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

 - Class of 1912

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an ex-officer in the Confederate Army, was, by the authority of the Board of Regents and the Adjutant General of the State, made the head of the organization, and :nt Professor Soule was made Commandant of Cadets, Curtis H. Lindley was the ranking Cadet Officer. Thos. P. Woodward was Battalion Adjutant. James H. Budd was an Orderly Sergeant, and John E. Budd was the Corporal. The battalion appealed in parades in Oakland and San Francisco and went to Sacramento to assist in the inauguration of Governor Booth. The first uniform was dark blue ; the coat being a doub g-breasted frock, and the hat a black felt. The rifles were the heavy muzzle-loading Springfield, fcf the type used in the Civil War. It was on the trip to Sacramento that John Budd. prompted by Arthur Rodgers. William R. Davis, and Ed. Parker, made his famous speech to Corporals and Officers Assembled, and which lasted four hours: from 10 o ' clock in the evening until 2 in the morning. For recreation, there was while yet in Oakland, comparatively little of organized contest. Baseball was the leading sport. The Pacific Coast championship was won by the Wide Awake Club, composed chiefly of college men. The chief contestant was the Pacific Club, composed chiefly of players in San Francisco. Most of the games were played on the Clinton grounds, in what is now East Oakland. The championship bat for one series of games I saw only a few months ago. but I won ' t tell where I saw it. The quality of amateur baseball was as good in those days as it is now. Football, there was none, except as occasionally a spherical ball was brought to the small campus, sides chosen, coats hung on the fence, and we went at it under rules of our own making. Billiards formed quite a prominent part of the recreation, and Fennessy ' s Parlors at Eighth and Broadway was the general meeting place from 4 to 6. Debating held a -eery prominent place in college affairs. The Durant Rhetorical, which numbered among its members Arthur Rodgers. Hairy Whitworth. John M. Whitworth. George W. Reed and William R. Davis, was the parent organization. The Durant maintained the college paper, called for a time The Echo. which was published monthly, then bi-monthly, then weekly. A double quartet of excellent voices, well trained, constituted the University Glee Club. Charlie Stone. Will Davis. Ed. Parker. John Whitworth and George Ains- worth were the more prominent members of the club. Of pranks of the small college type there were plenty. The college bell weighing some 300 pounds was gotten down out of the belfry and hidden away to be brought out a month later and be made the motif (is that the word?) for a camp fire orgie on the campus. Dr. Durant ' s good old bossy cow, with proper persuasion, one night took up her quarters on the second floor of college hall, that brownish red building of five rooms, f shall always think that the young man who first registered in the University had something to do with those affairs. Professor Durant was our instructor in mental and moral philosophy. He was a 23

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very dignified and kindly mannered gentleman, but the temptation that he prese nted to us at times was too great to be resisted. If we were prepared, the recitations went on ; but if we needed a little time to prepare for the next exercise, two of the members of the class would rig a see-saw on him, and in five minutes he would complacently close his eyes, slide back in his chair, lean back, and with his hands clasped across his stomach, lecture till the bell rang. In the meantime the members of the class in perfect quiet were digging like good fellows to get ready for the calculus or for the English that was to come at the next hour. The department of modern languages was presided over by Professor Paul Pioda, a Franco-Italian Swiss of some accomplishment in language, but the easy prey of young America. He had classes in French, German. Spanish, and Italian. Life held no allurements for him so long as he remained in the University. In the class in French, what Charlie Stone didn ' t think of, Reinstein did. and what Reinstein forgot Otis passed up. I was in the section that took Spanish. The book prescribed was de Torros. We used it for a year, handed in the exercises, which were returned to us after being corrected, and got along so so. The second year an assistant was engaged for the department, in the person of a young Spaniard named Gorilla, a young man of really fine quality. At the first meeting with the class we persuaded him that de Torros was the best book he could use. So, without a peep from any one we spent the second year in Spanish, going over the same book that we had used the first year, copying our corrected exercises and handing them in. The grades were away up. The next year, because of some changes in the work, this remarkably fine class in Spanish went back to the head of the department. At the first meeting of class and instructor the latter was persuaded that de Torros was the best book we could use. So, armed with the original exercises that had been corrected, and the corrected ones that had been corrected, we went through with the third year of de Torros, and made a record that has stood from that day to this. I still think that when an instructor extends to a lot of young people an invitation to make merry. it is their business to accept the invitation. It was a privilege to come in close contact with the majority of the members of the faculty and with the students of the small institution : John Le Gonte, Joseph Le Conte, W. T. Welcker, Martin Kellogg and Daniel C. Oilman, of the faculty; and among the students, in addition to those of my own class, Win. R. Davis. John M. Stillman, John E. Budd, J. C. Rowell, Frank P. Deering, Josiah Roycc. Fred V. Holman, Wm. Carey Jones, Harry Vebb, and many others, of course. Mentioning the name of Harry Webb brings to mind an incident to which he called my attention when he was here a year and a half ago : Webb was a member of the committee that selected the blue and gold as the colors for California. But the suggestion came from Miss Rebekah Bragg of ' 76, who was not a member of the committee. The suggestion was so appropriate that it was immediately adopted by the committee, and we were given the most beautiful colors of any college in the country. 24

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