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

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On February 29, 1916. 2500 students armed themselves with picks and shovels and marched to Charter Hill to construct the Big C trail. In a period of two short hours the six-foot trail, complete with bridges, drains and stiles, had been completed. named The Angel of Death . During this era, an undergraduate who had attained the lofty state of a junior purchased a gray top hat, decorated it to his fancy, sat on it before anyone else had the opportunity, and then wore it everywhere as a sign of his advanced social position. Seniors sported equally dilapidated black silk hats. When the classes of 1907 and 1908 proposed building the Big C , strenu- ous faculty criticism ensued which held that the color of this landmark would mar the beauty of the hills. Taking no heed of this artistic opposition, the C was built on March 18, 1905 by two hundred underclassmen who relayed buckets of gravel and concrete up Charter Hill in a drenching rain. The path up the side of the hill was constructed by twenty-five hundred students who strung themselves up to the Big C along a pre-arranged route on the morning of February 29, 1916. At the end of two hours a six-foot gravel trail had been made, bridges and drains had been built and stiles constructed. Benjamin Ide Wheeler came to the University in 1899 and served as president during the years of the University ' s greatest development as it was in this period that student self-government was initiated and the campus grew through private gifts and increased state financial aid. Charles Franklin Doe contributed one-half of the cost of constructing the one and a half million dollar University Library, which was completed in 1911. The With money provided by jane K. Sather, construction of the Campanile, or Sather Tower, was begun in 1914. The cornerstone for Wheeler Hall was laid in March. 1916, by President Benjamin Ide Wheeler. The pushball contest was a highlight of the Soph-Frosh brawls of many years ago.

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The Senior Pilgrimage of 1908, when men really wore straw hats and woinen carried white parasols. The Pilgrimage of the class of 1914 leads past the half-completed Wheeler Hall. I Campanile, Agriculture Hall, Hilgard Hall and many other buildings ap- peared in this era and with the construction of Wheeler Hall in 1914, the center of campus student life moved from old North Hall to the newer building. Years later, the need for further expansion became acute and by popular subscription funds were raised for the construction of the Memorial Stadium in 1922 and Stephens Union in 1923. A State referendum was taken in 1926 to allocate funds for the Life Sciences Building, erected on a site that had for years been the football practice field. There is a striking contrast between the one building Contra Costa Academy of 1853 and the present Berkeley campus of five hundred and sixty-eight acres. The keystone of the University of California is the estab- lishment at Berkeley, but beyond that there exists the Graduate School of Medicine and the University of California at Los Angeles; the Medical Center, the Hastings College of Law, and the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco; the University Farm and College of Agriculture at Davis; the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton; the Citrus Experiment Station and Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture at Riverside; the Wolf skill Academy of 1853 and the present Berkeley campus of five hundred and ography at La Jolla; and the Kellogg Institute of Animal Husbandry at Pomona. . m 15PEUWE16SWK I J Tvnorou . ' - - f. t.- . B- , i. n Imp ill jri||- ixj QMM U. -Qtnm R.w-c Of Matetty: n ' . M . - -ma Cap Or P- Urwribortft Of Trry Swpviorc Ta Our Royal C M ! FtonUr R d - tact AMI Tt Net Our - Sir, v Wid, Bt E r Prampt To Sww. . - t ' - T%y Tn t r VMTI Attend Citft U -v, V. T Wo Prf MOOO- c m rtato Ol Th Sophomore. H.tvr Ma- xb . - Ot y nB ttvKinbuan A typical scene outside Sather Gate ten years ago, before hazing became a lost art on the campus. One of many frosh warnings which appeared on campus telephone poles in the days when hazing was in rogue. Financed by popular subscription, the Memorial Stadium was built in 1922 as a monument to students of the University who lost their tins in the World War.