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

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experience such as has never before been afforded to any battalion of cadets in any State University in America. Nor was their service without its casualties. Private Aten of the class of 1 908 was severely wounded in the course of duty, though it is satisfactory to be able to report that he has since recovered. If the men students of the University had their opportunity in helping to guard the city, the women students expressed their energies in the help that they gave to the refugees. Perhaps a defense of coeducation may be found here. Most certainly a community of men students could not have washed the clothes of the refugees, and even the refugees themselves, could not have cooked for them, and could not have taken care of the babies, in the way that the women students did. Hearst Hall was turned into a lying-in hospital, and the kindly administration of the women students of the University of California will long be gratefully remembered by the refugees from San Francisco who made their way to Berkeley. It was no slight work to provide for those thousands of scared beings, and though the citizens of Berkeley did nobly in throwing open their houses and providing food and clothing for the thousands of refugees, it was the women students of the University of California who took upon themselves the kindly care of the refugees in the relief camps. Never will the aspect of the University campus in April, 1906, be forgotten. If the members of the Legislature of the State of California had visited Berkeley during the last days of April, 1 906, they would have been proud of the institution that the State of California maintains and would have realized that the sons and daughters of the State who get their education here learn more than Latin and Greek, than physics and mathematics, that they learn how swiftly to organize, when a crisis in human affairs calls, to afford protection, aid, and sympathy in time of need.

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and for every community to pass at times through periods of strain and stress in order to try their nerve and to see that what is best and most courageous in them shall have opportunity to express itself. As the years roll by the memory of the great days of April will stand out as giving proof of California courage and California gayety of heart ; plenty of legends will arise and imagination will probably place haloes upon wrong heads and bring into light the wrong heroes, but for all that there will remain the ineffaceable memory of having passed through a great crisis. It will be no small thing in the future that can shake the courage and the belief in the sympathy of man for man in the hearts of those who lived through the great days of last April. Two things stand out in the experiences of the members of the University who dwelt in Berkeley, first, the dispatch of the University cadets to aid in maintaining order in San Francisco and second, the swift organization of relief for refugees upon the campus of the University. Early on the 1 8th of April the rumor flew about that martial law had been established in San Francisco and later came a rumor that the University cadets were to be given the opportunity to show whether their military training made them of the slightest use to the community at large. There exists some haziness as to the precise circumstances that led to the dispatch of the cadets to the city. But it is quite certain that at an early hour upon the 1 8th of April the idea of being of use occured to the fertile mind of Colonel Force and that a request for the military services of the cadets was brought to Berkeley and received by Captain Nance, who decided to act, upon the direct authorization of Prof. Stringham, acting as president of the University in the absence of President Wheeler, who was at that time on his way to Texas to deliver an address at the inauguration of the new president of the University of Texas. It had been inspection day for the cadets and the men were almost expecting a summons. The summons came in the course of the afternoon ; the cadets reached San Francisco after dark in the evening ; they were allotted to a particular section of the city between the areas assigned to the regular soldiers and the California National Guard. In the city they remained for two nights and two days doing regular guard duty and reassuring the citizens by their presence. This is not the place to go into details of the military experiences of the University cadets. It is enough to say that unjust rumors were spread about the state as to their conduct, rumors which can be authoritatively denied. Not only is there in existence a testimonial signed by many hundreds of citizens of the guarded district, testifying to the good behaviour of the University soldiers, but out of the thousands of accounts of experiences collected by the History Committee of the Committee of Fifty, not more than one or two speak slightingly of the University cadets, while many hundreds of them speak in the highest praise of the gentlemanly and kindly conduct of the University boys. After long and harassing guard duty the cadets returned wearied and tired out, but conscious of having passed through an

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The Passing of Naught Seven. By WITHIN a few short weeks the class of 1907 will have left the university and be a thing of the past as far as campus activities are concerned. Some of its members have become prominent in college, others have rather grown notorious. HDW long will they be remembered, even by the members of the present freshman class? When 1907 were freshmen there were two brothers in college. One Ligda was a track man, the other was simply a Russian. At one of our first field days, Victor Ligda was a close second near the finish of a race. Brother Paul jumped up on the bleachers and called : Run, Victor, run. Maybe he vill fall down and denn you vill beat him ! From that day on Ligda was as well known about North Hall as Abadie ' 04, or any of the other men who really made records. We Seniors can look back and clearly see in memory the men who loomed largest in college affairs or whose names were most often on the college tongue when we came to college. Some have quite dropped from sight, others are more or less prominent in various occupations. Every class has men who, at the time of their work, it seems would last forever in California traditions. When we came to Berkeley we looked upon Dick O ' Connor ' 04 as a deity whose heights we could never hope to attain. How often do you hear his name mentioned to-day ? He hung around, smoked a pipe and didn ' t know if he ever would graduate, just like Al Fletcher ' 07. He is over in San Francisco now. Not many know it, for he is doing hard work on the big dailies. J. G. White ' 05 and L. D. Bohnett ' 06, former Californian editors who raised a little stir in their time are remembered by but few.