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

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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.

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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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A hillside lift provided, the slopes above the Greek Theater would make ideal sites for the students ' dormitories, each hall being set in its own grove, or thicket, and each commanding an unsurpassable prospect toward the Golden Gate. And on the hilltop, the Observatory ! Tucked away out of sight are a service court for the University shops and barns, and a power and heating plant. The idyllic bit of woodland now enjoyed by the Faculty Club is retained for its use. Up the canon is indicated a masonry dam and a long, winding lake between the hills. And the dream is becoming sober fact. Already partly completed are the Hearst Mining Building, California Hall, the Greek Theater, the Presi- dent ' s House, and the power plant. The Doe Library will be built at once, the money being already in hand. The South Drive, a superb permanent roadway, has been built as a part of the final plan. Everything to be done hereafter on the Berkeley campus will be either thoroughly good and a part of the permanent development of the site, or else absolutely and frankly tem- porary mere board shacks or canvas, to fill the needs of a year. Never was there such a chance in America to aid in a work of imperish- able moment and of highest artistic and human worth. The whole life of California will be profoundly influenced by this example of permanent con- struction, of high artistic ideals, and of noble aims. Here students may steep themselves in surroundings fit and truth and beauty matched. And the man who wants to help and cannot spend a million on a museum, can build a gate- way or a drinking fountain, or hang a bronze door or glaze a memorial window. Here is something worthy a man ' s fondest co-operation.