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

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THE UNIVERSITY AND THE STATE The University and the State E love the University of California most of all because of her ideal of service to the State. As alumni, ve take pride in the knowl- edge that the lesson which she teaches most earnestly is the duty and privilege of citizenship. Immensely more important than the mastery of facts or the acquisition of polish is the advancement of the happiness and prosperity of the great mass of the people of this State. Knowledge alone, training alone, ability alone are not sufficient to attain this end. We need men who will apply these qualities in the light of ideals of service to their fellowmen. It is not enough for a university to teach the truth. The world needs men of character and determination who will go out into the world with enthusiasm and inspiration to fight for the truth. Ye rejoice that the University of California, fully mindful of her duty and privilege as bene- ficiary of the State, has as her highest ambition to give to the State men of such type. In her vistas of mountain and sea. the wealth of her rivers and fields, the blue of her skies and the gold of her sunshine, and the enterprise, refinement and broad humanity of her people, California is the favored daughter of our Union. It seems most fitting and appropriate that in these surround- ings there should grow up one of the greatest universities of the world great in the learning and ability of her faculty, in the wealth and beauty of her buildings and in the number and zeal of her students, but, greatest of all in her endeavor to aid in the solution of the living problems which affect the happi- ness and prosperity of the State and its people. To accomplish this end. two conditions at least must concur the University must continue to attract students who are democratic, ambitious and willing to work, and she must 18

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THE UNIVERSITY AND THE STATE councilman, district attorneys, superior judges and many other public ser- vants look back to the years they spent beneath the Berkeley oaks. Does the University repay the people of California for the money they have invested in it? Does it pay the people of a State to have educated men and women, scientific me n and women, expert men and women, learned men and women, high-principled men and women, patriotic men and women who know the dangers that beset popular government and are alive to offset those dangers; 1 If so, the University of California repays the people of California fur the money they have spent at Berkeley. The University is giving the State just those kinds of men and women. Is the University a democracy where merit alone counts, and wealth and station cut no figure? The spectacle of students waiting on the tables of their classmates and performing other so-called menial services, and losing neither their own self-respect nor the respect of their fellows, proves that the University is a democracy, at which many of the young men and women of ' this State are being fitted to take part in Californian and American demi icracy. i hit of many similar examples I have in mind one member of my own class, who. as did others of our classmates, worked his way through college and was not ashamed to perform, nor were his fellows ashamed to see him perform, any sort of service to support himself. Since graduation that man lias perfected mining processes which have saved the people of this State many times all that the University ever will cost them. Neither he nor others who have done much for the people of the State could have gotten their educations had the people not given them a free University. Such examples of the democracy and worth of the University are so common that those who are acquainted with them have long since ceased to regard them as anything but the everyday incidents of University life: as anything more than the expected, regular and sure products of the University ' s educatii nal grist. California and the world are better, richer and more livable because our University has given to many, many men and women the opportunity to excel an opportunity which never could have been theirs had it not been for the People ' s University at Berkeley. Californi a ' s people have done much. very, very much, for their Univer- sity. And the University, in its turn, has done, as it should, much, very much for the people of California. GEORGE C. PARDEE. 17

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THE UNIVERSITY AND THE STATE remain true to her present great ideal which springs from her position as a State institution. Recent events have demonstrated strikingly the loyalty of the University of California ' s alumni. This is not a loyalty merely of locality or association. The feeling goes deeper than that. It is a loyalty to the University because of the things for which she stands in the life of the State. It is a loyalty which finds expression in this wish May the University so act and may her sons and daughters so do their work that when the student of the future, long after the granite walls on our campus shall have crumbled to dust, turns over the pages of the history of the State of California and comes to the page which tells the story of our alma mater, he shall find there, written in letters of gold, this legend : The L ' nii ' Crsit of California. A nnirersity of sympathy, humanity, service. The daughter of the State. The mother of good citizens. MAX THELEX. KEARNEY ESTATE AX ENTRANCE 19