University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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College of The history of the Medical Department of the University reflects the Medicine growth of medical education in America in general. Started as a private institution under the name of the Toland Medical College, it became a branch of the University at a time when collegiate institutions were intended for those who love Lacademic seclusion, far from the hurly-burly of the workaday world. Medicine - too much of the everyday world, was too closely related to everyday human needs, to attract the attention of the University recluse. Toland Medical College sprang from an idealistic devotion to medical education, a love of teaching, a pride in the profession of medicine. From 1873, the year of its nominal union with the University, to 1900, it remained essentially a private institution, separated from the University in everything but name. During the past ten years it has been merged in the University, has been surrounded with the University atmosphere and adapted to University methods and ideals. Its fundamental departments of anatomy, physiology, and pathology have been organized upon an academic plane. It is hoped that this is but a beginning and that its purely medical chairs will soon be in the sunshine of University favor. A. A. D ' ANCONA. Lick The Lick Observatory, forming the Lick Astronomical Department of Observatory t , 1(; . University of California, was founded by bequest of James Lick. It is a research institution. Its purpose is to increase human knowledge concerning the celestial systems and bodies which surround us. The instrument equipment is llent ; the climate is extremely favorable during a large part of the year, and the corps of astronomers has been remarkable for its enthusiasm. N formal instruction is given, but admission is accorded to graduate students already well taught in astronomy, who are qualified to serve as assistants in researches on which the astronomers are engaged, provided there are available living accommo- dations on the mountain. Such students are assigned increased responsibilities as they acquire experience and skill. V. W. CAMPBELL. College of The College of Civil Engineering aims to present its special Civil Engineering foi o f s tudy with the broadest viewpoint. Thus, we emphasize schedules which specialize in structural engineering, sanitary engineering, railway work and irrigation. But these four groups of specific engineering aims are no more important to the student than the earlier, preparatory and basic subjects, such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, drawing, the languages, history and economics. The ambition of the college is to increase gradually and logically the requirements for matriculation and graduation. The tendency is to elongate the courses in time and to require students to show fitness in the varied branches of learning. This is the object in all of our engineering colleges. We want our men to be broad. The typical, the successful, the ideal engineer of the future must be a constructor, an economist, a business man. a scholar and a gentleman. C. DERLETH. JR. si

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the donor characteristically sought no such recognition, and the new school is simply known as the College of Commerce of the University of California. It is gratifying to learn that the University is having made a handsome tablet in acknowledgment of Miss Flood ' s benefaction. This will soon be placed in California Hall. The special work of the college needs little comment in a University publication. A stalwart, self-reliant and purposeful student body ; a curriculum which peculiarly combines academic discipline with practical knowledge; a limited but honored alumni, and a growing reputation with the outside business world ; such are the char- acteristics of the College of Commerce. HENRY RAND HATFIEI.D. College of The College of Mining of the University of California was established Mining tQ e( j uc ate young men who would aid in developing the mining and metallurgical resources of the state. Many of our graduates are now engaged in this work, not only in the gold, silver, copper, and quicksilver mines of California. but in her oil fields as well. Not confining themselves to California, the activities of our graduates have widened until they extend far beyond the confines of California, reaching east to the Rocky Mountains, north to Cape Nome in Alaska, south to Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Peru and Chile, and into the Far East of Korea, China, Australia and South Africa. Wherever they have gone they have spread the name and fame of California. One of the chief characteristics of the mining and metallurgical methods of modern times is the energy with which mining engineers have attacked those large deposits of low-grade ores and minerals which were formerly considered worthless. The successful working of these ores at a commercial profit has become possible only through the increasing applications of mechanical, physical, chemical and geological science to the problems in hand. This fact has, in recent years, given the mining graduate a decided advantage over the man who has had merely a rule of thumb training for such work. The aim of the College of Mining has always been to combine theory with prac- tice in such a manner that theory should always be in the lead of practice, rather than behind it. In order to secure this result it is absolutely necessary that the mining students devote their time while in college to the thorough mastery of the fundamental physical sciences that underlie all mining practice. But it is also necessary that they should devote their vacations, amounting to three months in each year, to a careful study of the working conditions as they exist in the mines them- selves. Neither of these lines of activity can be safely neglected. Without the theory the practice is unintelligible and purposeless. Without knowledge of the practical working conditions that must be met, the theoretical principles are too intangible to be of use to the student. The success of the California mining graduates dates from the time that this practical study of working conditions was made an essential part of the course. S. P. CHRISTY. so

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Military The Military Department is officially known as the Department of Department Military Science and Tactics. It had its inception in the desire of Congress to provide a means whereby the rudiments of a military education should be more generally distributed throughout the body politic. The total enrollment in the department during the present year is over 130(1. The cadets are organized as an infantry regiment, consisting of a band and three battalions of live companies each, with the usual staff. The commissioned officers are taken, in general, from the Senior Class, sergeants from the Junior Class and corporals from the Sophomore Class. M JOR E. M. I.KU is. It was with regret that the cadet corps and the University at large learned of the order that will relieve Major Lewis on the first of August. During the three years of his detail here there has been a marked increase both in the efficiency of the department and in the interest taken in the work. ROSTER OF COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF OFFICERS OF UNIVERSITY CADETS, FEBRUARY 6, 1911 Captain and Adjutant H. ROE Captain and Quartermaster D. T. BAJICOCK Captain and Chief Musician R. H. BI.OSM K First Lieutenant Battalion Adjutant, First Battalion H. E. JACKSON First Lieutenant Battalion Adjutant. Second Battalion R. J. JUNCERMAN First Lieutenant Battalion Adjutant, Third Battalion G. M. CHAPMAN First Lieutenant Inspector of Rifle Practice H. V. LEFFLER First Lieutenant Principal Musician C. A. Fox Regimental Sergeant Major K. C. MOHHHAKHT Regimental Commissary Sergeant H. T. CARLTON Battalion Sergeant Major, First Battalion F. L. WILSON Battalion Sergeant Major, Second Battalion R. W. BETTOI.I Battalion Sergeant Major, Third Battalion W. W. FERKIER Drum Major R. MAYNARH COMPANY A Capt. R. W. MACDONALD 1st Lieut. P. S. JONES 2nd Lieut. E. D. McNEAR COMPANY B Capt. V. O. LUND 1st Lieut. E. N. CHAPMAN 2nd Lieut. A. F. BRIDGE COMPANY c Capt. R. H. MOULTON 1st Lieut. C. J. BANDMANN 2nd Lieut. M. R. ROBBINS COMPANY D Capt. R. E. ROBSON 1st Lieut. A. M. FOSTER 2nd Lieut. J. R. QUINN COMPANY F COMPANY L Capt. F. C. CLARKE Capt. W. E. AUSTIN 1st Lieut. E. R. McCuLLOUGH 1st Lieut. J. H. THOMSON 2nd Lieut. E. C. LIVINGSTON 2nd Lieut. G. D. WIMP COMPANY ' G Capt. N. C. Hutt 1st Lieut. I. V. Augur 2nd Lieut. C. Fuchs COMPANY ' H Capt. H. H. KRUEGER 1st Lieut. A. R. TURNER 2nd Lieut. W. P. TUFTS COMPANY I Capt. W. C. LITTLE 1st Lieut. J. L. SHARPSTEIN 2nd Lieut. A. B. TINNING COMPANY M Capt. J. E. KRELING 1st Lieut. D. P. HARDY 2nd Lieut. A. T. BROWN COMPANY N Capt. H. E. MORSE 1st Lieut. F. M. CASAL 2nd Lieut. A. EATON COMPANY o Capt. G. C. JENSEN 1st Lieut. R. DE CAMP 2nd Lieut. T. A. EITHER COMPANY E COMPANY K COMPANY P Capt. C. D. Y. OSTROM Capt. C. B. OHNEMULLER Capt. M. JACOBS 1st Lieut. J. A. DIAS 1st Lieut. J. O. ZIEBOLZ 1st Lieut. D. TROWBRIDGE 2nd Lieut. H. L. WYRICK 2nd Lieut. H. M. ALBRIGHT 2nd Lieut. R. C. McGEE Second Lieutenant C. H. NIELSON, attached to Provisional Company.