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

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and. like nitroglycerine dissolved in alcohol, became non-explosive. The only fixed custom of the old days that survived was the Class rush. With the advent of President Wheeler came the preaching of a new gospel the Universitv instead of the Class, the government of the students by themselves instead of by the Faculty, the bringing home to them of the fact that they were men and not boys, that the responsibilities of a community of men were invested in them and that their difficulties and problems must be solved in a man ' s manner. The history of how this transition was accomplished will be told by Professor Setchell. It is the story of the development of the indi- vidual, from adolescence to manhood the story of the development of a nation from primitive conditions to civilization, it is the story of evolution. College spirit in the broad sense is little different now from what it was in early days. The difference is in the manner of manifestation. Formerly it was individualistic, now it is collective. The whole Universitv now roots for the College team. The class contests are good-natured events, without any significance. The spirit is pride in the Nation, not boastfulness for the village. The old college spirit was individualistic, the self-aggrandizement of the one : the new college spirit is self-effacement, loyalty to an ideal. The old college spirit has had its uses, but it has had its day. The new college spirit ust beginning. Its future cannot be foretold. College spirit is the soul of the University. It may make for good or for evil. We who have watched development firmly believe it is for good.

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Student Self - Government at the University of California W. A. Setchell -.dent self-government is. we all congratulate ourselves, firmly estab- lished at the University of California. Its coming has been so gradual and with such common consent and sympathy that we hardly realize that it is here except when some general discussion or particular incident at home or abroad brings it to our attention. It has come as the student body has gradually realized its own interests and has conscientiously attempted to determine its own responsibilities and privileges and to conduct its affairs to its own best advantage and that of its members. The problem involved owly taken form, one step after another has led onward and opened new vistas, until finally the essentials of the whole have become plain. Step by step with the clearing up of the situation as to the different parts of the divided