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

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iTHE UNIVERSITY AND THE STATE The Spirit of Service HE UNIX ERS1TY is a State university in a wideness of mean- ing that few comprehend. The great mass of its students forty-five hundred of them are assembled at Berkeley. This is the place where the teaching is done. Setting of standards and search for truth are. however, obligations upon it as well The University exists in the Pathological Laboratory at Whit- tier, the Forestry Station at Santa Monica, the Citrus Station at Riverside, the Imperial Valley Station at Meloland, the Marine Biological Station near San i g the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, the Kearney Farm at Fresno, the Physiological Seaside Laboratory at Monterey, the Forestry- Sta- tion at Chico. the University Farm at Davis, and the Affiliated College build- :n San Francisco. At all of these places work is being done for the good of the State. The provision for support made by the State is scattered over all these institutions. The figures look large in the unqualified total, but really the sum provided is utterly inadequate for the range and impor- tance of the enterprises involved. So great is the range that the forty-five hundred students at Berkeley come sadly short. But on the other hand the students, even if they do sit on window seats at the lectures, have the joy of participating in a State-wide work. They belong to something great and worth while. Perhaps those boys that sit on the window seats will get just as much as if they sat in the midst of elbow room with vacant desks on each side of them. They know there is power and movement in the development of this great undertaking, even though its deficits and its defects be large as they are patent. It is an institution that is trying to serve the State in all matters where scientific determinations can be utilized by the government of the State. It deals in its hygienic laboratory with the testing of disease, in another department with the applications of the pure food law. in another laboratory with the testing of fertilizers, in another with the diseases of trees and plants. It might well be entrusted, through its department of political science, with most of the business of framing the devices required by new legislation, if not the form of the legislation itself. It stands to serve the schools wherever it can. to forward the cause of good taste and morals every- where in life. It never was called upon yet by the State that it did not hearken- it stands here ready to serve. BEXJ. IDE WHEELER. 13