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

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THE UNIVERSITY AND THE STATE What Has the University Done for California? T WAS the desire of the young men of ' 49 that California should have a splendid free public school system, crowned by a great free university. Themselves without wives and chil- dren, none of them purposing to remain longer here than would be necessary to take from the mines modest competen- cies, the youthful pioneers of California laid deep and broad in the State ' s first constitution the foundation upon which now stands our University. That University is intended to fill the higher-educational wants of all the people of this State. Do California ' s farmers need expert advice con- cerning their soils, their crops, the duty of irrigation water, the kind of fer- tilizer needed to keep up their fertile acres, or any other aid or advice, or knowledge the experts at the University, paid by the people of the State, are at their disposal. Does the planter of wheat, the grower, of citrus of deciduous fruits, the vitictilturist, the possessor of timber, the breeder of livestock, the dairy- man want to know what is best for him to do under certain contingencies the University people are ready and willing and glad to furnish him with the best knowledge possessed by the world in that matter. Do the rancher ' s sons or daughters want to become scientific, expert farmers, the University ' s College of Agriculture, with its attendant Univer- sity Farm, is open to them. If our young men or young women desire to become electrical, or min- ing, or civil engineers; or to study chemistry in any or all its branches, or 14

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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

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THE UNIVERSITY AND THE STATE THE LICK OBSERVATORY. MOl ' XT HAMILTON to become acquainted with the science of commerce, or to learn the modern laru g acquaintanceship with which California ' s rapidly developing trade and commerce are rendering ' necessary; or to devote themselves to anv of the arts and sciences that tend to the material advancement of the busir of the State California ' s University gives them the opportunity to do so. :r University ' s alumni are known to and trusted by all the world. Are mining engineers wanted to develop and manage the mines of California and other States, of Mexico, of Central and South America, of South Africa University of California men are called upon to do it. The active manage- ment of t he De P eers diamond mines has been for many years in the hands of a California alumnr Are chemists needed on sugar plantations and in sugar mills at home or abroad our graduates are sought for. Are trained consuls and diplomatic attaches needed to represent this nation in foreign countru - our University furnishes its share of them. In short, there is no avenue of material advance- ment for California and the 1 that is not trav 1 some of those who have w..rn the Dlue and Gold. The law and medicine also have their colleges in connection with our Univer- FORESTRY STATION 15