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

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for the current educational and administrative expenses. Of the receipts for 1 905-06, 26.7 per cent, came as gifts from private individuals, 1 7.7 per cent, from income on endowment, 3.7 per cent, from the United States, 43.4 per cent, from the state, 5.2 per cent, from the students, and 3.3 per cent, from all other sources. The vote of the Legislature to remove the capital from Sacramento to Berkeley was one of the important events of the University year. Such a removal would make available for the needs of the University the splendid, rapidly-growing, and well-supported State Library, and give to the students increased opportunity to know how California is governed and administered.

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In music and the drama, too, does the University now set standards before its students and the community. Only in Berkeley and in Los Angeles of all the Pacific Coast can music be heard regularly in its highest expression the great orchestral forms. With the establishment of the University Orchestra and the University Chorus, the students through the four formative years of their college life have the opportum ' ty of intimate acquaintance with the master-works, fitly rendered in the noble surroundings of the Greek Theater. Their lives are enriched thereby with abiding memories, with new powers of appreciation and of enlightened happiness. For the body as for the spirit the care of the University is increasing. The new baths and dressing-rooms are a revelation to those who remember the old training-quarters and gymnasium baths. The establishment of the infirmary and the daily consultation hours of the department of hygiene mean the most complete and timely care for every student in case of illness, while the instruction for every student in public as well as personal hygiene will fill the State with missionaries for dean cities and pure water, for pure foods and proper public regulation of matters affecting the general health. For the things of the mind that the University should expend $150,000 to equip the department of history with adequate printed and manuscript material for research iri the history of Western America is surely significant of progress. The Bancroft Library is an incomparable treasure-house of primary historical matenal, and its purchase is an emphasis upon that prime function of a university the advance- ment of knowledge. The establishment of San Diego Marine Biological Laboratory in permanent quarters, through the generosity of Miss EJlen B. Scripps, and the gift to the University, by the Pacific Improvement Company, of lands at Chinatown Point on Monterey Bay, as a site for Professor Loeb ' s seaside laboratory of experi- mental physiology, are new developments of the University ' s equipment for research. The purchase of a University Farm of eight hundred acres, near Davisville, represents an interesting development of the University ' s equipment for agricultural instruction, while the bequest to the University by Mr. M. Theo. Kearney of fifty- four hundred acres of land near Fresno will provide an endowment of over a million dollars for agricultural experimentation and instruction. The Kearney endowment and the gift by Mrs. Marie Louise Mackay and Mr. Clarence Hungerford Mackay of $100,000 to endow the John W. Mackay, Jr. Professorship of Electrical Engineering increase the University endowment to a total of four and three-quarters millions, of this endowment 57.2 per cent, was created by private generosity, 17.38 per cent, came from the state, and 16.88 per cent, from the United States. Private gifts to the University have exceeded nine millions; that is, they have been nearly tenfold what any other American state university has received. The University can now count on an annual income of about eight hundred thousand dollars, of which about six hundred and thirty thousand dollars is available

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California. By A. E. ANDERSON , ' 08. QUEEN of the oaks and the poppies. Queen of the strong and the fair, Here, on the breast of the hill-side. Rear we thy flag of the bear. Out of the strong cometh sweetness. Forth from the hills dawneth day, Fair thou shalt lift us and guide us, Strong thou art ' stablished for aye! Hail from our hearts, California, Far through thine oaks let it ring! Wreathing thy brows with the poppies, Thee do we honor and sing. Thine be an image of beauty Shrined in our hearts for a light, Strength of thy strength be within us Strength for the true and the right!