

 for the community at large to realize that 

 no real addition to knowledge is useless 

 or trivial; that progress depends on scien- 

 tific productiveness; that science, which 

 must be fostered if we are to continue to 

 prosper, is a republic whose watchwords 

 are liberty, equality, fraternity. 



World power in the near future is to be 

 a question of knowledge— not of battle- 

 ships—and what is now spent on arma- 

 ments is to be devoted to its pursuit. 



Beyond lies that future in which it will 

 no longer be a question of supremacy 

 among nations but of whether the race is 

 to maintain its foothold on the earth. For 

 that great struggle we shall need knowl- 

 edge, and ever more knowledge, and it is 

 high time that we should prepare for war 

 in these days of peace and plenty. 



Edwaed L. Nichols 

 CoENEix University, 

 December 14, 1908 



VNIVERSITY REGISTRATION STATISTICS 

 II. 

 Taking up the registration at the uni- 

 versities in order, we find that the Uni- 

 versity of California shows an increase of 

 75 in the graduate school, of 96 in the 

 undergraduate body in arts, science and 

 engineering, and of 77 in the professional 

 schools. In arts there are 79 more men 

 and 43 fewer women, a net gain of 36. 

 The enrollment in the summer session 

 exhibits an increase of 228 over 1907. The 

 95 students registered in law are enrolled 

 in the Plastings College of the Law in San 

 Francisco. Besides these there are 24 



seniors and 17 graduate students in juris- 

 prudence at Berkeley, of whom a consider- 

 able number are candidates for the degree 

 of jims doctor, these 41 students thus in 

 reality constituting a graduate school of 

 law. Of the extension students about 750 

 are enrolled in San Francisco, about 150 

 in Stockton, and about 250 in Sonora, and 

 there are other centers in process of organi- 

 zation. Mr. James Sutton, recorder of the 

 faculties, reports as follows: 



Professor Eugene W. Hilgard, who was called 

 to the University of California as professor of 

 agriculture in 1874, has retired from the active 

 work of the department, and Professor Edward J. 

 Wickson becomes professor of agriculture and 

 director of the agricultural experiment stations. 

 Professor Frank Soule, who became a member of 

 the faculty in 1869, has been appointed professor 

 of civil engineering, emeritus, and has been suc- 

 ceeded as the head of the department of civil 

 engineering by Professor Charles Derleth, Jr., 

 formerly associate professor of structural engi- 

 neering. The regents have established a pro- 

 fessorship of psychology, and have appointed 

 thereto Professor George M. Stratton, who since 

 1904 has been professor of experimental psychol- 

 ogy at Johns Hopkins. Another chair established 

 during the year was that of professor of agricul- 

 tural practise and superintendent of farm schools. 

 The first appointee is Leroy Anderson, formerly 

 of Cornell University. To the chair of Romanic 

 languages, which has been vacant for several 

 years, the regents have appointed Professor Will- 

 iam Albert Nitze, until recently professor of 

 Romance languages in Amherst College. The 

 department of Semitic languages suiTered grievous 

 loss in the death, on April 27, 1908, of its foxmder 

 and head, Dr. Jacob Voorsanger. Assistant Pro- 

 fessor William Popper is in charge of the work 

 of the department. 



Plans have been prepared for the Boalt Memorial 

 Hall of Law. Mrs. Boalt's original gift was 

 $100,000, but members of the California bar have 

 pledged an additional $50,000 to complete the 

 building. In addition, there is available a con- 

 siderable fund for a law library. Construction 

 work upon the new Doe library is well advanced. 

 Present plans contemplate the completion imme- 

 diately of the northern part of the building, which 

 will amply allow for library needs for several 

 years to come. The amount available at the 



