REPORT 
 
 Senate Committee on Education 
 
 UNIVERSITY 
 
REPORT. 
 
 SENATE CHAMBER, > 
 
 SACRAMENTO, February 1, 1887. f 
 
 MR. PRESIDENT : Your Committee on Education, to whom leave was 
 granted to visit the State University, and the State Normal School at San 
 Jose, submit the following : 
 
 Your committee visited the University at Berkeley, and met a cordial 
 reception from President Holden and the heads of the several depart- 
 ments. In the short time allotted to our examination, we visited the 
 Departments of Agriculture, Mechanics, Mining, Civil Engineering, Chem- 
 istry, and the College of Letters. As a whole we are able to commend 
 the general management of this State institution, and believe the various 
 departments to be in charge of able and experienced professors. The 
 University is still in its infancy, and the great purposes of its organization 
 are scarcely felt, yet it is preparing young men and young women in that 
 technical and advanced education which will enable them to become 
 leaders in the economic development of the great resources of the State. 
 
 We can especially commend the Agricultural and Viticultural Depart- 
 ments as of unusual merit, and which are destined .to reach with their 
 results into every part of the country. The experimental tests made, and 
 the information disseminated by means of bulletins, compensate many 
 fold for the endowment which this department receives. 
 
 We find many departments only partially equipped with apparatus, 
 but the Regents have gone as far as the appropriations would permit. 
 
 The Museum and Chemical Laboratory are both crowded for room. 
 The Botanical Garden is an important feature and might profitably be 
 greatly extended. And the same might be said of the Observatory and 
 Meteorological Department. The prominence of this State institution, 
 and the plan upon which it has been organized, and the results to be 
 expected therefrom, suggest -that, financially, the University should be 
 liberally endowed with a permanent annual income, and not rely solely 
 upon the pleasure of State Legislatures in making appropriations. 
 
 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. 
 
 Your committee visited the Normal School at San Jose. We found 
 President Allen and a full corps of instructors busy training teachers for 
 school-room work. Permission was given the committee to examine the 
 school-room works ; also, the magnificent Normal School building, and 
 the financial account for the past two years. We find this institution well 
 managed, and heard no cause of complaint. 
 
 Herewith we append a short outline of Prof. Allen's report to your com- 
 mittee : "The total number of pupils in attendance is seven hundred and 
 one. Of these, five hundred and forty-two are students of the Normal 
 School proper ; forty-five are in the Preparatory Department, and one 
 
hundred and fifteen are in the Training Department. All students apply- 
 ing for permission to attend the Normal are requested to sign a statement 
 that they desire to fit themselves for teaching, and also bind themselves 
 to teach school after leaving the institution. The Preparatory Department 
 is of a more recent creation. There were many students, we found, who 
 would come from a long distance, and when examined for admission 
 would fail in one or perhaps two branches, or, it might be, would not be 
 quite sixteen years of age. These are now received in the Preparatory 
 Department, and, as the law directs, are charged a tuition fee of $30 
 a year until they are admitted regularly into the Normal proper. The 
 Training Department, consisting of three grades, is where the students 
 of the Senior class are trained to teach. Each member of that class is 
 required to teach five months during the year, and this is as much a part 
 of the Normal course as that of studying and reciting lessons. And in 
 granting diplomas, the record in the training school is equally as impor- 
 tant as that of the class-room. In many cases it is more so ; for every 
 year we are compelled to deny diplomas to two or three members of the 
 Senior Class, whose scholastic averages are excellent, but who strand in 
 the Training School. These often go out and teach one, two, or three 
 years, then return and satisfy us of their ability to properly conduct a 
 school, When the diploma is given. The five hundred and forty-two stu- 
 dents are divided into fifteen classes, the number of each class varying 
 from thirty to forty-seven, and in one class reaching as high as fifty-six. 
 Once a week usually on Saturday afternoon all the classes are given 
 special instructions in the art of teaching. Each year we are devoting 
 more and more attention to this essential branch of the work." 
 Respectfully submitted. 
 
 GESFORD, Chairman. 
 
[Supplement to Assembly Journal.} 
 
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