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

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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

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The Architectural Competition Board of Trustees J. B. REINSTEIN. WILLIAM CAREY JONES. JAMES H. BUDD. Jury of Final Award J. L. PASCAL . . . Paris. PAUL WALLOT . . . Dresden. JOHN BELCHER. . . London. WALTER COOK . . . New York. J. B. REINSTEIN . . San Francisco. Prize Winners FIRST MONSIEUR E. BENARD Paris SECOND MESSRS. HOWELLS, STOKES AND HORNBOSTEL New York THIRD MESSRS. D. DESPRADELLE AND STEPHEN CODMAN Boston FOURTH MESSRS. HOWARD AND CAULDWELL New York FIFTH MESSRS. LORD, HEWLETT AND HULL New York M. BKNARD. |HE successful termination of the International Competition for the Phoebe A. Hearst Architectural Plan for our University, as evidenced by the award of the first prize to Monsieur E. Benard in September last, is a matter of history. The submission of the revised plan by the great architect and its speedy realization are awaited with interest by all those interested in the welfare and progress of California. It is the pleasant duty of the BLUE AND GOLD to present a brief resume of this wonderful Competition, as marking an epoch in the history of our University ' s development, and to point out as far as is possible what those now experiencing the inadequacy of our humble University home may hope to see realized for the succeeding generation. The project of adopting a permanent and comprehensive general plan, to which all subsequent buildings of the University should conform, was recognized by the Board of Regents as a necessity, and was approved by them early in the year 1896. They foresaw the manifold advantages of erecting the successive buildings, so that each should contribute to the architectural whole, over a confused collection of inde- pendently erected and unrelated buildings, which conglomerate mass would destroy the possibilities of the natural site. The idea was conceived by Mr. B. R. Maybeck, who proposed that the inharmonious structures now situated on the University site be obliterated, and that in their places a noble and co-ordinated group be erected. The need of such a general scheme of buildings was satisfied by the acceptance