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

Page 26 text:

the same period. This feeling is more and more manifested in good works for Harvard University and for education and scholarship in general. The class bond grows stronger as time goes on, probably because the survivors from decade to decade find themselves to be working, whatever their different callings may be, in the same spirit and with like hopes and like estimates of the real values in human life. Their fellowship becomes more and more intimate and tender as life goes on. My class at Harvard numbered ninety at graduation; at the Class Dinner this year (1914) there were only seven present, representing as many different callings ; but it was a very sympathetic and intimate exchange of common sentiments and expectations. WEST SIDE OF CALIFORNIA HALL 10 J

Page 25 text:

teacher, scientific investigator, social sen-ant, and publicist. They also prove that a college training greatly increases the individual ' s chances of winning a life of intellectual satisfactions and enjoyments, and of companionship with men of sound bodies, active minds, and high purposes. The class secretary is selected by his classmates at the age of twenty-two or thereabouts, sometimes in advance of any clear indications of what is to be his professional or business success. Nevertheless, the judgment of the succes- sive classes is usually justified. The replacement of a class secretary, as the life of the class goes on. is unusual except in case of death. It has, however, become the practice in more recent classes to allow the class secretary to employ expert assistants in making up his records in the year that the class report is issued ; and the different class secretaries manifest a tendency to employ the same expert: so that a certain degree of uniformity has been introduced in the structure of the various class reports. The strength and serviceableness of the present class organizations I have described has increased very much since the size of the Harvard classes rose from a hundred or thereabouts, fifty years ago. to five hundred or thereabouts in recent vears. What is called class feeling has also much increased during LOOKING NORTH FROM CAMPANILE cz:

Page 27 text:

The Greater University Even-where, at all times, under all sorts of conditions, we of the Uni- versity of California are hearing about The Greater University. Whether it be in Faculty meetings, discussing new regulations, or at such ceremonies as the laying of the cornerstone of the Sather Campanile, where the students of the University express their senti- ments, or at gatherings of the Alumni. we are beset by this talk about The Greater University. Sometimes the phrase is used in tones of jubilation as if there was something to be proud of in the mere growth of numbers, and sometimes it is set forth in the nature of an excuse for shortcomings. But the condition is universally admitted, and The Greater University is taken as an accepted fact. But in what respects is the Univer- H. MORSE STEPHENS s jty o f California really greater than it used to be? Ye all know that its Faculty is larger and that the enrollment of students increases by leaps and bounds; we all know that buildings are being added to buildings ; we all know that more courses are offered and more lecture- rooms are crowded. But is this what we mean by greatness? Is our growth in numbers and in facilities of education our sole title to greatness? Surely it is time that we should call a halt in the mere glorification of size and numbers and look for a minute to see whether the University of California is becoming greater in its ideals, in its services to the higher aims of civilization, and above all in its fulfillment of the duties that it owes to the State of California which so generously provides for its support. The mere question of size and numbers brings with it disadvantages as well as advantages. The small, compact college has the definite advantage of putting a stamp upon the whole body of its students, since they are kept together, both socially and educationally, since they are held to a limited number of courses of instruction, and since they are perforce obliged to know each other. Individuality 11