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

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T HAS always been the purpose of the BLLE AND GOLD to present by word and drawing a reflec- x tion of current college life to catch and fix upon the printed page the lights and shadows of the campus. This year the editors have undertaken to cover a larger field than usual. The completion of the first half-century of University history with the appropriate and inspiring celebrations of Jubilee Week (May. 1910) brought under review the whole grand development of the University from its crude beginnings to its present position of greatness and power. Therefore, it seemed fitting to make the growth of the University a special feature of this book. We have been led to extend our field back to the period of foundation and to draw our material not merely from the college year now closing, but also from the past fifty years of University life. Although the BLI E AND GOLD is no place for a connected history of the University, it has been our aim, through the medium of personal reminiscences, to review the past for the gratification of those still among the living who contributed to making the University what it now is. as well as for the pleasure and the inspiration of the present genera- tion of students. The edi tors of the Class of 1912 are deeply sensible of the honor to themselves and to the class in being able to record the friends and officers of the University who have contributed the special articles: Dr. Samuel H. Willey. Professor George C. Edwards, ' 73. Mr. Charles S. Greene. ' 80. Professor Leon J. Richardson. Mr. Benja- min J. Weed. ' 94. Professor Henry Morse Stephens, and President Benjamin Ide Wheeler. 11