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

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The romantic young lady and her student friend must have had some difficulty in fishing each other ' s letters from the bottom of this post-box ; but it is not hard to imagine how the rival, who attempted one night to purloin the young lady ' s letter, got his hand .jammed in the crack and was held there till she canu- along in the morning for her property, and (after he had sought her pardon very humbly) had him liberated. Strawberry Canyon, on the south side of the grounds, is the most frequented tramp in Berkeley, perhaps because one may stroll along the upper creek bed and lose sight of all that reminds him of a town forget, for a little while, streets, and houses, and gardens . . . and books. Runnins hill, over a tumbled bed of boulders and through, ! laurel and willow, and tangled disorder of creeper an untamed beauty and waywardness that pleases as V hen, in .May days, the creek bank is dot- ted with pale blos- soms o blue eyes and pi bu the walls of the els i if oak and Creek has -land can- croons himself the shade the busht-- - .ines back from the South; when, half sad, half svpt fi5sSp R[gU - ' iic by the breeze from the distant oaks, while f ronfffci Stl jyP cuhyo.fi. tin- t ' alifornia jay (a grave old cynic) is heard laughing m erMffipETlliaa BpBgh then will Strawberry Canyon surely repay a visit. : lf f Many are the places among 1 Berkeley ' s hills and canyons where Oberon and Titania hold their revels, nor need one have partaken of the mystic fern-seed to enjoy a tramp ; but, as the monk of the Tyrol said to his brother friar, Thine eyes are not mine nor thine ears. Go, friend, and see. 1, M. T., ( :;.

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Fork leaves the grounds is the spot where, one hot summer, Mexican Jose turned the creek upside down in search of gold. There is gold along this creek, it is true, but it is the gold of beauty. The Botany Garden, too, tucked in between the Observatory and North Hall slopes, has a story to tell a story of climate, for its blooms are the snow of ' winter. Daffodils, violets and jonquils in December, lilies and hyacinths |.ilacs from northern Europe, ericas from Africa, magnolias from Carolina. n, sequoias from snowy Sierra, palms from the Indies, yuccas from naavwalk around its paths and walk around the world! glade, between Observatory Hill and the heels of Old nee of peppermints and iron barks, this is surely a piece PoLone half expects a wallaby , to jumj , started from yonder . lAkts of our minia- No one setting s nita ' s you Alumni for a si aps, the ; a feter years e forest, a huge sunken bowl lyptus, reaching skyward a f leaves. If an eastern man ind him of the class-day spectacle is lien WeeJT of carpeted earth, banked with gray hundred feet r more, and roofed vi wants to know of Berkeley ' s tradition; held here in the young days of May. In April and May, the flank of Number Hill. skirting this eucalyptus glade, is a veritable bee pasture. Knoll and slope and dei. i vered with wild currants. pnppies and larkspurs. When there ' s a taste of salt in the air, with the wind blowing fresh from the Pacific, the flashes of color and patches of wild oats, moving in wave-like mimicry, transform the plac into a painted sea. Over near Strawberry Creek, the oaks and laurels are thick again. The once famous Post-office oak is hereabouts. It stands a little apart from the grove, along the creek, but. unless you can discover a deep wind-crack, or post-box. in the trunk, it is hard to distinguish the Post-office oak from the rest of them.

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The University in the Past Year HE past year of University work might be characterized a the banner year of California ' s progress. No preceding twelve months of University history have marked off so many mile stones of solid advance. Begun on a broader basis, favored by new and encour- aging prospects, the year closes with a brighter prospect for tin- future than ever before. To review in brief space means to neglect many matters of importance. A ' it-tailed resume, indeed, would require a supplement to the present edition. Full justice can be done neither to the development of the other departments, nor to the more recent outlets of University growth. It is only possible, therefore, to cite the more prominent features of progr California ' s advance toward the standing of a World University is, in part, illustrated by it relations to the Far East. The disturbed condition of affairs in the Philippines, resulting necessarily from the transfer of military to civil authority, called for specialized knowledge of a high order. Professor Bernard Moses, of the University of California, was appointed United States Commissioner. Distinguished m authority on Spanish History and Government, his services have been in the present instance, and are, invaluable. The work, too. of Professor Carl C. Plehn. first as a supervisor of the United States Census in California sus Bui no It succed collate i-onditi fused iv inaci Igoroto. want of pre in Luzon, Sa-j other islands. culty of inter- munication knowledge and considerable executive abi; certainly reflects credit on the University as repr Plehn. as head of the Cen- Philippines. wa cult, and no less To collect and here Filipino ere so con- speak of the of i|acababee, .a g a 1 . the Htistk-s and the e diffi- m- fe expert nctertakings Moses and As to the Islands and Orient generally, California ' s position on the western bank of the continent gives her an important advantage with respect to the future. More than a hundred of the Alumni and former students hold positions in the Philippines. Japan and China. In a sense, indeed, the Orient bids fair to become a branch of the Greater University.