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

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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!

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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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1HE F By PROFESSOR HENRY MORSE STEPHENS. THIS is not intended to be a record of what happened in Berkeley or in the University during the Great Days of April, 1 906, the days of the fire in San Francisco, which followed upon the earthquake of April 1 8 ; nor is it intended to be an account of personal impressions, since the writer remained at Berkeley throughout the period ; least of all is it intended to be a full and complete account of the various activities into which the University, as well as the citizens of Berkeley, were suddenly plunged in their desire to do what lay in them to alleviate the distress produced by the very suddeness of the calamity in the city of San Francisco. The compilation of a record of what happened has been the chief business of the present writer, as a member of the History Committee appointed by the Committee of Fifty, for many months past, and he does not think that the editor of the Blue and Gold would thank him for a mere extract from the forthcoming history ; the personal impressions of a stay-at-home, whose anxieties were con- centrated from the first moment upon the safety of the Bancroft Library in San Francisco, and upon the collection of materials for the history which he contemplated from the very first, are of no especial value ; and the statistics of the relief work accomplished belong to another place. This article therefore will only touch lightly upon certain general aspects of the effect of the Great Days upon the University community. The first impression made upon the minds of those members of the University who reside in Berkeley was that of the shghtness of the damage done by the earth- quake to the buildings of the University upon the morning of April 1 8. In the stillness of the morning hours, produced by the cessation of all traffic, it could be seen that, while chimneys of Berkeley had suffered and particularly that the High School had been badly rent, the buildings of the University stood intact, except for the overthrowing of one or two chimney pots. So sound did the University itself