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

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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

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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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either side, is as if traced by the finger of the Almighty, straight from the hillcrown toward the Golden Gate as an axis for the University. This naturally-appointed axis will be left as a broad sunken garden, and on the terraces at either hand will rise the stately fronts of the granite buildings, grouped together in connexes determined by the nature of the intellectual pur- suits they shelter, their exterior subtly expressive of their purposes, each con- nex complete and significant in itself, yet each individual building an indi- vidual personality, and all viewed together harmonious in a rich variety. From the hilltop he who looks down the broad axis toward the sea will quickly recognize four great parts of the completed design. On either hand, clustered picturesquely on the hill slopes, will be the student habitations. On the terraces at right and left of the sunken garden, with the domed Auditorium as keystone of the arch, will rise the buildings devoted to the humanities, the sciences pure and applied, and the arts. Beyond will lie the gardens and groves which shut in the University from the outer world. And on the southern edge of the campus will be seen the playground a great athletic field, surrounded with vast rising tiers, the exterior rich with beautiful marble columns and arches. But now leave the hilltop prospect of the vhole, and come instead a Class Day pilgrimage, for so some day in the future, a returning alumnus,