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trainiufr of chief storekeepers for the Ord- 

 nance Department of the U. S. Army. 



The undergraduate men remaining at Berke- 

 ley are organized as a unit of the Reserve 

 Officers Training Corps. A course in naval 

 engineering will be inaugurated in January, 

 which by one year of special training will 

 qualify men for examination as ensigns in the 

 Navy. Courses in naval architecture and mili- 

 tary engineering are also to be offered. An 

 institute for home service has been conducted 

 at the request of the Red Cross, for the train- 

 ing of home-service relief workers. A military 

 information office maintained by the university 

 in the office of the alumni secretary has ad- 

 vised thousands of men as to how to find op- 

 portunity to serve the nation in its war-time 

 emergency where their special training will be 

 of most service. 



The department of agriculture has turned 

 practically its whole activity toward speeding 

 up the production of food in California, with 

 notable results. Special researches are being 

 carried on at the request of the National and 

 the State Councils of Defense by experts in 

 the fields of agriculture, astronomy, botany, 

 chemistry, economics, engineering, geology, 

 medicine, psychology, zoology, etc. 



Between April 6 and October 31, 1917, the 

 University of California expended or admin- 

 istered for specific war purposes a total of one 

 hundred and sixty-one thousand dollars. 



The University of California Medical School 

 has sent into service Hospital Unit No. 30, 

 under Major E. S. Kilgore, with twenty-three 

 members of the faculty of the medical school 

 among its officers. The medical school has 

 conducted thousands of examinations for mili- 

 tary or naval service, and many other examina- 

 tions for the California State Board of Health, 

 in connection with the selective draft. 



Dr. T. Brailsford Robertson, professor of 

 biochemistry, has isolated the new growth- 

 controlling substance, " Tethelin," and has 

 given his patents to the university for the en- 

 dowment of medical research. This new sub- 

 stance promises to be of great value in causing 

 the rapid healing of wounds or fractured bones 



which had previously refused to yield to treat- 

 ment. 



The staff of the Hooper Foundation for 

 Medical Research are obtaining valuable re- 

 sults in investigations concerning anemia, 

 shock, typhoid carriers, and other problems of 

 war-time significance. 



Tlie University of California Dental School 

 is giving free dental care to men who through 

 defects of the teeth would otherwise be dis- 

 qualified imder the selective draft, and a large 

 number of its faculty and alumni have become 

 officers in the Dental Service of the Army. 



The diversity of tasks which individual 

 members of the faculty of the University of 

 California are carrying on as war-time emer- 

 gencies may be illustrated by brief mention 

 of some of the activities in which some of the 

 members of the faculty are engaged : 



President Benjamin Ide Wheeler is chair- 

 man of the Committee on Resources and Food 

 Supply of the California State Council of 

 Defense, represented Governor Stephens at the 

 conference of the states, and has been active 

 in varied fields of war-time work. David P. 

 Barrows, professor of political science, has 

 been commissioned as a major and has gone to 

 the Philippines, where his eight years of ex- 

 perience as director of education and as chief 

 of the Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes will 

 be of special value in military intelligence 

 work. Dean Herbert C. Moffitt, of the medi- 

 cal school, is a major in the Army Medical 

 Service and at the head of a hospital at a 

 training camp, and so in charge of the health 

 of some thirty thousand men. Comptroller 

 Ralph P. Merritt is federal food commissioner 

 for California. Gilbert N. Lewis, dean of the 

 college of chemistry, has been commissioned as 

 a major in the Ordnance Corps and has been 

 sent to France for gas work. Dr. William 

 Palmer Lucas, professor of pediatrics in the 

 University of California Medical School, is 

 in France, in charge of the Children's Bureau 

 of the Red Cross for France and Serbia. Pro- 

 fessor W. B. Herms, of the department of 

 agriculture, has been making an entomological 

 survey of sanitary conditions in the neighbor- 

 hood of the cantonments of the western depart- 



