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

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PREFACE. I HE BLUE AND GOLD of the Century Class has had one ideal: to stand as a souvenir of the year just gone, this year, so remarkable in many memorable events. And it is with pride that we can record, in this twelve-month, the patriotism of four score of our brother College-men, that we can point to the most decisive victories ever won by our athletic teams, that we can note the sure, strong uniting of College interests and College men, and, that we can announce the first successful steps taken in the great architectural plan for our New University. If we have dwelt long on these marked features of the past year, it is because their prominence demands, or should demand, such notice. With these topics to emphasize and the whole, varied field of our College life to represent, we have tried faithfully to chronicle University of California under- graduate life. And our first aim has been to throw over it all a strong local color, to make the volume depict our own College and our own times. The Art Work, while not reaching the mark we had hoped for, is, we believe, a long stride in the right direction. We have clung tenaciously to home talent- Our illustrations have been carefully designed by Berkeley artists, and we have avoided professional work, except in one or two isolated cases, where innovations in color work have necessitated such departure. Besides these, we have secured complimentary drawings from many other sources, friends and alumni, who have gladly assisted us in adding beauty, as well as strength and variety, to these pages. Our statistics have been a peculiar source of worry to us. And it may be best not to commit ourselves by stating our standards, for none realize more keenly than we how far short we have fallen from our original purpose. But, for the guidance of those who may criticise our spirit of innovation, we shall briefly outline our ideals. The BLUE AND GOLD should chronicle the life of the College, the work of the organizations and societies for the past year. And the history should be interesting and entertaining, and should be comprehensive and complete. Too often the statis- tics are merely dry lists of names, valueless, save for casual reference. We have broken violently away from this traditional mode of treatment and perhaps have flown to the other extreme. The long lists of names, that cumbered the book in the past, have been omitted and the space occupied by reading matter that can find no place in the College Register. We have striven to infuse into the statistics a life and originality that will make them readable. We have tried to represent all the phases of life in this great University of ours, and to hand to the college world a book that represents us thoroughly. You are to decide whether we have succeeded.

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