ol of mining, from 1885 directed by Prof. S.B.
Christy (b. 1853); California Hall, built by state appropriation, had
been completed in 1906. The Greek theatre (1903), an open-air auditorium
seating 7500 spectators, on a hill-side in a grove of towering
eucalypts, was the gift of William Randolph Hearst; this has been used
regularly for concerts by the university's symphony orchestra, under
the professor of music, John Frederick Wolle (b. 1863), who originated
the Bach Festivals at Bethlehem, Pa.; free public concerts are given on
Sunday afternoons; and there have been some remarkable dramatic
performances here, notably Sudraka's _Mricchakattika_ in English, and
Aeschylus's _Eumenides_ in Greek, in April 1907. There are no
dormitories. Student self-government works through the "Undergraduate
Students' Affairs Committee" of the Associated Students. The faculty of
the university has its own social club, with a handsome building on the
grounds. At Berkeley is carried on the work in the colleges of letters,
social sciences, natural sciences, commerce, agriculture, mechanical,
mining and civil engineering, and chemistry, and the first two years'
course of the college of medicine--the Toland Medical College having
been absorbed by the university in 1873; at Mount Hamilton, the work of
the Lick astronomical department; and in San Francisco, that of
dentistry (1888), pharmacy, law, art, and the concluding (post graduate
or clinical) years of the medical course--the San Francisco Polyclinic
having become a part of the university in 1892. Three of the San
Francisco departments occupy a group of three handsome buildings in the
western part of the city, overlooking Golden Gate Park. The Lick
astronomical department (Lick Observatory) on Mount Hamilton, near San
Jose, occupies a site covering 2777 acres. It was founded in 1875 by
James Lick of San Francisco, and was endowed by him with $700,000,
$610,000 of this being used for the original buildings and equipments,
which were formally transferred to the university in 1888. The art
department (San Francisco Institute of art) was until 1906 housed in the
former home of Mark Hopkins, a San Francisco "railroad king"; it dated
from 1893, under the name "Mark Hopkins Institute of Art." The building
was destroyed in the San Francisco conflagration of 1906; but under its
present name the department resumed work in 1907 on the old site. At the
university farm, of nearly 750 acres, at Davisville