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

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4- HASTINGS COLLEGE OF LAW AND LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIO DEPARTMENTS. 1879. Thursday, August 7, - First Term begins. Wednesday, December 17, - First Term ends. [Winter vacation of three weeks.] 1880. Thursday, January 8, Second Term begins. Tuesday. March 23, - Charter Day. May 5, - Senior Day. May i-io, Junior Exhibition. May (first week) - - Field Day. May 27, 28, 29. 31, - Examination for Admission. Wednesday, June 2, Commencement End of the Year. Oummer vacation of nine weeks.] August 4, 5, 6, - Examination for admission. Thursday, Augusf 5, - First Term begins. Wednesday, December 15, First Term ends. DENTAL COLLEGE. Recently established. Lectures to begin shortly. - I ay determined by Faculty. COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, 1880. Monday, February 2, Preliminary Course begins. Saturday, May 15, Preliminary Course ends. [Vacation of two weeks.] Tuesday, June I, Regular Term begins. Saturday, October 30, - - Regular Term ends. Commencement held early in November. COLLEGE OF PHARMACY, 1880. Friday, March 12, Lectures begin. Wednesday, September 14, Lectures close. [Lectures only Wednesdays and Fridays.]

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t rs PROLOGUE. TAe wanderer over rural Berkshire sees, from afar, the figure of a gigantic horse, roughly carved from the turf of a hill-slope, and gleaming white with the whiteness of the exposed rock, and stops to muse over this lasting battle trophy of a well fought day. It is the White Horse King Arthur ' s royal emblem the device wrought upon his standard and blazoned on his shield, what time, upon that field of Ashdown, he first gave check to the conquering Dane; is the hill up which the young king cast a troubled eye over the far outnumbering Danish army, ere with purpose taken he said aloud to his questioning lords, Dare I go up at them ? In God ' s name and St. Cuthberfs, yes ! Since then the simple country folk have ever made an annual pil thither, to preserve from encroachment or obliteration, this record of their ancestors, that coming generations might remember and ponder over deeds worthy of emulation. Such is the ancient custom of Scouring the White Horse. Kind reader for you are kind to read we of this book have fought no battle, won no victory, reared no trophy. We are the simple country folk, whose turn it is to scour our White Horse; to keep fresh in the minds of our successors the memory of deeds done upon our college Ashdown, of fights fought long ago. And to the discharge of this, a time-honored duty, we go indifferent alike to applause for success, or to sneer sat a probable failure, but claiming, as is due, respect for the spirit which prompts us. Salve !