GIFT OF 
 
Contents. 
 "1 The prophecy. 1794. By Dr. Timothy Dwight. (Pc 
 
 *# Assembly bill no. 49. Introduced by Mr. Holder 
 18, 11365. An act to establish an agricultur 
 mechanical arts college in Sonoma County. 
 
 ^5 Agricultural college. Address of Hon. A. A. S 
 Sept. 21, 1865. 
 
 u4. Report of the Committee cof the Senate} on /St 
 university to whom was referred memorial of t 
 Mechanics institute of San Francisco. Feb. 
 
 * Mining schools in the U. S., by J. A. Church. 
 (U.C. p. 21-22) (Repr. fr. North American re<v 
 Jan. 1871). 
 
 ^ Report con the Oakland college block property. 
 1871. 
 
 *i Our state university and the aspirant to the p 
 cby Gustavus Schulte^ 1872. 
 
 ^ Columbia's wrath, not sparing the Regents of t 
 university of California cby Gustavus Schult 
 
 t-9 The resignation of the Board of regents, (the 
 members excepted) dictated by a sense of hor 
 duty cby Gustavus Schultei 1'874. 
 
 "10 Reply of D. C. G ilman to criticisms of the Uni 
 California made by the Rev. Robert Pattersor 
 Oakland, c 1873 3 (with two letters concerning 
 
 vll Report on the water supply of the Univ. of Cal 
 cby Frank Soule,jr.i 1874. 
 
 v!2 Report on the water supply of the Univ. of Cai 
 cby a special committee of the Regents 3 Dec. 
 
 Report of the Committees on P-U- lie buildings a 
 grounds of the Senate and Assembly, c 1875-76 
 
 Majority and minority reports of the Senate cc 
 on education relative to Assembly bill no. 2 
 c!875-765 (Concerning abolition of Board of 
 etc. 3) . 
 
 15 Report of the Committee on education to the Aa 
 22d session. c!878:j. 
 
 v/16 Report' of the Senate committee on education. F 
 
 17 Report of the cAssemblyi committee on educatic 
 
 1883. 
 
 18 Report of cAs^sembly} committee on Agricultural 
 
 and Mechanics arts college. Feb.13, 1883. 
 
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 SEC. 37. But, in the opiiiion of the undersigned, it would be 
 very inexpedient that any controversy should arise between the 
 Regents and the City of Oakland in this matter. If the Regents 
 did not know of the proceedings for improving Webster Street, 
 they ought to have known, and cannot fairly avail themselves of 
 their ignorance. Yet it is very desirable that the College Block 
 should be contained in one inclosure, and used in one body, so long 
 as the University continues to occupy it ; and there is no immediate 
 pressing necessity for using Webster Street as an existing, open 
 street. Doubtless an arrangement could be made with the City 
 Council of Oakland, satisfactory to both parties, and under which 
 neither party would lose or compromise its rights. 
 
 JOHN W. DWIXELLE. 
 
Our State University 
 
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 Ik pmtmnt ta tto 
 
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 New dangers tm^ bcs(;ttin,^ IK r ! Tlu; Pi\;sidenti;il combat rages ! Truth then, the wholt- 
 truth go forth ! Sans malice, fear or favor ! Gr. 8. 
 
 In the, broad daylight of froo inquiry and full information, the people arc responsible for 
 every public ,'ibuse. (TOY. BOOTH. 
 
 On hand at all the principal Bookstores. 
 
WAS IT REALITY? WAS 
 IT A DREAM? 
 
 A bright but fickle light, reflected inward from an en- 
 circling rim it seemed of beaming ll Golden Eagles" * 
 shone high in the heavens above the young Athens of 
 the Pacific Slope. Swiftly lowering o'er a "fabric" 
 sadly frail below, the golden rays the rays of hope and 
 promise chased the shades of night and gloom, 
 through which many an eye many a time had vainly 
 attempted to descry a beauteous temple a temple of 
 learning august and true in its proportions. 
 
 When lo ! the light grew dim, and within the golden 
 circle were, 'midst fast returning shadows faintly seen, 
 the form and features of a human being, holding in his 
 grasp the rim of "Golden Eagles,' 7 and shouting through 
 the midnight air : 
 
 For me the Presidency for this ! 
 
 For this the Presidency for me ! 
 
 Sundry figures, members of a secret conclave as in 
 a tableau grouped around seemed to sustain the dubi- 
 ous form ; the stalwart form perchance of , 
 
 a paragon in science, art or letters, an arduous 
 searcher in the vast expanse of nature, a fruitful rev- 
 
 * $300,000 appropriation. 
 
eller in the domain of thought, a bold expounder of new 
 truths, and robed withal in the dignity befitting a High 
 Priest in the educational sanctum. 
 
 Sad delusion ! Monstrous mockery ! A last ray a 
 dying ray of hope and promise, a fickle and derisive ray, 
 an Ignis Fatuns skipped across the scene, and re- 
 vealed temporal mores ! revealed , 
 
 a professional toiler in the fields of litigation, tricks and 
 quibs ; an incognito at least in those of science, art or 
 letters ; an able politician, yet in whom have faith 
 neither the Press nor the people ; one who, in the Goat 
 Island Grab, upheld the interests of a private corpora- 
 tion, and ignored the public interests not merely of the 
 metropolis, but also those of his own city Oakland 
 which generously, (unwittingly, it may be) surrendered 
 its all, the whole of its water front, for what ? 
 
 For tliat very Terminus which is now to be Goat Island ! 
 One in whom the adulator and abettor, the mocker and 
 the cynic, alike feign to behold a modern Demosthenes 
 with all of the great Greeks' fiery invective, a modern 
 Cicero, with the fullness of the Ancients' graceful dic- 
 tion ; in whom, however, honest undissembling critics, 
 mth pain, detect somewhat of the tone and action, the 
 self-sufficient smile ever encircling vain-glorious lips 
 of the Bombastes Furioso, rather than the manly, 
 earnest and inspiring, the only true, eloquence of the 
 true orator that eloquence which, in moving the head, 
 also moves the heart ; one, in fine, a Regent who, despite 
 the repeated opposition of the secret Board, (see min- 
 utes of the reports of the meetings) the strenuous re- 
 monstrances of the faculties, the students, the Press and 
 the people, lowered instead of raising the low standard 
 of the University, an institution by the people and the 
 Legislature ordained to be the crowning fabric, pure and 
 
undefiled, of the widely ramified educational system of the 
 State ; who, as it were, alone advocated, legislated and 
 created a preparatory appendage, and in direct contra- 
 vention of article 79 of the organic law, as an integral 
 part incorporated a boarding-school for boys a Kin- 
 dergarten T . . . . 's Kindergarten, as the students, the Oak- 
 landers and the Alta gave it at the time ; indignantly 
 regarded as antagonistic to the true character of any 
 University; as interfering with the interests of prepara- 
 tory schools at Oakland and elsewhere, which tax-pay- 
 ing contributors to the university themselves are with 
 the high schools its natural feeders, and as such not to 
 be undermine'd, but to be encouraged and increased in 
 number. 
 
 In this appendage, then this incongruous append- 
 age, fully ventilated at the time in a treatise entitled : 
 ' 1 A (/lance at the State University and the Educational Sys- 
 tems of America and Germany " the Regent did indeed ap- 
 pend, as we in it foretold, and since so proved, a disturbing 
 agent, an unwieldy weight, an incubus of debts, deficits, 
 rubs and frictions, now long deserted by the boyish 
 bipeds, to the great delights of students and professors, 
 and even of the erudites in the secret conclave too ; and/ 
 in lieu thereof, abundantly filled with winged and creep- 
 ing multipeds. 
 
 He did, through its establishment as also foretold, 
 and since so proved indeed not prepare a bed of roses 
 for his fellows in the secret conclave, (merchants, specu- 
 lators and lawyers chiefly) eminent in their respective 
 spheres, it must be admitted, but inexperienced in high 
 educational and scholastic administration, and unknown 
 in the walks of the sciences and mechanic arts, pro- 
 fessed and taught in the divers colleges composing the 
 institution. Men, therefore, who as directors, regents, 
 
anomalously direct what they themselves do not com- 
 prehend, (this seems incredible in our country, so prac- 
 tical par excellence) and what those practically ac- 
 quainted with these studies, or graduated in them, 
 alone can and should direct ; men. in fine, who, in the 
 past, misled by party bias and undue favoritism, and 
 deprived of a fit referee and counsellor in the President 
 of the Faculty as an ex-officw member of the Board, 
 have, in their labors, been rewarded with but poor re- 
 sults, have ill-applied the funds we intrusted to their 
 care, and throughout ignored the friendly counsel tend- 
 ered by experienced educators, and the Press, both of 
 San Francisco and the country. 
 
 The proudest feature of the State University was also 
 destroyed, inadvertently it may be. A tuition fee v:as en- 
 forced in the appendage, the integral part of the il free Univer- 
 sity,'' then still so-called, but merited no longer, though 
 so once decreed in honor, be it said through a gen- 
 erous impulse of the Regents, whose shortcomings after 
 all were more those of the head than of the heart. The 
 "Free Um't'ersifi/" became a ludicrous anomaly; inthe mouth of 
 some a hypocritical boast; in the mouth of the stranger a mor- 
 tifying sneer. 
 
 Xow, what was the Regent's motive? What his 
 aim? Why was invested a sum of upwards of $100,- 
 000 for the purchase of grounds and buildings for his 
 department ? Why engaged as master at $250, (say two 
 hundred and fifty dollars) a month, with a large corps 
 of teachers, while the agricultural college could not be 
 completed for want of funds, its foundation crumbling 
 away at Berkeley ; that college which, in accordance 
 with a distinct stipulation, found in the organic laws 
 
was to be put in active operation jSral of all and prior to 
 am / other department ; while there were no professors in 
 the University for the studies prescribed for the third 
 and fourth year of the course in agriculture, horti- 
 culture, mining, metallurgy, laboratory practice, &c. 
 an evil which threatened to end in the farcical opera- 
 tion, at the recent awarding of diplomas, of bestowing 
 the degree of Bachelor of Agriculture upon a student 
 of the Agricultural College who had not been able to 
 study divers branches pertaining to his course, and 
 against which farce the University students and proba- 
 bly the graduate himself objected, by a written appli- 
 cation to the secret Board of Regents. 
 
 What, then, in view of these circumstances, was the 
 Regent's motive ? What his purpose ? Truth, which dis- 
 sembles not, would gladly not respond; yet, the Presiden- 
 tial struggle raging, Duty, the imperative duty of citizen, 
 tax-payer and educator upon the direct request of many 
 disaffected fellow-citizens, some holding the highest posi- 
 tions in the trust of the people, and all having the inter- 
 est of the (in the past) ill-used, abused and ill-cared-for 
 infant university at heart now without malice, fear, or 
 favor, unfolds to the Regents of the reconstructed, still 
 secret Board before they act, to the members of the 
 Faculty before they acvise, (and even to the students 
 before they make their organ, the " Echo," speak) to 
 the fathers, the educators, the University's friends, and 
 above all to the Press throughout the State what was 
 whispered everywhere among the oaks in the classic 
 groves of the Athens of the Pacific slope. 
 
 The whispers claim hush ! it cannot so be that the 
 motive was mainly love of self ; and the purpose the vend- 
 ing of a certain goodly estate and a decay ing private school 
 adjoining the Oakland University Building, for the sum 
 
of upwards of $100,000, and from the heirs and 
 owners, for services rendered, the receipt of a goodly 
 bonus or percentage of $10,000 in shining tl golden 
 eagles," or the equivalent in land ; that the Regents in 
 the fortuitous capacity of Regent, Agent and Legislator, 
 did pass the Enabling Act to establish the department 
 and to purchase the required grounds and buildings, 
 the adjoining goodly estate and decaying private school ; 
 that he in the same fortuitous capacity of Regent, Com- 
 mittee man and Purchaser, did purchase the adjoining 
 goodly estate and decaying private school ; that he in 
 the not less fortuitous capacity of Regent. Agent and 
 Vendor, did vend the adjoining goodly estate and decay- 
 ing private school ; and finally, that he. for the manifold 
 and intricate duties performed as Legislator, Regent, 
 Agent, Purchaser and, Vendor, did pocket the well mer- 
 ited (leaving out of consideration the University and 
 tax-payers) $10,000, more or less, in the same kind of 
 glittering ' golden eagles " which the human form in 
 our vision was holding in his grasp while shouting 
 through the midnight air : For me the Presidency for 
 this ! For this the Presidency for me ! .... .... 
 
 .... .... Was it reality ? Was it a dream ? The 
 
 circle of beaming " golden eagles v we ere long 
 beheld, the human form within, the few sustainers 
 from the secret conclave grouped around, the fabric 
 sadly frail which had risen on the educational horizon ? 
 But three }~ears passed as the sun on a bright summer 
 morn, resplendent with a glorious promise all was 
 concealed in densest gloom. Yet soon the twilight 
 gleams of a new-born day were seen slowly ascending 
 in the Eastern sky. and lo ! with them the Gov- 
 
ernor of the State, the new and it would seem unwilling 
 presiding head of the secret conclave, surrounded by 
 some of its old and all its new members, with citizens 
 in vast array behind. Fast approaching from afar, 
 their bodies forward bent and arms outstretched, they 
 pointed all with stern and angry mien upon the spectral 
 scene above the fabric, again in part illumined by the 
 coming morn 
 
 " Thus far, and indeed no farther " 
 in tones of thunder, from the multitude, rent the 
 troubled twilight air, and for ever chased away the 
 phantasmic specters. Then from the Governor's lips, 
 with the fervent pathos of a pathetic soul, burst forth, 
 and ^Eolus on the winds conveyed to mount and valley 
 town and hamlet, these momentous words : 
 
 "America, awake ! Arise, great land of promise and 
 the future ! Upon thee the eyes of the world are bent ! 
 Protect thy holiest of holy, the education of thy children I 
 From the polluting breath of faction, the baneful touch 
 of party favoritism, from hateful egotism and cor- 
 ruption, keep it at least intact ! It, the vital organ 
 through which circulates the quickening blood of thy 
 Republican organism thy heart, indeed, whose normal 
 or abnormal throbbing to thee brings Life or Death ! !" 
 
 It was morning. All had vanished, and in the 
 heavens in its stead was seen a beauteous mirage, true 
 and clear, of a majestic temple, overarching the whole 
 of the Pacific slope, and descending near Berkeley's 
 lovely plain. 
 
 Aurora, radiant, and with a glory beaming, spread 
 her roseate mantle far and high above the mountain 
 chain of Contra Costa. The hills and valleys leaped 
 with joy. Sprightly zephyrs, kissing the still slumber- 
 
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 ing waters of the Bay, roused them to a festive dance 
 of mirth and glee, and at last the most glorious sun, 
 we ween, that ever rose in nature, swept swiftly o'er 
 the mountain crest on high. 
 
 Time rolled on ! Where the rugged Hill and maiden 
 Plane in holy wedlock joined, gave birth to gentle 
 Slopes, clad in a drapery of freshest emerald, decked 
 with varied flowers and trimmed with winding silver- 
 brooks, overhung with foliage ever green, there stood 
 
 THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. 
 
 Once more the ''Free University" undefiled, its scope 
 and range the universe and universal civilization ; 
 though no longer the typus of a military school, 
 making the study of military science arbitrarily compul- 
 sory to all ; no longer chasing from its halls the true 
 student, and thus modest but ardent disciple of wis- 
 dom, learning and scientific skill, on whose back a 
 tinseled uniform is torture to whose manly dignity 
 and noble amour-propre is repulsive the mere playing at 
 soldier through the crowded thoroughfare with boyish 
 ostentation; though numb-skulls and numb-skulls 
 only who do not come for study, eagerly don the 
 showy garb to strut as turkey-cocks upon our lawns 
 and streets, attract the gaze of servant girls, and receive 
 the blushing smiles of maidens of sixteen summers. 
 The University's standard had risen high as high, or 
 higher than the famous seats of learning in Fatherland 
 that gave a Humboldt to the world, an Agassiz to 
 America ; graduating the philosopher and scientist to 
 divulge the secrets of humanity and nature, and b} 7 
 their side the tutored mechanic to utilize the powers in 
 
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 iron and in steam, the learned agriculturist to make 
 the earth produce, the fearless and erudite miner to 
 draw forth the boundless treasures from her bosom ; its 
 directors, regents not, as heretofore, merchants, specula- 
 tors and lawyers chiefly, in secret sessions disposing 
 of the people's funds, (or wealthy nabobs, too, without 
 one grain of Peabodyism in their heavy frames, and do- 
 ing naught for a poverty-stricken, sickly and languish- 
 ing infant institution entrusted to their care, while an 
 outsider, a foreigner to the land to California's dis- 
 grace it has to be confessed makes the first endow- 
 ment deserving of the name !) But instead of such, or 
 in addition to such regents, practical and experienced 
 representatives of the divers branches of study professed 
 in the colleges of agriculture, industrial and mechanic 
 art, civil and mining engineering, and metallurgy, etc., 
 etc., selected from, and elected by the university's 
 alumni, who, free from party bias and party favoritism, 
 nor shunning the searching light of day, are, of any, best 
 acquainted with the shortcomings and hence the wants 
 of their Alma Mater ; its President neither the repre- 
 sentative of Hood and carnage nor of strife and litigation, 
 but in lieu thereof a lifelong devotee to science, of nation- 
 al renown an educator, with distinguished executive abil- 
 ity in the bargain ; he, the ex-officio member of the Board 
 of Regents, their fit and trusty referee and counselor ; 
 its Professors and Instructors no longer favorites and in- 
 competent in part, but professional educators, of sterling 
 merit in their respective spheres : live teachers, fasci- 
 nating lecturers, who create within the student's breast 
 that warm interest in study, in the unceasing creation of 
 which centers the art of teaching ; who spurn the me- 
 chanical, insipid and fatiguing process, at the depreciation 
 of the other mental faculties, of mere text-book mem- 
 
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 orizing and reciting ; who disdain to place before their 
 pupils the ever-warmed-up food from one book a one- 
 sided and oft ill-adapted book ; whose main text-book, 
 as with the German educator, must be located above 
 their brows ; who hold within their grasp the fruit of 
 all who have thought upon their theme, and searched 
 and found ; who spread it out with the fruit of their 
 own thought, their own labor, ever fresh and new, 
 before the hungry class of their own creation ; who, in 
 fine, make the student not a mere unreflecting imitator, 
 but a thinker and originator : thus leading him, by the 
 development and enlargement of his inward mental 
 treasures through self-activity and self-exertion, not to 
 knowledge only, but to skill, and thence to be a power in 
 the land. 
 
 There it stood, its beacon-light high aloft, a " temple 
 of wisdom" frowning down ignorance and error, empir- 
 icism, bigotry and dogmatism, as the battlements of our 
 country's forts frowned down our country's foes ; its 
 Regents, President, Professors and Instructors one and 
 all zealous and enthusiastic in the never-faltering ad- 
 vancement of the reverenced Alma Mater. 
 
 Free thought, honestly expressed, being the birth- 
 right of a free people, he who in our country on his 
 own bonds launches upon the world his criticism of 
 public men and matters under an anonymous garb, or 
 noni de plume, is either a coward or a knave. Thus, 
 with our civilities to the reader, we sign our humble 
 name, as we invariably do, and an honest freeman 
 always should, in full. 
 
 GUSTAVUS SCHULTE. 
 
 BROOKLYN, CAL., July 26th, 1872. 
 
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