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

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faults in the minds of the hypercritical alone, and will be refuted without extra charge at the same time. Then it will be at once noticed by the cour- teous reader ' s mind that the noble exploits, whose recital will fire his blood, far outweigh the few and paltry e rrors whose pitiful tale for a moment dampened his enthusiasm, only to have it blaze out with redoubled fervor and admiration for our class. A few brief words assist the already acute intellect of the reader to see the immense disparity between virtues and faults; and he turns away deeply and sincerely impressed with the magnifi- cence of the class of ' 91. The simplicity, elegance and effectiveness of this method need no comment ; they will appeal to all right-minded individuals. To begin then our herculean first part : The class displayed its pre- eminence in athletics as usual ; they won all the baseball games they played, and it was evident that their only remaining game was a certainty ; the ten- nis championship fell to a member of the class. Knowing their undoubted superiority in track athletics, and feeling assured that it would spoil Field Day if they won everything, they almost unanimously refrained from enter- ing, and thus magnanimously allowed the other classes to carry off the laurels ; in football our team has stood ready to play on every occasion, but the others have been afraid to meet us ; wet grounds and cold feet were the poor excuses offered. In a literary way the renovation and renaissance of the Durant Neolean, under our auspices, are evidences of our power. We are also assured on good authority that the artistic value of the buildings is greatly heightened by the worn places in the tin on North Hall steps, due to our continuous and assiduous efforts. We also originated the Senior Promenade ; but the Promenade, not we, made the deficit. We now come to the other side of the picture. After long, fair-minded and vigorous search we can only find it objected that we have been more cinched than any Senior Class. But this is no calumny on us : it is only a device whereby the Fac- ulty (who love us) give us opportunity to display our vast power in the final rally, when we will throw overboard all such slight hindrances. The foregoing showing cannot but impress the admiring reader with the fact that the future of the universe depends largely on the clemency of the individuals comprised in our pre-eminently estimable class union. HISTORIAN. 23

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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF ' 91. THK class of ' 91 hereby, herewith and herein makes its fourth and last undergraduate bow to the general public and traditional cold, cold world, of which it is so soon to become an important part. Here we beg leave to pause in order to pay toll to the customary and traditional. For the benefit of the uninitiated we will elucidate the nature of this toll, but before going further will hasten to assure the class that it will not involve them in any more deficits. Fortunately, the customary and traditional is willing to take it out in trade, and thereby the above paradox is explained ; in other words, it is only necessary to do annually a little free advertising for the customary and traditional in the shape of mentioning the customary and traditional feeling of hope and expectation of our Freshman year, which on its near approach, being now so imminent, .is metamorphosed and be- comes a feeling of reluctance to leave this hallowed spot. The bonds which we have formed with our beloved instructors heighten and enforce this reluctance. It might be remarked, in passing, that our class is partic- ularly favored in this respect. Some of our instructors are so attracted by us that the before-mentioned bonds have been strapped up to the last hole about some of us. It is, of course, very undignified of them ; but we must bear with them and not break their hearts by getting away. Having now devoted, as we believe, generous space to our gratuitous advertisement, which we assure the gentle reader would not have happened if the class had not grown conservative for financial reasons, we will turn to enumerate her achievements. But first we will state that the reason it would not have happened is that the class enjoys new ways of doing things, and merely for a change would have entered into litigation to avoid the necessity, and kept at it till she left when the costs and damages could not be collected from her disintegrated parts. You see there true and high edu- cation. But now, untrammeled, our heart leaps with joy at the prospect of freely extolling the virtues of our class. But too violent enthusiasm is not scientific; and, as we are highly educated, this must be calm and thoroughly prejudiced, but nothing if not scientific in method and manner. Such being the case, we will proceed after the manner of the earliest masters of the art of writing and catalogue the glorious and renowned feats of our unexcelled class. Following that will be an extremely brief list of the errors and faults of the year, most of which will be found to be only supposed errors and 22

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CLASS COLOR: SILVER. CLASS MOTTO: Zoo JJ.8V VIHOL V CLASS YELL: Rah! Rah! Rah! Ha! Ha! Ha! ' 92! ' 92! Rah ! Rah ! Rah ! DE WINTER E. HELEN RICHARDSON WARREN V. CLARK J. BROOKS PALMER . . DAVID M. MATTESON . . FRANCIS M. GREENE . OlFFCERS OF ' 92. FIRST TERM. . . . President . . Vice- President Secretary Treasurer . . . .Historian . Sergeant-at-Arms SECOND TERM. ED. F. HAAS ROSA RYAN ROBERT D. COHN. . . J. BROOKS PALMER . . WILLIAM D. CHAPMAN .... President . Vice- President . . . . Secretary . . . .Treasurer Sergeant-at-Arms 24