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Show J TJPlN fflflVMaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 8ITY IIOtJeVAH I Has and Lily llohrald Dl.t.nTPs'f t'saipalllara at ll.tk.lej Cama of a retail of '.aarnlnc Mas lfl la Ike lUar. (Ean Franclaco Letter ) At the commencement of the Unl-vertlty Unl-vertlty of California tho women of tbo data carried off all the college honora. Not only waa tho medal won by a young San Krancltco woman, but tho aocond, third and fourth places In the data wero also occupied by women and tho only young man from the academic department who had a place a speaker on commencement day ranked fifth In hla class. Thcro have been women medalists at Berkeley before be-fore In 1830 a woman won tho medal na again In 18J3, and between there waa a year when thcro waa a tie bo-I bo-I twecn n man and a woman. Ilut thero I haa never been n class before with four I women at tho head of It. The winner J" thla year's medal was Miss Lily Holifeld of this city, 23 yoars otd. and a daughter of Udward Hohfeld, a mualc teacher of TOO Aahbury atreet. Mlee IlohfcM la slid to havo attained the highest perrcntago ever received by a graduate of tho University, her record being 14C first acctlon houra out of a total of JC8. after tho faahlon of collego computation, which counts a atudy which occurs four tlmci a week l LILY HOHFELD. for one term aa four houra, "First toc-tlon" toc-tlon" raeam above 90 per cent. Lily Hohfeld, twin slater of Rose, Blood ioo-ond ioo-ond In tho claaa. Tho two titters took the aame course and always workod to-ther. to-ther. Roto Hohfeld had 135 flrat aectlon houra out of 158. Tho Hohfold glrla aro charming, frcah-faced, comely come-ly young women, whoao browa aro un. marked by a alngle no and whoao tr ght eyea, thick hair and freah col-orlng col-orlng aro a living refutation of tbo wornout prophocy that tho hlghor edu-cation edu-cation would bo ruinous to femalo health and looki, to say nothing of femininity and sovcral other desirable ?' ? A'l through tho achoola tho Hohfeld girls havo had tho aame record, aweeplng every one and ovory thing before them. From the tlmo when, aa tota of 6, they went out of their father's houso swinging the little aack which held their alatca and prim-tre prim-tre they have stood at tho head of their claaaea. They do not know what It la to aland anywbero else, and Lily baa alwaya been flrat and Roao aocond. Their teachers eay they aro equally bright and have equally good mental oqulpmont, but Lily la a little moro aolf-asserllvo and has a trlflo moro ambition am-bition than her alator. Lily la onl.a,t. laded to bo at tbo top; Roso la aatlafled to bo next to Lily. Those remarkable glrla did their preliminary work at tho Horeco Mann Oraramar School, graduating In June. 1803. They bad medala thero. The aceno of their noxt triumph waa tho Olrla High School, where they are held up na modela oven to thla day and where they graduated ai aalutatorlan and valedictorian of their class In Juno, 1895. Then came th Unlvcrlty, whero they took tho elaaalcal courao, with plenty of Latin j and Oreok, and where, It la aafa to say, their record will not soon be surpassed. sur-passed. Fsclllty In learning asema to tharacterlie tho entire Hohfeld family. fam-ily. An elder brother, Edward, waa graduated from tho University of Cal-Uomla Cal-Uomla In 1898, atandlng third In hla tlaaa. A younger brother, Wesley, will graduate In 1901 from the aamo la-stltutlon. la-stltutlon. During hla freshman and sophomore yeara ho baa taken seventy, teven houra and haa yet to rocelvo a second taction. Tho llobfolda corns naturally by their excellent acholar-thlp. acholar-thlp. Their mother waa Mlta mile- ROSB HOHFKLD. brand, and when alio graduated at Slake's Seminary, ono of the furaoue old schools of Oakland, ahe was tho youngest In her claaa and tho head ot It. Her father. Henry Illllobrand, was the principal ot the first public school In Oakland, and taught German mathematics math-ematics In the old Collego of California, Califor-nia, which was afterward merged Into tht Stats University. On both aides the glrr como of Gorman parentage, and It la a remarkable fact tbat Miss Wartonwoller nnd Miss Qrunsky, who stood third and fourth In tho class lately graduated, wore also of Gorman descent Tho Hohtolda havo had bequeathed be-queathed to thorn tho atrong phyalquo md stronar brain of tho Teuton. Thar |
