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136 THE TOURIST'S CALIFORNIA artist; though it lacks the ripe beauty of an older community of buildings infested with tradition and great names, one feels, as he roams about the oak-shaded lawns, that here is a scaffold upon which great achievements will fasten and climb. The Mining Building near a grove of blue gums, the Chemistry Building from whose portico each graduating class leaves upon its farewell tour of the campus, the ivy-covered home of the Faculty Club, the Hillside Club, the President's house, the gymnasium, the memorial gates and bridges, the creek, the lily pond, the Botanical Gardens, Tilden's Football Monument, the Greek theatron, each contribute an element of beauty and interest. In the library are treasured manuscripts, among them the first draft of The Heathen Chinee. Bret Harte held the University's Chair of Recent Literature in 1870. Sir William Ramsay, Hugo de Vries, Jacques Loeb, and Professor Arrhenius, the Swedish physicist, have lectured before the annual Summer School. The names of Frank Norris and Jack London are on the roll of the university's literary alumni.

South of Oakland on a steep hill above Fruitvale is the eccentric domain of the Indiana poet who was baptised Cincinnatus Hiner, but was known at home and abroad as Joaquin Miller. For twenty-five years he lived here on the site of Fremont's camp and planted trees, 80,000 of them,