active business men of moderate means, and whatever support the College had, came from them. One business corporation, the California Steam Navigation Company, doing business on our bay and rivers, generously gave us a thousand dollars once or twice. A thousand dollars was the largest donation we ever had at once, except in one instance. That instance was this: In the early autumn of 1865 the Trustees, at my suggestion, appointed a committee to ask a donation from the Pacific Mail Steamship Company of New York. In due time came back the following very satisfactory reply:OFFICE OF Pacific Mail Steamship Co.,

21, 1865. }

To S. H. WILLley, Anson G. STILES, WILLIAM ALVORD, Committee of the Board of Trustees of the College of California

DEAR SIRS: Your communication addressed to the President and Directors of this company under date of October 16, 1865, was received the tenth inst., and was referred by the Board of Directors at their meeting held the fourteenth inst. to the undersigned, with power. In accordance therewith, and in view of the important interests of education on the Pacific slope involved in the prosperity of the College of California, I have requested the company's agent, Oliver Eldridge, Esq., to place to your credit the sum of $5,000 in U. S. gold coin, said donation to be for the sole use of the library of the College of California.

"In conclusion, permit me to express the hope and expectation that some of your able and public-spirited citizens will contribute a sufficient fund for the additional purposes named in your letter. I am, dear sirs, respectfully yours, ALLAN MCLANE, President."

This mark of appreciation from that great company, and from its President, who knew California so well, and knew some of us engaged in building the College, was gratifying and encouraging beyond expression. It was a surprise to some that our enterprise was appreciated to this extent by business men, many of whom were strangers and living so far away. Concerning this donation the Pacific of January 11, 1866, said:

"The Pacific Mail Steamship Company handsomely inaugurated,

as we trust, a new era in California benevolence. We hope their munificent gift of $5,000 to the College of California, for a library, will generously provoke others to good works.

"During the past two or three years, our Eastern colleges have received princely endowments. In the very shock and tumult of war, there was a gentler inspiration, which led to a wonderful outpouring of treasure in behalf of many of these institutions. But California, which steadily rolled the great golden balance-wheel, keeping all the little paper fly-wheels from going to smash-got very little back in the way of thank-offerings, or eleemosynary contributions. But as public watchmen, we proclaim that the 'good time coming' has come. The era of handsome giving fairly opens with this year of grace. The College library now has just the quarter part of a respectable endowment. It needs an additional $15,000; or, rather, the public needs to have it invested there, to meet, in some sense, the educational wants of this thronging company of young students already hungry for books and doomed to famish if they cannot be fed.

"What a grand opportunity to do good! We are painfully anxious that some of our friends shall not miss it. In the name of more than one hundred thousand of our youth, we send greeting to a score of rich men or such as are rich in devising and executing liberal things. Better let the marble monument go unbuilt. If friends put on the inscription, ten to one if they do not fib awfully. If one wishes to be a power in the world, let him not only make, but execute, his will before he dies. What a lever of hidden forces in five thousand books! And what a glorious band of executors will these youth be, whom he commands to read, emulate, and march on to a better manhood! Surely, a man may be a living power in the world, and that to some purpose, who marshals five or ten thousand books, so that they live and speak for him, for generations. We want less obituary literature, and more ante mortem subscriptions. There are men among us, providentially called to go out and feed more than five thousand in the desert, and they can do it without any miracle but that miracle of grace which overcomes self and makes all good things possible. There will be more than twelve baskets of fragments-more even of unbroken loaves to hand down to the next hungry generation. Lest any should meditate too long on the question of what constitutes a 'call' to complete this work-we make no doubt that such as read this, and feel inclined to do this thing, are specially called."

CHAPTER XII.

PROGRESS IN THE COLLEGE WORK.

The first or fall term of 1865-66 closed with its appropriate examinations, and in due time the Faculty's reports came before the Trustees:

"In general," the Secretary, Professor Kellogg, said, "the records of the Faculty show a healthful tone of discipline, and an absence of offenses against the College laws. The marks for the term indicate for the most part faithful and successful application on the part of the students. The Freshman class marked lowest in scholarship, a fact plainly owing chiefly to imperfect preparation for college. They exhibited a marked improvement during the term. One, by advice, has left the class to make better preparation for the next class. Several others have been obliged to absent themselves for reasons not connected with their college standing. One member of the Junior class has gone to an Eastern college. The Senior class made a good term's record except in connection with a single department. In this their rank was unhesitatingly cut down to a very low point, although there will be a partial opportunity to retrieve the ground lost at the Senior examination. The Faculty find that one lesson a week, as in Senior German and French, and Junior French, Latin, and Greek, is too little to keep up a continuous interest in the study pursued. The German teacher has desired two recitations a week for the Seniors, and the French teacher two for each of the upper classes. If the Trustees do not see fit to allot more time to these studies, the Faculty have it in mind to rearrange the schedule, so that no study, while it is regularly pursued, shall have less than two exercises a week."

Accompanying this Faculty report, came the several reports of the individual professors and instructors. Professor Durant said:

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"The lectures of President Hopkins on Moral Science were recited through and reviewed by the Seniors during the session, and a large part of Butler's Analogy was recited once. These studies were not only interesting to the class generally for their scientific and iterary value, but useful for their moral influence. The Juniors continued the reading of Demosthenes concerning the crown. Having only one recitation each week they could not bring the lessons into that close contact with each other which rhetoric must have, like any other fuel, to burn, and therefore they made a frigid work of it. A greater continuity of study might have afforded a better result. This class also recited Whately's Logic. But reciting only twice each week they were obliged to pass over some parts of the work by pretty long strides, which, however, as the author himself is not very consistent or consecutive, they managed to do, with chopping' the book only and not the logic. The Sophomore class recited the 'Prometheus Bound' of Eschylus. They performed this task well, not only as a study of the original Greek, but a practice of their own English. Nor yet as a matter of mere language chiefly, nor of tragic execution; but as a philosophic ideal of humanity and of divine Providence. The Freshman class recited Homer's 'Iliad,' Greek Grammar, and Arnold's Greek Prose Composition. The class was very deficient in preparation for college, and, of course, studied. during the term to disadvantage. More time was spent in drilling on those elements which should have been thoroughly known already, than was consistent with the claims of the College curriculum. The prescribed amount, however, was read, and the class passed a very good examination. All the classes recited together every Friday morning during the session in the Greek Testament, reading Matthew nearly through. The classes were not examined in this study, a personal religious use of it being intended, more than a philological or grammatical one. There is every reason to know that the religious studies and devotional exercises of the students as appointed in the College and in their several places of Sabbath instruction and worship, are eminently salutary."

Professor Kellogg said :

"The Senior class recited to me in Weber's Outlines of History, going over most of the first three hundred pages. They reviewed the larger part of the term's work, and passed a satisfactory examination on the portions reviewed. They also recited to me the whole of

Clark's Lectures on English Literature, which they did not review. The Junior class took up Weber's Outlines, one lesson a week for two-thirds of the term, and made special study of English History. Topics were assigned them for further investigation and independent judgment, the result being communicated orally or in written essays. The Latin for the term was the first twenty pages of Cicero de Oratore, which they reviewed, and were examined on. It is unfortunate to be limited, in Junior Latin, to one recitation a week. The class did a fair term's work. The Sophomore class read with me the whole of Cicero de Senectute, which they reviewed for examination. They read, also, the first chapters of De Oratore, and completed the usual course in Latin prose composition. The class reached a high standard of excellence. The Freshman class read less than the usual amount of Livy, but read it well, and passed good examination. They recited the syntax and prosody of the grammar, began prose composition, and went over Pütz & Arnold's Geography and History of Greece."

Mr. Hodgson reported :

"The Senior class had three recitations a week. They completed Olmsted's Astronomy and began reciting in chemistry. The Juniors recited four times a week from Snell's Olmsted's Philosophy. They studied and reviewed from the beginning to the subject of optics. The Sophomores recited four times a week. They studied plane trigonometry, spherical geometry, and trigonometry, and commenced the study of surveying. The Freshmen with four recitations a week passed over Robinson's University Algebra, from quadratics to section 8 on the properties of equations. I have no reason to complain of any class as a whole."

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Mr. Des Rochers, from the French Department, said :"The Senior class has recited but one lesson a week during the On account of the frequent absence of two members of the class from their recitations, the Seniors did not, perhaps, do full justice to themselves. The class translated a portion of Julius. Cæsar, one of our most classic French works. The Juniors had, also, but one lesson a week during this term. That class has done very well indeed. Had they recited twice a week, the result would have been remarkable. Both classes felt very much the want of two recitations a week in order to keep up a greater degree of interest in