And for all languages the same, So may, O Lord, thy fostering hand Then shall a stronghold of thy praise UNIVERSITY RECORD VICTOR H. HENDERSON Dr. Willey died on January 21. For many years a special chair has been set out at the University Meetings for the venerable founder of the University-Rev. Samuel H. Willey, LL.D., vice-president of the College of California, and its only chief executive, chaplain of the original Constitutional Convention, founder of the first religious paper on the Pacific Coast, teacher of the first American school in California, and pastor of one of the earliest of Protestant churches in California. It was profoundly suggestive to look upon this venerable figure, and to know that within his active life had come about the marvelous expansion of the University, from its small beginnings of 1860 to its present state with more students than any other university in America save only Columbia, with an annual income of two and a half million dollars, and with scientific activities of vast outlook and importance. Dr. Willey's admirable and memorable life came to its end on January 21, at Berkeley, in the ninety-third year of his life. Memorial services were arranged by Dr. Willey's friends and associates on January 23, at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley, the speakers being President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, President C. S. Nash of the Pacific Theological Seminary, Rev. John W. Buckham of the Pacific Theological Seminary, and Rev. Raymond C. Brooks of the First Congregational Church, and the faculty and students of the University and the community at large being represented in the assemblage. PRESIDENT WHEELER'S RETURN At the opening University Meeting of the year, on January 16, President Wheeler was welcomed home by the students—after his six-months' absence in Europe. He told his impressions from watching great movements of human affairs in older lands. Presi dent Wheeler was the guest of the Regents at a luncheon at the Bohemian Club. The Faculty Club and the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce gave a dinner at the Shattuck Hotel in honor of his return, and there were innumerable other expressions of welcome home for him. APPOINTMENTS AS REGENTS Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Mr. John A. Britton have been reappointed Regents of the University by Governor Johnson, for sixteen years from March 4, 1914. Mrs. Hearst first became a member of the Board on August 10, 1897, and Mr. Britton on March 16, 1903. Mrs. Hearst has long been a member of the Committee on Grounds and Buildings, and Mr. Britton chairman of that committee and a member of the Finance Committee. In reappointing both, Governor Johnson spoke in high terms of the wise and unselfish service they have long rendered to the University. Mr. James Mills, of Willows and of Riverside, one of the leading citrus growers of California, has succeeded the late Mrs. Minna E. Sherman as a Regent of the University, his appointment being from February 10, 1914, to March 1, 1926. ALUMNI PRESIDENT Allen L. Chickering, '98, has been elected President of the University of California Alumni Association, to succeed J. Arthur Elston, '97, resigned. After graduating at Berkeley, Mr. Chickering spent two years at the Harvard Law School and then took his LL.B. at the University of California. Since then he has been engaged in the practice of the law in San Francisco. AGRICULTURAL ADVISOR SYSTEM How to bring the accumulated results of scientific knowledge in agriculture into general use is one of the problems of to-day. Great success has been achieved in the Southern States through the "Agricultural Advisor System," as developed by the General Education Board. Work of this character is now being organized in California by the Agricultural Department of the University, in conjunction with the United States Department of Agriculture. B. H. Crocheron has been appointed Assistant Professor of Agricultural Extension and represents the United States Department of Agriculture and the University jointly in developing in Cali fornia a system of agricultural advisors. The beginning was made through the appointment of Andrew Hansen Christiansen as Agricultural Advisor in Humboldt County, half of the expense being defrayed by the county government and by the subscriptions of organizations of citizens. The Agricultural Advisor is to live in the county which is his particular field of work; is to go about from neighborhood to neighborhood, calling together the residents of each neighborhood for consultations and for advice; go out on the land with the farmer and give him particular advice and practical object lessons. No man that ever lived knew enough to answer all the questions that will be asked of such an agricultural advisor, but a trained man will know the limits of his own knowledge and will be able to put the farmer in touch with the proper experts in the agricultural faculty at Berkeley, in order to elicit the needed information and advice concerning any problem which he knows himself not prepared to aid in. San Diego, Yolo, and San Joaquin counties have also arranged to bear half the cost of having such an advisor each. AGRICULTURAL CLUBS The students of the Agriculture Club are doing valuable work in fostering the establishment of agricultural clubs throughout California. Already eighty such clubs have been formed, most of them in connection with high schools in which agricultural courses are being given. Agricultural instruction is now being given in fifty-three California high schools. CORRESPONDENCE INSTRUCTION Some eight thousand people are now enrolled for the correspondence courses established last fall. A thousand are in academic subjects other than agriculture, and the rest in courses in practical agriculture. This work of University Extension has met with a great popular response. NEW CHAIR OF RURAL INSTITUTIONS Elwood Mead has been invited to return to the University of California as head of the new Division of Rural Institutions in the College of Agriculture. The function of this new department will be to study and aid all rural forces which have for their aim the making of life in the open country successful and satisfying. The department will deal with such questions as farm credits, irrigation and drainage institutions, co-operation, and the varied political, economic, educational, social, and religious institutions which affect rural life. Professor Mead was the first American to hold a Professorship of Irrigation Engineering. This was from 1886 to 1888, in the Colorado Agricultural College. He was for a portion of the same time also Assistant State Engineer of Colorado. Prior to that, after receiving his training as an engineer at Purdue, where he graduated in '82, and at Iowa State College, where he received the degrees of C.E. and M.S. in '83 and '84, he had acted as an assistant engineer in the United States Engineering Corps. It was Professor Mead who prepared the Wyoming water code, which has been the basis of the irrigation codes of all of the western states which have adopted any. This work, which gave him a national reputation as an engineer, was done while he was State Engineer of Wyoming, a position which he held from 1888 till 1899. This Wyoming code was based on the principal that the waters of the state belong to the state and that the regulation of water rights is primarily an administrative, rather than a judicial matter. Professor Mead was the first Chief of the Irrigation and Drainage Investigations of the United States Department of Agriculture, which was established in 1907. For a number of years, beginning in 1901, he was Professor of the Institutions and Practice of Irrigation at the University of California. In October, 1907, he went to Australia as Chairman and Chief Engineer of the Rivers and Water Supply Commission of the State of Victoria. He has done a great work of irrigation statesmanship in Australia through bringing about a reversal of the Victorian policy of non-immigration and bringing about an era of immigration encouragement, of subdivision of lands, and of aid to new settlers more advanced than anything ever done in the United States. He has helped, too, in modernizing agricultural practice and in finding new markets for the produce of irrigated regions in Australia. HYGIENE AND PATHOLOGY LABORATORIES An addition has been built to the Hygiene and Pathology Building, made necessary by the large increase in enrollment in these departments. The State Hygienic Laboratory and the Department of Hygiene are housed in the lower floor, while the space which they have vacated in the older portion of the building has furnished much-needed relief to the Department of Pathology and Bacteriology. In the new quarters the State Hygienic Laboratory |