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

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Taverns of Good Fellowship By AKTHI.-R L. PEICE. 04 In the discreet register of the University there is but little indication what college life may be when there is no college work to be performed. Happily, however, there are other publications within the fold that are neither so exclusive nor so puritanical that mix a bit of Gold with their Blue laws and so an occasional mouse-like rumor may creep from behind some merry door for the edification of Youth. The curriculum, as exploited in the register, has been artfully devised that we who have tried to follow it may live in comfort in the days yet to come. And this i? or by the life in the room whence the little mouse pee! for there it is possible to bj content, cheerful and appea for all the menace of the c riculum. in the days that are here. This room is commof and of varied functiou H the girls have thein-Sttil Tea Times, and the fejIoK Te in their Stein Age. AtXvorst

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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.

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it is a transient hall : at best it is the wel- come Tavern of Good Fellowship. It is the fair of many booths of pleasure, gaiety, joy ; of smiles and of laughter, as the tem- perament may invite. To be specific and local, it runs the scale from Stiles Hall to Sanguin- entirely indoors. There are stretches of alluring promenades ' about tWo, booths, there is Grizzly Peak on a moonlit night. Under one big roof is this fair, and that roof is the great, commodious blue dome of the sky of California. From whence does the traveler to the fair start on his glad expedition if not from the very threshold of the curriculum, from North Hall Steps? For there is the entrance to the reservation of good fellowship as surely as to the confines of study. All fellows meet there, and in a measure it is the final point of segregation. From that tin throne go forth the three tribes : to the sturdy vagabondage of the hills, to the sacred recesses of Stiles, and to the life of the city to return on the last boat. There is a masculine purpose in the hills back of the campus. Scores of the students who come back every year are directly out of the wilderness, out of the brush and off of the rocks. What are paved streets to them ? What are effete street cars and ferry-boats? They want out of doors. They must crunch gravel under their feet and trample the turf ; only naked nature can satiate them and there are the hills behind the campus. There is Grizzly Peak strutting up suddenly, and there is the long, free reach of the Piedmont Hills. And from any of these heights is the most wonderful view, and in the evening, if fortuitous, the most glorious sunset the world can see. Trees, town, water, sails and smoke on the Bay, and the poetic drama of the Golden