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

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last been set into operation and placed in the hands of an able scientist in the person of Ex-President Holden. The second provision contained in the L,ick will, as to the disposition to be made of the completed telescope, should be the occasion of especial gratitude and pleasure in the hearts of all students and friends of the University, as well as to all who bear interest in scientific advancement. It is as yet too early to speak of the practical results accomplished by the observatory, which has just been made an integral part of our University. Sufficient time has not elapsed in which to hold such a department to account ; the great eye of the telescope has scarcely been turned towards the heavens, but its vision is clear, and its revelations are noted by skillful investigators. The exactness and power it has already dis- played give ample promise of riches of truth in store for astronomy of which we now have little idea. How the genius of man proves victorious over his own misgivings ! The pro- ject of constructing such an enormous telescope has been removed from the doubt which enveloped it from the outset the vagary of a dreamer said the skeptical, a doubtful experiment said the more kindly, but scarcely more hopeful. The Lick telescope is now an accomplished fact, the possibilities of which are before us. It stands a monument to the bold conception and generous heart of the man whose mortal ashes lie entombed beneath its foundation masonry. 10

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board of trustees, consisting of men of business ability. The board set about to accomplish its difficult work with caution and a full realization of the obstacles involved. To us, after the object-glass has been cast, the observatory site chosen, and the department set into successful operation, there is but little appreciation of the grave problems which confronted the trus- tees in their charge of safely satisfying the letter and spirit of James Lick ' s will. First of all, the conception of such a telescope was a splen- did one, but its expression in a polished glass was an experi- ment requiring the highest order of astronomical skill and experience. This experimental character of the work added a a constant element of uncertainty which made slow progress a necessity, and confronted the board with the possibility of fail- ure at every step, from the time the contract to cast the lens was let to Clark Sons till it was safely housed on the summit of Mt. Hamilton. The problem of the kind of glass to choose, the probability of its justifying the expectations confidently placed upon it by the people, the carrying out of the vast amount of detailed but necessarily precise mechanical work were one and all matters of serious thought. Failure at any step would be taken as a great disappointment to the country at large, no less than in scientific circles. The story of the construction and setting into operation of the telescope that now crowns Mt. Hamilton has been often told, and it was related officially at the last commencement at Berkeley by the spokesman of the Lick trustees. There, is then, no need to repeat the interesting history here. Suffice it to say that after no less than twelve years of patient study, planning and supervision, in all of which the board enjoyed the benefit of astronomical knowledge of the highest order, the completed telescope, the vision of which was before James Lick ' s mind when he dictated the magnificent gift to the University, has at 9

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Board of His EXCELLENCY R. W. WATERMAN .... SACRAMENTO Governor, ex-officio President of the Board His HONOR STEPHEN M. WHITE . . . .Los ANGELES Lieutenant- Governor HON. ROBERT HOWE SONOMA Speaker of the Assembly HON. IRA G. HOITT SACRAMENTO State Superintendent of Public Instruction HON. L. U. SHIPPEE STOCKTON President of the State Agricultural Society P. B. CORNWALL, ESQ. SAN FRANCISCO President of the Mechanics ' Institute HON. HORACE DAVIS BERKELEY President of the University NAME REV. HORATIO STEBBINS, D. D. HON. JOHN S. HAGER, LL. D. . HON. J. WEST MARTIN . . . A. S. HALLIDIE, ESQ. . . , HON. WILLIAM T. WALLACE , JOHN L. BEARD, A. M. . HON. T. GUY PHELPS, . . I. W. HELLMAN, ESQ . . . GEORGE T. MARYE, JR., LL. B. ARTHUR RoDGERS,A.B.,Ph.B. GEORGE J. AINS WORTH, Ph.B. D. M. DELMAS, A. M. . . . HON. ALBERT MILLER . . . COLUMBUS BARTLETT, ESQ. . , ADDRESS TERM EXPIRES 1609 Larkin St., San Francisco . 1894 San Francisco 1894 Union Bank, Oakland .... 1898 329 Market St., San Francisco . 1892 799 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco 1902 Centreville 1892 Belmont 1896 Los Angeles 1902 234 Montgomery St., San Francisco 1898 309 Montgomery St., San Francisco 1890 North Temescal 327 Pine St., San Francisco 532 California St., San Francisco 1900 1900 1890 1896 12 Montgomery St., San Francisco CHAS. FREDERICK CKOCKER,ESQ. Corner Fourth and Townsend Sts., San Francisco 1904 JAS. FRANKLIN HOUGHTON, C. E. 216 Sansome St., San Francisco . 1904 Regular meetings of the Board of Regents are held six times a year, viz: on the Second Tuesday in January, March, May, September and November, and on the Tuesday preceedin the last Wednesday in June. In the order of original appointmen 11