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

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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

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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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Blue Gold Page 2O Dedleaitioe of Library off Fre e!h Tlnoeglht While the Panama-Pacific International Exposition was in ses- sion in San Francisco, the French Government sent a priceless col- lection of volumes to be exhibited, containing books by the greatest French writers. It was on September 6, 1917, that the French Gov- ernment sent M. Edouard de Billy, Deputy High Commissioner from France to the United States, to present formally the Uni- versity with this collection. It was especially fitting that this date should be chosen for the presentation of these books, as it was the one hundred and sixtieth anniversary of the birth of Marquis Lafayette, who, by his efforts in the Revolutionary War, forged the first links in the bonds of sympathy between the two republics. President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, in accepting the gift in behalf of the University and the Regents, said that the library could well be called a sanctuary, a place where men and women could convene and receive the lessons it would suggest of the heroism of the French people in the present world crisis. Tlh GaiiMpaelle CMm Ringing their first notes on the day of the victorious big game with Washington, the campanile chimes have become a recognized institution of the University. After many delays and months of waiting the bells arrived from England, accompanied by an expert bell hanger, and the work of installation was com- pleted on November 2d. The formal dedi- cation exercises of the bells and Sathcr Tower took place on Charter Day amid a gathering of many hundreds of alumni, who returned to the University to take part in the Semi-Centenary Week cele- bration. The bells are played three times dur- ing the day by the chimes master, the mechanical device, which is to ring them every fifteen minutes, not having been in- stalled because of delav in manufacture. Raising the First BCII to its Position