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

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Blue y Gold Page 18 HILGARO MALL That the growing need for more buildings in which to house the faculty and students in the College of Agriculture has become more and more apparent each year is well emphasized by the com- pletion of Hilgard Hall, the new addition to the agricultural group, which was opened and dedicated last summer with a monster pageant. This structure is capable of accommodating two thousand students, besides containing a great number of rooms which are used as offices of faculty members. The building, which was completed at a cost of $280,000, is made entirely of reinforced concrete, and will be devoted to upper division work in the department and to graduate research. Only seven of the sixteen branches of the department of agriculture are working in the new hall, as the majority of the space has been devoted to research laboratories, large laboratories which are used by the stu- dents in agronomy and genetics, seminar rooms and offices for the administrative work of the department. A complete cooling and refrigerating plant occupies almost the entire basement of the building, which is used for the purpose of extensive experimentation on the subject of fruits. Hilaard Hall

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1919 Blue Gold THE UNIVERSITY A NEW University or. rather, a new phase of the University A which this year celebrated its fiftieth year of progres- AA sively successful existence, has resulted from the entrance - - of tlie United States into the world war. The personnel of the student body, if one may use the phrase in its most general se, is indicative in the greatest degree of the change which has le itself felt. Over one thousand men left the University dur- ing the fall seme ter to join various branches of the service, and while the men of the entering freshmen classes at August and January were present in their customary numbers, the men of the junior and senior classes have dwindled to a mere handful. Athletics during the collegiate year have been characterized by the normal amount of interest and support from the student body, ]- l ite the difficulty encountered in the selection of teams and com- petitors. and the spirit of universal co-operation in the continu- ance of university traditions and customs as far as possible during the duration of the war has been shown by the way in which the rallies and student body meetings of the year were attended and supported. The University has not been lax in response to the demands which military authorities have made upon the entire country. A lly fraction of the male students and rather more than that of the faculty members of scientific and technical departments is the least of California ' s gifts to the nation. The answer which has been ;ved to the request to give financial and personal aid to the causes of national service, the Liberty Loan issue, and the Red ss has in each case far exceeded expectations, and the women of the University have acted as a unit in volunteering for work in the latter field. The entire viewpoint of Californians has been shown in innumer- able instances during the past year, and is clearly self-evident from an inspection of any phase of collegiate life it may be expressed in a few words, namely, a grim determination to survive and over- come the handicaps which have resulted from international strife, a striving to make each individual ' s best efforts of more value in the service of the nation, and, finally, united effort in the cause of a bigger, finer University result from the situation today.

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1919 OILMAN HALL A silent proof of the progress of the Depart- ment of Chemistry of the University is given liy ;ilman Hall, the new chemistry building. Ji is ,-i thive-story. white- building which was completed during the 1917 summer - - sion. and was erected at a cost of approximately KM i. The building ievoted entirely to the instruction of upper division students and to graduate researeh. and. when all the apparatus which has been ordered for the laboratories of the building has been installed, will have an equipment which is rivaled in the United States only by that of the Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology. The building is named after Daniel Coit Oil- man, a graduate of the University and one of the country ' s foremost chemists, and was dedi- cated on March 2 1. during the Semicente- nary celebration on the campus. Imau Hall is equipped with every sort of apparatus which is used in advanced work in inorganic and physical chemistry and is decidedly modern in everv detail. BlueV Gold Oilman Hall Page 19