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

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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

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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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THE UNIVERSITY AND THE STATE SAX DIEGO MARIXK UN )l.oi;H ' Al. STATION sity and the world-famous Lick Observatory furnishes astrondmers to observa- tories in every part of the western hemisphere. There are those who hold that a State University, supported by the hard-earned mon ey of the people, should spend neither time nor money in teaching the dead languages. California would be ashamed were her University inferior in any particular to the best university our country possesses. It would be inferior did it not give to those who desire it the opportunity to study the classics. And so, as a matter of course, California ' s University teaches the dead languages as well as she teaches the material arts and sciences. In short, as it is needed and called for, no branch of human knowledge is neglected at the State ' s great school. It is the people ' s clearing house for learning and knowledge the people ' s educational forum. As such it must supply the State with every kind of knowledge and learning that is needed to fit such of its men and women as desire to avail themselves of it for that station in life to which they may aspire. But these are not the only things the University is doing for the State. It is fitting our youth to take their places in the State ' s public life. Her sons and daughters are busying themselves, as all good men and women should, more and more with their politics, the politics of the State. They are giving California ' s politics a higher tone, they are fighting political corrup- tion, they are striving for a better government for the people and for themselves. At every session of the Legislature there go to the State Capitol those who have worn the Blue and Gold. Two Justices of our Supreme Court and two Governors have hailed from Berkeley ' s great institution. Mayors, city 16