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

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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

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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 The Spirit of California AM bidden to write on the Spirit of California as represented in the University of California upon the lilies of a talk I had the honor of being asked to deliver at the Freshman Rally in the (ireek Theatre. Others are to write on more concrete subjects connected with the growth and organization of the University. Theirs is the easier task, for they can use statistics and fill their papers with facts and valuable information, whereas I have to call upon my memory for the ideas inspired by looking upon the massed crowds of students collected in the Greek Theatre upon one of the significant occasions of the University year. It is one thing to speak to an audience of thousands on a great occasion ; it is quite another to gather up such ideas and set them down in the limits of a brief article, even if it is intended for so special a class of readers as the readers of the Iilue and Gold. The Spirit of California! It is the spirit of many civilizations and many races here forged into one people looking westward over the Pacific Ocean and knowing that it can not leap that ocean and spread any further. All these civilizations are represented in the University of California. Look over a list of the students in the University and you will be struck by the variety of names and the diversity of races represented. Here, in the class-room or in the Greek Theatre, can be found representatives of the various European civilizations, Englishmen, filtered through New England or Virginia and preserving the marked effect of American life upon the original stock, Scotchmen either of direct importation or filtered through American experi- ence but always preserving their marked characteristics, Irishmen with the 20