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

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World ' s Fair Edition of the BLUE AND GOLD is before you. Our University has completed another year of its existence, and in that time has accomplished much. We have gained a Presi- dent, a man who has labored long and faithfully in the interests of the educational system of the State, a man in whom the Uni- versity in particular has every confidence, and whose intimate sympathy with faculty and undergraduates alike must assure him the heartiest cooperation from all departments. The University is to be congratulated, and as a University we hail our President with ' warmest hopes for his success. An account of the discovery of the Fifth Satellite of Jupiter will be found further on in our pages. While the .discovery has aroused the keenest interest of the whole scientific world as an epoch-making event in the history of Astronomy, we feel that under a different management of the Lick Astronomical Department it would soon take its place as one of a series of such brilliant achievements. Of Barnard ' s discovery every University man is justly proud, and, as all must feel a lively interest in the personality of the discoverer, we have requested him to furnish us with his portrait and his own account of the discovery. We present both, and on behalf of the University we thank him for his kind compliance with our request. In athletics the University has far excelled her record in any previous year. We have beaten our old rivals, the Olympic Club, in football, and have