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

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A California!! Through and Through

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lue and (Reid President Wheeler ' s Message UNIVERSITY represents the most permanent form of human institutions. Any appearance of rapid transmutation is likely therefore to be deceptive. Nevertheless I believe the appear- ances of growth this present year are very genuine. They stand for fundamental things. For instance ; a department of architecture has been founded, and a recognized master set at its head. This means that we are not merely to build buildings. We will make buildings teach. The Hall of Mining Engineering built this year sets the standard of what the future university visible is to be. In the Greek Theater a son has taken up the work of his mother and built a structure as unique as it is beautiful and serviceable. California Hall, begun this year, speaks for the generous sympathy of the State. Again, the establishment of the Department of Physiology is significant not alone for the coming of a distinguished scientific man to its headship, nor yet for the building of a laboratory by gift of a public-spirited citizen, but chiefly for its indication of our faith that the spirit of research is the life-breath of university teaching. After all the real character of the University will depend upon the sort of people who teach in it and the sort of people who study in it. The Faculty have gained significantly in strength. The student-body has been notably invigorated by the retirement of about two hundred and fifty students who disclosed at the December examinations a lack of appreciation of the opportunities offered here. Again, the very successful Faculty Club and the most promising San Francisco Alumni Club are both symptomatic of better things in unity of spirit and life. We are drawing together : we are all coming more and more to feel the University is really ours. 16 Creek Theater