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

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JNIVERSITY [HE GREATER By VICTOR HENDERSON To few architects is it given to see the city of their dreams take visible substance. Once and again it happens in America, as when the palaces rose white above the lake in Chicago or clustered in St. Louis about the shining lagoons. And these were but evanescent visions of beauty, soon crumbled like castles in the clouds. Here under the shadow of the Berkeley hills a city such as artists dream has begun to take shape in granite enduring as the hills, and no one who looks upon the beginning well begun and opens his eyes totiiSfcture strongly established can doubt the sure accomplishment hallowed cause whose like the world has not known before. Here there was a site adequate and self- contained, varied in character as its poses are complex, enriched by every c of its own nature and of splendid outlet favored by climate and by soil, and occupid by buildings so meager and so slight ii character as to be practically negligible future composition. Frederick Law Olmstead had recog- nized the beauty of the site many years ago and suggested its development in relation to the keynote of the landscape

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The vulture watchful hovers o ' er the time, And sweet traditions hide like lambs away, And thou the shepherd must through storm and rime Keep guard upon the fields throughout the day. And when the vulture baffled wings his way Then howls the wolf of old about the fold And thou must rise and chase the shadow gray, Lest when the morning ' s count is told The fields of life seem useless and thy heart is cold. Our love for thee is loyal, faithful, true, And each one drives his little flock about At thy command. Still thou, the master, too, Must guide thine own and put the thieves to rout When through the night the worldly wolves cry out. The sun above the grizzled peak must shine, Then trail its garment into night devout. So let us gather round the fires divine And dance to magic chord the unseen serpentine. fffi

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the noble and significant prospect of the Golden Gate. Airs. Hearst saw the possibilities of the future, and through her munificence the talent of a hundred competitors was enlisted in the devising of a plan worthy of the opportunity. To Henri Jean Emile Benard, of Paris, was awarded the first prize. His grand design was subsequently modified and further developed as the fruit of a stay at the University. Then came the problem of the final development of the Hearst plan as a workable design, and its adaptation to the site and to the needs and possibilities of the University. And so finally it came to be that to an artist adequate for the consecrated task was entrusted the architectural future of the University. For now these ten years John Galen Howard has devoted his most cherished thought, his inspired imagination, to the University that is to be. Already six buildings partially completed, begun, or about to be begun with funds now on hand, body forth some portion of his purposes for the future. That others may look upon the vision of the completed whole, there has been wrought a model in which may be seen the University of California as the future and a future at that, which surely not more than one generation hence will look Don it in its completeness. ' k ] M C ' limb up the lung steep hillside above the open-air Theater, and throwing own in the long grass at the summit, look westward across the campus. A little canon plunges down the slope, and broad- ening, stretches west- ward as a sunken garden, leading the eye on past the high- waving eucalyptus grove and straight out through the Gold- en Gate. This swale across the campus, with its sheltered gardens and its broad terraced bluffs on