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

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Like the College of Agriculture, the College of Mining has made noteworthy progress in the past twelve months. An increase in the number of enrolled students has necessitated the erection of new laboratories. Again our thanks are due to Mrs. Hearst for furnishing these laboratories for the crushing, sampling, assaying and general handling of ores. In fact, the College has so far outgrown its present quarters that the first building of the Greater University is to be the Mining Building, of which Mr. John Galen Howard, of New York, has already been appointed supervising architect, and the contract let. The past year, too, has seen the initial steps taken in the formation of a Department of Irrigation one of California ' s more important needs. The estab- lishment of the department, under the direction of Professor Elwood Mead, the chief living authority on the subject and Irrigation expert of the United States Department of Agriculture, is bound to result in solid benefit to the State. It is the beginning of a future full of possibilities; for it is no wild-eyed prophecy to that the waters of the Sierras and Coast Ranges will some day be used t great advantage. A new phase of expansion is the remarkable growth of the Summer School. The session of 1901 was most successful, as it must needs have been when cou- were offered by such men as Professor Barrett Wendell of Harvard, Professor John Dewey of Chicago, Professor H. Morse Stephens of Cornell, and Professor L. H. Bailey and Dean Russell of Teachers ' College, not to mention the University Faculty members who participated. This meant a reaction of Eastern on Western spirit, and vice-versa, and a consequent benefit to the many teachers of the State and others attending. Improvements of a more local character have not been lost sight of amidst this international (as we may call it) and State development. The Summer School students of this year will be greeted by a troop of healthy young shrubs covering a dozen acres or more of the Campus. The occasional Northers in June and July will rustle leaves instead of hustling dust. as an Alumnus states it. Then there has been the building and equipment of the best Women ' s Gym- nasium in America. For this we are once more indebted to Mrs. Hearst, not only for making possible so costly an undertaking, but for her foresight in procuring just what was needed. The gift was supplemented by as fine a basket-ball court as exists in the West. The women students now have facilities for exercise and recreation quite on a par with those of the men. With Hearst Hall and the enlarged Harmon Gymnasium, our facilities for University meetings and social functions have been considerably enlarged ; and centralizing University spirit as they do. both places serve a two-fold usefuln- The past year has seen the completion of the first building of the Phcebe A. Hearst Architectural Plan the President ' s house. The style of the building

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There has been, too, during the past year, a counter movement from the ( ld to the New World. The idle spirit of the Orient (from our point of view) lias been awakened. California ' s reputation has become more than Pan-American. In Hongkong, Shanghai, Foochoo, and, certainly, in Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki, and Manila, one hears more of the University of California than of Oxford or Cambridge, which, with reference to the Chinese ports, is saying a good deal. As a result, quite a number of Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos are students at the University. Our new relations with the Orient have given, besides, considerable stimulus to the College of Commerce. From a new and somewhat inferior position the College has become one of vital and practical importance. Its growth during the past year has been exceptional, necessitating new departments and instructors. The expansion of the departments of Chinese and Japanese, the introduction of the Russian language, and the establishment of a commercial museum, are indica- tions of its growth. With the development of State commerce and American trade in the East, the College of Commerce will undoubtedly hold a still more important position in the future. Expansion beyond the seas has gone hand in hand with the foster- ing of State in- dustries. In this respect no de- velopment has been more marked than that of the College of Agriculture. The advance has been along decidedly practical lines, as is illustrated by the establish- ment of a School of Practical Dairying with a personal inspection and super- vision of the dairies of the State by the instructor in Dairy Husbandry. Mr. Leroy Anderson. A veterinarian, Dr. Archibald R. Ward, has been appointed. Researches in Olive Culture, Entomology, and Viticulture are further indications of growth.

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conforms to the general plan, a modified type of the Renaissance. It is a hand- some structure solid, yet graceful, and is admirably situated on the north slope of North-Fork Creek, amid a small forest of trees. The completion of this building puts into concrete form the first realization of a magnificent plan, and for this reason it stands a constant source of inspiration for the future. All of this has been done despite financial difficulties. For, although State enactment has somewhat increased the appropriations for University support (thanks to the loyalty of the Alumni and the efforts of President Wheeler), yet the fact remains that while California ranks second among American Universities in number of undergraduates, and fifth in total number of students, her income is somewhere about fifteenth. There has been, besides, much help from friends of the University, but still California ' s income compares very poorly with Eastern Universities of a like or even inferior standing. None the less, we appreciate these friends Mrs. Phrebe Hearst, Mrs. Jane K. Sather, and the numerous other benefactors who have helped to make the University what it is. The founding of the new Sather Law Library, the new Hearst Mining Building, the establishment of the Chairs of Anatomy and Forestry, the increased collections in Entomology, Anthropology and Palaeontology, the sending out of Archaeological expeditions in South America, Egypt, and California such gifts as these call for and obtain the appreciation of Alumni, Faculty, and Student Body. This loyalty and generosity has strengthened the spirit that is to be the genius of the Greater University: Search the world for its best, and if possible give back to the world a little more than you get.