UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES 
 
 University of California Berkeley 
 
NEEDS OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY. 
 
 The University of California has outgrown its present 
 resources. 
 
 The income of the University is but little larger than it 
 was five years ago. From that income, buildings have been 
 erected, within the five years, at a cost of nearly $200,000, 
 and their equipment is still incomplete. These large outlays 
 have been on the scientific side of the University, in response 
 to the modern imperative demands of scientific and practical 
 education. 
 
 Within the last four years the number of students at Berkeley 
 has more than doubled, and is now over one thousand. This 
 large increase has necessitated the doubling of the teaching force. 
 
 With its new buildings and its increased salary roll, the 
 University has come to an acute financial crisis. Its surprising 
 prosperity threatens seriously to impair its usefulness. It can 
 not give adequate facilities to the students whom it has invited 
 to its halls. 
 
 Its class-rooms are overcrowded, its laboratories are becoming 
 insufficient. Some of its departments are badly housed. The 
 Museum is choked with undisplayed treasures. The health- 
 giving Gymnasium has but half the needed space and appliances. 
 There is no fit Armory, and no drill-room. The Faculty records 
 are insecure in a wooden building. The hundreds of young 
 women have for a day-home only one room in a basement. 
 There is no assembly room for public gatherings. 
 
 A large central building would meet many of these wants, 
 and give relief to several important departments. Such a 
 building was specified as a prime necessity, in the Act of 
 March 28, 1872 : after twenty-two years it is still to be built. 
 
 If other claims and the financial condition of the State make 
 it impracticable to build this "California Hall" at present, other 
 very necessary accommodations can be furnished for half the 
 sum. Plans have been matured for a cheap structure which will 
 
serve three important uses. Another more substantial building 
 would give relief to several scientific departments. 
 
 If the State will provide the new buildings so much needed, 
 the stated income can be made to cover the increased cost of 
 instruction. 
 
 The professional Colleges, in San Francisco, are also in need 
 of much better facilities. The Medical Department, in particular, 
 is doing good work in circumstances most unfavorable and dis- 
 couraging. Its claims for relief are the strongest possible. 
 
 By the Constitution of California, the University is made 
 "a public trust;" a trust to be so administered as to secure 
 healthful growth and permanent prosperity to the University. 
 
 Appended are a few notes of what other Western States are 
 doing for State Universities. 
 
 Missouri gave to its University, for the years 1891-92 (in- 
 cluding extraordinary expenses), nearly $1,000,000; for 1893-94, 
 nearly $300,000. 
 
 Wisconsin has put $1,200,000 into buildings for its Univer- 
 sity. It grants it a permanent tax of one-eighth (1) of a mill 
 on a dollar. Also, for six years, one- tenth (tV) of a mill, for 
 buildings, etc. : this yields $60,000 to $70,000 a year. One per 
 cent, of the "railroad license tax," assigned to the College of 
 Engineering, gives more than $10,000 a year. Further specific 
 appropriations, of recent dates, amount to $110,000. 
 
 Michigan gives its University a tax of one-sixth (i) of a mill 
 on a dollar. 
 
 Minnesota, three- twentieths (^o) of a mill. 
 
 Nebraska (reported), three-eighths (i) of a mill. 
 
 Indiana, one-half (-J-) of a mill, for thirteen years, for endow- 
 ment. 
 
 These States evidently take a just pride in their Universities, 
 and have a settled policy of affording them the needed support. 
 California's fractional tax is less than any of the above, one- tenth 
 -fV of a mill. 
 
 MARTIN 
 
 President of the University of California. 
 , December 20, 1894. 
 
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