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

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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.

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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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' SSS ADMINISTRATION WILLIAM WALLACE CAMPBELL President Emeritus; Director Emeritus and Astronomer Emeritus, Lick Observatory B. S. University of Michigan, 1886 M. S. University of Michigan, 1899 Sc. D. Western University of Pennsylvania, 1900 LL. D. University of Wisconsin, 1901 Sc. D. University of Michigan, 1905 Sc. D. University of Western Australia, 1911 Sc. D. Cambridge University, 1915 Sc. D. Columbia University, 1918 MONROE E. DEUTSCH Vice-President and Dean of the Universi ty and Professor of Latin roessor o atn A. B. University of California, 1901 M. A. University of California, 1903 Ph. D. University of California, 1911 ' HIS world of ours is a tremendously interesting place, and its most in- teresting elements are the human beings who make it their home. People are interesting because, in general, they are given to doing things, to representing cer- tain ideals, and even to fighting and dying for their cherished ideals. If the planet Mars were known to be in- habited by intelligent beings, beings active in the affairs of their world, who of us would not be immediately and deeply and continuously interested to learn of their ways and works? If, on the contrary, Mars were positively known to be devoid of intelligent life, the interest taken in that body by our people would be almost negligibly small. Colleges and universities have for their principal purposes the making ready of their students to do things, and more especially to exercise leadership in the doing of worth- while things; and, simultaneously, the de- veloping of reverence in their students for the good and beautiful works of man and the truths of nature. The colleges and universities are making the world ever more interesting. |E WHO are here permanently see ' each May a throng march across the stage in the Stadium, re- ceive their diplomas, and van- into the outer world. Each August, in turn, we welcome a new group of students to join our company. The student body is merely a stream passing by a fixed point in a river. Students come and students go, but the University abides and endures. And just as students are but temporary resi- dents in the University, so are all of us who are associated with its work merely tenants for a day. The thing that lasts is the Univer- sity. Growing in age but ever young, teacher, discoverer, inspirer of each succeeding genera- tion, this institution is well worth the whole- hearted devotion of us all, as one of the en- during and abiding forces for good in a world in which there is so much that is trivial, so much that is evanescent. [op]