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

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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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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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window at either end of the northern segment of the structure, bespeaking the immense reading-room inside, occupying the whole width of the building. Behind the Library stands its annex, and grouped about it are buildings for those subjects which most need constant and immediate access to a vast collection of books languages, then his- v . tory, on the east, economics and ad- ministration (in Cali- fornia Hall), and philosophy and edu- cation, on the west. On the northern side of the canon stands the great art and anthropological museum, on the ter- race first used for the Students ' Observa- tory ; and this is flanked on the west by a building devoted to architecture and the fine arts, and on the east by the engineering group three buildings designed for civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering respectively. Beyond is the mining building erected by Mrs. Hearst in memory of Senator George Hearst, and across the axis the buildings for mathematics and physics. Between the Mining and Physics Buildings start upward the monumental steps of the Auditorium, and on the terraces at either side of the great domed edifice stand the buildings for geology and chemistry, each so elevated in site as to be fully visible from the lower campus. South of the Auditorium and exceedingly convenient of access, so that University festivals may be held outdoors or in, as the weather suggests, is the Greek Theater, completed with a double colonnade about the rear, and with a magnificent portico on the west, overlooking San Francisco Bay. The commons, or student dining-hall, occupies a superb site northeast of the Auditorium, its broad terrace overlooking the whole University and the expanse beyond.