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

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he was elected a member of the Economics Club, a small circle of instructors and advanced students in political science and economics. The Winged Helmet, the Junior honor society, elected him to membership in the fall of 1907. His was not a life of many years scarcely one score and ten. instead of three. He had much to live for a pleasant home, a multitude of close friends, and years of work and service still to come. His race had just begun; the start was good and gave much promise. Because of these, his place will long seem empty to us all. So full of life he seemed, so sudden was his taking away, that even now we half expect to meet him in the hallways between lectures, or in the office for a brief chat, or perhaps on the way over to the football field loyal always to his work, to his associates and to the interests of his students. After all, the only thing that brings permanent satisfaction to life is service. And this life so suddenly cut short was one full of service, quietly and unselfishly given for the good of many things and many of us. ano 3Ue terbelt Cfjtttenben. Jfresfjman in tfje College of Cibil (Engineering. 23ieb JSobember 8, 1908. (Z tto Hermann ILtt. junior in t!je College of Social g tiences. Bieb January 20, 1909. fanning CUne. 21 Jfresfjman in tfje College of Agriculture. Bieb Jfefaruarp 10, 1909.

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By the organic Act or Charter of the University granted in 1873, provision was made for the organization of the University into Colleges, each with its appropriate studies and Faculty. Among these was the College of Letters, or Classical Course. In 1869 the College of California was absorbed by the University, and the College of Letters, which had been in existence as a college of the older institution, was retained without notable change. This college was the first to inaugurate the full four-year course of instruction, and so may be said to be the oldest college in the University. The curriculum is essentially the so-called classical course of the leading- American colleges and leads to the degree of Bachelor of Arts. It is distin- guished by prescribed Latin and Greek among the fundamental studies of the lower division, accompanied by a greater freedom of choice in the upper division. It is designed to furnish a liberal education and to afford preparation for professional studies to such persons as do not desire to make their college course a training for their prospective occupations, but prefer to lay a broad foundation for the study of their professions by acquiring a liberal classical education. The College of L etters, being the oldest college in the University, is unique in the fact that it has undergone fewer changes than any other depart- ment. As the demands for more liberal or more practical work have come up, new colleges were formed, such as the Colleges of Social Sciences and Com- merce, leaving the original practically unchanged. 28