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

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BLUE AND GOLD This academic year has seen us become better students, minds and morals both improving-, so that there will be i n the future no little emulation in our intellectual labors. High standing will become necessary, will become a criterion of student status outside of the Recorder ' s office. Socially we have improved. Concerts, club-meetings, diver- sions of various kinds have brought us nearer together. The California Alpha chapter of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity has been revised, thus making five active Greek letter Fraternities. A successful inter-society entertainment was given. We have started new organisations. In short, we are beginning to better know and appreciate ourselves. The poor cinder track and neglected campus have felt the impulse. Athletics are beginning to boom . We played base-ball a little, and after we were warmed up engaged in foot-ball most creditably, forgetting our class games and our class prejudices in our common University feeling. And this electric wave will roll on and on until Berkeley students at last will deem it necessary to reside in the town and be somebody in college life. Even the Legislature awoke and gave us money, and the Regents forgot their politics and honored us with their attention. They painted the Gymnasium and enlarged it, levelled the un- sightly hill in front of the Mechanics and Arts building, improv- ed North Hall in many ways, built a student ' s observatory, started a tunnel to supply us with water, even surprised the cin- der track with their touch. Further to convenience us the nar- row gauge railroad is soon to come among us. Finally it appears as if the colleges of the University in San Francisco and the colleges in Berkeley were beginning to assim- ilate with each other. Besides, our library is by frequent ad- ditions, especially by the Hittel gift of photographs of works of sculpture, a centre of attraction, which is making itself strongly felt. Such, then, is the change which the editors have noticed and have endeavored in their work to symbolize. In behalf of the Junior class they welcome all and extend, to the honored head of this institution the Junior right-hand in welcome. Nor do they forget the literary societies, the fraternities, nor anything connected with our student life. To all God speed .

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BLUE AND GOLD Again the white plugs, donned now some eight years by each succeeding Junior class, are lifted in respectful courtesy to the world and the massive Junior heads uncovered. Peculiar class- men swear; co-educational simpletons hush for once their gig- gles; unfortunate Instructors sigh; indiscreet Professors scowl and by an unusual exertion fully determine, in their own minds at least, that the BLUE AND GOLD shall appear no more. So they have done each by-gone annus, so they will do now r . Regardless of their cry, the thirteenth volume appears before you to be read and torn to pie ces for a moment, and then be laid on the shelf with the worthy company which have gone before. As regards literary matter, it is a production somewhat differ- ent from the BLUE AND GOLDS of former years, to which it is indebted for many valuable hints. Each new volume has intro- duced features which have come to be considered as essential, and these will be found in their well known places. Perceiving that there is in the college world, with a few exceptions, a gen- eral feeling that much which is merely local matter should be replaced by something of wider interest and of more lasting character, the editors have weaved into their class publication something which, it is hoped, will be both enjoyable and useful to the general public as well as to the student body. Not that it is believed best to throw out all the lighter effusions as if in- discriminately casting discredit upon them, but that they should be pleasantly contrasted, as it were, that the BLUE AND GOLD should more materially benefit th e University and be of enduring merit. Such is the tendency in all colleges and we think that the student body will approve of the change here. That body itself has changed. It is broader than it was. It is a body, which from its manly enthusiasm now affords pleas- ure in its contemplation. There is a stronger bond of sympathy between it and the Faculty. And for the cause we must look in the main to the arrival of President Holden. His name itself started a glow of enthusiasm and pride among us, and his com- ing gave a feeling of confidence to the whole college world, vherever its component parts might be. We- did not hesitate to place reliance in the young, active, generous-hearted man- hood.

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10 BLUE AND GOLD WASHINGTON. D.C When first I went to Washington, a fitting Prex I sought