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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,
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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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you will gladden your eyes with dreams come true. It will prove to be the grander dream, not in clouds but in marble. Coming up Center Street, from Berkeley station, you will pass through a broad entrance, flanked with curving walls and sculptured pillars. The grace- ful pinnacle of the campanile towering in the distance above the oaks and pines, rouses a first elation. A broad driveway sweeps off to the left through the old experimental gardens, turns eastward between the tree-fringed bluff and the eucalyptus grove, and leads into a forecourt where the whole noble picture bursts upon the eye. Before, a garden, on either side, group after group of rich and dignified halls, gleaming white in granite and roofed in the red of mission tile. Beyond, a fit completion to the whole composition, rises the splendid dome of the auditorium, a noble structure ringed round with a colonnade and approached by a vast flight of steps, leading up from the basin sunk in the gardens. Eastward a lawn bordered with trees, carries the axis on up the steep hill, and at the summit rises the dome of the Observatory. On the right, or south, of the forecourt is the agricultural and biological In the center of this complex is the Agricultural Building, with the Hall behind it ; at the west, botany, and at the east, zoology, side of the forecourt is the group of buildings dedicated to scien- tific medicine. Then opens a broad garden space, with a driveway winding across the cam- pus from Dana Street to Euclid Avenue. Just in- side and east of the Dana Street entrance is Alumni Hall, and across the campus the building first planned as a Presi- dent ' s House. Then comes the innermost gateway of the University the noble group of buildings dedicated to the humanities. On the south is the Library erected by the munificence of Charles F. Doe, a magnificent edifice with a front of Corinthian columns each four feet thick and forty high, and a vast arched
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