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

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GENTLE READER: The Blue and Gold of ' p 5 is before you. Its faults are many, but we ask you to overlook them. We do not lay claim to literary immortality; as a book for and by the students, the editors have endeavored to render it interesting to all the students of the University and to their many friends. Our function of criticism has been employed wher- ever we thought it necessary, but remember that our aim has been to amuse and that we bear malice toward none but good will toward all. The selection of material for the ' ' Miscellany has been a difficult task and we have probably made many mistakes. We hope, however, that you will find nothing to your distaste. Kind reader, we will not detain you longer, but leave you to wander through the book as fancy dictates, hopittg only that you will be able to glean from its pages something both good and useful. 6

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As men of far-famed ' 96 this book -we dedicate To all the coeds in all classes here. ' Tis just a mark of our respect (shall -we the rest relate f) Respect er mingled with the slightest fear ! For still the coeds come, they ' II soon out-number us by far We must provide for future time, when WE the coeds are !

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(professor QJSernarb s year ' s Blue and Gold has a portrait of Professor Bernard Moses as a frontispiece. The Editors believe that it will interest those who know the high position held by the Professor among America ' s historical scholars to know, also, something about the way in which that position has been won. As the foundation for his subsequent work was chiefly laid during n s student days in Germany, we will begin with a brief review of his studies there and an outline of the state of historical science at that time. To the student of History and Politics, Germany offered many attractions in 1870. History was making on a large scale. A new national life was awakening and was soon to find expression in a new Empire. The study of history had just attained new dignity and strength, after passing through a period of transformation lasting thirty years. A new school of historical scholars, who had been ripened among the stirring events from 1848- ' 70, had now won full recognition in the German Universities. There were such great men as Mommson, Droysen, Treitschki, Ranke, Burckhardt, Voigt, Roth, Waitz, Lepsius and others. Historians were no longer mere antiquarians and romancers as of old. They were scientific investigators, seeking in the records of the past the causes and rational principles by which to understand the present. History was conceived of as the study of the evolution of society. The study of Political Economy, too, had acquired new life. The Historical School founded by Roscher in 1843, now controlled the Universities. These men refused to consider Political Economy, as it had been before their day, an abstract science. They believed that every phase of economic life should be studied in the light of its setting, in its own time and country, and in accord with these views, the whole science was being remodeled. In 1870 the founders ) Born August 27, 1846, at Burlington, Ct. Educated at: the High School, Bristol, Ct., Wesleyan Academy, Mass , the University of Michigan, l866- ' 7o. Student of History, Political Economy and Archeology at Leipzig in Saxony, Berlin in Prussia, in Sweden, and at Heidelberg on the Neckar, where he was given the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1873. Teacher: First experience, at 16 years of age, in a district school, for a short time. Professor of History and English, at Albion College in Michigan, for three months. Professor of History and Political Economy, at the University of California since 1875.