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

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power are not always as broad or as wise as those that maturer men might apply. But such as the competition is, it is fairly conducted more fairly than in almost any other community. Nor does Yale confine its appreciation to the man who has succeeded. To him who comes out first it gives the prize. To him who has tried and fallen short it gives honorable recognition and encouragement to try again. It condemns none except the man who was too lazy or too self-centered to try at all. These, then are the things for which Yale stands: The pursuit of truth as an ideal, the development of breadth of understanding, and the training for citizenship which results from fair competition and government by public opinion. (Courtesy of Life at Yale. ) EX-PRESIDENT TAFT, NOW PROFESSOR TAFT

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will permit him. This force of tradition and opinion is what governs Yale ; and in the main it does its work well. It insists on clean living. It frowns on drunken- it condemns sexual dissipation unequivocally. There is no place where a boy with right instincts, going out into the world to enjoy his freedom, gets more help from public sentiment than he does at Yale. It is also unequivocal in con- demning shams of even- kind. It encourages the student to try to value men and things for what they are rather than for what they advertise themselves to be. Of course it does not always succeed in getting a true scale of values. Some things look large to the student body which look small in after life. Some things are judged under the influence of momentary waves of emotion, which might be judged differently if the verdict were more deliberate. But on the whole the standard is democratic and manly, and in the majority of instances essentially right. The boy also finds himself encouraged in every way to put his talents at the service of the community. Is there something that he can do with his brains or his voice or his hands or his feet? Let him measure himself against others and show who can serve the community best. By such competition will he get a proper sense and proper rating of his own power: by such competition will the community get the leaders it wants to take charge of the things that it wants done. Here again the judgment of the student body is far from perfect. It does not always reward most highly the things that are best worth doing. Its tests of YALE DORMITORIES

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Cosmopolitan Harvard v G. X. PHIUJPS ' 13, PKESIDENT OF THE HAKVABD CMMSOX, THE UNIVERSITY DAILY From the simple to the com- plex such in brief is the his- tory of Harvard. Founded as a college in 1636, Harvard was for over half a century, until the College of William and Mary was chartered in Virginia, in 1693, the only college in the country. Cambridge, now a thriving city of over one hundred thousand people, was then a fron- tier settlement, and there is still lingering evidence of this fact in the clumps of willows, sprouts from the old stockade against the Indians, crossing what is now part of the College grounds. The year following its foundation, Harvard was established in Xew- towne. and the name of the town was changed to Cambridge. The University includes Har- vard College, and the following graduate schools requiring a Bachelor ' s degree for admission: the Schools of Divinity. Law. Medicine. Arts and Sciences, Applied Science, and Business Administration. This organization, unique among educational institutions, has enabled the University to do as much as a single institution can do to maintain the more liberal course of study in American colleges as an essential part of our educational system. Such an organization has brought to Cambridge many ambitious students from all parts of the country, serving as an effective safeguard against provincialism and promoting keen intellectual zeal and competition. Today Harvard is a small city in itself, with a student registration of four thousand four hundred and fifty students and a teaching staff numbering seven hundred and seventy-four. The College proper contains two thousand three hundred and eight students, and in addition to the Law School with seven PRESIDENT LOWELL