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

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REGENTS EX-OFFICIO His Excellency, Friend W. Richardson Governor of the State of California and President of the Regents Clement Calhoun Young Lieutenant-Governor of the State of California. Frank B. Merriam Speaker of the Assembly. Will C. Wood State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Henry Alexander Jastro President of the State Agricultural Society. Byron Mauzy President of the Mechanics Institute. Clinton E. Miller President of the Alumni Association. David Prescott Barrows President of the University. APPOINTED REGENTS Arthur William Foster Garrett William McEnerney Guy Chaffee Earl Charles Stetson Wheeler John Alexander Britton William Henry Crocker James Kennedy Moffitt Charles Adolph Ramm Edward Agustus Dickson James Mills Chester Harvey Rowell Mortimer Fleishhacker George I. Cochran Mrs. Margaret Sartori John Randolph Haynes Alden Anderson OFFICERS OF THE REGENTS President His Excellency, Friend William Richardson Chairman Arthur William Foster Secretary Robert Gordon Sproul Treasurer .Mortimer Fleishhacker Attorney James H. Mannon Assistant Secretary Calmur John Struble Page 19

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MESSAGE FROM DR. W. W. CAMPBELL rapid and tremendous growth of the state universities during the past quarter-century is perhaps the most striking fact in Ameri- can educational history. A survey of our educational institutions reveals that, in more than eighty per cent of the national area, the student attendance is prevailingly with the state universities. In many privately- endowed institutions, such as Stanford University, limits are placed upon attendance, whereas in state institutions there can be no such limits imposed. Not to mention other factors involved, I am willing to be quoted to the effect that the responsibilities of state universities for the higher education of the young men and women of our country are going to be even greater in the future than they are at present. We should not over look the patent fact that California is destined to become one of the most populous states in the Union. Further, the seat of our University is in one of the world ' s natural foci. The greatness of the University of California in coming decades will be measured by the vision and wisdom of those who will have been responsible for its development and guidance. The proper functions and purposes of a real university should be denned to the understanding of everybody. Its chief concern is with the truth; to discover it, to teach it and to learn it. The first and fore- most obligation of the institution is to the students who come seeking to learn the truth, to develop and train their mental powers, and to prepare themselves for good citizenship. If I were asked to define the most pressing need of American universities today, I should unhesitatingly say, the development of greater reverence for the truth and the search for good in all things. The State of California owes no one a higher education. It simply provides, through the University, the OPPORTUNITY for higher education to any son or daughter who desires it and can qualify for it. If, unfor- tunately, there are any students in the University who do not take their opportunities seriously they should not remain there ; they are a load for the University to carry; they reduce the average of University merit; they are in the way of deserving students. All that American democracy can be expected to say for EQUALITY is equality of opportunity. I ' tige 1 8

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CROSSING THE BAR Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me. And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea. But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound or foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns home again. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark. And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark. For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar. Alfred Tennyson.