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

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M ADMINISTRATION JAMES ROLPH, JR., GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA B. A. University of San Francisco, 1910 o THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA : I am happy to wish for the students of the University abounded success in all of their endeavors. During some of the time my son, James Rolph, III, attended the University of California, I was proud to have him associated with the BLUE AND GOLD as the editor of your annual publication. To those students who were fortunate enough to complete their studies at the close of the last semester, I am pleased to extend my congratulations, and may good luck go with them in their future endeavors. ' With my compliments and every good wish to all the members of the staff of the BLUE AND GOLD, the faculty, and all the students of the University of California, Governor of the State of California. [18]

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FACULTY ADMINISTRATION

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ADMINISTRATION w ROBERT GORDON SPROCL, PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY B. S. University of California, 1913 LL. D. Occidental College, 19:16 LL. D. University of Southern California, 1930 LL. D. St. Ignatius College, 1930 1 i ' HE first duty of a university student is not to learn but to think, not to accept but to question and to solve, not to take the word of a book or a professor for anything except as basis for his own investigations. When- ever he reads or is told anything by anybody, from the President of the University up, he should put to himself two questions: Is it so? and What of it? By these tests he will eliminate much misdirected action, many harmful conclusions based on wrong premises, and much useless speculation composed of elements which even if true are of no importance. I wish there were more of that sort of questioning in this University despite the problems that it might bring me as President. It shocks me deeply to hear youngsters quote prejudices with complacency and acceptance, as they often do. While we hear a good deal of the revolt of youth there is altogether too little demand for freedom in the things that really count. The revolt of youth, to be worth anything, must be against all that is built upon sham and hypocrisy, against all that impedes progress toward the truth. To be young and an intellectual vegetable should be a contradic- tion in terms, not an equation.