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

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and enriched ideals of our common academic humanity, so to speak, may rightly be inventoried as permanent improvements. On October 2, 1899, President Wheeler came to Berkeley and qnietly took up the duties of his new office. On the morning of the 3d, he met and addressed the students of the University for the first time. On the evening of the 3d he was received by the Academic Council at Stiles HalL On the 25th, down on the old cinder track, in the presence of a multitude of people, he was formally inaugurated. The occasion was graced by the presence and participation of our former President Oilman, now Presi- dent of the Johns Hopkins University, and of President Jordan. All of those ripe October days were days of promise for California. Who could doubt that the larger view of things, in this western democracy of ours, was fast coming into its own? The keynote of the President ' s first public address the address to the students on Octo- ber 3d was loyilty. To this sentiment the response of the students was immediate, and was as irresistible in its fine contagion as that other memorable response when their clarion-tongued We will! rang out over the campus. Some of the most important functions of a university in these times are extra- mural. Time has justified these activities, not so much by the amount of light fur- nished to the uninstructed, as by the power and self-knowledge that have come to the universities through contact with the world of things as they are. In spite of urgent calls at home, there has been no contraction of our influence abroad. Extension courses, farmers ' and teachers ' institutes, irrigation and forestry conventions, college settlements, are some of the fields in which our University, in common with other universities, is at once teacher and investigator. By the end of the year our Depart- ment of University Extension in Agriculture will have held, during its 1899-1900 series, at least eighty meetings, each meeting consisting usually of several sessions. At least forty counties of the State have been reached. President Wheeler and Professor Plehn have taken the initiative in behalf of a Commercial Museum in San Francisco, designed to foster the growing trade relations of the State, and to serve as a laboratory and museum for our College of Commerce. Professor Leuschner ' s suggestion, looking toward a uniformity of standard for the higher degrees in Europe and America, led to the notable meeting of university presidents in Chicago, February 27th and 28th, and to the formation of the Association of American Universities a movement de- clared by an eminent authority to be one of the supremely important educational movements of the century. President Eliot was elected President of the Association, and President Wheeler. Vice-President. The rare advantages of Berkeley as a place for summer residence and study can- not and do not fail of appreciation. A broadening of the scope of the summer school, last year, resulted at once in a surprisingly large registration of attendants. The regular University student is privileged to attend these sessions and to get what credit he can. In this way the much agitated question of a regular summer term is working itself out. JAMES SUTTON. 13

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Hearst Hall |X the autumn the glad intelligence was given out that Mrs. Hearst was com- ing to Berkeley, to reside for the winter, and to be in touch with the great institu- tion of which she has been so noble a patroness. For her residence, one of the most delightful homes of Berkeley was secured, and she straightway began the erection beside it of a stately pleasure dome. The completed structure was a reception room of novel design, of magnificent proportions and of priceless artistic adornment Hearst Hall. Here for all this winter season its gracious hostess has dispensed the most bountiful and queenly hospitality to the whole University. Hearst Hall ' s vaulted ceiling was first illuminated and its polished floor first approved at the Junior Promenade. At the opening of the second term, its walls hung with rare tapestries and paintings, and enlivened with constantly renewed floral decorations, there began a stated round of entertainments. Every other even- ing thirty women students have been invited to dine. On each Saturday afternoon a whole class has been received. On each Sunday afternoon another class has en- joyed vocal and instrumental music by the best talent which the season has afforded, and fortune has been particularly kind in sending to the Pacific Coast Henry Holmes and his symphony quartette, Bispham and Madame Gadski. On every occasion de- lightful refreshments have been served. In addition, Mrs. Hearst has received callers on Wednesday afternoons. One evening each month a student rally has been held in the Hall. Its use has been given for the Carnot Debate, for the University Cotillion, for Glee Club Concerts, for the Charter Day Play, and for every worthy enterprise which has asked it. When was ever a University blessed with such a patroness? W T hat generation of students was ever so fortunate? But these unceasing pleasures have been the instruments to a higher mission. Entertainments under such surroundings have been a social education, and the intercourse of the University community which has gone on in Hearst Hall has been the foremost means in propagating the spirit of ascendant California. We would render all honor, all reverence and all affection to this representative of noble womanhood who so thoughtfully conceived this design, and who has so completely, so tactfully and so successfully carried it out. 15