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(ninety ; IGHT well we remember how the eminent factotum of North Hall, country-man of that great bishop whose name we honor, shut and locked the door upon us there in the Assembly Room ; thus official recognition was given to ' 95 ' s existence as a unitary and discrete part of the University of California. It was on that pleasant morning in the fall of ' 91, when we were for the first time assembled in a body. After we had been equipped with wise counsel, sufficient, if applied with economy, to last us our whole four years, the same Jimmy opened the door again, and the class of ' 95 was ushered forth, fairly started on its course, with all its troubles and all its triumphs yet before it. The mass of class histories might, borrowing a suggestion from Pope, appro- priately entitle themselves, On the Importance of a Class to Itself. At each stage of the four years, a class fondly fancies itself and its doings of great import to the University and of great interest to the world. But in the course of years there now and then appears a class that attains something higher than this merely subjective greatness aud internal magnitude; there are not lacking reasons for giving ' 95 a place in this noble category, as one of the few, the immortal numerals that were not born to die. To begin with, the very time of its appearing on the scene, and the period within which its course has been run, suggest its peculiar and elevated place in University history. For future chroniclers will, it is quite certain, date from the fall of ' 91 a new and distinct epoch in our Alma Mater ' s career. It will become more and more apparent, as time rolls on, that at that time there are to be discerned the first unmistakable marks of what it would be no extreme hyperbole to call the New University. Now two things happened in that autumn. One was the opening of an educational establishment at Palo Alto; the other was the entrance into Berkeley of the class of ' 95. What the former meant for the University of California is only less obvious than what the latter meant; and thus it was, first of all, ' 95 8 happy fortune to be the first class, all of whose four years were passed after the University had felt the appreciably enlivening influence of a near-by rival of great advertising ability. Perhaps, 23
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indeed, to give a true and philosophical history, we should not represent the coincidence of these two events as accidental; perhaps it would be no over- refinement of metaphysical subtlety to assert a distinct teleological connection between them, such that the addition to the ' Varsity of all the numbers, en- ergy, enthusiasm and intelligence that ' 95 brought with it, was the final cause of the existence of a rival. But this point, as it is a trifle obscure, and as many of the readers of this book are Juniors, had perhaps better be passed over as unsuited to general comprehension. As ' 95 8 birth was synchronous with a new period in the ' Varsity ' s history, so in its later career the class has been witness of exceptionally great and striking doings and developments, quorum pars magriafuit, as has been already observed. It has seen the Univers ity more than double in numbers; it has seen the former acephalous condition happily terminated; it has, in short, seen expansion and improvement take place at all points; and its own place and share in all this cannot appear insignificant. It was, among other things, the first class to hold class field days, not to mention its more general work in im- proving track athletics, which, like Pericles, it found of Brick, and leaves of marble. It was the first, and thus far the only class to hand its political des- tinies for a whole term over to the keeping of the Amazons, thus advancing, none can tell how much, the cause of Woman with a large W. They were coeds of this class who first conceived, and by virtue of their position as Seniors, carried out the astonishing innovation of applying principles of common sense to feminine attire. The class will probably contain the first Japanese graduate of the University. And so the enumeration of matters in which ' 95 has acted as the leader and pioneer of new tendencies and glories might go on; but it needs not such a recital. The fact is so obvious that it has but to be suggested. And at last there comes for ' 95, as for its predecessors the final stadium of the course, and the end begins to loom in sight. The early days of Minto and his fellows appear to the memory only in a far and dim perspective; mathe- matical formulae that once, in Freshman time, seemed stamped upon the very fleshy tablets of the heart are now long since floated away down the pleasant stream of forgetfulness. ' 95 ' s hierophants of Leisure for no great time longer exercise their religious duty of keeping North Hall steps warm; its military heroes strut only a few times again upon the campus full of memories of hot and weary drills in days past. The fact that a history of ' 95 will never again give interest to a Blue and Gold, thus lends a certain nos morituri melancholy to the close of the present stirring record. But though ' 95 goes out to be numbered among the classes of the past, she takes with her a hearty loyalty to the young mother of us all, who, though she be not quite so richly en- dowed as some of her sisters, is yet wealthy in a dawning greatness of the future. 24
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