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

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like them, and take this opportunity to show them in their true colors to those who may be unacquainted with them. Yet we have always endeavored to draw the likeness as closely as possible, and hope the lessons contained herein may not be wholly lost. Year by year our grounds have been dug out and filled in, and filled in and dug out again ; year by year new buildings and new conveniences have made their appearance to meet the ever-increasing needs of the University, and from the very first it has been the wont of the BLUE AND GOLD to take note of these improvements. Therefore, in accordance with custom, we look around us to see what another year has added to the long list of rapidly succeeding improvements which our young but already illustrious alma mater has enjoyed. First and greatest, we note the fact that the lyick Observatory has been completed and at last actually become a department of our University. Hardly less important is the institution of Athletics as a regular course in the curriculum, under the direction of a competent medical examiner and instructor. In the establish- ment of this course a long-felt want has been satisfied, and we see no reason why, under the able instruction of our courteous gymnasium teacher, Mr. Magee, the results, which the short time already passed has sufficed vaguely to foreshadow, should not be realized, nor why the University of California should not take at least as highly creditable a standing in Athletics as her Eastern sister colleges. Before closing, let us say a word or two concerning our advertisers, who, we feel, have been somewhat neglected in the past. Many of them are friends of the University, without whose aid, we are free to confess, the BLUE AND GOLD could not have appeared, and we therefore ask our fellow-students, when possible, to make a point of bestowing their patronage on those who advertise in our annual.

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e K Obs ruatory Within the past year another has been added to the already extensive list of departments of liberal study and scientific investigation afforded by the University of California. And it is a matter of no small gratification to the students especially, as well as to the people of the state at large, that this last and crowning addition was made at the bequest of an honored citizen of California who had accumulated a princely fortune in our midst. In these generous gifts to our University, as well as to other educational institutions in the State, those of our citizens who have enjoyed much of earthly goods have well lepaid what they have received by dedicating liberal portions of their wealth to the cause of education and science. With every well- planned addition to its list of courses, with every generous endowment, the University becomes better equipped to fulfill the high mission to which it has been called, as well as made stronger in the affections of the people. By an express provision in the will of James Lick, who died in October 1876, the splendid sum of $700 000 was dedi- cated to the construction of a telescope and the equipment of an astronomical observatory which should surpass anything of the kind in existence heretofore. And it was also provided that as soon as this ambitious provision had been carried out, that the completed work be handed over to the University of California. The execution of James Lick ' s bequest to the State of California as personated in the University, was intrusted to a