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

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GAIN the silent wheels of time their annual rounds have driven, and ninety-three comes before an expectant public with her BLUK AND GOLD. We have no apologies to offer; we lay no claim to literary immortality. If our readers really want some symposia and apotheoses we should be pleased to contribute some Freshman themes unspeakably profound which were highly commended by Mr. Armes and Dr. Hubbard. But we warn you beforehand; you will not find any in our book. On the other hand, it has not been our purpose to criticise indis- criminately everybody and everything connected with the University, but rather to reflect, as faithfully as we could, the brighter spots of our college life in its various aspects. If we have succeeded in our attempt to realize this aim; if the record that we have here made is such that it will delight us in days to come by the memories it recalls, then we rest content. To you, gentle reader, we leave the judgment. A SHORT time ago we received a note from a member of the Faculty in which he remarked that he trusted that under our direction the BLUE AND GOLD would be perfectly honorable. The inference was that some,

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Beta Theta Pi So Phi Delta Theta 83 Sigma Chi 86 Phi Gamma Delta 88 Kappa Alpha Theta 90 Sigma Nu 92 Delta Sigma Delta 94 ASSOCIATIONS 95 Alumni Association 96 U. C. Club of Southern California 97 Durant-Neolean 98 Longfellow Memorial 100 Philosophical Union 101 Berkeley Athenaeum 102 Law College Debating Society 103 Evolution Club 104 Young Men ' s Christian Association 105 Stiles Hall 106 Young Women ' s Christian Association 107 The Occident 108 Co-operative Association no Students ' Aid Society in Book Club 112 Science Association 113 Ladies ' Tennis Club 115 U. C. Tennis Club 116 Los Angeles High School Club 118 Camera Club 119 Press Club 120 We Fellahs 121 MUSICAL ORGANIZATIONS 123 Glee Club 124 The Glee Club . . .- faces 124 U. C. Orchestra 126 Military Band 127 PUBLIC DAYS 129 Commencement 130 Class Day 132 Charter Day 133 Junior Day 134 Sophomore Hops 135 Bourdon 136 MILITARY DEPARTMENT 137 Battalion Officers and Sergeants faces 140 University Buildings from Rear 142 ATHLETICS 143 Gymnasium 144 Football 145 U. C, Eleven faces 145 Baseball 148 Tennis Tournaments 150 Track Athletics 151 Ninety-three ' s Athletic Team faces Football and Baseball Games LITERARY MISCELLANY The University Buildings faces Professor John LeConte faces TEMPLE OF FAME ADVERTISEMENTS. 152 158 159 1 60 162 259

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if not all, of our worthy predecessors had been disloyal to their Alma Mater and disrespectful to the Faculty and students. We feel sure that such an interpretation of the spirit of the BLUE AND GOLD is unwarranted and that, if due allowance be made for the natural exuberance and jocose nature of the college student, no such charge could be sustained. To speak for ourselves, we have never been moved by any motives that were not con sistent with the deepest love for students, Faculty and our Alma Mater, and if we have unwittingly overstepped the bounds of propriety in any direc- tion, we trust our readers will not attribute the error to disloyalty nor to any other wrong motive. K THE last college year came to a close encircled by a halo of solemn splendor. Professor John Le Conte, having finished a long and noble life work, closed his eyes in the deep sleep of peace We have missed the sweet face and tender voice from our midst, yet the ennobling influence of his thought and words and actions remain with us as a rich and inalienable heritage. He being dead yet speaketh. THE year that is just drawing to a close has been a prosperous one in almost every particular. Notwithstanding the inauguration of the Iceland Stanford Junior University, our present Freshman class is the largest that ever entered. We are already beginning to feel the healthy stimulus of competition, which will become keener as our sister University grows. It is hardly too much to say, that the advent of the L,. S. J. U. was the best thing that could have happened for the U. C. We welcome our neighbor to the educational field and trust she will prove a competitor worthy of our steel. In the mean time let us look to our laurels. K THE Regents seem to be awakening to the needs of the University, and have made at least a beginning toward giving us facilities for more 10